Bonsal Capital

Bonsal Capital is a mission-driven partnership investing primarily in the Capital Region in technology enabled services in education and workforce. The firm was founded in 1999 by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) cofounder Frank A. Bonsal, Jr and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

41 past transactions

Canopie

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Canopie offers a digital platform that addresses symptoms of maternal depression and anxiety. It aims to prevent and address maternal mental health disorders through customized, audio-based programs and automated coaching using clinically validated, recommended therapeutic techniques. Canopie works with cities, payers, health systems, and providers to deliver effective, low-cost care to moms that works for them and can be easily scaled - tackling the key treatment barriers of cost, scheduling, time, and stigma.

KidzToPros

Series A in 2022
KidzToPros is a provider and marketplace for after school enrichment programs.

RareBreed Ventures

Venture Round in 2021
RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed fund that invests in technology companies. It allows angel investors to become limited partners for larger funds down the line. RareBreed was founded in 2021 by McKeever "Mac" Conwell.

EveryDay Labs

Series A in 2021
EveryDay Labs unites behavioral science, data science, and family engagement to reduce chronic absenteeism while empowering educators to optimize student supports districtwide.

Upswing

Series A in 2021
Upswing provides colleges and universities with an integrated student services platform to increase student retention. Colleges are able to integrate their various student support operations in a virtual environment to allow students to easily find and meet with staff in support functions like advising, counseling, student success coaching, and tutoring. Additionally, Upswing's virtual assistant connects students via SMS to college reminders and information. By streamlining student services, college administrators are able to manage support staff in a single location, oversee communication with students, and access streamlined reporting and insights.

Sendcloud

Series B in 2020
SendCloud is an all-in-one shipping platform that connects online retailers to shipping carriers to save them time and money. The platform is easy to implement and takes about five minutes of the webshops time. After integrating their module the webshop can connect with several shipping carriers.

Nepris

Series A in 2020
Nepris is a cloud-based platform that connects industry professionals with K-16 classrooms, adult job seekers and out of school youth to bring real world relevance and career exposure to all learners. Nepris matches the skills of working professionals to learning objectives and virtually connects them with students to bring abstract lessons to life, offer project mentoring and evaluation, virtual tours, mock interviews and virtual work place experiences. Nepris makes it easy for educators to leverage industry connections to bring real world knowledge and skills to students, while providing a reliable platform for companies and regional intermediaries (like workforce boards, chamber, STEM hubs) to easily and effectively engage current workforce with the future workforce.

CourseArc

Convertible Note in 2020
CourseArc is a digital content creation tool that allows easy creation of engaging, interactive, and affordable online courses. It allows its users to create mobile-friendly, accessible courses without the assistance of a web developer.

Student Opportunity Center

Seed Round in 2019
Provider of an online platform intended to centralize, manage and assess student's experiential learning. The company's platform help student participate in experiential learning to prepare them for career and life after graduation.

InferCabulary

Venture Round in 2019
InferCabulary is a digital visual vocabulary tool that supports vocabulary acquisition and critical thinking using semantic reasoning. It enables students to learn the nuanced meanings of words.

Terbium Labs

Series A in 2017
Terbium Labs offers Matchlight, the world’s most comprehensive and only fully private dark web data monitoring solution, capable of quickly finding stolen data and minimizing the damage caused by a data breach. Terbium Labs was founded by Michael Moore and Danny Rogers in 2013 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

BetterLesson

Series B in 2017
BetterLesson connects K-12 educators with comprehensive professional learning solutions that help them thrive in an increasingly complex world. Through research-based professional development centered on student outcomes, educators gain the necessary skills to create meaningful student-centered learning experiences that meet all students’ needs. We provide intentionally defined learning pathways and self-directed courses supported by deep-dive Workshops, job-embedded 1:1 Coaching, and supportive Learning Walks that guide strategic learning across a district to achieve outcomes for all students in and beyond the classroom.

Faculty Guild

Seed Round in 2017
Faculty Guilde engages in designing technology that supports educators and students in building the connections that inspire learning. They also provide a toolset, including digital courseware, teaching resources, and professional development tools, that gives faculty members what they need to build deeper connections with students.

