Entangled Group

Entangled Group LLC is a venture capital and incubation firm based in San Francisco, California, focusing on the education ecosystem. Established in 2014, it specializes in the incubation, seed, and early venture stages, investing in startups that offer services such as strategy consulting, non-profit management, sales acceleration, and revenue generation. The firm operates as an Educational Technology Studio, building companies that drive change in education by providing resources like product development, recruitment, and operational support. It collaborates with leading universities to beta test its offerings, thereby enhancing market readiness and adoption rates. With a mission to excel in developing exceptional education companies, Entangled Group combines the agility of startups with the resources typically associated with larger organizations.

Paul Sheppard

CFO

14 past transactions

Pathstream

Venture Round in 2021
Pathstream is a web-based platform for teaching in-demand tech skills for work. Pathstream partners with industry-leading tech companies and higher education institutions to transform digital skill learning. The company's platform allows students to immediately access pre-configured, project based instruction, realistic workplace simulations, and on-demand coaching.

Adjacent Academies

Seed Round in 2020
Adjacent Academies enables liberal arts students to earn college credit while building in-demand tech skills. Adjacent Academies provides liberal arts graduates with courses to improve the skills, networks, and opportunities to thrive in the technological transformation world.

Riipen

Seed Round in 2019
Riipen is an experiential education platform for universities and colleges so that their students graduate with the employable skills and industry connections that will get them relevant employment upon graduation. We connect faculty and students, inside and out of the classroom, to companies that want a more effective and engaging way to create brand awareness and recruit on campuses across the globe.

Stellic

Seed Round in 2019
Stellic (previously known as Metis) was founded by Carnegie Mellon undergraduates after getting frustrated by the clunky, complicated tools they were given to plan their academic journey. Under the mentorship of university advisors who were equally frustrated with the existing degree planning process, the team pursued their goal of building a planner with intelligence and interation. The project received appreciation from the campus community and won Research Awards – convincing the team to build a company with a purpose to provide student-built tools to universities worldwide.

CourseKey

Series A in 2019
CourseKey is a SaaS platform for vocational education providers that boosts revenue by improving student retention and graduation rates, helps maintain regulatory compliance, and streamlines processes.

Labster

Series B in 2019
Labster develops a platform that offers virtual laboratory simulations based on mathematical algorithms for students' e-learning. It is an internationally-focused company dedicated to the development of pioneering online tools for teaching science globally. Labster's primary product is an easily scalable online platform for teaching biotechnology that has been demonstrated to improve learning significantly over standard methods as well as substantially reduce costs. It is dedicated to bringing life science teaching to life. We think every day about the big picture of science education. The Labster platform is a 3D virtual learning environment based on a Virtual Lab. Labster includes molecular 3D animations, quiz questions, and background theory that engages students in an immersive, game-like multimedia experience. Structured around cases that explore both theory and experimental processes, our virtual labs offer advanced, unified scientific teaching solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional labs. Labster was co-founded in 2011 by Mads Tvillinggaard Bonde and Michael Bodekaer in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

Hone

Seed Round in 2019
Hone is a live learning platform for management training that cultivates soft skills with hard data. Hone blends the best of expert-led small group training, peer learning, continuous reinforcement, and a technology platform to develop better leaders, managers, and teammates for today’s workplace. The company's platform helps to expand, connect, and let leaders analyze the impact of the training on the organization to provide improvement for team development. Hone was established in 2018 by Tom Griffiths and Savina Perez in Encinitas, California.

ProjectEd

Acquisition in 2019
ProjectEd provides product and visual design as well as consulting services to education companies and nonprofits.

RaiseMe

Series B in 2018
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

Koru

Series B in 2017
Koru is a developer of a predictive recruitment processing platform used to transform the process of talent recruitment. The company's predictive hiring software gauges performance of the applicants before hiring them using signals far more indicative of early career success than the traditional GPA and college brand. Their main differentiator is that they have identified and can measure the skills that are most predictive of workplace performance in today’s innovative employers: Grit, Rigor, Impact, Teamwork, Curiosity, Ownership, and Polish - collectively the Koru7. Koru customers increase the performance and ramp to the productivity of their early career workforce, increase diversity, and reduce the cost of bad hires. Their customers have seen 30-60% increases in high performing hires using Koru, with associated ROI in the millions per year.

Yellowbrick Learning

Venture Round in 2017
Yellowbrick empowers the next generation of talent to discover, pursue, upskill, and advance their career within the creative arts, media and entertainment fields. In partnership with industry leaders in the creative arts, media, entertainment, and education — we develop experiences that help the next generation of leaders achieve their career objectives.

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.

CourseKey

Seed Round in 2017
CourseKey is a SaaS platform for vocational education providers that boosts revenue by improving student retention and graduation rates, helps maintain regulatory compliance, and streamlines processes.

ReUp Education

Seed Round in 2016
ReUp Education leverages data, technology, and coaching to re-enroll students who have left college and support them through to graduation. ReUp partners with universities and community colleges to find, engage, and empower students who have left school to return, navigate a path to complete their degree, and achieve their goals. O Each year, millions of students drop-out of college or university – some 37 million Americans in the last two decades. The reasons students drop out are multi-dimensional, with the primary barriers to completion being financial, work, family obligations, health-related issues, and motivation. Many of these “Forgotten Students” leave college with mountains of debt (over $27 billion annually) and without the earning power of a diploma. The social, economic, and human potential loss is enormous. While this completion crisis is alarming, ReUp has the solution. We are proud to work with some of the most diverse universities and colleges in the country - tackling this problem student by student.
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