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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in United States (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United States Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Deborah Quazzo
Angel
13 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Education, EdTech, E-Learning $790k–$135M
Jason Calacanis
Angel
12 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$14M
John Katzman
Angel
10 United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Angel Education, EdTech, E-Learning $460k–$11M
Walter Winshall
Angel
10 United States, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Finance, SaaS $223k–$7M
Mitch Kapor
Angel
9 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Education $300k–$27M
Joanne Wilson
Angel
9 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$8.8M
Wei Guo
Angel
9 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $200k–$19M
Sam Altman
Angel
8 United States, Canada, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1.2M–$100M
Lachy Groom
Angel
8 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $2M–$80M
Frederick Grauer
Angel
8 United States Seed, Angel EdTech, Education, E-Learning $183k–$1.5M
Naval Ravikant
Angel
8 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Blockchain $1M–$25M
Dharmesh Shah
Angel
8 United States, Canada, Sweden Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $125k–$29M
Kevin Hartz
Angel
7 United States, Canada, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $1.3M–$100M
Scott Belsky
Angel
7 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1.1M–$50M
Jason Palmer
Angel
7 United States Series A, Seed Education, Enterprise Software, EdTech $900k–$25M
Jon Oringer
Angel
7 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$31M
Josh Richards
Angel
7 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Finance, Internet $1.2M–$26M
Jeff Weiner
Angel
7 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series C Software, Internet, Information Technology $1.3M–$200M
Thomas Lehrman
Angel
6 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, FinTech $550k–$157M
John Kobs
Angel
6 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Health Care $150k–$3M
Jean Hammond
Angel
6 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Angel Education, Software, EdTech $100k–$1.5M
Benjamin Ling
Angel
6 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $650k–$50M
Tom Williams
Angel
6 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Financial Services $1.3M–$67M
Griffin Johnson
Angel
6 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $1.2M–$17M
John Danner
Angel
6 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, E-Learning $50k–$17M
Edward Lando
Angel
6 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $125k–$5.8M
Garry Tan
Angel
6 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $500k–$30M
Eric Ries
Angel
5 United States, Serbia, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, SaaS $40k–$14M
Matthew Pittinsky
Angel
5 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Education, EdTech, SaaS $2.3M–$11M
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $125k–$5.5M
Paul Buchheit
Angel
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $100k–$13M
Larry Braitman
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Education $550k–$10M
Kelly Perdew
Angel
5 United States Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Social Media $400k–$12M
Mark Cuban
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain $600k–$23M
Chris M. Willliams
Angel
5 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Video Streaming, Internet $1M–$35M
Charlie Cheever
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$120M
Dan Rose
Angel
5 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $600k–$110M
Wayne Chang
Angel
5 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $1.2M–$15M
Chris Eyre
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, FinTech $338k–$20M
David Blake
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Education, SaaS $11M–$13M
Caterina Fake
Angel
5 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Retail $500k–$13M
Payam Zamani
Angel
5 United States, Australia, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Machine Learning, SaaS $180k–$27M
Brigette Lau
Angel
4 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Education, EdTech, Human Resources
Timothy Ferriss
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Bashar Hamood
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Maneesh Arora
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
Zac Zeitlin
Angel
4 United States Seed, Series A, Angel Education, EdTech, Software
Nathan Doctor
Angel
4 United States, Singapore, Vietnam Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Ahmed Haque
Angel
4 United States Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Training, Education
Jason Citron
Angel
4 United States Series A, Seed, Series C EdTech, Software, Education
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Deborah Quazzo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in United States Education startups

Deborah Quazzo is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures and a Co-founder at ASU+GSV Summit. She was a Founder and Managing Partner at GSV Advisors. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $790k–$5.1M; Series A $4.7M–$20M; Series B $4.6M–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EdSights — EdSights uses text message chatbots to help universities collect non-cognitive data from students and increase retention.
  • Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
  • Class Technologies — Class, the next generation virtual classroom. Trusted by 10M users from 1500 institutions in education and training. Make your virtual classroom feel like a real classroom.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in United States Education startups

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 431
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
  • howie — howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings.
  • Recall — One space for your knowledge and the AI of your choice. Save what matters, write what you think, and build an AI that knows what you know.
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John Katzman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in United States Education startups

John Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle, which helps almost 30 top US universities use technology raise enrollment and engagement while lowering costs .Prior to that, he founded and ran 2U, which builds online graduate programs with research universities. Prior to that, he founded and ran The Princeton Review, which helped over 50% ofstudents applying to U.S. colleges and universities each year find, get into, and pay for school. Katzman is the co-author of five books, and a frequent lecturer and panelist, and a director of several for- and non-profits, including the National Association of Independent Schools, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, Renaissance Learning, and American Honors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $460k–$1.7M; Angel $2M–$3.3M; Series A $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uwill — Uwill incorporates technologies that facilitate best-in-class video and message-based counseling within a secure environment. Uwill’s mission is to expand mental health access and services to colleges by building on technology-enabled models that have been validated in recent years. Uwill modernized and enhanced the current mental health campusofferings by creating a two-sided technology-based platform connecting students with experienced mental health professionals for when the need arises.
  • Stellic — Stellic provides next generation degree management tools for your entire campus - students, advisors, administrators and leaders - with one goal in mind. A better path to academic success.
  • Fluent City — 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, engaginglesson plans that help you get fluent faster.
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Walter Winshall
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 10 investments in United States Education startups

Walter A. Winshall is the Founder of Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Finance, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.7M; Angel $223k–$630k; Series A $1.2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rheaply — Rheaply provides procurement management software to buy, sell, trade, donate, and rent resources. Its platform develops the exchange technology for researchers to share their ideas and surplus resources with colleagues to reduce time, costs, as well as environmental waste that enable clients to help lower procurement and storage costs and reducewaste.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Mainstay — Our AI Success Coaching provides personalized guidance directly to students' mobile phones, boosting engagement and success rates.
  • Stocksnips — Their vision is to provide easy access to stock market news analysis to investors. Understanding market sentiment trends is an important element in managing one’s stock portfolio.StockSnips crawls, aggregates and analyzes news related to public companies listed on Nasdaq and NYSE. It reads 50,000 articles a day and filters out the noise andanalyzes news sentiment. StockSnips enables you to gain stock insights and track a company’s financial and business operations. It categorizes news snippets by key performance indicators like revenue, sales, earnings.
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Mitch Kapor
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in United States Education startups

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Angel $300k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Copia — From one location to thousands, from produce to pizza to paper towels, Copia is the app that makes it easy to donate surplus.
  • Good Money — Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.
  • Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
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Joanne Wilson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in United States Education startups

Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
  • Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
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Wei Guo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in United States Education startups

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$10M; Series A $7M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
  • Raydiant — Raydiant empowers brick-and-mortar organizations to deliver engaging, personalized, and measurable on-screen digital experiences to delight in-store customers and engage back-of-house employees.
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in United States Education startups

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6M–$70M; Series B $17M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
  • BRINC Drones — BRINC is a US company developing tech in the service of public safety. Known for Drone as First Responder, indoor tactical drones and more.
  • NOYACK — NOYACK builds agentic AI technology for wealth management, starting with NOYACK.ai—the first AI agent for financial literacy - and Prophit.ai , the first opensource AI agent for portfolio optimizations of ALL asset classes. The fintech platform uses autonomous AI to deliver personalized financial guidance and construct tax-optimized portfolioscombining traditional accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, HSAs) with private market investments in venture capital, fine art, and real estate for Millennials and Gen Z investors
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Lachy Groom
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 8 investments in United States Education startups

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $9M–$32M; Series B $16M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
  • Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
  • Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.
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Frederick Grauer
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in United States Education startups

Frederick Grauer - Trustee and Chair, Corporate Governance @ American Century Investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Course Hero — Instant access to millions of Study Resources, Course Notes, Test Prep, 24/7 Homework Help, Tutors, and more. Learn, teach, and study with Course Hero. Get unstuck.
  • Learneo — Learneo empowers builder-driven businesses to create and accelerate advanced technologies that help millions of people around the world level up their studies, careers, and lives. We are bigger together. We are better together.
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Naval Ravikant
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in United States Education startups

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
  • Hashnode — Hashnode is a blogging platform where developers, engineers, and tech leaders write to sharpen ideas, share knowledge, and build their reputation. Start for free.
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Dharmesh Shah
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 8 investments in United States Education startups

