GSV SL

GSV SL is a buyout fund managed by GSV Ventures, which is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2016, GSV Ventures specializes in investing in the education technology sector, focusing on companies that address the needs of the digital education market spanning from early childhood to adult learning. GSV Ventures supports both early and late-stage entrepreneurs who are innovating within the $7 trillion education and future of work industries. Notable investments include companies such as Coursera, ClassDojo, Degreed, and Guild Education. Additionally, GSV Ventures organizes the ASU+GSV Summit, a significant event that brings together thousands of founders, investors, educators, and policymakers from around the world to discuss advancements in education technology.

Michael Cohn

Partner

Joe Murdy

Principal

Claire Zau

Vice President

60 past transactions

Dreamscape Learn

Series A in 2023
Dreamscape Learn is an edtech company focusing on cinematic story-telling, cutting-edge immersive technologies, and advanced pedagogy. They believe that the best educational designs combine multiple pedagogical modalities. Students study; they apply knowledge and concepts; they learn by doing and do in order to learn; they learn through text, lecture, visual and audio media, hands-on experience, and from one another. They create programs and products that connect all of these modes of engagement.

AntWalk

Series A in 2022
AntWalk is a video platform that equips professionals with learning and skills. Its up-skilling programs are delivered by top industry leaders and customized to meet the needs of ever-evolving organizations. Its platform is powered by 3,000+ Experts from 500+ Global Brands to provide professionals with an arsenal of Short Knowledge Bytes, Live Group Classes, and 1:1 Interactions with Experts. These enable them to learn in the flow of work, develop a growth mindset and propel their career to the next level. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Tango

Series A in 2022
Tango allows you to automatically create beautiful step-by-step guides with screenshots, in seconds. It's really that easy! Just hit ‘capture’ and we do the rest - Tango captures your workflow, generating screenshots and automated descriptions of even your most complicated processes.

Course Hero

Series C in 2021
Course Hero is a subscription-based online learning platform that offers course-specific study resources for students.

Clasp

Series A in 2021
Clasp is an outcomes-oriented company offering flexible funding products such as Income Share Agreements and Deferred Tuition Agreements that supplement student loans. Stride and its founder have been recognized by Forbes, Harvard and MIT for its innovations and social impact. Stride has received venture investments from Graham Holdings, Firework, GSV, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures, and Pear VC; and its sponsors include Strada Education, Ascendium, and Silicon Valley Bank. Stride advisors include investors, serial entrepreneurs and industry leaders such as Deborah Quazzo, Brigette Lau, Tina Sharkey, Doug Levin, and Kevin Moss. During 2019-22, the funds under management grew from $10M to $150M. In September 2022, the company announced a partnership with Stanford Law School to empower students to pursue careers of impact and service.

BrightChamps

Venture Round in 2021
BrightChamps is a learning education service provider company.

Apna

Series C in 2021
Founded in 2019, apna.co is India’s largest professional networking platform dedicated to helping India’s rising workforce to unlock unique professional networking, and skilling opportunities. The app is currently serving in 75 cities across India. Having raised $190+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital India, Rocketship.vc and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India. With over 35Mn+ users, present in 75 cities and counting, and over 2Mn+ employers that trust the platform - India has a new destination to discover relevant opportunities.
Eruditus collaborates with top universities to make executive education accessible globally. Eruditus has partnered with more than 30 universities to date, including MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, UC Berkeley, INCAE, IIT, IIM, NUS, and HKUST, launching more than 100 courses and serving students from more than 80 countries. Many courses are offered and facilitated in multiple languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin. Eruditus was founded in 2010 and is based in Singapore with offices in six countries, 650+ employees, and more than 50,000 student enrolments.

Quizizz

Series B in 2021
Quizizz is an education-based platform that offers engaging gamified quizzes and interactive lessons to help people learn or teach anything, on any device, in-person or remotely. Quizizz helps educators and training professionals conduct quick assessments on any topic and analyze results instantly—no grading necessary. Quizizz is used by more than 20 million people per month in schools, homes, and offices accross the world.

Classplus

Series C in 2021
Classplus is a mobile first SaaS platform that enables private coaching institutes to streamline their video distribution, payments, communication and online assessments through a single platform.

