Bio
Founder and CEO of Looper from February 1982 to November 1989. Amy Looper, Co-Founder/COO of OneSeventeen Media, PBC, is an AI EdTech/MedTech social venture entrepreneur. She and her partners grew their first tech company 8,164% in 35 months resulting in a $158M IPO. Today, having raised over $.6M in seed funding, OneSeventeen Media launched a suite of AI-powered, evidence-based mobile apps called reThinkIt! and ThinkingApp, that help PreK - 12th grade students make smarter behavior decisions that helps make schools safer. reThinkIt! for Employee Benefit Programs is a digital mental health platform using chatbot assistants to help employee-parent's kids process difficult emotions in real-time. Reducing stress and anxiety. Amy is a long-time SXSW EDU advisory board member, startup launch mentor and student startup competition emcee. She volunteers as an entrepreneur-mentor-in-residence for the Social Entrepreneurship Learning Lab (SELL) and the Social Innovation Initiative (SII) both through the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She delivered remarks in Washington, DC to the 86th Winter Meeting of the US Conference of Mayors’ Education & Workforce Committee – “New Technologies for Student Performance”. Sharing how OneSeventeen Media’s research, through the innovative use of their AI-based behavior management tools, helps schools increase revenues, preserve teachers’ time and reduce students’ emotional distress. All of which helps make schools safer and students feel more secure. Additionally, she shared how the core components of their products helped potentially avert a school shooting in one of the largest Urban school districts in the country. OneSeventeen Media is Texas’ first Certified B Corp, recently becoming a Public Benefit Corporation. They are B Lab 2015 and 2016 Best For The World Awardees. An author and energetic speaker Amy enjoys representing her company's successes and has appeared on national media outlets such as CNN, CNN/HLN, A&E, USA Today, TIME and People Magazine.