GroupEd

Cerys Furlong is CEO of GroupEd, an EdTech startup looking to make an impact in the area of school management.

She said “My background is in the voluntary and public sectors; I’ve been in influencing, lobbying and campaigning roles but never in tech. But I’ve got a brain that tries to solve things – I see a problem and I try to fix it.”

That’s what GroupEd is doing in the education space. They recognised that schools are holding large amounts of data, often across platforms, which can be onerous to manage but can offer a lot of insight. “There’s an opportunity to make better use of the data that schools hold, to enable decision-making and improve education.

Why can’t we do amazing tech things in Wales? By focusing on making connections and creating public value, our ability to solve problems is endless.

GroupEd approached Hartree Centre Cardiff Hub to understand more about how using AI could speed up data processing using large language models and free up time and resource so that teachers could focus on teaching, administrative staff could solve bigger issues. Their Assist and subsequent project with the Hartree Centre team has helped them to see other possibilities.

“It’s always useful to have a different set of eyes on the challenge and to avoid getting stuck in ‘the now’. The data scientists we’ve worked with at the Hartree Centre shared our language and raised our ambitions.”

GroupEd is now embedding AI into their platform, offering translation services to ease engagement between home and school in community languages.