Lean Capital

LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, and services are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.
BB

Brook Bisrat

Partner

Robert Hutter

Managing Partner

Greg Mauro

Managing Partner

Maia Sharpley

Venture Advisor

Michael Staton

Venture Partner

Paul Strange

General Counsel

Vinit Sukhija

Partner

Susan Wang

Principal

Past deals in Education

CodeHS, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
CodeHS, Inc. operates a Website that provides training in programming and computer sciences. Its Website enables high schools to teach computer science in the areas of programming, Javascript and graphics, animation and games, data structures, functions and parameters, HTML/CSS, grading, and game design components. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ProSky

Seed Round in 2016
ProSky, Inc. provides a platform to automating human resource activities. It offers ProSky to automate HR tasks, such as recruiting, hiring, evaluation, feedback, and communication for companies. The company’s ProSky provides predictive intelligence for hiring managers and human capital professionals, as well as insights into a candidates’ and employees’ aptitude, technical, and interpersonal skills. It serves tech, finance, consulting, retail, healthcare, aviation, and other industries. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Lehi, Utah.

Udemy, Inc.

Series F in 2020
Udemy, Inc. provides online courses for students in the United States and internationally. It offers online courses in the areas of development, business, finance and accounting, IT and software, office productivity, personal development, design, marketing, lifestyle, photography, health and fitness, music, and teaching and academics. The company also provides solutions for corporate learning. Udemy, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in Ankara, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; São Paulo, Brazil; Denver, Colorado; and Gurgaon, India.

Pathrise

Series A in 2021
Pathrise LLC offers career advice to young professionals and students. The company provides classes on career development and management. It includes software engineering, product, strategy and ops, product design, data science, and marketing services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, free of cost, for a brighter future.

Brave Care, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Brave Care, Inc. offers urgent pediatric health care services. It provides treatment for allergies, asthma, cough and whooping cough, ear pain, eye problems, fever, light sedation for painful procedures, minor fracture care, minor head trauma, pediatric specific laboratory services, pediatric specific on-site x-ray, rashes, stitches, sore throats, sports physicals, stomach aches, strains and sprains, tissue glue wound closure, and urinary tract infection. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Almas Insight

Seed Round in 2021
Almas Insight was created to address the rapidly growing need to better understand the soft skills, or capabilities, employees may have and to turn that understanding into actionable business data. We use gamified digital work samples, we call them gamulations, to observe the behaviors of professionals in actual business situations and then provide organizations the ability to explore and analyze that data. Organizations around the globe are using this type of information to dramatically accelerate their ability to hire, develop, and better utilize their companies most important asset - their people.

Shikho

Seed Round in 2021
Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology company on a mission to revolutionise the way Bangladesh learns today and democratise access to a high quality education. Its core product is a mobile learning application designed specifically for the Bangladeshi national curriculum to serve a growing total addressable market of 35 million students. "Shikho - The Learning App" is available on the Google Play Store.

Class.com

Series B in 2021
Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student.

Bridge International Academies

Venture Round in 2012
Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, free of cost, for a brighter future.

Udemy, Inc.

Series F in 2020
Udemy, Inc. provides online courses for students in the United States and internationally. It offers online courses in the areas of development, business, finance and accounting, IT and software, office productivity, personal development, design, marketing, lifestyle, photography, health and fitness, music, and teaching and academics. The company also provides solutions for corporate learning. Udemy, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in Ankara, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; São Paulo, Brazil; Denver, Colorado; and Gurgaon, India.
NextStep Interactive, Inc. offers training and job placement services. The company provides a mobile application that enables employers to screen talent based on the demonstration of competencies and soft skills suggestive of fit for health care professions. It assesses the skills and interests of the individual and matches it with the desired career option. The company also connects people with employers and offers placement opportunities. NextStep Interactive, Inc. was formerly known as NextStep Training Inc. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Bozeman, Montana.

Climb Credit, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Climb Credit, Inc. offers educational loans to school students. It serves citizens or permanent residents in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Ender

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ender is a venture-backed startup on a mission to make kids employable before 18 by pioneering the first learn-to-earn model that pays kids to build a portfolio. Ender's product is a competition platform where kids can win cash prizes for building apps, games, websites, and other real-world projects. Based in Austin, TX, Ender is a team of passionate game developers, educators, engineers, and designers and is funded by some of the best investors in the education and gaming space. Join the team at https://careers.joinender.com.

Monti Kids, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Monti Kids helps parents use Montessori educational play from birth to age three. It empowers parents with educational wooden toys and simple online guidance based on the world's leading early childhood curriculum: the Montessori method. The program is a subscription beginning at birth, with customers advancing to a new stage every three months. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Orinda, California.

Mystery Science

Seed Round in 2014
We started Mystery.org to create better explanations for every question children have about the world. We began with the 150 most common science questions that children ask teachers. We call this collection Mystery Science. This year, 1 out of every 5 children in the U.S. has used Mystery Science, spread across 50% of elementary schools. We’re now moving on to all the other questions children have that they’ll never learn in school. In the last 18 months we received over 500,000 questions from children eager for better explanations of the world. Now we’re creating video explanations for every question. You can think of this like a visual Wikipedia for kids. Our goal is to create a generation of better thinkers. We think this is the most important problem to solve in the world today.