Torchlight

Series A in 2017
Torchlight is the complete caregiver support program for employers and health plans that provides real-time access to the strategies and solutions modern caregivers need most. From screen time to Social Security, Autism to Alzheimer’s, Torchlight meets caregivers where they are, providing the expert guidance, tools, and step-by-step action plans that solve even the most complex family challenges. Modern caregiving. Illuminated.

Allovue

Series A in 2015
Allovue is a software platform that helps school districts create and plan budgets and monitor spending to make financial. The user-friendly software applications allow district officials, principals, and other school administrators to visualize, analyze, and optimize the impact of spending on outcomes in education. The company's flagship product, Balance, contains applications to analyze school budgets, track and forecast expenditures, identify trends over time, and plan for future capital investments. Allovue allows superintendents to easily communicate district budgets with their staff, board, and community leaders, ensuring that budgets are strategically aligned to district goals and priorities. It connects education, finance, and technology to meet the needs of education decision-makers.

Quad Learning

Debt Financing in 2015
Quad Learning, Inc. was founded in 2012 with the goal of creating more affordable pathways for students to earn their bachelor’s degree. Quad Learning is a venture-backed startup that collaborates with leading community colleges to jointly develop and deliver American Honors, a competitive 2-year honors program designed for high ability students who plan to complete the remainder of their bachelor’s degree at a top-tier college or university.

Terbium Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Terbium Labs offers Matchlight, the world’s most comprehensive and only fully private dark web data monitoring solution, capable of quickly finding stolen data and minimizing the damage caused by a data breach. Terbium Labs was founded by Michael Moore and Danny Rogers in 2013 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sickweather

Seed Round in 2015
Sickweather is the world's only predictive, hyperlocal illness data platform. A Doppler radar for illness, Sickweather knows where sick people are clustered. Boasting a patented social listening technology that detects illness trends in real-time at a hyper-local level, in more than 120 countries, Sickweather data is modeled into 15-week forecasts and a threat level index called the SickScore.

Torchlight

Seed Round in 2015
Torchlight is the complete caregiver support program for employers and health plans that provides real-time access to the strategies and solutions modern caregivers need most. From screen time to Social Security, Autism to Alzheimer’s, Torchlight meets caregivers where they are, providing the expert guidance, tools, and step-by-step action plans that solve even the most complex family challenges. Modern caregiving. Illuminated.

Quad Learning

Series B in 2014
Quad Learning, Inc. was founded in 2012 with the goal of creating more affordable pathways for students to earn their bachelor’s degree. Quad Learning is a venture-backed startup that collaborates with leading community colleges to jointly develop and deliver American Honors, a competitive 2-year honors program designed for high ability students who plan to complete the remainder of their bachelor’s degree at a top-tier college or university.

Allovue

Seed Round in 2014
Allovue is a software platform that helps school districts create and plan budgets and monitor spending to make financial. The user-friendly software applications allow district officials, principals, and other school administrators to visualize, analyze, and optimize the impact of spending on outcomes in education. The company's flagship product, Balance, contains applications to analyze school budgets, track and forecast expenditures, identify trends over time, and plan for future capital investments. Allovue allows superintendents to easily communicate district budgets with their staff, board, and community leaders, ensuring that budgets are strategically aligned to district goals and priorities. It connects education, finance, and technology to meet the needs of education decision-makers.

Calvert Learning

Series A in 2013
Calvert Learning, based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, specializes in providing curriculum services for home school students and educational institutions. Established in 1906, the company offers a comprehensive range of courses in subjects such as history, mathematics, science, literature, and foreign languages, utilizing a blend of traditional textbooks and online learning. Its curriculum is designed for English-speaking students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, emphasizing active, project-based learning. In addition to its academic offerings, Calvert Learning provides advisory teaching, technical support services, and flexible, modular approaches tailored to the needs of schools and districts. The organization has a long-standing commitment to ensuring that all students have access to a high-quality education, regardless of their learning environment. As of 2019, Calvert Learning operates as a subsidiary of Edmentum, Inc., continuing its mission to support both homeschool families and educational institutions.

Quad Learning

Series A in 2013
Quad Learning, Inc. was founded in 2012 with the goal of creating more affordable pathways for students to earn their bachelor’s degree. Quad Learning is a venture-backed startup that collaborates with leading community colleges to jointly develop and deliver American Honors, a competitive 2-year honors program designed for high ability students who plan to complete the remainder of their bachelor’s degree at a top-tier college or university.

