Owl Ventures

Owl Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2014 and based in California, specializing in investments in education technology companies. The firm focuses on a broad range of educational sectors, including early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility. With over $600 million in assets under management, Owl Ventures has invested in 24 companies, leveraging its extensive domain expertise to support entrepreneurs in scaling their businesses into industry leaders. The firm takes an active, hands-on approach to help drive innovation and entrepreneurship within the education technology landscape.

John Azubuike

vice_president

Kriti Bansal

Principal

Emily Bennett

Principal

Kate Chhabra

CFO and Partner

Ian Chiu

Managing Director

Tom Costin

Managing Director

Ross Darwin

Principal

Judy Park

Principal

Amit Patel

Managing Director

Tory Patterson

Managing Director

Jenny Wang

Principal

Past deals in E-Learning

Preply

Series C in 2022
Preply Inc. operates an online tutoring marketplace that connects students with independent tutors for personalized learning experiences. Founded in 2012 and based in Brookline, Massachusetts, the platform allows users to search for tutors across various subjects and filter options based on price, duration, and tutor credentials. Tutors can create specific tutoring packages that include learning materials to enhance the educational experience. The marketplace supports preparation for standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, and IELTS, among others, facilitating sessions via video conferencing tools like Skype. Preply serves a diverse user base by offering access to professional private tutors from over 185 countries, thereby promoting effective learning and helping students achieve their academic goals.

Subject

Series A in 2022
Building the MasterClass for high school education. Members can access on-demand premium courses across multiple subjects for actual high school and college credits, and join a global community.

UBITS

Series B in 2022
UBITS is an online learning platform for skilling employees in Latin America. Through education we empower every person and every organization in Latin America

GrowthSchool

Seed Round in 2022
GrowthSchool will teach you the science of growth with easy-to-follow videos you can watch from home.

uLesson

Series B in 2021
uLesson has built the technology to deploy curriculum-relevant content via smartphones, that allows learners to use the product without concern for internet limitations and costs. uLesson’s mobile offering rests on three pillars: academics, media & technology and curriculum content is delivered via streaming and SD cards.

LingoAce

Series C in 2021
LingoAce is an overseas Chinese online education platform that focuses on K-12 Chinese education and is committed to providing a full set of Chinese language learning courses for children aged 6 to 18. PPlingo uses video communication technology, students can communicate with teachers face to face in online classrooms.

StudySmarter

Series A in 2021
StudySmarter UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is an e-learning platform based in Munich, Germany, designed to enhance the exam preparation process for students through digital methods. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools that enables users to create and share study materials, including mind maps, summaries, and flashcards, tailored to their lecture notes. It facilitates collaboration among students by connecting them in learning groups and offers personalized learning plans that track progress. Utilizing machine learning and natural language processing, StudySmarter delivers an intelligent learning experience, equipping students with the necessary resources for effective exam preparation.

Noodle

Series C in 2021
Noodle Partners creates innovative online and hybrid programs while improving traditional classroom models. Noodle Partners has the capability to work with universities on every aspect of building a certificate or degree program that they choose—marketing, student recruitment, enrollment, curriculum design, student engagement, support services, graduate placement, and alumni engagement—and provides a high level of fit and finish.

UBITS

Series A in 2021
UBITS is an online learning platform for skilling employees in Latin America. Through education we empower every person and every organization in Latin America

Subject

Seed Round in 2021
Building the MasterClass for high school education. Members can access on-demand premium courses across multiple subjects for actual high school and college credits, and join a global community.

StudySmarter

Series A in 2021
StudySmarter UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is an e-learning platform based in Munich, Germany, designed to enhance the exam preparation process for students through digital methods. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools that enables users to create and share study materials, including mind maps, summaries, and flashcards, tailored to their lecture notes. It facilitates collaboration among students by connecting them in learning groups and offers personalized learning plans that track progress. Utilizing machine learning and natural language processing, StudySmarter delivers an intelligent learning experience, equipping students with the necessary resources for effective exam preparation.

