Steve Kupfer

Managing Director

11 past transactions

Odyssey

Seed Round in 2022
Odyssey is the first business to create a product specifically for managing education savings accounts and microgrants.

Edlink

Seed Round in 2022
Edlink provides two-way connections for e-learning and companies and publishers to tackle challenges like single-sign-on (SSO), rostering, content integration, and grade pass-back. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.

Paper

Series D in 2022
Paper is a developer of an educational platform that aims to make personalized tutoring accessible to all students. The platform connects students with certified educators who provide assistance with questions and offer contextualized feedback, helping students identify and understand their mistakes in the learning process. In addition to tutoring, Paper also offers after-school enrichment and resources related to college and career readiness, supporting students throughout their academic journey. The platform allows for tutoring sessions to be recorded and analyzed, further enhancing the learning experience by enabling students to revisit and reflect on their progress.

EveryDay Labs

Series A in 2021
EveryDay Labs, Inc. is focused on improving student outcomes by addressing chronic absenteeism through a unique combination of behavioral science, data science, and family engagement. Founded in 2015 and based in Redwood City, California, the company offers a toolkit that equips educators with insights, research, and strategies to effectively collaborate with families. This approach aims to ensure that every student has equitable opportunities to learn. By providing attendance intervention reports, EveryDay Labs enables schools and parents to monitor student attendance records, ultimately empowering educators to enhance support systems across districts.

Rhithm

Seed Round in 2021
Rhithm is a wellness check-in tool designed to enhance the well-being of students and staff through a straightforward emoji assessment. By analyzing user-provided data, the platform utilizes an algorithm to select and automatically launch a brief 1-2 minute activity video tailored to each individual or class. This approach not only helps users engage in meaningful wellness activities but also allows for the monitoring and evaluation of well-being initiatives at various levels, including campus, district, and state. Rhithm aims to create a supportive environment by providing insights into the effectiveness of wellness implementations and fostering connections across educational institutions.

Paper

Venture Round in 2020
Paper is a developer of an educational platform that aims to make personalized tutoring accessible to all students. The platform connects students with certified educators who provide assistance with questions and offer contextualized feedback, helping students identify and understand their mistakes in the learning process. In addition to tutoring, Paper also offers after-school enrichment and resources related to college and career readiness, supporting students throughout their academic journey. The platform allows for tutoring sessions to be recorded and analyzed, further enhancing the learning experience by enabling students to revisit and reflect on their progress.

Swing Education

Series B in 2018
Swing provides substitute teachers to fill hard-to-fill staff absences. On average, U.S. students spend 5% of the typical school year with substitute teachers, which translates to over 6 months of their K-12 school career. Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening not only impacts students, but causes teachers, school leaders, and administrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time administrators spend on the logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling, and paying contract substitute teachers. Swing's marketplace helps schools cover hard-to-fill absences by seamlessly providing substitute teachers on-demand.

BookNook

Seed Round in 2018
BookNook is an online education platform that focuses on synchronous learning technology and virtual high dosage tutoring, primarily serving K-8 students. The company supports numerous school districts in implementing effective and engaging reading and math programs. By synchronizing multiple devices, BookNook enables small groups to collaborate on rigorous reading exercises, enhancing the quality of instruction and facilitating distance learning. Its innovative approach has gained traction in both schools and after-school programs, making it a valuable resource for educators seeking to improve student outcomes in literacy and mathematics.

KickUp

Seed Round in 2017
KickUp helps professional development teams differentiate teacher support through analytics. Its SaaS-based analytics platform is designed to offer professional learning services. The analytics platform helps users customize pre-loaded goals to align with their district or region's strategic goals, pull together real-time data from surveys. They partner with K-12 organizations to coordinate professional learning efforts, improve decision-making, and ensure that great ideas translate into demonstrable outcomes in the classroom. Jeremy Rogoff, Victoria Kinzig, and Eric Krupski headquartered KickUp in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2014.

Allovue

Series A in 2015
Allovue, Inc. is a Baltimore-based company that specializes in financial software solutions for K-12 education departments and school districts across the United States. Its flagship product, Balance, integrates with existing accounting and data systems to assist educators in budgeting, managing, and evaluating expenditures. The platform offers tools for analyzing school budgets, tracking expenses, forecasting future spending, and planning for capital investments, enabling district officials and school administrators to visualize and optimize the impact of their financial decisions on educational outcomes. Allovue also provides supplemental services such as funding equity analysis and financial management training, catering to superintendents, CFOs, budget directors, and other stakeholders within the education sector. Originally founded as Allovue, LLC in 2013, the company rebranded in 2014 to reflect its mission of connecting finance and education to support strategic resource allocation.

Allovue

Seed Round in 2015
Allovue, Inc. is a Baltimore-based company that specializes in financial software solutions for K-12 education departments and school districts across the United States. Its flagship product, Balance, integrates with existing accounting and data systems to assist educators in budgeting, managing, and evaluating expenditures. The platform offers tools for analyzing school budgets, tracking expenses, forecasting future spending, and planning for capital investments, enabling district officials and school administrators to visualize and optimize the impact of their financial decisions on educational outcomes. Allovue also provides supplemental services such as funding equity analysis and financial management training, catering to superintendents, CFOs, budget directors, and other stakeholders within the education sector. Originally founded as Allovue, LLC in 2013, the company rebranded in 2014 to reflect its mission of connecting finance and education to support strategic resource allocation.
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