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Angel $125k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
  • Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
  • Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
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Kevin Hartz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Sauron. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*. He previously worked at Eventbrite as Co-Founder and Chairman. Kevin attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts & Science in History and Applied Earth Science, and the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt inHistory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $18M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
  • Vybe — Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps.
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
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Scott Belsky
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.5M; Series A $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Noon
  • Pomo — Pomo (pomohq) is a small, AI‑powered marketing‑tech startup that builds a unified platform of AI agents to plan, create, and optimize cross‑channel marketing campaigns for growth‑focused brands. It aims to replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with an integrated system that scales marketing operations and insights in one stack.
  • BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
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Jason Palmer
Angel · Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Jason Palmer is a General Partner at New Markets Venture Partners with twenty years of experience as an education technology entrepreneur, executive and investor. At New Markets, Jason focuses on fund strategy, supporting portfolio companies and leveraging deep connections with industry leaders. He is currently a Board Director for Motimatic andDecision Desk, and previously served as a Board Director for Moodlerooms and StraighterLine. Prior to re-joining New Markets in 2016, Jason served as Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led postsecondary innovation efforts to improve the outcomes of low-income, minority and first-generation college students by investing in colleges, universities and entrepreneurs pursuing digital and adaptive learning, student coaching and advising, financial aid structures, comprehensive credit transfer and employer pathways. Prior to the Foundation, Jason founded and grew three investor-backed technology and services companies before holding a series of executive positions at Microsoft, SchoolNet, Kaplan and StraighterLine. At Kaplan, Jason led three education businesses as general manager or president, in addition to founding and leading the company’s venture capital effort. Jason holds a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and also serves on the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education Foundation Board.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Enterprise Software, EdTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$1.1M; Series A $1.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EdSurge — EdSurge is an independent education technology information resource and community. Find K12 and HigherEd Edtech News, Research, Jobs, Products and Events.
  • Qualified — 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.
  • Vemo Education — Raih keberuntunganmu di MILO88 situs judi slot online tergacor nomor 1 Indonesia yang berpartner resmi dengan Slot88 dan PragmaticID!
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Jon Oringer
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.
  • Scaler — Scaler empowers real estate managers to protect investments, reduce operational costs, and meet reporting obligations. Our best-in-class tech delivers faster decisions, smarter strategies, and audit-ready documentation across your entire real estate portfolio
  • OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
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Josh Richards
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Josh Richards is the Co-Founder and Advisor to VP of Talent at TalentX Entertainment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.5M; Series A $10M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AON3D — AON3D is a manufacturer of high-temperature industrial 3D printers.The AON-M2, its flagship 3D printer, is a direct response to demands for hotter print conditions and the careful thermal control needed for producing strong and dimensionally stable parts from advanced materials. It offers an open filament platform that empowers users to choosethe right materials for their project and slash costs by avoiding expensive proprietary materials and license fees.Founders Andrew Walker, Randeep Singh, and Kevin Han established the company in 2015 in Montreal, Quebec.
  • Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
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Jeff Weiner
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Jeff Weiner is the executive chairman of LinkedIn, where he continues to help LinkedIn realize its vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. He'll also continue to mentor and coach the leadership team, advise on key strategic initiatives, and help to represent the company externally. In addition to hisongoing work at LinkedIn, Jeff is focused on investing, coaching and his philanthropic work, including helping to ensure that compassion is taught and practiced in every primary school in the U.S.Prior to becoming executive chairman in June 2020, Jeff was the CEO of LinkedIn. During his 11-year tenure, LinkedIn grew its membership base from 33M to more than 690M, increased its revenue from $78M to over $7.9B and expanded the team from 338 employees to over 16,000.Also, presently resides on the board of directors for Intuit, Donorschoose.org and Everfi, an ed tech company with which he co-founded The Compassion Project, a non-profit whose mission is to ensure compassion is taught in every elementary school in the U.S.Additionally, an active early and growth stage investor through his Next Play Ventures fund and separately, the newly created Concrete Rose Capital fund, focused on investing in diverse founders, start-ups serving underserved communities and/or building diverse teams.Prior to LinkedIn, was an Executive in Residence at Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. Primarily focused on advising the leadership teams of the firm's existing consumer technology portfolio companies while also working closely with the firm’s partners to evaluate new investment opportunities.Previously served in key leadership roles at Yahoo! for over seven years, most recently as the Executive Vice President of Yahoo!'s Network Division managing Yahoo's consumer web product portfolio, including Yahoo's Front Page, Mail, Search, and Media products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $8M–$28M; Series C $12M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1Password — Protect passwords and secrets, manage app access, and secure AI tools with 1Password. Easy to adopt from growing teams to enterprise.
  • Warp — Warp is a Rust-based terminal reimagined to focus on productivity, efficiency, and speed. It is now available on MacOS. Warp has an IDE-like input area and it groups input and output together into atomic units. It also features Warp AI, which explains errors and suggests commands using AI.
  • Not Diamond — Not Diamond is the world's most powerful AI model router.
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Series A $550k–$13M; Series B $10M–$157M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
  • Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
  • Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
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John Kobs
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

