Owl Ventures

Owl Ventures was founded by Andrew Birt and Julian Righetti to help new device manufacturers leverage their experience across product development, commercialisation, manufacturing, distribution and business development. They work on a project basis or partner with hardware startups if they believe there is a good fit and it makes sense to co-found, or co-invest.

John Azubuike

VP

Kriti Bansal

Principal

Emily Bennett

Principal

Kate Chhabra

CFO and Partner

Ian Chiu

MD

Tom Costin

MD

Ross Darwin

Principal

Judy Park

Principal

Amit Patel

MD

Tory Patterson

MD

Jenny Wang

Principal

Past deals in Education

SVAcademy

Series A in 2019
SVAcademy is a 15-month business development apprenticeship paid for by employers. SVAcademy’s team has started and sold SaaS companies to Oracle and HP, hired and trained more than 400 SaaS sales reps, conducted admissions at Harvard, and coached more than 100,000 students across the country.
Greenlight Financial Technology is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of debit cards for kids and mobile apps. It empowers parents with convenient controls to safely manage family finances and create teachable moments around earning, spending, saving, and giving. Using its patent-pending technology, they can even specify the exact stores in their town or neighborhood where each child's Greenlight card is accepted. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rebel Girls

Series A in 2020
Rebel Girls is a global multi-platform edutainment brand focused on inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls bring the stories of phenomenal women from all over the world to life by way of bestselling books, an award-winning podcast, toys, digital media, and more. The Rebel Girls community spans over 85 countries, with 6M books sold in 49 languages and 8M podcast downloads, reaching 10M girls.

Kuali, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Kuali, Inc. offers open source administrative software solutions using SaaS technologies for higher education. The company offers products, such as Curriculum & Catalog Management, Curriculum Management, Catalog Management, Financials, Research, Protocols, Ready, and Build. Its products are used in the areas of research, finance, student administration, business continuity, and libraries. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lehi, Utah with an additional office in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hazel Health, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Hazel Health is a healthcare company that improves the health and well-being of students by increasing access to healthcare. It partners with schools and nurses, supporting student health to keep them healthy and ready to learn. With Hazel, students can talk with a doctor over the video, and get the care they need whether they are at home or in school. Its doctors provide treatment for a wide range of conditions. They can prescribe over-the-counter medicine at school with parent approval, or call in prescriptions.

BetterLesson, Inc.

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

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.

RaiseMe

Series A in 2017
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.

Labster ApS

Series C in 2022
Labster ApS designs and develops interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations for colleges, universities, and higher education. The company develops an interactive platform, where students engage with life science, biology, and biotechnology experiments. The product has been designed with 3D animations and includes educational science background information. The virtual lab simulations enables the students to work with virtual and realistic lab experiments. Labster ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sanur, Bali.

Tinkergarten

Series A in 2017
Tinkergarten, Inc. offers outdoor play-based learning classes and activities for kids aged between 18 months to 8 years. The company provides activities for parents to help them to provide their kids with authentic, trusted, early childhood education; enables people to become a leader, and market and manage on-ground classes; and allows parents to find those classes for their kids in their local community. It matches families with leaders in their local community who offer activity-based kids’ classes that help them in developing the skills. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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.

Panorama Software Limited

Series C in 2019
Panorama Software Limited develops and markets business intelligence software solutions to businesses. The company offers Panorama Necto, a smart, collaborative, and visual business intelligence software that offers clients with business intelligence dashboards and infographics. It serves customers in manufacturing, financial services, retail and distribution, government, media and telco, entertainment, insurance, and healthcare industries. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Securly

Series B in 2018
Securly is the first web filter that has been designed from the ground up for schools. It is completely cloud based, takes five minutes to set up per district and costs a fraction of the enterprise solutions that schools are forced to pay for today. We solve the problem of "over blocking" in schools by allowing educators to safely use 21st century instructional tools such as Google, YouTube and Wikipedia in the classroom.

Preply Inc.

Series B in 2021
Preply is a provider of an online tutoring marketplace intended to promote faster learning with one-on-one online tutors. The company's marketplace helps to find and book professional private tutors online from over 185 countries, enabling users to achieve their goals and speak confidently.

