Camelback Ventures is changing the face of entrepreneurship through integrated investing to increase social impact. The Lumina Foundation, Innocentive and Camelback Ventures present, "The Challenge: Shaping the Next Frontier in Postsecondary Education", an event to showcase Challenge finalists and select the winner. Judges from various areas in education, design and business will determine a monetary award up to $5K and an invitation to be a Camelback Fellow. All stakeholders in the educational ecosystem are invited to hear these compelling ideas to improve higher education for diverse students.
Join us on January 26th at 6PM EST at Wix Lounge (235 W 23rd St. New York, NY 10011). We're excited to learn from our innovative finalists and share more about Camelback Ventures and Lumina Foundation at Wix. This is going to be epic!
Virgil
(Founder: Ron Mitchell)
Virgil is a career navigation platform that enables job seekers to assess their competitiveness for any career in < 90 seconds. Candidates also receive a personalized skill development roadmap which directs them to resources to build their skills. As job seekers provide more information about their skills and experiences, Virgil recommends careers and companies for which they are the best fit. Companies can utilize the platform to identify talent by detailed skill profile. Virgil can also be integrated into corporate HR systems as an internal career mobility resource for corporate employees.
Alchemie
(Founder: Julia Winter)
Alchemie builds mobile games for higher education, beginning with a huge pain point: organic chemistry. By layering of multiple learning cues - kinesthetic, audio, and visual - into engaging game-play, students have a new method to make sense of the visual-spatial ideas at the core of understanding chemistry and science. The data from the games and the process of learning can be measured and translated back to the instructor, thus improving outcomes for both the student-user and the higher education institution.
OH!
(Co-Founder: Bryan Lattimore)
OH! is a mobile messaging service that connects employers and college students. The Smartphone Generation is unlike any the world has ever seen — we are more diverse, attached to our phones, we speak in images and consume snackable content. The problem is, employers are using non-visual tools to try and hire us and it’s hard to be what we can’t see. With OH!, we believe we can use the power of storytelling and mobile video to inspire and hire the next generation.
Share the details with social impact entrepreneurs and the ecosystem at large!
Also, Wix is an extroridinary partner helping social innovations spread their message throught media. Learn more about how to create a Wix website here!
Thank you to our partner Wix.com for hosting us at the Wix Lounge. Wix.com enables you to build a free and professional online presence, just the way you want it. With a powerful drag-and-drop website editor, 100s of web apps, designer-made templates, and tons of features, Wix gives you all the tools you need to express yourself and manage your business online.
So what are you waiting for?http://ow.ly/VNb52