John Kobs - CEO, Founder & Chairman @ Apartment List

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$3M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SkillBank — Build your capital. With SkillBank, you will learn everything you need to know to land a marketing job in 15 weeks. You only pay us when you get paid.
  • SkillBank — SkillBank is a 1:1 mentorship and training program for entry-level marketing roles. We believe that no one should be prevented from chasing their dreams due to a lack of opportunity or experience. Our mission is to provide that opportunity to those who are willing to challenge themselves to grow, learn, and lead. We know the importance of gainingskills in the specific industry you care about, which is why we offer a specialized course instead of a one size fits all approach.
  • Quadrant Eye — QE is building novel at-home eyecare solutions.
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Jean Hammond
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Jean Hammond is an angel investor and the founder of LearnLaunch.Jean Hammond is an active angel investor usually focusing on early stage high tech start-ups. She was a founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds (focused on investing in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad and Hub Angels. In addition to TenMarks, Jeanserves on the boards of The Technology Capital Network, Thompson Island Outward Bound and of Boston Rising. She plays or played an active board level role with a number of her Boston area investments including: Crimson Hexagon, Hire Reach, Home Portfolio, iTeam, and ZipCar. Jean is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. Her entrepreneurial activities include co-founding and managing Quarry Technologies and AXON Networks and following 3Com's acquisition of AXON, focusing 3Com's WAN strategy. She earned a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is currently a part time Entrepreneur in Residence.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zulama — Carnegie Learning is shaping the future of math learning with the best math curriculum and supplemental curricular solutions.
  • Skookii — Ask any parent and they’ll tell you the same thing: paying for the countless number of athletics, after-school care, lunch, classroom supplies, donations, field-trips, and other school-related fees is extremely difficult to keep up with. Add in multiple kids at different schools with different payment procedures and systems and the process getsdownright impossible. Ask any school business manager and they'll tell you how hard it's to collect and track payments. That's where Skookii comes in.Skookii is the first and only completely free online payment/finance system for schools and educational nonprofits. It’s simple: schools get a robust SaaS solution in less than 20 minutes and parents get a simple web/mobile app to instantly pay for their kids’ aftercare, donations, athletics, or anything else.
  • Choosito — Choosito! search and learn optimizes learning with personalized search. We analyze human language to identify quality resources that match the student's comprehension ability for any subject. Choosito! is transforming the web into a revolutionary learning tool.see less
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Benjamin Ling
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion,Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $5.7M–$15M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
  • Delighted — Delighted is the easiest and most beautiful way to measure customer happiness. Are your customers delighted? The fastest and easiest way to gather actionable feedback from your customersDelighted uses the Net Promoter System® to gather real feedback from your customers – in minutes not weeks. No technical knowledge required.Customersreceive a single question survey. They rate your product/service and provide feedback in their own words. Feedback appears instantly in your dashboard.
  • Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
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Tom Williams
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Tom Williams

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $7M–$21M; Series B $10M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
  • North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
  • Possible Finance — Get money in minutes, build credit history and avoid hidden fees with Possible Finance. Apply in the app with just a few taps and manage money on your terms.
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Griffin Johnson
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Video creator on TikTok who became known for his mix of comedy and vlog content while occasionally implementing the slow-motion effect. He has accrued more than 9 million fans. He frequently collaborates with Jaden Hossler, Anthony Reeves, and Payton Moormeier, amongst others.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.5M; Series A $12M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whop — Create a business or unlock new streams of income.
  • AON3D — AON3D is a manufacturer of high-temperature industrial 3D printers.The AON-M2, its flagship 3D printer, is a direct response to demands for hotter print conditions and the careful thermal control needed for producing strong and dimensionally stable parts from advanced materials. It offers an open filament platform that empowers users to choosethe right materials for their project and slash costs by avoiding expensive proprietary materials and license fees.Founders Andrew Walker, Randeep Singh, and Kevin Han established the company in 2015 in Montreal, Quebec.
  • Pearpop — Join the fastest community of creators and start earning today!
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John Danner
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