BookClub

Series A in 2021
BookClub fosters deep connections between readers and authors, creating space for meaningful conversations through exclusive video content and live-audio discussions.

Toucan

Seed Round in 2021
Toucan is a browser extension that allows users to translate words and phrases into various languages while browsing the web. Toucan enables users to learn new languages without the use of flashcards, lengthy classes, or intimidating tests, helping them increase their vocabulary by seeing translated words within the context of a language they already know. Toucan employs experts in the science of habit formation, learning, and human behavior to create the best learning environment possible.

LEAD

Series D in 2021
LEAD School offers a technology-based school transformation system that assures quality education to students. The EdTech startup helps digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families. It develops an integrated system to help K-12 schools with the curriculum they teach, how they teach them, secure books and other resources from vendors, and better evaluate the learning outcome. In 2012, Sumeet Mehta and Smita Deorah co-founded LEAD School in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Degreed

Series D in 2021
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Abwaab

Seed Round in 2021
Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outside the classroom.

Section4

Series A in 2021
Section4 is democratizing business education through innovative and engaging 2-3 week sprints.

Photomath

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2014, Photomath is on a mission to transform learning and help every student succeed. It is the world's most-used math education app with over 300 million learners globally. Powered by advanced AI technology, the app instantly scans, accurately solves, and intuitively explains math problems to users through step-by-step explanations, ultimately promoting comprehension of fundamental concepts. Based in San Mateo, California, the company is funded by Cherubic Ventures, Goodwater Capital, GSV Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Learn Capital.

Ethena

Funding Round in 2020
Ethena provides modern, engaging compliance training. Training is online, delivered in bite-sized, monthly doses, and personalized based on an individual's preference. Ethena started with Harassment Prevention training and is expanding to other compliance training verticals. Innovative, culture-forward companies such as Netflix, Zendesk, Figma, Medium, and Blend train with Ethena. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Tract

Seed Round in 2020
Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, they enable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities. Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK. TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens. Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture). What We Believe: - The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems

Tango

Seed Round in 2020
Tango allows you to automatically create beautiful step-by-step guides with screenshots, in seconds. It's really that easy! Just hit ‘capture’ and we do the rest - Tango captures your workflow, generating screenshots and automated descriptions of even your most complicated processes.

BookClub

Seed Round in 2020
BookClub fosters deep connections between readers and authors, creating space for meaningful conversations through exclusive video content and live-audio discussions.

LOOM

Seed Round in 2020
LOOM is a well-being platform empowering women through reproductive and sexual health education. Weaving together inclusivity, empathy and science.

Intellispark

Seed Round in 2020
Intellispark helps schools to maximize student achievement through a data-driven, community-centered approach to student advising. Their team includes experienced education and technology leaders who are passionate about ensuring every child has the chance to make a difference.

Battlecard

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Battlecard operates as a platform that enables businesses to organize and document their sales playbooks. It simulates customer voices for fast and straightforward training and can also automate the roleplaying process for effective training.

Guild

Series D in 2019
Guild's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and careers. It offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model.

Clasp

Seed Round in 2019
Clasp is an outcomes-oriented company offering flexible funding products such as Income Share Agreements and Deferred Tuition Agreements that supplement student loans. Stride and its founder have been recognized by Forbes, Harvard and MIT for its innovations and social impact. Stride has received venture investments from Graham Holdings, Firework, GSV, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures, and Pear VC; and its sponsors include Strada Education, Ascendium, and Silicon Valley Bank. Stride advisors include investors, serial entrepreneurs and industry leaders such as Deborah Quazzo, Brigette Lau, Tina Sharkey, Doug Levin, and Kevin Moss. During 2019-22, the funds under management grew from $10M to $150M. In September 2022, the company announced a partnership with Stanford Law School to empower students to pursue careers of impact and service.