SoloLearn, Inc.

Series B in 2021
SoloLearn, Inc. operates a mobile learning platform that offers online courses. It provides courses in nine programming languages including HTML,CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C++, Java, Python, Swift, and SQL for Android, iOS, Windows phone, and Web. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Pleasanton, California.

Podium Education

Series A in 2020
Podium Education helps colleges and universities add in-demand tech skills to undergraduate majors. Podium partners with colleges and universities to deliver online programs that provide soft-skilled students with the in-demand hard-skills that lead to great employment outcomes. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Austin, Texas.

Foundry College Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Foundry College Inc. is an education institution that offers degree programs and courses online, including foundational and business management. The institution offers two year courses that teach working adults skills and knowledge that are in demand by employers and unlikely to be automated in the foreseeable future. It offers active and competency based learnings and contained classrooms. Foundry College Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MasteryConnect Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
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.

Nana

Series A in 2021
Nana Services, Inc. offers technology enabled appliance repair services through its platform. It offers repair services for refrigerators, dishwasher, oven, stove, washer, and dryer through nana home platform. The company also engages in teaching hands-on repair skills services through nano academy. In addition, it offers nano.io, an AI platform that connects customers and professionals. Nana Services, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Alameda, California.

Scoutible, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Scoutible, Inc. operates a game-based hiring platform that uses mobile games to pinpoint candidates for jobs. Its technology identifies players’ unique cognitive and personality traits, talents, and aptitudes through gameplay; spots opportunities where players’ attributes match those of companies’ proven top performers; and enables employers to identify and communicate with qualified candidates. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Walnut, California.
Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. develops and operates a platform for teachers to conduct live classes and interact with students. Its platform delivers two-way streaming video and tutoring business management workflow tools to mark attendance, create content, and conduct tests. The company's platform also allows tutors to create video doubt sessions. Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2020 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Leap

Seed Round in 2021
Leap is a social learning community that connects writers, storytellers, and creatives via conversations and classes.

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.

Shikho

Seed Round in 2022
Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology company on a mission to revolutionise the way Bangladesh learns today and democratise access to a high quality education. Its core product is a mobile learning application designed specifically for the Bangladeshi national curriculum to serve a growing total addressable market of 35 million students. "Shikho - The Learning App" is available on the Google Play Store.

eduClipper, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
eduClipper is a social web resource for educators and students that allows users to collect, share, organize, and discuss content to make learning more valid in and out of the classroom. The platform also allows for the creation of digital portfolios that let users create social worth from the content they are creating.

Edmodo

Series A in 2010
Edmodo, Inc. operates an online platform that enables educators to connect and collaborate with students, parents, and each other. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of May 3, 2018, Edmodo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Best Assistant Education Online Limited.

NovoEd

Seed Round in 2013
NovoEd’s collaborative learning platform enables organizations to design and deliver experiential learning that drives business performance. Since the company’s founding at Stanford’s social algorithm laboratory in 2012, global corporations, executive education providers, and training firms have relied on NovoEd to develop high-value capabilities through purposeful practice and application, coaching and mentorship, and group collaboration. NovoEd’s proven approach to learning connects diverse groups of learners, mentors, and leaders in a high-impact online environment, unlocking your organization’s collective knowledge and driving measurable outcomes.

MindPortal

Seed Round in 2021
MindPortal makes wearable devices for brain analysis and assessment. The companies brain-computer interface enables providers to make clinical decisions. Founded by Ekram Alam and Jack Baber in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, United States.

MakeSchool

Series B in 2019
MakeSchool provides a higher education degree program, creating a more direct connection between education and employment. MakeSchool provides instructional, curricular, admissions, and other services to help operate innovative new college programs in partnership with established universities. MakeSchool ensures relevance of education for the modern economy and accessibility to students of all backgrounds.

Climb Credit, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Climb Credit, Inc. offers educational loans to school students. It serves citizens or permanent residents in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Nana

Seed Round in 2020
Nana Services, Inc. offers technology enabled appliance repair services through its platform. It offers repair services for refrigerators, dishwasher, oven, stove, washer, and dryer through nana home platform. The company also engages in teaching hands-on repair skills services through nano academy. In addition, it offers nano.io, an AI platform that connects customers and professionals. Nana Services, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Alameda, California.