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.
Sanjieke Information Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd. offers online education services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Beijing, China.

Galena

Series A in 2022
Galena is an impact-focused education start-up, whose mission is to generate concrete opportunities of development and employment for underprivileged groups.

The Emile School

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.

Imbellus

Series A in 2018
Imbellus builds simulation-based cognitive assessments that measure how people think, not just what they know. In the age of automation, it is imperative that schools prepare students to do what computers cannot, so our assessments evaluate the deep thinking skills that modern work and modern life require. Eventually, we'll replace standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, and state summative exams. We also work with corporate and government partners to support their hiring, upskilling, and retention practices. Imbellus is an interdisciplinary team of learning scientists, game developers, artists, data scientists, and AI engineers with $23M in venture backing. For more on Imbellus, check out our website or some of the materials linked below. We’re also hiring!

Securly

Series A in 2016
Securly is the first web filter that has been designed from the ground up for schools. It is completely cloud based, takes five minutes to set up per district and costs a fraction of the enterprise solutions that schools are forced to pay for today. We solve the problem of "over blocking" in schools by allowing educators to safely use 21st century instructional tools such as Google, YouTube and Wikipedia in the classroom.

Fiveable

Series A in 2021
Fiveable, Inc., an educational technology company, provides education services through its platform. It offers Fiveable, an interactive social learning platform for AP students and teachers. The company’s platform provides services in the areas of history and social science, STEM, languages, and others. Fiveable, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Noodle Partners

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.

Class.com

Series A 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.

StudySmarter

Series A in 2021
StudySmarter UG (haftungsbeschränkt) an intelligent learning platform for digitizing the written exam preparation for students. It offers StudySmarter, an all-in-one platform with intelligent tools to create and share study content, such as mind-maps, summaries, and flashcards for lecture scripts; to connect students in learning groups; and to offer a toolbox for digital learning. The company is based in Munich, Germany.

Thunkable

Series B in 2022
From MIT's App Inventor and YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable allows anyone to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, it's simple to design, and simple to code-- simply drag and drop to create fast, native, reliable apps. You don't need to download large development suites, command-line kits, or simulators. You can use the many built-in app templates as they are, or make changes. Make your changes online and see them on your device instantly with the Thunkable mobile app. Upload your apps directly to the Play Store or send them to friends!

LearnZillion, Inc.

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.

Newsela, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Newsela, Inc. publishes online news articles daily to help students master the advanced literacy skills. It offers news on war and peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports categories. Newsela, Inc. was formerly known as Whipsmart Learning LLC. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Leap Finance Inc.

Series D in 2022
Leap Finance is a fintech startup for Indian students pursuing international higher education.Leap Finance offers loan products and services that help Indian students pursue overseas education.

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

Splash Math

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.

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.

Fiveable

Series A in 2021
Fiveable, Inc., an educational technology company, provides education services through its platform. It offers Fiveable, an interactive social learning platform for AP students and teachers. The company’s platform provides services in the areas of history and social science, STEM, languages, and others. Fiveable, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Raftr, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
RAFTR: A UNIQUE SOLUTION FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS Meeting college students where they are in an authenticated platform that's organized with feeds and real-time notifications specific to each campus. Raftr is filled with social features, including group messaging and a full events calendar, offering students a familiar and comfortable way to connect with each other, and the university administration a secure way to connect with students. All users are authenticated with each university's specific .edu email address creating secure campus-specific experiences.

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.

Bakpax Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Bakpax Inc. provides a computer vision system that converts student handwriting to text and delivers grades. It offers Bakpax, a platform that reads students’ handwriting and auto-grade schoolwork, and enables teachers to assign lectures for students to watch online while they are at home. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Leap Finance Inc.

Series B in 2021
Leap Finance is a fintech startup for Indian students pursuing international higher education.Leap Finance offers loan products and services that help Indian students pursue overseas education.

Labster ApS

Series C in 2021
Labster ApS designs and develops interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations for colleges, universities, and higher education. The company develops an interactive platform, where students engage with life science, biology, and biotechnology experiments. The product has been designed with 3D animations and includes educational science background information. The virtual lab simulations enables the students to work with virtual and realistic lab experiments. Labster ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sanur, Bali.

