At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Tutoring companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Tutoring Companies & Startups (California, United States)
TutorNerd
TutorNerd is an education technology company providing one-on-one online tutoring to students nationwide.
Founder(s): Adam Sadri
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Education, Internet, Tutoring, Video Chat
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Yup.com
Yup.com provides experts and technology to help students be their best.
Founder(s): Naguib Sawiris
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, EdTech, Mobile, Tutoring
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TutorMe
TutorMe is an online education platform that offers on-demand tutoring and online test preparation courses.
Founder(s): Alex Convery, Ari Stiegler, Myles Hunter, Rob Sciama, Victor Kotseruba, William O’Brien
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Internet, Tutoring
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Studypool
Studypool a tool that allows students to get tutoring help with all of their academic based questions.
Founder(s): Jiaming Zhong, Richard Werbe
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring
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TakeLessons
TakeLessons is an ed-tech company with a robust, engaging learning platform and community for lifelong learning.
Founder(s): Chris Waldron, Drew Davies, Jason Holderness, Steven Cox
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Local, Marketplace, Music, Software, Tutoring, Video, Video Streaming
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InstaEDU
InstaEDU is an online tutoring platform for students to connect with tutors and receive private tutoring.
Founder(s): Alison Johnston, Dan Johnston, Joey Shurtleff
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring
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Viv
Viv radically simplifies the world by providing an intelligent interface to everything.
Founder(s): Adam Cheyer, Chris Brigham, Dag Kittlaus
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Developer APIs, Developer Platform, E-Learning, Natural Language Processing, Tutoring
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Revolution Prep
Revolution Prep provides education software and services that enable students to score better at exams.
Founder(s): Jake Neuberg, Ramit Varma
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Skill Assessment, Tutoring
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Brilliant.org
Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
Founder(s): Sam Solomon, Silas Hundt, Sue Khim
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Internet, Tutoring
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HeyTutor
HeyTutor is an online platform that allows students, tutors, and agencies to connect in real-time.
Founder(s): Ryan Neman, Skyler Lucci
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Tutoring
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Pluma
Pluma is a web and mobile platform for talent retention and professional development that offers personalized, professional coaching.
Founder(s): Alexandra Connell, Samuel Cabral
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Tutoring
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UCode
UCode operates an after-school curriculum based coding education for ages 6 to 16
Founder(s): Scott Mueller
Location: Hermosa Beach, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Tutoring
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Cambly
On-demand access to English tutors over video chat.
Founder(s): Kevin Law, Sameer Shariff
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Information Technology, Messaging, Tutoring, Video, Video Chat
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UniversityNow
UniversityNow is engaged in developing learning technologies and building universities to back post-secondary education across the globe.
Founder(s): David Meyer, Gene Wade, Salvatore Monaco
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Tutoring
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toot
SMS service and mobile app that that provides ondemand education by instantly connecting students with tutors and coaches.
Founder(s): Randal Horowitz, Shaq Zabihian, Sophia Parsa
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Education, Mobile Apps, SMS, Tutoring
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Studygate
StudyGate is a hub for tutors and students.
Founder(s): Daniel Zhao, Jacob Hallman
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Tutoring
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TareasPlus
TareasPlus is an educational marketplace that offers video courses created by teachers and provides students with the curriculum they need.
Founder(s): Hernan Jaramillo, Roberto Cuartas
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Marketplace, Tutoring, Video
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Vagupu
An online tutoring marketplace.
Founder(s): Natraj Thuduppathy
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Education, Marketplace, Tutoring
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EcoSystemOne
Multiuser VR platform for the after-school science enrichment programs. Operating through subsidiary Univirtual.Academy
Founder(s): Alex Stolyarik, Kunitake Aoki, Marina Kolesnik
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Language Learning, Online Games, Tutoring, Virtual Reality
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Whiz Tutor
A mobile marketplace for students to find on demand, background checked, in-person tutors.
Founder(s): Justin Clark
Location: Valencia, California, United States
Industries: Marketplace, Mobile, Tutoring
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Mathnasium
Mathnasium offers customized math tutoring services helping kids in grades K-12 develop math skills through homework lessons & tutorials.
Founder(s): David Ullendorff, Larry Martinek, Peter Markovitz
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Consumer, Education, Tutoring
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Boost Academy
Boost Academy™ provides personalized, one-to-one tutoring and test prep services through native apps on touchscreen devices
Founder(s): Josh Roach
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Education, Internet, Tutoring
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Uguru.me
Make peer-to-peer help available and affordable by making the connection easy for both sides.
