GSV SL

GSV SL is a buyout fund managed by GSV Ventures, which is based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2016, GSV Ventures focuses on the digital education market, investing in companies that span the educational spectrum from Pre-K to adult learners. The firm is dedicated to supporting early and late-stage entrepreneurs who are reshaping the $7 trillion digital education and future of work sectors. Notable investments include companies such as Coursera, ClassDojo, Degreed, and Guild Education. In addition to its investment activities, GSV Ventures organizes the ASU+GSV Summit, a prominent event that attracts thousands of founders, investors, educators, and policymakers from around the globe.

Michael Moe

Partner

Deborah Quazzo

Managing Partner & Investment Committee Member

Julia Stiglitz

Partner

Past deals in Education

Learn In

Series A in 2022
Learn In is a provider of an upskilling platform designed to help companies develop talent academies that cultivate a skilled workforce. The platform allows organizations to offer employees the opportunity for learning sabbaticals, during which they can acquire essential new skills needed in today’s evolving job market. Learn In facilitates access to online, cost-effective training programs alongside traditional degree options, with a particular emphasis on digital skills and challenging-to-fill positions, such as data science and software engineering. By enabling organizations to invest in their employees' development, Learn In supports client efforts to engage and retain talent through effective upskilling initiatives.

Disco

Series A in 2022
Disco is a platform for creators to build and scale their learning empire easily in one place. Our vision for learning leaves the industrial age behind and looks to a world of lifelong learning, that's live, with peers, led by creators we trust and accessible from anywhere.

LEAD

Series E in 2022
LEAD School, founded in 2012 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, provides educational services aimed at enhancing the learning experience for children through technology. The organization empowers teachers by offering an app that includes detailed lesson plans and audio-visual resources, facilitating a more effective teaching process. Additionally, LEAD School fosters collaboration among teachers, parents, and educational institutions to achieve a common goal of academic excellence. By integrating various educational tools and resources, LEAD School strives to ensure that every child has access to quality education.

KaiPod Learning

Seed Round in 2021
KaiPod Learning delivers a deeply personal education for each child with an experiential curriculum tailored to their interests, a learning platform that allows them to move at their own pace, and 1:1 support from an on-site Coach.

Guild

Series E in 2021
Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild 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. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

LEAD

Series D in 2021
LEAD School, founded in 2012 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, provides educational services aimed at enhancing the learning experience for children through technology. The organization empowers teachers by offering an app that includes detailed lesson plans and audio-visual resources, facilitating a more effective teaching process. Additionally, LEAD School fosters collaboration among teachers, parents, and educational institutions to achieve a common goal of academic excellence. By integrating various educational tools and resources, LEAD School strives to ensure that every child has access to quality education.

Degreed

Series D in 2021
Degreed, Inc. offers a lifelong learning platform designed to help individuals track, discover, and recognize their learning experiences. The platform enables organizations to enhance team skills and supports career mobility by matching employees with in-demand skills to relevant projects, assignments, and roles. Degreed integrates and curates various learning resources, including courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts, as well as connects with learning management systems. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York, and Leiden, the Netherlands.

Valenture Institute

Venture Round in 2020
Valenture Institute is a private online high school founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom. It offers a globally recognized curriculum designed to meet the standards of leading universities. The institute provides live, interactive classes supported by mentors, creating an engaging learning environment. In addition to its online offerings, Valenture Institute features boutique campuses that blend virtual learning with in-person experiences, allowing students to develop essential skills and confidence for their future careers.

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.

Learn In

Seed Round in 2020
Learn In is a provider of an upskilling platform designed to help companies develop talent academies that cultivate a skilled workforce. The platform allows organizations to offer employees the opportunity for learning sabbaticals, during which they can acquire essential new skills needed in today’s evolving job market. Learn In facilitates access to online, cost-effective training programs alongside traditional degree options, with a particular emphasis on digital skills and challenging-to-fill positions, such as data science and software engineering. By enabling organizations to invest in their employees' development, Learn In supports client efforts to engage and retain talent through effective upskilling initiatives.

Guild

Series D in 2019
Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild 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. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Verto Education

Seed Round in 2019
Verto Education, Inc. provides semester traveling services for students to travel overseas and earn college credit for campus programs and admissions. It offers semester traveling services to Central America, South Pacific, and Southeast Asia to learn about subjects, including environmental science, public health, business, and finance. The company also provides on-campus programs in Ireland, England, and New Zealand. Verto Education, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Degreed

Series C in 2019
Degreed, Inc. offers a lifelong learning platform designed to help individuals track, discover, and recognize their learning experiences. The platform enables organizations to enhance team skills and supports career mobility by matching employees with in-demand skills to relevant projects, assignments, and roles. Degreed integrates and curates various learning resources, including courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts, as well as connects with learning management systems. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York, and Leiden, the Netherlands.