Bite Ninja

Seed Round in 2021
Bite Ninja is a remote hiring technology platform for restaurants.

Woebot Labs Inc.

Series B in 2021
Woebot Health’s mission is to make mental health radically accessible. Our breakthrough technology is engineered to engage, bringing the art and science of effective therapy together in a suite of digital therapeutics and behavioral health products that are related, responsive and targeted, Headquartered in San Francisco, Woebot Health is funded in part by venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Jazz Venture Partners L.P., and Social Discovery Ventures, with participation from Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.

Mighty Networks

Series B in 2021
Mighty Software, Inc. develops an application for social network for deep interests. It offers Mighty Networks, a Web based social software that enables people to define and share an organized series of step-by-step and day-by-day actions grouped as experiences around a topic or goal for others to do. The company’s solutions are used to create real life experiences for friends, fans, and followers. Mighty Software, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Apna

Series C in 2021
Apna is a recruitment platform that gives opportunities for blue or grey collar jobs. The company works for those who require jobs and those who are looking for the best employees for their companies. It gives maximum opportunities through a single platform for the biggest job groups in India. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Workera

Seed Round in 2020
Workera is the assessment platform that evaluates the skills of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers. It provides performance feedback, learning plans, certification, and referrals to the best jobs in AI. Workera partners with companies across industries to help them establish a top performing AI team. This includes engineering, applied science, and research teams in Education, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Autonomous Driving, Energy, Transportation, Robotics, Social Media, FinTech, Agriculture, and more!

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.

MasterClass

Series F in 2021
Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Morressier

Series A in 2021
Morressier provides professional and academic organizations with comprehensive virtual and hybrid conference solutions, powerful data and analytics, and new revenue opportunities. Since 2014, more than 200 societies, institutions, and corporations around the world trust Morressier to support their meetings, engage their users, and amplify their research. Partners use Morressier’s powerful suite of tools and custom integrations to host, share, and fully integrate traditionally hidden conference content, including abstracts, posters, presentations, video, and datasets. At the same time, by increasing the dissemination of this early-stage research and providing valuable aggregate insights, Morressier facilitates scholarly discourse and accelerates scientific breakthroughs.

Rebel Girls

Seed Round in 2022
Rebel Girls is a global multi-platform edutainment brand focused on inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls bring the stories of phenomenal women from all over the world to life by way of bestselling books, an award-winning podcast, toys, digital media, and more. The Rebel Girls community spans over 85 countries, with 6M books sold in 49 languages and 8M podcast downloads, reaching 10M girls.

Preply Inc.

Series C in 2022
Preply is a provider of an online tutoring marketplace intended to promote faster learning with one-on-one online tutors. The company's marketplace helps to find and book professional private tutors online from over 185 countries, enabling users to achieve their goals and speak confidently.

Newsela, Inc.

Series D in 2021
Newsela, Inc. publishes online news articles daily to help students master the advanced literacy skills. It offers news on war and peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports categories. Newsela, Inc. was formerly known as Whipsmart Learning LLC. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

Kiddom

Series C in 2021
Kiddom builds technology enabling teachers and learners to unlock their full potential. Teachers are often constrained by limited access to quality tools or mandated use of ineffective tools that do not meet their students’ needs. We believe technology should be utilized to close the achievement gap and level the playing field for all students.

Workera

Series A in 2021
Workera is the assessment platform that evaluates the skills of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers. It provides performance feedback, learning plans, certification, and referrals to the best jobs in AI. Workera partners with companies across industries to help them establish a top performing AI team. This includes engineering, applied science, and research teams in Education, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Autonomous Driving, Energy, Transportation, Robotics, Social Media, FinTech, Agriculture, and more!

Real

Series B in 2022
Real is making mental wellness an essential part of wellbeing. It made its mission to develop a new therapy model based on member-centered care that is affordable and effective.

Degreed, Inc.

Series C in 2018
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Genially

Series B in 2021
Genially Web S.L. operates a web portal for creating presentations. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cordoba, Spain.

