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Austin, TX

Developing an AI-personalized digital safety learning platform for K-12 students and educators while scaling school deployments.

• Daily gamified learning: MASK NextGen delivers short, interactive cybersecurity missions led by Myra, the digital safety guardian.
• Adaptive AI personalization: Lessons adapt to student learning patterns and real-time risk signals to support ongoing engagement.
• SHIELD Framework standards unification: The SHIELD Framework connects K-12 digital citizenship standards into a measurable approach for AI readiness and risk reduction.
• District-level insight: Backend behavioral intelligence produces governance-grade dashboards and progress visibility for districts.
• Longitudinal grade progression: The curriculum evolves across grade bands from foundational online safety to privacy, digital civics, and human-in-the-loop ethics.

NextGen Shield is raising capital to expand deployment of MASK NextGen in K-12 schools and households, and to bring next-stage product capabilities to educators through SHIELD PRO and supporting dashboards in 2026. Funds are intended to accelerate rollout beyond existing fall 2025 pilot agreements, strengthen adaptive AI that personalizes student lessons using real-time risk signals, and improve the platform architecture that supports frequent updates as new digital threats appear. The company will also continue content and character development for Myra, the interactive cyber guardian that delivers daily, gamified cybersecurity practice for students aged 8 to 18.

MASK NextGen is a post-revenue AI readiness and digital safety platform built around the proprietary SHIELD Framework, which unifies K-12 digital citizenship standards such as ISTE, CASEL, FOSI, Common Sense, and NCMEC into measurable guidance for AI readiness and risk reduction. Students progress through immersive missions, narrative arcs, leveling, and boss battles, while backend behavioral intelligence converts lesson outcomes into governance-grade insights for districts. The curriculum scales by grade bands, addressing foundational online safety in early grades, then grooming awareness, deepfakes, and prompt influence during middle school, and finally privacy, data control, digital civics, and human-in-the-loop ethics for older students. NextGen Shield positions the platform as a longitudinal resilience system rather than a one-time compliance exercise.

Company Info

NextGen Shield develops the MASK NextGen AI-driven digital safety and microlearning platform that helps students recognize online threats and supports educators with progress dashboards.

NextGen Shield develops MASK NextGen, an AI-driven, gamified digital safety platform for K-12 students. Using interactive microlearning led by the cyber guardian character Myra, the platform teaches children how to recognize online threats, set boundaries, and protect personal information through short, engaging missions.

MASK NextGen adapts content to a learner’s age and progress and incorporates evolving risk signals to keep lessons current. It also supports educators with standards-aligned materials and progress dashboards, enabling classroom and family use without requiring technical expertise. The platform is designed to function across school, home, and on-the-go settings while translating student decisions into measurable insight for governance and improvement.