Maker's Row

Seed Round in 2013
Maker’s Row is an online marketplace launched in November 2012 that connects American manufacturers with small, medium-sized, and product-based businesses. In early summer 2013, Maker’s Row claims to have the most accessible list of American manufacturers available online for apparel production. It was established in 2012 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Landed, Inc

Series B in 2021
Landed, Inc. provides financing services for home buyers. It offers debt-free financing that allows homebuyers to accept funds in exchange for part of the home's value when they refinance or sell. The company offers its services to teachers, school staff, and other professionals. It works with schools, companies, and affinity networks to create and manage down payment support funds for home buyers, schools and employers, and community investors. Landed, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Fluent City

Seed Round in 2016
Fluent City is a language company that offers online classes in 11 different languages. We're on a mission to help you achieve your language-learning goals by teaching you how to talk about the things you care about most. Our team uses AI and natural language processing technology to provide hyper-relevant content and personalized, engaging lesson plans that help you get fluent faster.

Nerdy

Post in 2021
Nerdy is a direct-to-consumer, gig economy platform for live online learning benefiting both learners and professionals. The company builds a comprehensive online learning destination that enables the delivery of scaled high-quality live expertise for learners of all ages across thousands of subjects and multiple learning formats through the application of technology and AI.

Prenda

Series B in 2022
Prenda is an ed-tech company with the vision of helping young people learn technology in a fun, informal settings. It helps libraries and schools run code clubs weekly meetings where people work together to teach themselves computer programming. The company founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Mesa, Arizona.

Coursera

Series B in 2013
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.

SoloLearn, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
SoloLearn, Inc. operates a mobile learning platform that offers online courses. It provides courses in nine programming languages including HTML,CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C++, Java, Python, Swift, and SQL for Android, iOS, Windows phone, and Web. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Pleasanton, California.
NextStep Interactive, Inc. offers training and job placement services. The company provides a mobile application that enables employers to screen talent based on the demonstration of competencies and soft skills suggestive of fit for health care professions. It assesses the skills and interests of the individual and matches it with the desired career option. The company also connects people with employers and offers placement opportunities. NextStep Interactive, Inc. was formerly known as NextStep Training Inc. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Bozeman, Montana.
Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. develops and operates a platform for teachers to conduct live classes and interact with students. Its platform delivers two-way streaming video and tutoring business management workflow tools to mark attendance, create content, and conduct tests. The company's platform also allows tutors to create video doubt sessions. Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2020 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. develops and operates a platform for teachers to conduct live classes and interact with students. Its platform delivers two-way streaming video and tutoring business management workflow tools to mark attendance, create content, and conduct tests. The company's platform also allows tutors to create video doubt sessions. Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2020 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Ender

Seed Round in 2022
Ender is a venture-backed startup on a mission to make kids employable before 18 by pioneering the first learn-to-earn model that pays kids to build a portfolio. Ender's product is a competition platform where kids can win cash prizes for building apps, games, websites, and other real-world projects. Based in Austin, TX, Ender is a team of passionate game developers, educators, engineers, and designers and is funded by some of the best investors in the education and gaming space. Join the team at https://careers.joinender.com.

Amplify

Venture Round in 2021
Amplify is leading the way in creating next-generation curriculum and assessment programs. Its captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Its formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help all students build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of its programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than three million students in all 50 states.

Section4, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Section4, Inc. publishes news and stories related to business and economy. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

AltSchool Inc.

Series B in 2015
AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact in our efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child.

Coursera

Series F in 2020
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.

Sixup

Convertible Note in 2017
Sixup PBC, Inc. operates an online platform which provides low-income students with loans. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Photomath, Inc

Series B in 2021
Photomath is an app for your math homework. Just point the camera toward a math problem and it will display the answer with step-by-step instructions with how they got there. It can also draw graphs. This app will help you practice so you can learn how to do this stuff all by yourself. The app supports everything from basic arithmetic to more advanced levels of math like trigonometry. It’s a free app and is available for both iPhone and Android.

CourseHorse

Series B in 2016
CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering the path to personal enrichment. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.

Desmos, Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
Desmos, Inc. develops a Web-based graphing calculator for students and teachers in the United States and internationally. The company’s solution allows users to graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and more. Desmos, Inc. was formerly known as Tutor Trove, LLC and changed its name to Desmos, Inc. in March 2011. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Vemo Education, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Vemo Education is a mission-driven educational technology company focused on expanding educational access for all Americans. We partner directly with colleges, universities, and other educational providers to design, implement, and sustain income share agreement (ISA) programs to help increase educational opportunity and reduce financial barriers to economic mobility.

Higher Ground Education

Series C in 2021
Higher Ground is an organization dedicated to mainstreaming and modernizing Montessori education. Its purpose is to help children worldwide achieve just such elevation. The company focuses on expanding the reach and impact of the Montessori movement to creating systems, services, and resources that empower Montessori educators everywhere. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, California.

Bloc

Seed Round in 2012
Bloc, Inc. offers an online apprenticeship to teach the fundamentals of Web development. The company offers courses on Web Development, iOS, and Web design. Its curriculum enables students to choose their mentors based on experience, language, location, and availability; to build skills; and to do assignments. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of April 9, 2018, Bloc, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thinkful, Inc.

Schoold

Seed Round in 2016
The world's #1 college search and counseling mobile app, we're helping 1M+ students figure out where to go to college and how to pay for it. Download at: http://social.schoold.co.