Jumpstart Ventures, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Jumpstart is a machine learning platform that enables students to learn, discover, and connect with innovative companies in the world. It takes out the resume to create equal opportunities for students in a highly competitive and biased industry. The platform learns about a student's interests, values, and experiences to make intelligent matches using data and technology. Founded in July 2017, Jumpstart is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Sanjieke Information Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd. offers online education services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Beijing, China.

NovaKid Inc.

Series B in 2021
NovaKid is a next-generation early English learning platform that allows kids around the world to learn English through remote practice with native-speaking teachers and through engagement with AI-powered games and training apps that promote English speaking and comprehension based on the use of authentic content in the English language. It also offers individual lessons with native speaking certified teachers for children with AI-assisted data extraction and analysis. Incorporated in the US, it has students in over 30 countries, focussing on Europe and MENA with major customer base in Poland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Russia. NovaKid was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Remind

Series D in 2017
Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed. Founded in 2011, Remind allows school and district administrators to reach and engage with their communities and connects educators and families with the tools that help them teach and learn. Investors include First Round Capital, GSV, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and Social Capital.

BYJU’S

Private Equity Round in 2019
BYJU’S is a valuable ed-tech company at USD 10.5 billion and the creator of India’s most loved school learning app which offers highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning programs for students in classes 1 -12 and competitive exams like JEE, NEET, CAT, and IAS. BYJU'S launched its flagship product, BYJU’S - The Learning App, for classes 4-12 in 2015. Today, the app has over 42 million registered students. With an average time of 71 minutes being spent by a student on the app every day from 1700+ cities, the app is creating a whole new way of learning through visual lessons. The Disney. BYJU'S Early Learn App was launched in June 2019, a special offering from BYJU'S for students in classes 1-3 featuring Disney’s timeliness characters. In early 2019, BYJU'S also acquired Osmo, a Palo Alto-based maker of educational games to transform the whole offline to an online learning experience.

Galena

Seed Round in 2021
Galena is an impact-focused education start-up, whose mission is to generate concrete opportunities of development and employment for underprivileged groups.

Noodle

Series C in 2021
Noodle is a U.S.-based organization that helps students make decisions about education. Through unbiased data and real-world advice, Noodle connects students with schools, programs, resources, experts, and more. Noodle Education was founded in 2010 by John Katzman, the founder of The Princeton Review and 2U.

Newsela, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Newsela, Inc. publishes online news articles daily to help students master the advanced literacy skills. It offers news on war and peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports categories. Newsela, Inc. was formerly known as Whipsmart Learning LLC. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Gather

Seed Round in 2020
Gather is an online platform that helps everyone easily find and book classes that fuel their curiosity. Gather enables users to discover and book live and on-demand classes. Gather connects a community of lifelong learners with worldwide universities, museums, and cultural organizations, thereby enabling users to learn as much as they can from these trusted institutions.

URWelcome Technologies

Series B in 2021
Welcome Technologies is a platform dedicated to connecting the 250 million global immigrant communities with the information, products, and services they need to thrive in a new country. Today, the company has an unparalleled reach of over 9M immigrants a year and a membership of nearly 2M active users. Its platform combines the power of technology and security to provide its members with trusted, customized solutions across sectors such as Finance, Education, Healthcare, Telecommunication, and Government Services. Founded by immigration and technology experts, Welcome Tech is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The Emile School

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) an intelligent learning platform for digitizing the written exam preparation for students. It offers StudySmarter, an all-in-one platform with intelligent tools to create and share study content, such as mind-maps, summaries, and flashcards for lecture scripts; to connect students in learning groups; and to offer a toolbox for digital learning. The company is based in Munich, Germany.

Honorlock Inc.