CLI Studios

Venture Round in 2019
CLI Studios is an internet company that specializes in the fields of eCommerce and arts education. It features an online educational platform, students, and teachers at schools can learn from over 100 world-renowned instructors and performers like tWitch from The Ellen Show, Tiler Peck from New York City Ballet, Broadway performers, and more. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

PeopleGrove

Series A in 2019
PeopleGrove software supports the entire student lifecycle in higher education institutions. It is designed to enhance engagement from prospective students to alumni and is used by over 650 institutions worldwide. PeopleGrove provides a centralized platform for students to access mentorship, college navigation, and career support services, helping them persist to graduation, explore careers, and build professional networks. The platform aims to improve student career readiness and confidence, leveraging AI and machine learning for personalized support. Additionally, PeopleGrove offers solutions for admissions and enrollment, student services, alumni and advancement, and industry partnerships. Their tools facilitate increased yield and reduced melt in admissions, improved retention and persistence to graduation, enhanced career readiness, and the growth of alumni engagement and philanthropy pipelines. The platform also supports experiential learning and project-based learning through industry partnerships. PeopleGrove's mission is to ensure that every learner has access to the necessary networks and people to succeed, with a vision to help every learner navigate successfully to their next professional step. PeopleGrove's mentorship and advising platform has been successfully launched at the world's leading institutions, including Stanford, UMGC, K-State, and many more.

College Pulse

Seed Round in 2019
College Pulse is a revolutionary platform that provides students with an accurate and less invasive way to measure public opinion. It recognizes the value of students' time and thoughts, which is why it provides them with information about what their community thinks about issues that are important to them. Because of this student-centric approach, they have grown to become the largest and most reliable source of college student opinion.

ClassDojo

Series C in 2019
ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities. It connects teachers with students and parents to build amazing classroom communities and instantly share photos, videos, and announcements on Class Story, or privately message with any parent. It aims to bring communities together and give kids a learning experience they love. ClassDojo was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ansaro

Seed Round in 2018
Ansaro helps companies interview better and hire the people who will do the job best. We apply machine learning to workforce data our customers already collect, but have never tapped before, allowing them to identify new patterns and reduce biases in hiring. Our systems help customers find more top performers, reduce turnover, and streamline the hiring process.

Glimpsek12

Seed Round in 2018
Glimpse12 captures everything you're doing to impact student outcomes and evaluates these activities in the context of student achievement. Traditionally, eROI is virtually impossible to track and manage. The company's approach maximizes district's education return on investment (eROI) by providing answers to critical questions essential to ensure your time and money are aligned with the unique needs of your students.

Lightneer

Seed Round in 2017
To be able to address a rapidly changing market we created a market first / market fast approach to game development. Our world-class team takes the best concepts to market in just a handful of weeks from dozens of original ideas. We look for strong marketability and high player engagement from the outset to help determine if games have hit potential.

Voxy

Series C in 2017
Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

RaiseMe

Series A in 2017
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

MasterClass

Series C in 2017
MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn. It offers a wide range of subjects, including arts and entertainment, business, design and style, sports and gaming, writing, and more.

Nearpod

Series B in 2017
Nearpod is an all-in-one solution for the synchronized use of iPads in the classroom that makes lectures more engaging through interactive multimedia presentations. With Nearpod, teachers can create mobile presentations, engage students in class, and assess them in real time. The fast adoption of tablet computing and mobile devices is having a profound impact on education. Nearpod allows educators to very easily take their existing presentations, convert them into mobile-friendly content, and engage all students to convert them into active classroom participants. Teachers can deliver their existing content through mobile (iOS or Android) devices and get instant feedback from students through interactive features like polls, quizzes, drawing activities, and others.

Motimatic

Series A in 2017
Motimatic develops a student retention platform. Their platform leverages scientifically proven techniques that drive personal behavior through subtle psychological cues, habit-forming triggers and other motivational strategies, enabling educational institutions to retain and help students complete their studies.

Degreed

Series B in 2016
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Educents

Series A in 2015
Educents is the trusted marketplace for every child’s education. Educents gives teachers, homeschoolers and parents access to innovative and fun educational products for their classroom and/or home. Specializing in innovative products created by a community of experts, the platform has already distributed over 2,500,000 high-quality educational resources throughout the world. As a two-sided marketplace, publishers and individual content creators rely on Educents to simplify their marketing and manage their business. Businesses are able to create their own storefronts and Educents provides them with integrated payment and communication tools to grow their brand.

RaiseMe

Seed Round in 2015
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

Degreed

Series A in 2015
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

NoRedInk

Series A in 2015
NoRedInk helps millions of students in grades 4-12 become better writers. Our writing platform allows learners to improve through engaging, adaptive exercises and a proven process for self-review and peer-review — and then delivers actionable performance data to teachers and administrators. Used in more than 50% of school districts in the US, we're on a mission to unlock every writer's potential.