Build Academy, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Build Academy, Inc. operates a professional development e-learning platform for the building industry. The company offers online and blended learning courses and programs for building professionals, companies, and governments operating in fields of architecture, engineering, real estate, and construction worldwide. Its professional e-learning programs enhance enterprise capability to achieve the goals of clients and the objectives of their companies. Build Academy, Inc. is based in New York, New York.

Udemy, Inc.

Series A in 2011
Udemy, Inc. provides online courses for students in the United States and internationally. It offers online courses in the areas of development, business, finance and accounting, IT and software, office productivity, personal development, design, marketing, lifestyle, photography, health and fitness, music, and teaching and academics. The company also provides solutions for corporate learning. Udemy, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in Ankara, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; São Paulo, Brazil; Denver, Colorado; and Gurgaon, India.

Photomath, Inc

Seed Round in 2016
Photomath is an app for your math homework. Just point the camera toward a math problem and it will display the answer with step-by-step instructions with how they got there. It can also draw graphs. This app will help you practice so you can learn how to do this stuff all by yourself. The app supports everything from basic arithmetic to more advanced levels of math like trigonometry. It’s a free app and is available for both iPhone and Android.

Qualified.io

Seed Round in 2017
Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.

Wonderschool

Venture Round in 2018
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

Rockit

Seed Round in 2014
Rockit Online is an online school that offers effective English language learning experience to learners in Asia, initially targeting students and young professionals in Vietnam. Combining live instruction by bilingual teachers with multi-media content, Rockit Online helps students master the English language at a lower cost and more convenience to help them successfully prepare for globalized job markets.

Edunav

Series A in 2016
Edunav, Inc. develops student academic planning and optimization software for the higher education market. It offers EduNav that is powered by Big Data, combinatorial algorithms, and machine learning technologies for academic planning. The company’s EduNav that helps students to identify an optimal path to graduation for each student. It also provides SmartPlan for degree, career, and transfer planning for students, as well as a predictive enrollment management tool for deans. Edunav, Inc. was formerly known as NeuTeach, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Edmodo

Series C in 2012
Edmodo, Inc. operates an online platform that enables educators to connect and collaborate with students, parents, and each other. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of May 3, 2018, Edmodo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Best Assistant Education Online Limited.

BrightBytes

Series B in 2014
BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes. It leverages data to understand and improve learning with technology. Its team is made up of Data Scientists, Educational Researchers, Developers, and Data Visualization Experts. The platform also enables educators to cleanse, integrate, and bi-directionally to manage complex data from multiple systems. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

eSpark

Series A in 2012
eSpark, Inc. designs and develops iPad based educational application for school students. It offers Frontier, an active, engaging, and motivational tool to get students to write; and eSpark, provides differentiated instructions for math and ELA on the iPad for elementary school students, as well as learning services. eSpark, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

VIPKID

Series C in 2016
VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of cultures across the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity. Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada.

Coursera

Series B in 2013
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.

Smashcut

Seed Round in 2016
Smashcut partners with universities and organizations to develop and deliver customized online film programs.

Higher Ground Education

Series B in 2019
Higher Ground is an organization dedicated to mainstreaming and modernizing Montessori education. Its purpose is to help children worldwide achieve just such elevation. The company focuses on expanding the reach and impact of the Montessori movement to creating systems, services, and resources that empower Montessori educators everywhere. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, California.

General Assembly

Series A in 2011
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.

Mentor Collective

Venture Round in 2018
Mentor Collective provides a platform that helps universities run mentoring programs. It offers services in the areas of program design and management, mentorship operations, content library, research team, software, and assessment and analytics. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

VIPKID

Series D in 2018
VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of cultures across the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity. Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada.

Springboard

Series A in 2019
Springboard (formerly SlideRule) offers flexible online courses in cutting-edge career paths such as data science, design, analytics, marketing, and security. The new economy needs a new approach to education. Education is no longer a one-time investment at the beginning of one's career, it's a lifelong pursuit. We're building an educational experience that empowers our students to thrive in this new world order.

HireArt, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
HireArt is an online recruitment platform that engages in the pre-screening process for suitable job seekers. It improves the job candidate pre-screening process by creating online interviews that simulate a real job. The candidates are asked to complete tasks that are similar to what they would encounter on the job (e.g., give a presentation, do an excel analysis, give feedback). They record their responses over video or submit text answers and attachments, giving employers higher quality information on which to base hiring decisions. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Peergrade ApS

Seed Round in 2017
Peergrade ApS offers Peergrade, an online software application that allows teachers to create peer assessment sessions, monitor student performance, and create a better learning experience for students. Its application enables teachers to get data-driven insights into student performance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Andela

Series B in 2016
Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Acceptly, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Acceptly, Inc. provides a tool that helps high school students and parents to manage the college preparation and application process. Its platform enables to see the chances of getting in schools, get advice from admissions experts, and manage college checklists. Acceptly, Inc. is based in Los Angeles, California.