Series B in 2021
Honorlock provides remote proctoring services for online assessments using webcams and screen-capturing technology. The company combines traditional methods of proctoring such as webcam, lockdown browser, and ID verification with its new patented search and destroy technology to create a world-class proctoring solution. With a focus on user experience, Honorlock requires no software to download, on-demand testing, and 24/7 support. Honorlock is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Thrive Global

Series C in 2021
Thrive Global Holdings, Inc. provides behavior change programs. It offers a behavior change platform that combines data, stories, and actionable Microsteps. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Amira Learning, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors. Amira recommends appropriately challenging stories, listens as a student reads aloud, and intervenes when helpful. The company assesses oral reading fluency and analyzes errors to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses. Every time a student and Amira read together, Amira generates diagnostic reports that empower teachers and parents. It gives teachers more time to teach and gives students a more effective way to practice.

Panorama Education

Series A in 2015
Panorama Education, Inc., a data analytics company, provides survey and analysis programs for K-12 education. The company’s platform provides research-based surveys and feedback data; offers teachers, principals, and district administrators with reports; and analyzes results across classrooms, schools, respondent subgroups, or any demographic data. It helps school districts, charter networks, and state governments to conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. In addition, the company provides implementation consultation, technical assistance, and training to its clients in the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Degreed, Inc.

Series D in 2021
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Leap Finance Inc.

Series C in 2021
Leap Finance is a fintech startup for Indian students pursuing international higher education.Leap Finance offers loan products and services that help Indian students pursue overseas education.

Panorama Education

Series C in 2021
Panorama Education, Inc., a data analytics company, provides survey and analysis programs for K-12 education. The company’s platform provides research-based surveys and feedback data; offers teachers, principals, and district administrators with reports; and analyzes results across classrooms, schools, respondent subgroups, or any demographic data. It helps school districts, charter networks, and state governments to conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. In addition, the company provides implementation consultation, technical assistance, and training to its clients in the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.
WhiteHat Jr is a Live online 1:1 platform that connects kids age 5-12 to top early childhood coding teachers, all from the comfort of your home. WhiteHat Jr teaches kids the fundamentals of coding logic, structure and algorithmic thinking to help kids generate creative outcomes. Your kids use code to build their own games, animation and apps, fundamentally changing their relationship to technology from consumer to creator. Our curriculum is designed by IIT/ IIM alum. Our mission is to empower a whole generation to become creators versus consumers of technology.

Stash

Series G in 2021
Stash is a New York-based digital investing and banking platform. Stash is pioneering the future of personal finance with the first financial subscription that helps people create better lives. From budgeting to saving for retirement, Stash unites banking, investing, and advice all in one app that has helped more than 5M people reach their financial goals and make progress towards financial freedom. The company was founded in October 2015 by Wall Street veterans, Brandon Krieg and Ed Robinson.

BYJU’S

Private Equity Round in 2020
BYJU’S is a valuable ed-tech company at USD 10.5 billion and the creator of India’s most loved school learning app which offers highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning programs for students in classes 1 -12 and competitive exams like JEE, NEET, CAT, and IAS. BYJU'S launched its flagship product, BYJU’S - The Learning App, for classes 4-12 in 2015. Today, the app has over 42 million registered students. With an average time of 71 minutes being spent by a student on the app every day from 1700+ cities, the app is creating a whole new way of learning through visual lessons. The Disney. BYJU'S Early Learn App was launched in June 2019, a special offering from BYJU'S for students in classes 1-3 featuring Disney’s timeliness characters. In early 2019, BYJU'S also acquired Osmo, a Palo Alto-based maker of educational games to transform the whole offline to an online learning experience.

RaiseMe

Seed Round in 2015
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.

Degreed, Inc.

Series C in 2019
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Accelerate Learning Inc.

Series A in 2016
Accelerate Learning Inc. provides digital resources for preK-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The company offers various core curriculum programs for students and teachers; regional professional development workshops and training sessions; and STEM certification programs. Accelerate Learning Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Noodle Partners

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.

Quizlet, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning. Its mission is to build great learning tools for every student on the planet. Originally created by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland to study high school French vocabulary. Over 20 million unique visitors per month, from grade school to grad school, study a wide range of subjects using Quizlet's web and mobile learning tools and games.

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.

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.

Labster ApS

Venture Round in 2020
Labster ApS designs and develops interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations for colleges, universities, and higher education. The company develops an interactive platform, where students engage with life science, biology, and biotechnology experiments. The product has been designed with 3D animations and includes educational science background information. The virtual lab simulations enables the students to work with virtual and realistic lab experiments. Labster ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sanur, Bali.