Degreed

Seed Round in 2014
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

BEGiN

Series B in 2014
BEGiN is an education technology company focused on creating engaging learning products for young children. It aims to enhance early childhood education by offering a library of interactive stories designed to foster a love for reading while developing essential skills. The company has established partnerships with notable children's brands such as Sesame Workshop, LEGO Ventures, Gymboree Play and Music, and Fisher-Price, further enriching its educational offerings. Co-founded by Neal Shenoy, Noelle Millholt, and Stephanie Dua, BEGiN has received recognition as one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City. Its flagship product, Speakaboos, provides a reading application that features bedtime stories, nursery rhymes, and songs, contributing to its mission of delivering high-quality education to children everywhere.

MasteryConnect

Series A in 2014
MasteryConnect helps educators identify levels of student understanding, target students for intervention, personalize learning, and use data to evaluate their own practice. It specializes in the fields of educational technology, software as a service, education, and professional development. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

PayNearMe

Venture Round in 2014
PayNearMe is a provider of web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments. The company's platform helps users to pay with cash for a range of goods and services from companies in e-commerce, property management, consumer finance, and transportation, enabling businesses, government agencies, and retail stores to digitize their cash collection process, reduce the headache of traditional cash and money order acceptance. PayNearMe's technology provides a simple way for lenders to collect payments through an intuitive, consistent experience for their customers. In addition, payment reminders and mobile wallet integration drive more on-time payments.

Think Through Learning

Series B in 2013
Think Through Learning's key product line, Think Through Math, is America's leading online math remediation software. There are almost 3,000,000 students in over 180,000 classrooms who are paid subscribers to Think Through Math. Think Through Math is a unique SaaS system integrating student motivation, instant on-demand interventions from state-certified US math teachers, and award winning adaptive math instruction that teaches students higher order thinking skills. Winner of the 2014 and 2012 CODiE for Best Math Instructional Solution, Think Through Math is proven to raise students understanding of math. Each student starts with an adaptive placement test that moves them right to the math they need to learn. Extensive guided feedback supports them. When they are stuck, a U.S., state-cerfiied, classroom experienced math teacher will pop up within 10 seconds to tutor them in real time. A January, 2015 independent research study commissioned by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) of 755,440 students who used Think Through Math showed that students using the system on a regular basis improved their math scores an average of 23%. The study is available of the TEA website. Numerous other studies have proven Think Through Math significantly improves students understanding of math.

Tynker

Venture Round in 2013
Tynker is an online creative coding platform that aims to equip children aged 5 to 18 with foundational skills in computer science and programming. The platform offers self-paced courses for individual learners as well as a comprehensive curriculum tailored for educational institutions. Through its intuitive visual programming language, Tynker allows users to create a variety of projects, including web and mobile applications, animations, music, e-books, and games, while also enabling programming for robotics and drones. The organization's mission is to foster critical thinking and problem-solving abilities in children, preparing them for future career opportunities in a technology-driven world.

MasteryConnect

Series A in 2013
MasteryConnect helps educators identify levels of student understanding, target students for intervention, personalize learning, and use data to evaluate their own practice. It specializes in the fields of educational technology, software as a service, education, and professional development. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Voxy

Series A in 2012
Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

Think Through Learning

Series B in 2011
Think Through Learning's key product line, Think Through Math, is America's leading online math remediation software. There are almost 3,000,000 students in over 180,000 classrooms who are paid subscribers to Think Through Math. Think Through Math is a unique SaaS system integrating student motivation, instant on-demand interventions from state-certified US math teachers, and award winning adaptive math instruction that teaches students higher order thinking skills. Winner of the 2014 and 2012 CODiE for Best Math Instructional Solution, Think Through Math is proven to raise students understanding of math. Each student starts with an adaptive placement test that moves them right to the math they need to learn. Extensive guided feedback supports them. When they are stuck, a U.S., state-cerfiied, classroom experienced math teacher will pop up within 10 seconds to tutor them in real time. A January, 2015 independent research study commissioned by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) of 755,440 students who used Think Through Math showed that students using the system on a regular basis improved their math scores an average of 23%. The study is available of the TEA website. Numerous other studies have proven Think Through Math significantly improves students understanding of math.
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