Preply

Series B in 2021
Preply Inc. operates an online tutoring marketplace that connects students with independent tutors for personalized learning experiences. Founded in 2012 and based in Brookline, Massachusetts, the platform allows users to search for tutors across various subjects and filter options based on price, duration, and tutor credentials. Tutors can create specific tutoring packages that include learning materials to enhance the educational experience. The marketplace supports preparation for standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, and IELTS, among others, facilitating sessions via video conferencing tools like Skype. Preply serves a diverse user base by offering access to professional private tutors from over 185 countries, thereby promoting effective learning and helping students achieve their academic goals.

Codecademy

Series D in 2021
Codecademy helps millions of learners around the world obtain the skills they need to succeed in today’s digital world -- all in a way that’s fun, free, and accessible anywhere. Codecademy is different from any other learning experience; it’s designed to complement the way people want to learn in the twenty-first century. Through Codecademy's web- and mobile-based platforms, learners discover concepts such as HTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP, and APIs by actually building things and getting constant feedback from peers. Codecademy is an entirely new, networked approach to learning in which you interact with students across the globe, build amazing projects, and - most importantly - apply your skills to improve your life.

Interplay Learning

Series B in 2021
Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions. It provides an online training platform that enables its users to conduct training via 3D simulations designed for career training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, manufacturing, facility maintenance, and construction codes.

SplashLearn

Series C in 2021
SplashLearn makes engaging learning experiences to nurture a generation of fearless learners. It is world's first scientifically-designed game-based curriculum spanning Pre-K to Grade 5 for Math and Reading. With data from 3+ billion completed activities, SplashLearn's adaptive algorithm offers each child a personalized learning experience that is fun and immersive. SplashLearn is one of the fastest-growing elementary school learning program in the world. It is used by millions of students in 150+ countries and is trusted by over 440k teachers in 77k schools. Backed by Accel Partners, SplashLearn has bagged many prestigious ed-tech awards such as the NASSCOM Emerge50, Parents Choice and Best App Ever and has been consistently featured among the best apps on the App Store.

uLesson

Series A in 2021
uLesson has built the technology to deploy curriculum-relevant content via smartphones, that allows learners to use the product without concern for internet limitations and costs. uLesson’s mobile offering rests on three pillars: academics, media & technology and curriculum content is delivered via streaming and SD cards.

Lele Ketang

Series C in 2020
LeLe Ketang offers online K-12 education services. The company focuses on primary school math and language. LeLe Ketang was founded in 2014 and is based in Beijing, China.

Noodle

Series A in 2017
Noodle Partners creates innovative online and hybrid programs while improving traditional classroom models. Noodle Partners has the capability to work with universities on every aspect of building a certificate or degree program that they choose—marketing, student recruitment, enrollment, curriculum design, student engagement, support services, graduate placement, and alumni engagement—and provides a high level of fit and finish.

BetterLesson

Series B in 2017
BetterLesson, Inc. develops and offers a professional development platform for teachers. Its platform connects teachers to their personal coaches for setting professional development challenges and objectives, creating individualized learning plans, and making teaching strategies. It provides a searchable database to users to find lesson plans, classroom materials, and instructional resources from teachers; browse various documents, presentations, lessons, units, and courses; and share curriculum and connect with fellow educators. BetterLesson, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Abl Schools

Series A in 2017
Abl is building a new kind of school operations software that helps school leaders better manage their time and resources. Their mission is to transform education by helping schools create flexible, transparent, and collaborative learning environments.

Lingo Live

Series A in 2017
Lingo Live owns and operates an online platform for learning English and other languages. It offers live one-on-one personalized language coaching through videoconference by pairing learners with professional teachers and accredited tutors, followed by an online assessment tool that enables teachers to evaluate the leaner’s progress with the language and the areas that they need to develop. The company caters to employees of technology companies. Lingo Live is headquartered in the New York, New York.

Abl Schools

Seed Round in 2016
Abl is building a new kind of school operations software that helps school leaders better manage their time and resources. Their mission is to transform education by helping schools create flexible, transparent, and collaborative learning environments.

LearnZillion

Series B in 2015
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.

DreamBox Learning

Series B in 2015
DreamBox Learning is an online software provider that offers elementary mathematics education through its intelligent adaptive learning platform. Its adaptive engine looks beyond the answer to see how a student is solving problems, and adjusts accordingly to build a personalized learning path for them.