Verbling

Seed Round in 2013
Verbling is an e-learning platform that offers language lessons with professional teachers with the use of video chat. Verbling’s mission is to empower people all over the world to become fluent in a foreign language. Verbling Video connects its users directly to a teacher without needing external apps or tools. Today, Verbling teachers are available 24/7/365, covering all timezones globally. All Verbling teachers are vetted to meet rigorous standards. The average student rating of a teacher is 4.9/5. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pathrise

Seed Round in 2019
Pathrise LLC offers career advice to young professionals and students. The company provides classes on career development and management. It includes software engineering, product, strategy and ops, product design, data science, and marketing services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Photomath, Inc

Series A in 2018
Photomath is an app for your math homework. Just point the camera toward a math problem and it will display the answer with step-by-step instructions with how they got there. It can also draw graphs. This app will help you practice so you can learn how to do this stuff all by yourself. The app supports everything from basic arithmetic to more advanced levels of math like trigonometry. It’s a free app and is available for both iPhone and Android.

Yoi Corp

Seed Round in 2014
Yoi Corp. provides SaaS based mobile digital tools for line managers. It offers Yoi, a solution that provides support to corporate line managers in onboarding, integration and engagement, evaluation and performance management, training and development, and exiting. The company’s Yoi provides templates that automatically deliver assignments, meeting requests, data collection assessments, and reports all activities to the manager’s inbox. Yoi Corp. was formerly known as PocketCoach, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As of December 12, 2017, Yoi Corporation operates as a subsidiary of HighGround, Inc.

Minerva Project, Inc.

Series B in 2014
Minerva Project, Inc. is an educational institution that offers under-graduate courses through Minerva Schools at KGI and the Minerva Project. It also operates the Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship that offers scholarship and loan programs for higher education. Minerva Project, Inc. was formerly known as University of the Brilliant, Inc. The institution was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Edmodo

Series B in 2011
Edmodo, Inc. operates an online platform that enables educators to connect and collaborate with students, parents, and each other. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of May 3, 2018, Edmodo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Best Assistant Education Online Limited.

BrightBytes

Series C in 2015
BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes. It leverages data to understand and improve learning with technology. Its team is made up of Data Scientists, Educational Researchers, Developers, and Data Visualization Experts. The platform also enables educators to cleanse, integrate, and bi-directionally to manage complex data from multiple systems. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

MissionU

Series A in 2017
MissionU is a college alternative that gives students the skills and experience needed to succeed in today’s competitive working world while allowing them to graduate debt-free with no upfront tuition. Led by Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun, who created the company with co-founder and Chief Product Officer Mike Adams, MissionU is the only program that combines general education with specialized skills training to prepare individuals for real-world jobs. By employing an income-share agreement model, MissionU only requires students to pay once they are earning $50,000 or more, during which they pay 15% of their income for three years back to the company.

ShowMe

Seed Round in 2011
ShowMe allows students to find, connect with, and learn from tutors for SAT preparation. It offers students with detailed reports of their progress, including replay videos of their past sessions. The company provides real-time interaction with a tutor; and enables parents and students to keep in touch. ShowMe was formerly known as Easel Learning. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

MasteryConnect Inc.

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.

Teachable Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without any technical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars.
Learning Machine Technologies, Inc. deploy blockchain based secure credentialing systems. It allows governments, companies, and school systems to create, issue, and manage digital records. The company's products are used to manage recruitment, enrollment, portfolio review, faculty hiring, and credentialing. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York. As of February 5, 2020, Learning Machine Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hyland Software, Inc..

Verbling

Seed Round in 2012
Verbling is an e-learning platform that offers language lessons with professional teachers with the use of video chat. Verbling’s mission is to empower people all over the world to become fluent in a foreign language. Verbling Video connects its users directly to a teacher without needing external apps or tools. Today, Verbling teachers are available 24/7/365, covering all timezones globally. All Verbling teachers are vetted to meet rigorous standards. The average student rating of a teacher is 4.9/5. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SoloLearn, Inc.

Series A in 2018
SoloLearn, Inc. operates a mobile learning platform that offers online courses. It provides courses in nine programming languages including HTML,CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C++, Java, Python, Swift, and SQL for Android, iOS, Windows phone, and Web. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Pleasanton, California.

Desmos, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Desmos, Inc. develops a Web-based graphing calculator for students and teachers in the United States and internationally. The company’s solution allows users to graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and more. Desmos, Inc. was formerly known as Tutor Trove, LLC and changed its name to Desmos, Inc. in March 2011. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

NextStep(NextStep Interactive)

Venture Round in 2020
NextStep Interactive, Inc. offers training and job placement services. The company provides a mobile application that enables employers to screen talent based on the demonstration of competencies and soft skills suggestive of fit for health care professions. It assesses the skills and interests of the individual and matches it with the desired career option. The company also connects people with employers and offers placement opportunities. NextStep Interactive, Inc. was formerly known as NextStep Training Inc. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Bozeman, Montana.

