How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
We are reinventing what workforce up-skilling and economic advancement looks like for the massive but underserved U.S. infrastructure sector. The recent COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the criticality of the infrastructure workforce and has created the urgent need for tailored education solutions. Infrastructure organizations need immediate training solutions that help workers address the current realities of COVID-19 and make their organizations more resilient to stay “up and running.” For example, electric utilities have transitioned tens of thousands of their employees to home-based roles in a manner of weeks. Major electric utilities such as National Grid are sequestering their critical employees and housing them on company premises.Our work with employers to date has shown the urgent need for solutions regarding best practices for working remotely across a variety of technical jobs, managing stress, working effectively in times of crisis, communicating across organizations, and countering disinformation. Further, very few organizations are collecting learner data to identify what works and how to tailor subsequent training responses (i.e. what delivery, content, and assessment works best to reach an extremely busy and stressed front line worker workforce), let alone helping employers understand if their workforce is prepared for COVID-19 response.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Recovery - we're positioned to support in the recovery of those directly affected.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market ready product/service. I have sold to customers.
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Matt Evans comes to Julius from Pearson, where he was SVP of Pearson Online Learning, leading the team responsible for $350mm revenue across 40+ university partners. Matt also was a Venture Partner at Salmon River Capital, working with leading entrepreneurs in the technology & education sectors, and served as head of national expansion at New Leaders for New Schools, a social enterprise which recruits & trains principals for public schools across the US. Past and current boards include: Big Fish Games, a leading online games company (sold for $885 million) and Imagine H2O, the leading accelerator of water technology innovation whose participants have raised $500mm+ of VC investment. Daniel Goldsmith focuses on the intersection of education and analytics, helping Julius Education clients drive learning outcomes, digital transformation, and business success. Prior to Julius, Daniel served as VP of Analytics and Innovation at Pearson North America (~$3B revenue) where he was responsible for utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence to help meet learner needs. Prior to Pearson, Daniel worked in higher education at Eduventures, where he helped develop the firm’s educational technology practice, and at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he conducted research on strategy, management, and digital business. He has also worked outside education at the United States Senate, in private equity, and as a management consultant for a global strategy firm.
What countries do you operate in?
Currently in the United States and in discussions with global infrastructure providers in France and the Middle East.
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
