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Rethink Food

Rethink Food is part of Rethink Capital Partners, a platform that develops impact investment vehicles targeting social and financial returns. The firm specializes in late Seed to Series C rounds and growth capital investments, focusing on companies led by women or those that prioritize gender diversity in leadership. Rethink Food aims to invest in technology-driven businesses that address critical challenges related to health, education, sustainability, and economic empowerment, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. With a preference for investments ranging from $2 million to $15 million in companies generating recurring revenues between $0.5 million and $15 million, Rethink Food seeks to foster systemic change through its support for entrepreneurs and tech platforms committed to creating a more inclusive economy. Established in 2016, Rethink Capital Partners operates from its headquarters in White Plains, New York, with additional offices in New York City and San Francisco.

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Jenny Abramson

Founder & Managing Partner

Shak Chowdhury

Chief Financial Officer

Joe Garcia

Venture Fellow

Malcolm McClain

Associate

Erin Molloy

Director of Investor Relations

Chelsea Morris

Senior Associate

Heidi Patel

Managing Partner

Minolee Vora

Associate

Past deals in Education

EveryDay Labs

Series A in 2021
EveryDay Labs, Inc. develops a toolkit that is designed to provide educators with insights, research, and strategies on how to partner with families so that every student has an equitable opportunity to learn. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Voxy EnGen

Series A in 2021
Voxy EnGen is a career-focused, virtual English language education training platform for organizations and employers working with immigrants and refugees.

Adjacent Academies

Seed Round in 2020
Adjacent Academies offers and educational program for non-science background students. The company provides meals, materials, and housing. It partners with universities to develops skills of students. It offers comprehensive curriculum-related courses, credit-bearing courses, coding and project development courses, and others. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Empowered Education

Series A in 2019
Empowered Education, LLC is an online educational platform established in 2015 and based in Boise, Idaho. The company specializes in training health coaches and wellness practitioners, offering a range of online training programs, consulting services, and live events. Its curriculum focuses on a new healthcare paradigm, equipping graduates with the skills necessary to work directly with clients and collaborate with medical professionals in functional medicine. By emphasizing the identification of the root causes of illness, Empowered Education aims to enhance the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and empower practitioners in their roles.

Edmit

Seed Round in 2018
Edmit was founded by innovative university leaders passionate about student success. We believe students should feel empowered in the college admissions and financial aid process, and that colleges should have more effective ways to engage directly with students on pricing in order to effectively bring great students to their institution.

Guild

Series C in 2018
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.

Trilogy Education Services

Series B in 2018
Trilogy Education Services, Inc. is an education program management company that collaborates with universities to develop skills-based training programs aimed at preparing students for careers in the digital economy. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, Trilogy focuses on areas such as web development, data analytics, and visualization, ensuring that graduates possess both the technical skills and confidence required for success. The company operates in over 35 markets across North America, addressing hiring gaps by equipping working adults with in-demand skills. Trilogy's services encompass curriculum development, student recruitment, and career coaching, and it has partnered with more than 1,500 employers, ranging from startups to large corporations, to enhance job placement opportunities for its graduates.

Edmit

Seed Round in 2017
Edmit was founded by innovative university leaders passionate about student success. We believe students should feel empowered in the college admissions and financial aid process, and that colleges should have more effective ways to engage directly with students on pricing in order to effectively bring great students to their institution.

MissionU

Series A in 2017
MissionU is an innovative college alternative that equips students with essential skills and practical experience necessary for success in the modern workforce. Founded by Adam Braun and Mike Adams, the program uniquely integrates general education with specialized training to prepare individuals for real-world employment. MissionU operates on an income-share agreement model, allowing students to graduate debt-free without upfront tuition costs. Instead, students begin to repay the program once they secure a job earning $50,000 or more, contributing 15% of their income for three years. This approach enables individuals to pursue their career aspirations while minimizing financial burdens.

Trilogy Education Services

Series A in 2017
Trilogy Education Services, Inc. is an education program management company that collaborates with universities to develop skills-based training programs aimed at preparing students for careers in the digital economy. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, Trilogy focuses on areas such as web development, data analytics, and visualization, ensuring that graduates possess both the technical skills and confidence required for success. The company operates in over 35 markets across North America, addressing hiring gaps by equipping working adults with in-demand skills. Trilogy's services encompass curriculum development, student recruitment, and career coaching, and it has partnered with more than 1,500 employers, ranging from startups to large corporations, to enhance job placement opportunities for its graduates.

MissionU

Seed Round in 2016
MissionU is an innovative college alternative that equips students with essential skills and practical experience necessary for success in the modern workforce. Founded by Adam Braun and Mike Adams, the program uniquely integrates general education with specialized training to prepare individuals for real-world employment. MissionU operates on an income-share agreement model, allowing students to graduate debt-free without upfront tuition costs. Instead, students begin to repay the program once they secure a job earning $50,000 or more, contributing 15% of their income for three years. This approach enables individuals to pursue their career aspirations while minimizing financial burdens.

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.

EVERFI

Series C in 2016
EVERF is building and operating the nation's largest network for online education in off-curriculum, but highly valuable content areas such as financial literacy, student loan management, digital literacy, substance abuse prevention and other key life skills for the 21st century student. Our award-winning, proprietary software-as-a-service platform is designed to provide a highly engaging experience for students and features the latest technology and instructional design, including rich media, high-definition video, 3D simulations and social networking. We work with more than 7,000 schools, colleges and universities in all 50 states.

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.

Noodle

Venture Round in 2015
Noodle is a U.S.-based organization that helps students make decisions about education. Through unbiased data and real-world advice, Noodle connects students with schools, programs, resources, experts, and more. Noodle Education was founded in 2010 by John Katzman, the founder of The Princeton Review and 2U.

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.

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.

General Assembly

Series C in 2014
General Assembly provides education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills. The leading source for training, staffing, and career transitions, we foster a flourishing community of professionals pursuing careers they love. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

BEGiN

Series A in 2013
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.

EVERFI

Series B in 2012
EVERF is building and operating the nation's largest network for online education in off-curriculum, but highly valuable content areas such as financial literacy, student loan management, digital literacy, substance abuse prevention and other key life skills for the 21st century student. Our award-winning, proprietary software-as-a-service platform is designed to provide a highly engaging experience for students and features the latest technology and instructional design, including rich media, high-definition video, 3D simulations and social networking. We work with more than 7,000 schools, colleges and universities in all 50 states.

StraighterLine

Series B in 2012
StraighterLine, Inc. provides a low cost online and distance learning courses from accredited colleges and universities. It offers courses in the areas of business, English, health science, humanities, languages, mathematics, science, social science, technology, and college preparation. It also provides a tuition assistance program. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Education Elements

Series A in 2012
With a staff that brings together experience in the classroom, as well as product design and change management expertise, their organization is well-equipped to enable teachers to personalize learning and students to benefit as a result of being able to learn at their own pace, in their own style and with increased attention from their teacher. They work with schools on everything from setting goals, to designing an instructional model, to selecting content, to providing PD and support. Their consultants work side by side with leaders and teachers to embed digital content and data into daily instruction. Combined with our software platform, this makes us a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for anyone who wants to integrate technology and instruction in order to personalize learning. Education Elements works with districts across the country. They are working hundreds of schools, including several RTTD and Next Generation Learning Challenge winners to implement their vision.