Microlearning for Military Readiness

From H4D to Enterprise Training

Ethos emerged from Stanford's H4D program, where co-founders Andrew Powell and Sasha Seymore tackled Lt. Col. Niewiarowski's Air Force challenge around training effectiveness. What began as a student project addressing military readiness through improved learning methodologies evolved into a comprehensive microlearning platform that transforms how organizations approach skills development.

Current Mission

Ethos operates a training platform with three core components: an interactive mobile learning experience, a user-friendly authoring platform for content creation, and an analytics suite that identifies performance and knowledge gaps. The platform enables results-driven trainers to deliver microlearning modules that maximize retention while minimizing training time.

Scale and Impact

The company has raised $30 million in Series A funding and serves over 75 enterprise clients with 140% net retention rates. Ethos achieved Impact Level 6 accreditation for defense applications and demonstrated a 25% reduction in training time during pilot deployments, generating $5 million in annual cost savings for the Air Force alone.

Defense Innovation Legacy

Learn to Win represents one of H4D's most successful SBIR transitions, securing a $750K Phase I award within 30 days of proposal submission—the first H4D alumnus to achieve this milestone—before advancing to Phase III. CMP's network introductions and proposal coaching directly enabled their DoD stakeholder relationships and accreditation process. The company's trajectory from 107 Air Force base interviews to enterprise-scale deployment validates the H4D methodology of combining student innovation with operational sponsor engagement to create scalable defense solutions.