ECMC Foundation

ECMC Foundation is a Los Angeles-based, nationally focused foundation whose mission is to inspire and to facilitate improvements that affect educational outcomes—especially among under served populations—through evidence-based innovation. It is one of several affiliates under the ECMC Group enterprise based in Minneapolis. ECMC Foundation makes grants in two focus areas: College Success and Career Readiness. Additionally, out of the Education Innovation Ventures portfolio, ECMC Foundation makes program-related investments, into both nonprofit and for-profit ventures. ECMC Foundation’s vision is for all learners to unlock their fullest potential and achieve family-sustaining wages.

Jacob Fraire

President

15 past transactions

WorkingNation

Grant in 2022
WorkingNation is a nonprofit media and journalism organization. They produces content from filmmakers and journalists that underscores the urgency of the unemployment crisis. They provide information in news, video, and magazines.

Workcred

Grant in 2022
Workcred is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. Workcred's mission is to strengthen workforce quality by improving the credentialing system, ensuring its ongoing relevance, and preparing employers, workers, educators, and governments to use it effectively.

Gladeo Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gladeo Inc is a media and technology company with a mission to build a more inclusive, equitable and prepared workforce of the future. Gladeo provides branded inclusive, storytelling career navigation platforms and career/industry related e-courses to high schools, workforce/job agencies, non-profits, colleges and universities. Some notable customers include: Los Angeles Unified School District, Bay Area Community College Consortium, Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation.

MentorWorks Education Capital

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MentorWorks Education Capital provides Income Share Agreement (ISA) financing which enables students to complete their education and launch their careers. We combine ISA financing with a career enhancement & employer access platform which provides pathways for funded students to employers. This support structure reduces both students’ net financing costs and creates a roadmap for career success.

EdSights

Seed Round in 2020
EdSights provides an artificial intelligence-powered texting platform that helps universities enhance student engagement and retention. The company's platform features a text messaging chatbot and predictive analytics to identify students at risk of dropping out. By facilitating connections to on-campus resources, EdSights enables institutions to proactively support students, ultimately aiming to improve their overall experience and success in higher education.

Concourse Education

Seed Round in 2020
Concourse Education is a college program designed to meet the needs of working adults.

Provider Pool

Seed Round in 2020
Provider Pool is an online labor marketplace created specifically for the healthcare industry. Our human cloud platform algorithmically matches hospitals with ideal nursing professionals for short-term and longer-term staffing needs. Hospitals gain direct access to hyperlocal nursing talent saving time and money on staffing and recruitment. Using unparalleled matching technology powered by AI, Provider Pool presents nurses with the shifts they’re most likely to accept. Provider Pool is powering the future of work in healthcare.

Upswing

Seed Round in 2020
Upswing provides colleges and universities with an integrated student services platform to increase student retention. Colleges are able to integrate their various student support operations in a virtual environment to allow students to easily find and meet with staff in support functions like advising, counseling, student success coaching, and tutoring. Additionally, Upswing's virtual assistant connects students via SMS to college reminders and information. By streamlining student services, college administrators are able to manage support staff in a single location, oversee communication with students, and access streamlined reporting and insights.

Exploring Your Potential

Seed Round in 2020
Exploring Your Potential™ (EYP) is a career readiness program that inspires young adults to take control of their future today by crafting a life and career that’s personally customized to them. This groundbreaking program is organized into four courses in which students identify their talents, passions, and goals; create a value proposition that reflects who they are; learn how to market themselves; and put their career plan into action. Students are motivated to think outside the box and create their own definition of success. Exploring your Potential helps academic institutions augment the career-preparedness resources they currently offer. Usage of Exploring your Potential at numerous universities has demonstrated a highly significant improvement in students’ career readiness. EYP teaches insights that take successful people a lifetime to learn, including how to articulate the value you have to offer, get paid for your work, create the most compelling social media profiles, build an income around your lifestyle, figure out what’s in the way of your success, decide if a more entrepreneurial route makes sense for you, and identify the people most likely to help you find your next job or position.

Cell-Ed

Seed Round in 2020
Cell-Ed offers employers and education providers a complete mobile messaging solution to reach, teach, coach, and upskill today's workforce. Cell-Ed was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Beam

Seed Round in 2020
Beam simplifies complex government program journeys with configurable, intelligent end-to-end workflows. Beam's platform helps government administer programs end-to-end, including application, eligibility determination, case management, payment, and reporting -- from simple programs like emergency relief to the most complex like housing voucher programs.

InScribe

Seed Round in 2019
InScribe is a learner-driven, AI enabled platform that delivers highly scalable, context specific support anytime a student needs it. InScribe works by connecting learners to the answers they need—whether from instructors, advisors, alumni, or peers. InScribe communities create a space for individuals to work together— asking questions, finding answers, and sharing resources. InScribe captures these valuable interactions, and makes them fully searchable and reusable, so each generation of learners benefits from the conversations that came before them.

Skillist

Seed Round in 2019
Skillist is a job application platform that makes it easier for employers and jobseekers to connect by putting skills at the center of the process. The company's skills-based, identity-blind application process enables candidates to apply by sharing what they can do. It helps millions of talented people without four-year degrees obtain career-advancing opportunities at great companies who value their skills. Skillist was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Blendoor

Seed Round in 2019
Blendoor is a computer networking company that specializes in recruiting, SaaS, Mobile, and People Analytics. It features a mobile-based application platform that specializes in people analytics that migrates candidates sourced from partners and universities and presented to recruiters without a name, photo or dates. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

College Forward

Seed Round in 2018
College Forward is a non profit organization helps college students to get motivated and giving guidelines to complete college.
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