Founder(s): Michael Koh, Samir Makhani
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Marketplace, Tutoring
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Blueprint Test Preparation
Blueprint Test Preparation is a higher education company offering live LSAT class and online LSAT course services.
Founder(s): Jodi Teti, John Rood, Matt Riley
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, E-Learning, Education, Higher Education, Information Technology, Tutoring
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ArborBridge
ArborBridge prepares students for US college admissions success by guiding them to higher SAT scores and better grades.
Founder(s): Andrew Finn, Tim Urban
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Tutoring
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Bitcast
Bitcast is a community-driven marketplace for watching, uploading and selling software development screencasts.
Founder(s): Luke Steensen, Max Gillett, Nikhil Goel, Zach Sherman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring, Video
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Mobile Learning Networks
Mobile Learning Networks is a private tutoring service company providing a virtual, one-to-one experience between students and tutors.
Founder(s): Josh Roach
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring
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Student of Fortune
Student of Fortune is a homework tutoring marketplace that connects students with tutors of multiple disciplines.
Founder(s): Sean McCleese
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Education, Marketplace, Tutoring
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BHCosmetics
BHCosmetics is a lower priced manufacturer and seller of cosmetics and beauty products.
Founder(s): Fred Sadovskiy
Location: North Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Beauty, Cosmetics, Fashion, Marketing, Retail, Tutoring, Wholesale
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Zeal Learning
Online math tutoring for the other 99%
Founder(s): John Danner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Tutoring
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Tutree Inc.
In person academic help On demand
Founder(s): Pranay Nath, Zachary Grove
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring, Video
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Target Test Prep
Changing the way students prepare for the GMAT®, GRE®, and MCAT®
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Skill Assessment, Test and Measurement, Tutoring
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Learned By Me
Learned By Me (www.learnedbyme.com) is a global education technology company committed to make learning better.
Founder(s): Michael Frank
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring, VoIP
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Essaypop
Writing is hard. We make it easy.
Founder(s): Andrew Wang, John Glenn, John Teichert, Michael Hicks, Steve Torres
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Internet, Language Learning, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Skill Assessment, Software, Tutoring
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PhotoStudy
PhotoStudy is a provider of online tutoring services.
Founder(s):
Location: Burlingame, California, United States
Industries: Apps, E-Learning, Education, Tutoring
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Landmark Forum
Landmark Forum is a personal and professional development company that offers its users with courses and programs around the world.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Training, Tutoring
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Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo is a blog for learning web design, Photoshop and Illustrator through tutorials and inspiration from other design enthusiasts.
Founder(s): Fabio Sasso
Location: Lucerne Valley, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, E-Commerce, Tutoring, Web Design
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Grade Potential Tutoring
Grade Potential Provides high quality In-Home Tutoring Services for all subjects and ages, including all College Classes.
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Location: San Luis Obispo, California, United States
Industries: Tutoring
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onLessons.com
onLessons.com is an online platform that offers local lessons and tutoring sessions for its users.
Founder(s): Rob Hastings, Ron Luning
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Education, Marketplace, Payments, Tutoring
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Talentnook
Talentnook is an e-learning platform that develops and provides educational, holistic and extracurricular learning programs for students.
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Location: Dublin, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Tutoring
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Shemmassian Academic Consulting
Shemmassian Academic Consulting is a provider of advisory & tutoring services as well as guides on medical school & college admissions.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, E-Learning, Education, Tutoring
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Scholarly
Scholarly, a mobile app, helps find and provides tutors with a toolkit to schedule sessions, set payments, and find new clients.
Founder(s): Amanda Berryhill, Haasith Sanka, Sultan Khan
Location: Riverside, California, United States
Industries: Education, Mobile, Tutoring
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PrepUp
Peer-to-peer marketplace of college advisors and tutors
Founder(s): Dorian Walder
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Education, Marketplace, Tutoring
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LessonLab
LessonLab offers a wide variety of software and program development services to improve classroom teaching methods.
Founder(s): Jim Stigler
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Software, Tutoring
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TutorialCup
We deliver free programming tutorials and interview questions to students
Founder(s): Rahul Gupta
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Tutoring
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Action Youth America
Action Youth America focuses on education and afterschool programs, tutoring, literacy and language instructions.
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Location: Downey, California, United States
Industries: Children, Education, Social, Tutoring
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Codon VR
Codon is a virtual reality learning platform designed to help make learning abstract concepts simple and easy for anyone, anywhere.