GIGAS

Seed Round in 2012
Gigas offers powerful and advanced real time cloud hosting services with a very simple and intuitive control panel. Founded by experienced Internet and Telecoms experts from companies such as Deutsche Telekom/Ya.com, Telefonica/O2, Fon.com or Merril Lynch, Gigas cloud hosting services are designed to support the most demanding hosting configurations. Gigas main product, Cloud Datacenter, provides customers with a pool of resources so that they can enjoy their own fully functional datacenter. Customers can deploy servers in real time (with the chosen resources and operating system) and other datecenter equipment such as load balancers, firewalls, VLANs, etc, all from a fully operational control panel. The company is focused on Spain and Latam, with offices in Madrid, Bogotá, Medellín, Santiago de Chile, Lima, Panamá City, Mexico City and Miami, and provides services from four datacenters, two in Spain, one in Chile and one in Miami, all of them Tier-III and Tier-IV (highest possible certification for a datacenter). Gigas offers Infrastructure as a Service to more than 3,600 business customers, from SMEs to large corporates. The company is the official provider of public cloud to the European Commission, has received numerous awards and recognitions, like best cloud hosting provider in the world in the 2016 Cloud Awards, or being named a Global Significant Provider by Gartner. Gigas is listed in the Madrid Stock Exchange (MAB) since November 2015.

Quad Learning

Series A in 2012
Quad Learning, Inc. was founded in 2012 with the goal of creating more affordable pathways for students to earn their bachelor’s degree. Quad Learning is a venture-backed startup that collaborates with leading community colleges to jointly develop and deliver American Honors, a competitive 2-year honors program designed for high ability students who plan to complete the remainder of their bachelor’s degree at a top-tier college or university.

Curiosityville

Seed Round in 2011
Curiosityville LLC operates interactive website for children. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cockeysville, Maryland.

BetterLesson

Venture Round in 2011
BetterLesson connects K-12 educators with comprehensive professional learning solutions that help them thrive in an increasingly complex world. Through research-based professional development centered on student outcomes, educators gain the necessary skills to create meaningful student-centered learning experiences that meet all students’ needs. We provide intentionally defined learning pathways and self-directed courses supported by deep-dive Workshops, job-embedded 1:1 Coaching, and supportive Learning Walks that guide strategic learning across a district to achieve outcomes for all students in and beyond the classroom.

Moodlerooms

Venture Round in 2010
Moodlerooms connects institutions to their Learning Management Platform, joule, that evolves around the user. Joule combines functionality and service into an adaptable package that matches institution's needs.

StraighterLine

Seed Round in 2010
As the cost of higher education skyrockets and the average household income declines, StraighterLine is enabling thousands of students to affordably obtain their degrees. StraighterLine provides online, self-paced, pay-as-you-go introductory level college courses for $99 per month or $1000 per year . The goal of this company is to increase access and affordability and lower the cost threshold for starting in college. Through StraighterLine, students are able to inexpensively take their core courses online and then seamlessly transfer those courses for credit at accredited partner universities to earn their ultimate degree.

Questar Assessment

Post in 2009
Questar Assessment, Inc. offers solutions for the assessment market, including flexible, customizable services, and complete products for states, school districts, and other clients. Its services include program management, test design and construction, item development, materials production, distribution and collection, online test administration, document processing, performance assessment, rangefinding and benchmarking, scoring, data analysis, research, standard setting, program evaluation, readability analysis, and psychometric services, as well as reporting services, such as paper and Web-based delivery. The company’s products comprise degrees of reading power program, WriteQuest, SSSMART content area reading program, the MAC II test of English language proficiency, core knowledge curriculum-referenced tests, reading power essentials, signposts early literacy assessment program, TextSense summary writing program, and educator’s word frequency guide. In addition, it offers online test administration and reporting services to schools, local education agencies, and states in the K–12 market, as well as provides custom programs, including large-scale assessments, district-wide assessments, English language learner proficiency assessments; and alternate assessments. The company was formerly known as Touchstone Applied Science Associates, Inc. and changed its name to Questar Assessment, Inc. in March 2007. Questar Assessment, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Brewster, New York. As of March 23, 2017, Questar Assessment, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Educational Testing Service, Inc.

