Learning Era LLC - About Us

About Us

At Learning Era, our mission is to make learning fun for children everywhere, and build a strong foundation for academic success. Our expanding portfolio of educational products includes Pictoword School, an Al- powered student-adaptive program that supports children's vocabulary development. Pictoword School is a school solution that is research based, and developed by a team of education experts. This program has proven efficacy in increasing children's learning by approximately 12% based on a research study conducted by WestEd and funded by the Department of Education. Our portfolio also includes Pictoword Edu, a solution for parents who are eager to reinforce their children's learning at home or for teachers to engage students in a fun way. Pictoword Edu is developed by the creators of Pictoword, an award-winning app that has been downloaded by 40 million users around the world.

Leadership

Chun-Kai Wang

Co-Founder, CEO

As the co-founder and CEO of Learning Era, CK has led the development of educational apps that have reached tens of millions of users worldwide. Previously, CK worked at Microsoft as a software engineer in the Games team and subsequently in the Machine Learning Research group. While at Microsoft, CK filed several machine learning patents and built a large-scale web service to analyze Twitter streams and deployed a cloud entity extraction service scaled to handle 200 million status updates & tweets per day.

Jonathan Chang

Co-Founder, COO

As the co-founder and COO of Learning Era, Jon has led the wide-scale commercial distribution of the company's educational apps. Previously, Jon established the Business Operations function at Twitch (a subsidiary of Amazon) and partnered with the company's leadership team to drive Twitch's sales strategy and business development initiatives. Prior to this, Jon led business strategy and corporate development efforts at Twitter.

Elli Suzuki

Director of Education

As the Director of Education of Learning Era, Elli leads the product development and research of the company's educational apps. Previously, Elli was a researcher at WestEd where she led research evaluations of SBIR grants funded by IES and NIH and coordinated multi-year randomized controlled trials funded by IES. She has extensive experience in usability testing, classroom feasibility testing, and implementation studies of educational technology tools.

Awards

Learning Era is proud to have been consistently recognized for the excellence of our products, receiving numerous national awards from education, parenting, and media organizations.