Chromatik

Seed Round in 2012
Chromatik connects the world's musicians. Their applications enable millions of musicians to play, learn, and share their favorite music through sheet music, guitar tabs, lyrics, and more. Chromatik was acquired by TakeLessons (https://TakeLessons.com) in April 2017.

LearnZillion, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
LearnZillion provides educators with curricular products for the new standards in digital and print. Its platform offers access to instructional materials for mathematics and literacy, as well as provides task-implementation guides for teachers that enable students and teachers to get benefited from each other through interactive learning. LearnZillion was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Mentor Collective

Venture Round in 2015
Mentor Collective provides a platform that helps universities run mentoring programs. It offers services in the areas of program design and management, mentorship operations, content library, research team, software, and assessment and analytics. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bloc

Series A in 2014
Bloc, Inc. offers an online apprenticeship to teach the fundamentals of Web development. The company offers courses on Web Development, iOS, and Web design. Its curriculum enables students to choose their mentors based on experience, language, location, and availability; to build skills; and to do assignments. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of April 9, 2018, Bloc, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thinkful, Inc.

Udemy, Inc.

Series B in 2012
Udemy, Inc. provides online courses for students in the United States and internationally. It offers online courses in the areas of development, business, finance and accounting, IT and software, office productivity, personal development, design, marketing, lifestyle, photography, health and fitness, music, and teaching and academics. The company also provides solutions for corporate learning. Udemy, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in Ankara, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; São Paulo, Brazil; Denver, Colorado; and Gurgaon, India.

Kalibrr, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Kalibrr is a recruitment business innovating services and technologies to help companies consistently recruit the best talent. They achieve recruitment transformations through an end-to-end portfolio of services including a premium jobs portal, world-class recruitment system, employer branding and powerful online assessments. Founded by Paul Rivera and Dexter Ligot-Gordon in January 2012, Kalibrr had received a significant in seed funding from Sillicon Valley startup incubators and investors such as; Kickstart Ventures, eBay's Pierre Omidyar, Globe Telecom's, Sillicon Valley Y Combinator and Filipino Angel investor Nix Nolledo of Xurpas.

Kenzie Academy, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Kenzie Academy, Inc., doing business as Kenzie Academy, owns and operates a software engineering apprenticeship school. The company designs programs that provide training, networking, and experience to help students. It organizes coding bootcamps, project based learning, and offers online courses. The company also offers job placements upon course completion. Kenzie Academy, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Differ.chat

Venture Round in 2019
Makers of Differ, a messaging app with chatbot teaching assistants. 19x increased student engagement and 3x increased course completion rates in online and blended courses.

Educents Inc.

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.

CodeHS, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
CodeHS, Inc. operates a Website that provides training in programming and computer sciences. Its Website enables high schools to teach computer science in the areas of programming, Javascript and graphics, animation and games, data structures, functions and parameters, HTML/CSS, grading, and game design components. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BrightBytes

Seed Round in 2013
BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes. It leverages data to understand and improve learning with technology. Its team is made up of Data Scientists, Educational Researchers, Developers, and Data Visualization Experts. The platform also enables educators to cleanse, integrate, and bi-directionally to manage complex data from multiple systems. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

Brainly

Series D in 2020
Brainly is an online learning platform where students and parents get homework and study help from peers and experts. With the platform and its group of websites and apps, middle school and high school students are given the opportunity to ask questions freely to the online community comprised of students, parents, and teachers. The software is developed with a mission to help students gain the confidence that comes from helping others and inspire them to learn in a collaborative community. Brainly is backed by Naspers, Kulczyk Investments, General Catalyst Partners, Point Nine Capital, Runa Capital, and Learn Capital. In 2009, Lukasz Haluch, Michał Borkowski, and Tomasz Kraus co-founded the company in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland and is available in 35 countries.

Bloc

Seed Round in 2013
Bloc, Inc. offers an online apprenticeship to teach the fundamentals of Web development. The company offers courses on Web Development, iOS, and Web design. Its curriculum enables students to choose their mentors based on experience, language, location, and availability; to build skills; and to do assignments. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of April 9, 2018, Bloc, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thinkful, Inc.

Foundry College Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Foundry College Inc. is an education institution that offers degree programs and courses online, including foundational and business management. The institution offers two year courses that teach working adults skills and knowledge that are in demand by employers and unlikely to be automated in the foreseeable future. It offers active and competency based learnings and contained classrooms. Foundry College Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Blue Duck Education Ltd.

Series A in 2010
Blue Duck Education Limited, doing business as Mangahigh.com, operates a game-based learning site for students to learn mathematics through purpose built casual games. The company offers Prodigi, a math e-Learning system; and an analytics system, which provides an insight into students’ performances. It also provides number, algebra, shape, and elementary and warm up lite games; and math quizzes in numbers, algebra, shapes, and data. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. As of February 14, 2018, Blue Duck Education Limited operates as a subsidiary of Georg Westermann Verlag, Druckerei und kartographische Anstalt GmbH & Co. KG.

