Cell-Ed

Meet an Unreasonable Venture

Delivering essential skills training in three-minute lessons on any mobile phone — learners simply call, text, or click to access a world of learning.

Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami

CEO, Founder at Cell-Ed

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cell-ed.com

Employees 51–100

Headquarters Palo Alto, California, United States

Cell-Ed is a customizable messaging platform that helps today’s workforce upskill easily and quickly over mobile devices to better workers’ lives. Users acquire reading, communications and job skills through Cell-Ed’s courses, content and coaches in the most convenient way for them, including on flip phones with no internet access. Cell-Ed enables organizations everywhere to more effectively and less expensively reach, retain and upskill these hard-to-reach working learners. They have trained over 50, 000 workers in 14 countries, with 50+ partners spanning education providers (e.g., state of New York, the Los Angeles Public Library, World Education) and employers (e.g., Chili’s Restaurants, Remington Hotels). Cell-Ed is a global social enterprise based in Palo Alto, California.

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Notable Achievements

Mobile education and training arm for the State of California and 70+ enterprise, governments, education providers.
Providing education and health training US wide and in over 54 countries to high need populations.
Multiple third-party validated studies to prove efficacy and impact.

Currently Operating in 21 Regions

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Press Mentions

March 26, 2020

What Happens When People Are Unable to Work Online?

Restaurant and hospitality jobs cannot be done from a computer at home, and workers in those sectors are struggling during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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April 9, 2019

Cell-Ed Works and EMPath Selected as JFF's $1 Billion Wage Gain Challenge Winners at ASU GSV Summit

SAN DIEGO and BOSTON, April 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- JFF, a national nonprofit that drives transformation in the American workforce and education systems, today ...

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January 9, 2019

New partnership between Wizenoze and Cell-Ed to reduce low literacy amongst adults

Wizenoze has become the happy recipient of the Pearson Project Literacy Lab Fund to work together with Palo Alto based Cell-Ed, supporting low literate adults worldwide. Improving work and life...

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October 31, 2018

This mobile learning platform aims to combat the “hidden epidemic” of adult illiteracy.

It’s an easily overlooked problem: A huge part of the American labor force is illiterate (about one in seven adults can’t read at all). Cell-Ed’s mobile learning platform is targeted at these...

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October 18, 2018

As Alternative Higher-Ed Pathways Take Off, We’re Still Forgetting Parent Learners

Cell-Ed, a mobile-first adult education provider, is partners with businesses and community-based organizations to deliver micro-courses in English literacy, basic education, and workforce skills...

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