Edtech europe

June 2014

Terry Nealon CEOEmail: terry.nealon@fishtree.com

Web: fishtree.com @nealonter

@fishtree_edu

“Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,

it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.”

Albert Einstein

BACKGROUND

Founded in 2012 in Dublin Ireland by senior industry execs

Venture backed in 2012, just completing Series A

Launched with partners in US, China, Korea and recently won contracts in EMEA and

LATAM

Awarded “Most Disruptive and Overall Winner in Mobile” by SIIA

Built around its core value that every student learns in a different way and deserves the

opportunity to have a personalized learning experience.

So fishtree was built to make every learning environment adaptive:

Align all resources with any learning standard for any subject

Personalize all available resources to every learner

Be Easy to Use/adopt and Integrate with existing infrastructure

© fishtree

VISION

Terry Nealon, CEO As former EVP and GM of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Terry oversaw all

international markets outside the United States. He also served as Director of

International Sales at Riverdeep. Terry previously served Irish and international

markets in the software and telecommunications industries. As well as working

as teacher/volunteer in South Africa, key member of 3 tech startups.

Jim Butler, CTO Jim is former Senior Vice President, Technology Product Development for

HMH/Riverdeep. He was responsible for the Technology strategy and IT

operations, leading a globally distributed team of 700-plus technology

professionals. Jim previously held technology leadership roles at Vodafone, O2

and Microsoft.

FOUNDING TEAM

Personalized Learning Environments give rise to a new discipline focused on

improving student outcomes through Learning Relationship Management.

LEARNING RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Mobile

Communications

Social Media

Curated

Content

Adaptive

Instruction

PARENTS

FELLOW

STUDENTS TEACHERS

SCHOOL

ADMINISTRATORS

• Increased learner-centric home to school communications

• Increased collaborative and project-based learning

• drives multiple learning objectives across many disciplines

• Increased peer to

peer learning,

• community-based

projects, juried

recommendations,

• affinity group

partnering,

• culturally sensitive

localized content,

• consumer loyalty to

products that

produce outcomes

• Increased

innovation in

lesson design,

• evolution of

school operating

models,

• team-based

instruction,

• social services

that advance

specific learner

needs

FISHTREE PLATFORM LEARNING RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

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Standards alignment and adaptive

learning

Leading the industry on UI/Design

Easy to Adopt and Train users

Overall better Curriculum

Management/Adaptive Instruction

Save Teachers Time, Engage

Every Student, Support Every

Parent and demonstrate ROE

for every institution

LRM

ANY CURRICULUM OR LANGUAGE

Korean

Chinese

GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW - SIZE AND

GROWTH

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US CHANNELS

Public School Districts

CMOs/EMOs

B2B and Partners

Higher Education

Total K-12 enrollment is over 55 million students. Instructional funding accounts for 8-10% of all K-12 education spending

Charter school enrollment exceeded 2.28 million in 2013, and is growing by 4.6% per year.

Channel Description Est. Market Size

$54 billion

$1.7 billion

Home School Students

Broad category includes technology, content, channel, national non-profit organizations

$7.5 billion

Despite declining enrollment in higher education, growth in online programs and related spend IT spend is rising by ~10%/yr

$10.3 billion

Home schooling is up by more than 75 percent since 1999 – it’s estimated that more than 2 million students attend at home

$1 billion

Act

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y Le

vel

Technology Providers • LMS/SIS companies • Implementation partners • Assessment providers • Network/systems

managers

Publishers/Content • Online content • OER material • Basal curriculum • Supplemental curriculum

Part

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han

nel

National Organizations

Customer Segments

Device Manufacturers • Hardware & OEM

(tablet/PC) • Chip makers • Network hardware

Solve Scale and Service/Implementation Challenges - Add value added to existing providers to the end-users.

EMOs/CMOs

School Districts

Higher Education

Independent Schools

Home school users

GO TO MARKET – ALLIANCES “make any learning environment adaptive”

NEW INDEPENDENT USER LAUNCH!

BOTTOM LINE……. IT WORKS

• A most recent pilot in saw majority of students jump a grade • In others, approx 67% saw increase in concentration and 75% understood concepts

better

• “I love u fish tree!” – a message from a 3rd grade pilot student in LA who wanted to share her excitement by posting us a message through the fishtree website.

• “My Mamma told me ta get outa her hair, so I went I did my Fishtree!” – quote from a 3rd grade pilot student from SC who has replaced her PlayStation with Fishtree….

• Teacher experiencing a major (30%+) time savings for class preparation • Teacher experiencing up to 50% increase in confidence of creating lessons and aligning to

standards. • Teacher experiencing increased level of communication with students and better insights

into student collaboration and progress and engagement with the lesson content.

Teachers Snapshots

Student snapshots

Terry Nealon CEOEmail: terry.nealon@fishtree.com

Web: fishtree.com @nealonter

@fishtree_edu

Lets have a coffee…..