Varsity Tutors LLC

Series C in 2018
Varsity Tutors is a Live Learning Platform that seamlessly connects experts and learners in any subject, anywhere, and at any time. We operate the largest tutoring and live instruction platform in the United States. At Varsity Tutors, we believe that learning matters and we believe that innovative technology and personalized learning can make all the difference. Students can learn live online in 1:1, small group, and large format scaled classes in more than 3,000 different subjects, tests, and topics. Personalization and AI is woven throughout the customer experience and learners seek out the platform as a learning destination where they go to excel, be inspired, and foster their creativity. To date, students have accessed more than 10 million hours of live 1:1 and group instruction on the platform.

Mystery Science

Seed Round in 2014
We started Mystery.org to create better explanations for every question children have about the world. We began with the 150 most common science questions that children ask teachers. We call this collection Mystery Science. This year, 1 out of every 5 children in the U.S. has used Mystery Science, spread across 50% of elementary schools. We’re now moving on to all the other questions children have that they’ll never learn in school. In the last 18 months we received over 500,000 questions from children eager for better explanations of the world. Now we’re creating video explanations for every question. You can think of this like a visual Wikipedia for kids. Our goal is to create a generation of better thinkers. We think this is the most important problem to solve in the world today.

WriteLab

Seed Round in 2015
WriteLab is an online writing platform offering immediate, objective, and constructive responses to any writer's prose. WriteLab utilizes probability and statistics to identify patterns in each writer's choices. Writers can accept or reject suggestions, and WriteLab learns continuously from these choices, customizing its algorithms to suit users' preferences. Users receive customized feedback, generating powerful analytics. The platform designed for high school and higher education students that provide specific feedback and editing suggestions to uploaded essays Student users can share drafts with instructors on WriteLab, and instructors can read and respond to students'​ writing and leave comments of their own. It addresses these issues by offering immediate editorial assistance at any time.

Podium Education

Series A in 2020
Podium Education helps colleges and universities add in-demand tech skills to undergraduate majors. Podium partners with colleges and universities to deliver online programs that provide soft-skilled students with the in-demand hard-skills that lead to great employment outcomes. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Austin, Texas.

Wonder Workshop

Series B in 2016
Wonder Workshop is teaching children to code by integrating cutting-edge hardware and software experiences. Their first products are beautifully-designed robots, Dash & Dot, that children can program using mobile devices. They are a multidisciplinary team of software and hardware designers, engineers, educators, and business leaders focused on developing mobile applications for Dash & Dot Our founders come from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Frog Design and blend their backgrounds to create cohesive multi-platform experiences. Educating children takes a village, so they have opened their API to the world so anyone can create an app to use with their robots.

VersaMe, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Nicki Boyd met brothers Jon and Chris Boggiano on the campus of Stanford University. The trio quickly found that they shared a passion and united themselves in a common goal to “fix” the education system. Yes, the same system everyone has tried and failed to fix for the past 50 or so years. So while great minds think alike, they knew they also needed to think differently.

Edmodo

Series D in 2014
Edmodo, Inc. operates an online platform that enables educators to connect and collaborate with students, parents, and each other. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of May 3, 2018, Edmodo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Best Assistant Education Online Limited.

Teachable Inc.

Series A in 2017
Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without any technical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars.

Teachable Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without any technical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars.

Coursera

Series C in 2015
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.

MasteryConnect Inc.

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.

Andela

Seed Round in 2014
Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

EdSurge, Inc.

Series A in 2014
EdSurge, Inc. owns and operates a community which provides news and information on innovation in education technology. Its product browser enables the members to filter information by subject, audience, product characteristics, standards alignment, and technology platform. The company caters to educators, entrepreneurs, and investors. It also publishes a weekly newsletter and reports. EdSurge, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Burlingame, California.

OneSchool

Seed Round in 2012
OneSchool Inc. offers mobile application for campus. It offers student body and faculty directory, local food shops, bus schedules and trackers, course directory, news, and chat. The company is based in Berkeley, California.

AltSchool Inc.

Series A in 2014
AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact in our efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child.

Savvy.is

Seed Round in 2015
Savvy is a global platform where learners and teachers connect for live, one on one video learning sessions. One on one learning is the most effective way to learn anything, from how to manage your personal finances to how to put on makeup. Savvy gives anyone with expertise the ability to teach, and makes it easy for learners to book, learn, and pay for sessions whenever and wherever they want.

Mystery Science

Seed Round in 2017
We started Mystery.org to create better explanations for every question children have about the world. We began with the 150 most common science questions that children ask teachers. We call this collection Mystery Science. This year, 1 out of every 5 children in the U.S. has used Mystery Science, spread across 50% of elementary schools. We’re now moving on to all the other questions children have that they’ll never learn in school. In the last 18 months we received over 500,000 questions from children eager for better explanations of the world. Now we’re creating video explanations for every question. You can think of this like a visual Wikipedia for kids. Our goal is to create a generation of better thinkers. We think this is the most important problem to solve in the world today.