Founder(s): Renee Van den Bosch
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Education, Tutoring, Virtual Reality
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The Pitch Clinic
The Pitch Clinic provides advice and coaching to entrepreneurs seeking to get funded or win sales pitches.
Founder(s): Martin Soorjoo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Education, Tutoring
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Tutorcast
Tutorcast is a hybrid e-learning platform for private tutors.
Founder(s): Nhon Ma
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Broadcasting, E-Learning, Tutoring
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Premier Tutoring
Premier Tutoring is a tech enabled tutoring service that provides assistance in Los Angels, New York and San Francisco
Founder(s): Skyler Lucci
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Service Industry, Tutoring
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Study Smart Tutors
Study Smart Tutors strives for education equity and supports first-gen and low-income students.
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Location: Westlake Village, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Personal Development, Skill Assessment, Tutoring
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Noesis Interactive
Noesis Interactive is the premier developer of training materials for game modders and indie-developers, multi-disciplinary artists within
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Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Industries: 3D Technology, Art, Fashion, Software, Training, Tutoring, Video Games
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The Academic Advantage
The Academic Advantage is a tutoring and test preparation company focused on one-on-one and group tutoring.
Founder(s): Mark Berookim, Michael Berookim
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring
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KellynKai
KellynKai is an online platform for live one-to-one Chinese classes.
Founder(s): Crystal Zhu
Location: Campbell, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Language Learning, Tutoring
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Merch
Merch connects students in China with American English tutors while taking care of video, payment, and scheduling logistics.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Tutoring
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Powerful Prep
With more 5 star Yelp reviews than any other SAT, ACT and PSAT tutoring courses, Powerful Prep is like no other Test Prep program.
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Location: Santa Ana, California, United States
Industries: Tutoring
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Kidzmet
Kidzmet is a learning GPS helps parents, teachers, tutors & coaches make learning fun and easy for each unique child.
Founder(s): Jen Lilienstein
Location: Summerland, California, United States
Industries: GPS, Parenting, Tutoring
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The KCS Academy
The KCS Academy is a training and certification provider.
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Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Education, Information Technology, Training, Tutoring
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Pakt
Pakt.com is a new online community for people to share knowledge and learn new things that can help them improve their lives.
Founder(s): Chris Weitenberner
Location: Playa Del Rey, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring
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TVLesson
TVLesson offers a community-driven website that allows its users to search and find information about how something is done.
Founder(s): Jino Im
Location: Brea, California, United States
Industries: Education, Journalism, Tutoring, Video
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Tried & True Tutoring
Tried & True Tutoring provides in-home tutoring all over the U.S.
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Location: Woodland Hills, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Tutoring
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Music Lifeboat
Making Music Education Accessible For Every Child
Founder(s): Dr. Brandon Bernstein, Julius Preite, Scott Loring, Terry Carter
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Gamification, Gaming, Mobile, Music, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Performing Arts, Tutoring
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UpBreeze
UpBreeze helps students to professionally network with students and alumni of all colleges.
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Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Education, Recruiting, Tutoring
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TopTutors.com
TopTutors.com offer its online tutoring service.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Online Portals, Tutoring
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TutCast
TutCast offers teaching and tech tools for people to learn how to use PhotoShop software.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Education, Internet, Photo Editing, Software, Training, Tutoring, Video
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TutorNerds
TutorNerds offers in-home tutoring in all grade levels and subjects.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Education, Tutoring
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South Pasadena Unified School District
South Pasadena Unified School District providing high-quality public education and academic programs to students.
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Location: South Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Education, Skill Assessment, Tutoring
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Bumo
Bumo provides an environment that attracts students who are struggling, high-achieving, and seeking for student-centric milieu.
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Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Continuing Education, Education, Tutoring
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Tutor Corps
Tutor Corps is an educational consulting firm that provides tutoring services to students both online and offline.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring
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Titan Tutors
Titan Tutors is a private tutoring and test preparation service.
Founder(s):
Location: Garden Grove, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring
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MiMentor
MiMentor is a non-profit that fundraises and supports the MiMentor online community .
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Higher Education, Non Profit, Tutoring
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Bellashoot LLC
Bellashoot app is a visual beauty community enabling women to share, learn and talk about beauty on-the-go.
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Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Beauty, Fashion, Internet, iOS, Leisure, Mobile, Tutoring, Video
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Next Sessions
Next Sessions provides completely online group learning classes and private tutoring for children from kindergarten to high school.
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Location: Solana Beach, California, United States
Industries: Tutoring
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Alexander Mathematics and Physics Tutoring
Mathematics and Physics Tutoring
Founder(s): Sean Alexander
Location: Sausalito, California, United States
Industries: Tutoring
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The ACME Network
The ACME Network is an online mentoring community for students.
