Better understand the school partnership decision-making process: Work directly with NCEE’s Expert Educators—superintendents, principals, and postsecondary leaders—to understand how priorities are set and how solutions are actually adopted, implemented and sustained.

De-risk and accelerate partnerships: Learn how education leaders evaluate solutions and move from pilot to systemwide adoption to build repeatable, scalable partnerships.

Access a curated peer and partner network: Learn alongside similarly staged companies from Britebound’s ecosystem and connect to a national network of education leaders aligned around future readiness.

Build trusted relationships with decisionmakers: Form early, durable relationships with education leaders actively seeking high quality, evidence informed innovations.

CareerX seeks mission-aligned companies ready to scale their impact in education.

• Company Stage: Late seed or Series A
• Revenue: at least $500K in ARR with a 2-5 year track record
• Focus Areas: Solutions that are advancing career-connected learning — building core academic skills, contemporary skills, habits of learning and well-being, community skills, and/or help young people and adults have meaningful careers. Companies whose solutions help leaders create the conditions for career-connected learning and provide career access for adults will also be considered.
• Location: Companies may be based anywhere globally; must have at least some existing revenue earned within the United States.
• Participation: At least one C-suite leader must commit to full participation from April – July 2026.

We are looking for companies that have achieved product-market fit, provide high-quality solutions, are generating revenue as evidence of stability, and are eager to deepen their understanding of how to scale their impact in the education ecosystem. Selected startups will benefit from direct connection with principals, superintendents, and education leaders.