Intellispark

Seed Round in 2019
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.

Coursera

Series D in 2017
Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personal enrichment goals throughout their lives. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

RaiseMe

Series A in 2017
RaiseMe is a financial aid information and networking platform aimed at improving access to higher education by providing scholarship opportunities. The platform allows students to earn "micro-Scholarships" throughout their high school years, based on individual achievements both in and outside the classroom. This approach addresses the limitations of traditional financial aid systems, which typically award assistance at the end of high school, often too late to influence students' college decisions. By enabling students to accumulate financial aid early, RaiseMe has facilitated the earning of over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from its university partners. This innovative model seeks to enhance educational pathways and support students in their academic pursuits.

Degreed

Series B in 2016
Degreed, Inc. offers a lifelong learning platform designed to help individuals track, discover, and recognize their learning experiences. The platform enables organizations to enhance team skills and supports career mobility by matching employees with in-demand skills to relevant projects, assignments, and roles. Degreed integrates and curates various learning resources, including courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts, as well as connects with learning management systems. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York, and Leiden, the Netherlands.

BEGiN

Series B in 2016
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.

Degreed

Series B in 2016
Degreed, Inc. offers a lifelong learning platform designed to help individuals track, discover, and recognize their learning experiences. The platform enables organizations to enhance team skills and supports career mobility by matching employees with in-demand skills to relevant projects, assignments, and roles. Degreed integrates and curates various learning resources, including courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts, as well as connects with learning management systems. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York, and Leiden, the Netherlands.

Educents

Series A in 2015
Educents Inc. operates as an online marketplace for selling educational products to students, parents, homeschoolers, and educators in the United States. The company offers science kits, curriculum packs, books, art supplies, math and reading books, and others. It also provides digital products, such as downloads and online programs for international customers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RaiseMe

Seed Round in 2015
RaiseMe is a financial aid information and networking platform aimed at improving access to higher education by providing scholarship opportunities. The platform allows students to earn "micro-Scholarships" throughout their high school years, based on individual achievements both in and outside the classroom. This approach addresses the limitations of traditional financial aid systems, which typically award assistance at the end of high school, often too late to influence students' college decisions. By enabling students to accumulate financial aid early, RaiseMe has facilitated the earning of over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from its university partners. This innovative model seeks to enhance educational pathways and support students in their academic pursuits.

Educents

Seed Round in 2015
Educents Inc. operates as an online marketplace for selling educational products to students, parents, homeschoolers, and educators in the United States. The company offers science kits, curriculum packs, books, art supplies, math and reading books, and others. It also provides digital products, such as downloads and online programs for international customers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Degreed

Series A in 2015
Degreed, Inc. offers a lifelong learning platform designed to help individuals track, discover, and recognize their learning experiences. The platform enables organizations to enhance team skills and supports career mobility by matching employees with in-demand skills to relevant projects, assignments, and roles. Degreed integrates and curates various learning resources, including courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts, as well as connects with learning management systems. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York, and Leiden, the Netherlands.

Degreed

Seed Round in 2014
Degreed, Inc. offers a lifelong learning platform designed to help individuals track, discover, and recognize their learning experiences. The platform enables organizations to enhance team skills and supports career mobility by matching employees with in-demand skills to relevant projects, assignments, and roles. Degreed integrates and curates various learning resources, including courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts, as well as connects with learning management systems. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York, and Leiden, the Netherlands.

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 is an educational technology company founded in 2009 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company focuses on providing tools that help educators assess student understanding and tailor interventions to meet individual learning needs. By leveraging data, MasteryConnect enables teachers to personalize learning experiences and evaluate their instructional practices. Its services are designed to enhance educational outcomes through innovative solutions that support both teachers and students.

MasteryConnect

Series A in 2013
MasteryConnect is an educational technology company founded in 2009 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company focuses on providing tools that help educators assess student understanding and tailor interventions to meet individual learning needs. By leveraging data, MasteryConnect enables teachers to personalize learning experiences and evaluate their instructional practices. Its services are designed to enhance educational outcomes through innovative solutions that support both teachers and students.