Dan Avida
Mind The Tech NY 2025

Engageli: An AI-driven, goal-oriented digital classroom

Company name: Engageli
Industry: Educational Software
Founded: 2021
Founders: Dan Avida, Daphne Koller, Serge Plotkin
Number of Employees: 54
Capital Raised to Date: $47.5 Million
Investors: The Founders, BRM, Maveron, Corner Ventures, and other Investors
Founded by a team that includes the founder of Coursera and Stanford professors, Engageli is an AI-driven, goal-oriented digital classroom designed to enhance student success through active engagement between the system, teachers, and students. Engageli offers interactive learning tools, including study groups (Engageli tables), surveys, quizzes, and shared documents. By leveraging real-time data collection and analysis, the platform creates a dynamic and flexible learning environment that improves both student and teacher outcomes. Engageli is used across higher education, K-12 institutions, and corporate learning, currently surpassing one million learning hours per week.
Engageli was part of the Israeli startup squad that participated in Calcalist's Mind the Tech NY 2025 conference. Calcalist's "Team NY" included early-stage startup companies in the fields of Educational Software, Fintech & Retail, Con-Tech, Biological Intelligence, Healthtech, and Foodtech. The startups joined the official delegation in its journey to New York and took part in discussions at the event, presenting their companies to senior executives from the US and international tech industries.