Founder(s):
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Non Profit, Tutoring
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Tutorsglobe
Tutorsglobe is a website where users are matched with subject tutors that fulfill their specific needs.
Founder(s):
Location: Nevada City, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Education, Internet, Tutoring
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BidOnMyGig
A one-stop shop which connects consumers and service providers in an innovative competitive marketplace.
Founder(s): Kiran Boparai, Mony Gillon
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Construction, Home Renovation, Legal, Marketplace, Task Management, Tutoring
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Tutorbees
Tutorbees offers in-home tutoring and test preparation services.
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Location: Lake Forest, California, United States
Industries: Education, Secondary Education, Tutoring
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LetsCram
Social Video Chat is a web platform and app that allows users to view and share videos, documents, presentations, and more.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring, Video
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The Richmond Promise
The Richmond Promise is a non-profit group for college scholarship and programming, collaborative cross-sector partnerships.
Founder(s):
Location: Richmond, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Higher Education, Tutoring
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Spike Sales
Spike Sales provides solutions for financial advisors and business owners.
Founder(s):
Location: Dana Point, California, United States
Industries: Education, Training, Tutoring
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Oroville Union High School District
Oroville Union High School District is an educational institution.
Founder(s):
Location: Oroville, California, United States
Industries: Education, Primary Education, Tutoring
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Wiztr
Engage better for your coaching matters
Founder(s): Bala Gopalan
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Mobile, Scheduling, Tutoring
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Appr.tv
App review videos, ratings, & deals for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Symbian, Windows, OSX, Linux, with our HTML5 web app launcher.
Founder(s): Dan Lundmark
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Android, Apps, iOS, Journalism, Mobile, Tutoring, Video, Web Development
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Alpha Education
Alpha Education provides strategic corporate development and advisory services for higher education institutions.
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Location: Sausalito, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Tutoring
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LindsayUSD
LindsayUSD provides educational service.
Founder(s):
Location: Lindsay, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Language Learning, Tutoring
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Product Maestro
Product Maestro offers storytelling classes for product leaders.
Founder(s):
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Training, Tutoring
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Writers Boot Camp
Writers Boot Camp specializes in basic training, full development and rewriting for film, television, screenwriting and digital production.
Founder(s): Jeffrey Gordon
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Professional Services, Training, Tutoring
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Go Live
Go Live is a website templates and tutorials.
Founder(s):
Location: Fontana, California, United States
Industries: Tutoring, Web Development, Web Hosting
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TutorSource
Revolution Prep (http://www.revolutionprep.
Founder(s): Ramit Varma
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Education, Test and Measurement, Tutoring
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TutorMe
Academic engagement platform
Founder(s):
Location: Daly City, California, United States
Industries: Education, Internet, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Tutoring
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Tutorbook
Tutorbook is an educational management web app that helps students and schools to manage and balance peer tutoring in a single place.
Founder(s):
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Education, Tutoring, Web Apps
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Connexion Tutoring
Connexion Tutoring provides academic skills and tutoring services.
Founder(s):
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Industries: Education, Primary Education, Tutoring
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Franklin Educational Services
Franklin Educational Services is a tutor referral company.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Education, Training, Tutoring
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Beautiful Minds
Beautiful Minds helps students and economically disadvantaged communities in accessing the educational system.
Founder(s):
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Education, Psychology, Tutoring, Vocational Education
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Classroom Matters
Classroom Matters tutors the whole students. They provides individualized support for students in K-12 across all content areas.
Founder(s):
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Higher Education, Tutoring
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Genius Squared
Genius Squared is a coaching company specializing in training entrepreneurs.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Corporate Training, Training, Tutoring
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Edwards Mediation Academy
Edwards Mediation Academy is an online mediation training firm.
Founder(s):
Location: Belvedere Tiburon, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Higher Education, Training, Tutoring
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Affiliate Programs
Affiliate Programs is an online directory and learning hub that provides detailed tutorials, guides and news about the marketing industry.
Founder(s):
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Media and Entertainment, Online Portals, Tutoring
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Clickademics
Clickademics provides essay creating services procuring time to elevate knowledge of students.
Founder(s): Bradley Peterson
Location: Toluca Lake, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Tutoring
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On Track Learning
On Track Learning provides group and individual tutoring in school subjects and ACT/SAT prep to help achieve outstanding academic results.
Founder(s):
Location: Alamo, California, United States
Industries: Education, Training, Tutoring
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