John Danner

Co-Founder and Chairman

2024 - Current

We are using AI to help kids on Roblox be amazing creators.

Co-Founder

2023

Our AI co-teacher creates decodable stories for students to practice reading at their current decoding level, including mistakes from past levels in each story. Students then read to us and we give feedback on their decoding mistakes. In this way, teachers can have every student in their class practice reading with a one on one coach every day.

Investor and Board Member

2018

Investor and Advisor

2020

Investor and Advisor

2020

Investor and Advisor

2018 - 2023

Angel Investor

2018 - 2022

Investor in over 40 edtech companies. In 2021, I turned my focus to crypto and defi. I am now investing in web3 companies of all flavors.

Co-Founder and CEO

2013 - 2018

Solving Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem by combining machine learning and live coaches to reduce the cost of K-12 math tutoring from $50/hr to $1/hr with better results than legacy tutoring. Sold June 2018 to The Academy Group.

Co-Founder and CEO

2005 - 2013

Rocketship Education is the leading blended school system in the United States, combining online and classroom instruction. When i left in 2013, Rocketship was serving 3500 students in 7 schools and were the highest performing low-income school system in California. Because of its unique model, Rocketship is the first scalable charter school system, growing at 50% annually for the past five years. They pay and support their teachers significantly more than traditional non-blended schools. Their mission is to eliminate the achievement gap in our lifetimes.

Public school teacher

2002 - 2005

I taught for three years in traditional public schools. my first position was as a fifth grade teacher serving a 98% poverty predominantly african-american student body and the last two years as a second grade teacher in a high poverty school serving mostly immigrant students from many countries. If you haven't taught, you should.