Stephen Colby's Contact Details

Stephen Colby's Company Details

FluentWorlds

Provo, UT, US • 20 - 49 Employees
eLearning

FluentWorlds uses the latest breakthroughs in AI, speech recognition and 3D modeling to create immersive worlds for students to learn English in a 3D Metaverse. With three unique products - FluentWorlds, FluentWorlds Live Academy, and Perfect Accent - we're poised in the more than $50 billion per year ESL industry. FAST FACTS1. Over 1 million downloads 2. Co-founder was previously CEO of 2 high-growth tech companies: HireVue and Fusion-io.3. Custom speech recognition technology built in collaboration with the leader of the Amazon Alexa team. 4. Thousands of subscribers with a 90% month-over-month retention rate5. Have been rated as one of the top 100 educational apps in the iTunes store out of more than 220,000 6. Partnered with mobile telecom providers with access to over 100 million users.ABOUT USFluentWorlds is the brainchild of Dr. Linda Bradford, whose PhD research showed that virtual environments in the metaverse may be even better than traditional classrooms when it comes to learning and retention. In 2008, she used those insights to create 3D classrooms known as Virtual Immersive Education Worlds (VIEW). With the help of her husband David Bradford - former CEO of 2 of America's 50 fastest-growing tech companies - she then founded FluentWorlds in 2009 and PerfectAccent in 2018.We have already partnered with telecom companies to push our products in places like Japan, Colombia and Central Asia. With more than 75,000 downloads in the Xiaomi store, we are also making inroads in China - the gold standard for any successful ESL company.