Amira Learning, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors. Amira recommends appropriately challenging stories, listens as a student reads aloud, and intervenes when helpful. The company assesses oral reading fluency and analyzes errors to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses. Every time a student and Amira read together, Amira generates diagnostic reports that empower teachers and parents. It gives teachers more time to teach and gives students a more effective way to practice.

Kiddom

Series B in 2018
Kiddom builds technology enabling teachers and learners to unlock their full potential. Teachers are often constrained by limited access to quality tools or mandated use of ineffective tools that do not meet their students’ needs. We believe technology should be utilized to close the achievement gap and level the playing field for all students.

Swing Education, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Swing provides substitute teachers to fill hard-to-fill staff absences. On average, U.S. students spend 5% of the typical school year with substitute teachers, which translates to over 6 months of their K-12 school career. Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening not only impacts students, but causes teachers, school leaders, and administrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time administrators spend on the logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling, and paying contract substitute teachers. Swing's marketplace helps schools cover hard-to-fill absences by seamlessly providing substitute teachers on-demand.

Degreed, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Play Piper

Series A in 2017
Piper is a Minecraft toolbox for budding engineers that leverages kids' love of Minecraft to show them that building real gadgets is effortless and fun. At a time when technology pervades every part of our life, kids learn to passively USE technology, but not to CREATE with it. We believe that giving kids an opportunity to become creators rather than consumers, and to do it through a game their already understand and love is a powerful way to replace screen-time with build-time. Letting kids invent, tinker, and build in the physical world while they are young is the most powerful way to empower them to create the future.

Kuali, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Kuali, Inc. offers open source administrative software solutions using SaaS technologies for higher education. The company offers products, such as Curriculum & Catalog Management, Curriculum Management, Catalog Management, Financials, Research, Protocols, Ready, and Build. Its products are used in the areas of research, finance, student administration, business continuity, and libraries. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lehi, Utah with an additional office in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Quizlet, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning. Its mission is to build great learning tools for every student on the planet. Originally created by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland to study high school French vocabulary. Over 20 million unique visitors per month, from grade school to grad school, study a wide range of subjects using Quizlet's web and mobile learning tools and games.

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.

BenchPrep

Series C in 2019
BenchPrep offers a learner success platform to improve engagement and outcomes for learners around the globe. A recognized expert in learner success, BenchPrep partners with organizations that administer certification, credentialing, test prep, and continuing education programs to deliver customized enterprise SaaS solutions. Many of the world’s largest assessment companies use BenchPrep's platform to provide a personalized, omni-channel learning experience to their own users within a single ecosystem. By leveraging the power of technology, data, UX expertise, and innovative instructional design, BenchPrep has helped to make learning more effective, efficient, and enjoyable for more than 3 million learners worldwide.

Labster ApS

Series B in 2019
Labster ApS designs and develops interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations for colleges, universities, and higher education. The company develops an interactive platform, where students engage with life science, biology, and biotechnology experiments. The product has been designed with 3D animations and includes educational science background information. The virtual lab simulations enables the students to work with virtual and realistic lab experiments. Labster ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sanur, Bali.

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.

MasterClass

Series E in 2020
Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Thinkful, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Thinkful, Inc. provides training programs in data science, front-end development, and full-stack development, as well as a full-time engineering immersion program. It offers one-on-one mentorship, career preparation, job guarantee web development, student outcomes, bootcamp finder, learning corner, and responsible disclosure educational services; and flexible web development bootcamp, full time web development bootcamp, flexible data science bootcamp, corporate training, student reviews, and pricing courses. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Panorama Education

Series B in 2017
Panorama Education, Inc., a data analytics company, provides survey and analysis programs for K-12 education. The company’s platform provides research-based surveys and feedback data; offers teachers, principals, and district administrators with reports; and analyzes results across classrooms, schools, respondent subgroups, or any demographic data. It helps school districts, charter networks, and state governments to conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. In addition, the company provides implementation consultation, technical assistance, and training to its clients in the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.