Brainly

Series A in 2014
Brainly is an online learning platform where students and parents get homework and study help from peers and experts. With the platform and its group of websites and apps, middle school and high school students are given the opportunity to ask questions freely to the online community comprised of students, parents, and teachers. The software is developed with a mission to help students gain the confidence that comes from helping others and inspire them to learn in a collaborative community. Brainly is backed by Naspers, Kulczyk Investments, General Catalyst Partners, Point Nine Capital, Runa Capital, and Learn Capital. In 2009, Lukasz Haluch, Michał Borkowski, and Tomasz Kraus co-founded the company in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland and is available in 35 countries.

Storybird

Series A in 2013
Storybird is a publishing platform with a simple conceit: we use art to inspire people to write chapter books, picture books, and poetry. In three years, our community has created 15m stories and read them for several billion minutes. Today, over 5m members use Storybird at home and in schools and libraries. More than 400k educators use our platform to inspire writing and reading. And a growing list of authors and artists are building a remarkable relationship with passionate young writers and readers.

NoRedInk Corp.

Seed Round in 2013
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.

Learners Guild

Venture Round in 2017
17 million young people in the United States are un(der)employed while the demand for technology related jobs exceeds the supply. At Learners Guild, we’re solving this problem by providing a software education fellowship with life-changing curriculum and community support. Our products are built upon the premise that life is a process of continuous learning, building, and perfecting pursuits of livelihood, community and purpose. Learners Guild, a California B-Corp following the principles of holocracy, is a network of guild-style professional schools that transform students into high-skilled workers in one year. We have a unique financing model that aligns student and institutional success, and allows us to profitably recruit & train the most ambitious students, regardless of financial background. Together, we can transform the trillion dollar higher education market and fix the gap for talented software developers in the coming connected device era.

popexpert

Seed Round in 2013
Learn life and work skills directly from top experts for a happier, healthier, more productive you. From mindfulness to entrepreneurship and all the skills between, popexpert makes it easy to learn what you need to excel. Get access to original classes and personalized coaching from thousands of top experts at home or on-the-go, from anywhere in the world. Join people from more than 90 countries learning from hundreds of classes and thousands of experts. Ready to dive deeper? Subscribe to a learning institute for unlimited access to hundreds of original video and audio classes designed to help you master key topics whether you’re just getting started or already on your journey.

Springboard

Series A in 2017
Springboard (formerly SlideRule) offers flexible online courses in cutting-edge career paths such as data science, design, analytics, marketing, and security. The new economy needs a new approach to education. Education is no longer a one-time investment at the beginning of one's career, it's a lifelong pursuit. We're building an educational experience that empowers our students to thrive in this new world order.

OpenStudy

Seed Round in 2008
OpenStudy is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. Its mission is to make the world one large study group, regardless of school, location, or background.

Springboard

Series B in 2020
Springboard (formerly SlideRule) offers flexible online courses in cutting-edge career paths such as data science, design, analytics, marketing, and security. The new economy needs a new approach to education. Education is no longer a one-time investment at the beginning of one's career, it's a lifelong pursuit. We're building an educational experience that empowers our students to thrive in this new world order.

BloomBoard

Series B in 2015
Founded in 2010, BloomBoard is leading the shift from professional development to educator advancement via micro-certification. The company partners with states and districts to enable a unique online learning experience where educators can improve their instructional practice and advance in their careers by earning micro-credentials. BloomBoard aims to help all organizations transition to meaningful, purpose-driven educator development and advancement based on measurable certification. For more information, visit bloomboard.com.

Outschool

Seed Round in 2017
Outschool connects motivated learners, parents, and teachers together to create great learning experiences. Their mission is to build the biggest and best global school by offering unique online classes from hundreds of independent teachers. Outschool teachers may be certified teachers, artists, scientists, or other adults with expertise or interest in teaching. It was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MissionU

Seed Round in 2016
MissionU is a college alternative that gives students the skills and experience needed to succeed in today’s competitive working world while allowing them to graduate debt-free with no upfront tuition. Led by Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun, who created the company with co-founder and Chief Product Officer Mike Adams, MissionU is the only program that combines general education with specialized skills training to prepare individuals for real-world jobs. By employing an income-share agreement model, MissionU only requires students to pay once they are earning $50,000 or more, during which they pay 15% of their income for three years back to the company.

Sixup

Seed Round in 2016
Sixup PBC, Inc. operates an online platform which provides low-income students with loans. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

EdSurge, Inc.

Series A in 2015
EdSurge, Inc. owns and operates a community which provides news and information on innovation in education technology. Its product browser enables the members to filter information by subject, audience, product characteristics, standards alignment, and technology platform. The company caters to educators, entrepreneurs, and investors. It also publishes a weekly newsletter and reports. EdSurge, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Paragon One

Seed Round in 2017
Paragon One turns company work projects into scalable, online learning experiences called Remote Externships. Remote externships give students a flexible way to get their first taste of what it is like to work in different industries, no matter where they live or study. For companies, remote externships serve as scalable, early talent identification and training programs that can reach more diverse, overlooked and underserved student populations.