BetterLesson

Debt Financing in 2009
BetterLesson connects K-12 educators with comprehensive professional learning solutions that help them thrive in an increasingly complex world. Through research-based professional development centered on student outcomes, educators gain the necessary skills to create meaningful student-centered learning experiences that meet all students’ needs. We provide intentionally defined learning pathways and self-directed courses supported by deep-dive Workshops, job-embedded 1:1 Coaching, and supportive Learning Walks that guide strategic learning across a district to achieve outcomes for all students in and beyond the classroom.

BetterLesson

Seed Round in 2009
BetterLesson connects K-12 educators with comprehensive professional learning solutions that help them thrive in an increasingly complex world. Through research-based professional development centered on student outcomes, educators gain the necessary skills to create meaningful student-centered learning experiences that meet all students’ needs. We provide intentionally defined learning pathways and self-directed courses supported by deep-dive Workshops, job-embedded 1:1 Coaching, and supportive Learning Walks that guide strategic learning across a district to achieve outcomes for all students in and beyond the classroom.

Starfish Retention Solutions

Seed Round in 2008
Starfish is an education platform that offers advisory services to students. The platform offers students with a range of services, including enterprise success platforms, early alert, connect, and degree planner. It offers its services to community colleges, public institutions, and online programs. Starfish was founded in 2007 and is based in Arlington.

Videology

Series A in 2008
Videology is a digital media advertising technology solutions provider, providing its clients with solutions to connect advertiser brands with consumers who are most interested in those brands. By leveraging the power of consumer data and ad decisioning, we increase accountability, and optimize the performance of video and display advertising campaigns by providing a more relevant, meaningful web experience for consumers who view the ads delivered through our advertising technology solutions.

NxThera

Series A in 2008
NxThera develops medical technologies to treat a variety of endourology conditions, including BPH. The company's technology platform utilizes a simple, minimally invasive, vapor therapy designed to measurably improve urinary flow and patient quality of life. BPH afflicts more than 32 million men in the United States.

Moodlerooms

Seed Round in 2007
Moodlerooms connects institutions to their Learning Management Platform, joule, that evolves around the user. Joule combines functionality and service into an adaptable package that matches institution's needs.

HeadSprout

Series D in 2007
HeadSprout, Inc. provides computer-based learning programs for teaching fundamental academic skills. It offers online reading programs. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

American Public Education

Series B in 2005
American Public Education, Inc. is an online provider of higher education focused primarily on serving the military and public service communities. American Public University System (APUS), wholly owned by APEI, is comprised of American Military University (AMU) and American Public University (APU). APUS serves more than 83,000 adult learners worldwide and offers 79 degree programs in fields ranging from homeland security, military studies, intelligence, and criminal justice to technology, business administration, public health, and liberal arts. Nationally recognized for its best practices in online higher education, APUS provides an affordable education through classes taught by experienced faculty who are leaders in their fields and committed to the academic achievement of their students.
Spectrum K12 School Solutions, Inc. provides response to intervention (RTI) and special education IEP software for K-12 student population in the United States. It offers Encore, a special education data management system, which provides a Web-based solution to manage the individualized learning process for various students receiving special services, including special education, 504, limited English proficiency (LEP/ESL), and pre-referral response to intervention (RTI) programs. Spectrum K12 School Solutions, Inc. was formerly known as 4GL School Solutions, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Towson, Maryland.

Smarthinking Online Tutoring

Seed Round in 2000
The market leader in products and services to bolster student performance, persistence and retention. More than 1,000 universities, colleges and schools turn to SMARTHINKING for on-demand, online tutoring.

Blackboard

Series B in 1999
Blackboard Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise technology and solutions tailored for the education sector, serving higher education, K-12, corporate, and government organizations. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a range of products designed to enhance teaching and learning experiences. Its flagship platform, Blackboard Learn, supports academic objectives, while Blackboard Collaborate facilitates interactive and mobile learning. Blackboard's offerings also include solutions for assignment integrity, data analytics, program assessment, and student support services. Additionally, Blackboard Connect provides a mass notification service to enhance communication within educational institutions. The company's innovative tools aim to improve engagement, accessibility, and institutional performance, impacting millions of students and educators globally.
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