John Danner is an Angel Investor at Danner Capital. Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute from 2021 - to 2022.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Geniebook — Beyond generic tuition, Geniebook offers a personalised alternative to standard tuition centres to help your child excel in PSLE, O-level and A-level.
  • Stoa — StoaMBA helps young professionals get into business roles at India's high-growth startups. Learn from top founders and 10x your career in just 6-months. Our program...
  • Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 316
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
  • Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
  • Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
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Garry Tan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Garry Tan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the President & CEO of Y Combinator. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 243
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.8M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odyssey — Odyssey operates as an AI start-up, provides hollywood-grade visual AI.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
  • Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
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Eric Ries
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Serbia, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.2M; Series A $1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
  • Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
  • Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
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Matthew Pittinsky
Angel · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Matthew brings to Parchment a unique background as both an education technology entrepreneur and a sociologist of education. In 1997 he co-founded Blackboard Inc., serving first as Chief Executive Officer and then Executive Chairman. Millions of students across the world use Blackboard technologies. Matthew is on the faculty of Arizona StateUniversity, serves on the Board of Trustees of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and is leading a national effort to establish a national, standardized Postsecondary Achievement Report (PAR), a digital “extended transcript” that would more fully record student achievement and knowledge during their higher education experience.In 2012 the Teachers College at Columbia University awarded Matthew with The President’s Medal of Excellence to recognize his impact and innovation in the field of education technology and entrepreneurship. He is a frequent speaker, and has recently been invited to present at NewSchools Summit, Association of American Universities meeting, National Association for College Admission Counseling National Conference and SXSWedu.Matthew holds a B.S. in Political Science from American University, Ed.M. in Education Policy from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stellic — Stellic provides next generation degree management tools for your entire campus - students, advisors, administrators and leaders - with one goal in mind. A better path to academic success.
  • Picmonic — Picmonic brings the power of social visual platforms to learning. We help people create, share and explore highly effective audiovisual study cards, called Picmonics “pictorial mnemonics”. Picmonics are not only proven to increase memorization capacity and improve long-term recall of information, they incorporate humor and unforgettable graphics tomake learning fun. The Picmonic vision is of a social educational platform where anyone can author, share and discover Picmonics, to improve academic, professional and personal learning outcomes.The Picmonic story began in medical education, where tens of thousands of learners around the world are utilizing Picmonics to learn high stakes pre-medical, medical, and nursing content and increase their test scores -- but that is just the beginning. Millions of postsecondary and professional education students across the globe will learn with Picmonic and have fun while mastering information like never before. Picmonic gives every student the power to create an engaging and personalized learning experience, while building a connected and collaborative learning community.Established in 2011, Picmonic Inc is headquartered in Tempe, AZ. Founded by two medical students and backed by Matt Pittinsky and Bobby Babbrah.
  • CampusLogic — Fill prospective student pipeline and accelerate financial aid packages with clear cost transparency, AI-powered virtual advising, and matched scholarships.
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
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Paul Buchheit
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1.6M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
  • BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Larry Braitman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.3M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spacejoy — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
  • RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
  • LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.
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Kelly Perdew
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Co-Founder & Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
  • Dulce Vida — Making great tequila means we start with the finest ingredients. The foundation of our tequila differentiates us from the competition: Organic. 100% Blue Agave. Los Altos (Highlands). Handcrafted. Discover what happens when we infuse our award-winning 100% blue agave blanco tequila with refreshing
  • Milestone Brands — We acquire, innovate and build spirit brands.
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Mark Cuban
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$9M; Series A $3.2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
  • Yendo — Our mission is to provide everyone with the most accessible, most affordable, and most transparent credit by leveraging their vehicles.
  • Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
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Chris M. Willliams
Angel · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Chris M. Williams is the Founder & CEO at pocket.watch.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Video Streaming, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $3M–$9M; Series B $1.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zigazoo — Zigazoo is the leader in children's short-form video. On Zigazoo, kids make creative video responses to fun challenges and share them with friends.They are American parents and teachers who get their inspiration from children and believe in the power of kid creations. Hailed as "a smarter screen-time activity" by TechCrunch andlauded by children’s media advocacy organizations for its safety, Zigazoo enables kids to share video responses to challenges built by leading museums, zoos, educators, and media stars.
  • Loupe — Loupe is a live eCommerce streaming platform developing a mobile application used to collect sports cards. Its application offers exciting new ways to buy, sell, invest, and collect sports cards that enable users to reinvent sports card games at a whole new level. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
  • Hellosaurus — Ad-free interactive videos by award-winning creators. Built for kids, loved by parents.
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Charlie Cheever
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Charlie Cheever is the Co-Founder of Expo. He was also a Co-Founder of Prior to joining Facebook, Charlie served as a Software Development Engineer at Charlie graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Computer Science.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.3M; Series A $4.5M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Helm.ai — Explore Helm.ai's AI software for high-end ADAS through Level 4 autonomous vehicles. Helm.ai offers a full suite of full-stack AI software, foundation models, and generative AI development and validation tools for production-bound projects.
  • Lunchclub — Professional connections reimagined.
  • Bloomscape — Bloomscape is an online plant shopping platform that offers home ready plants and tools for plant care. The company makes buying plants easy by delivering ready-to-go plants to its customer's door. It is a DTC company with a mission to drastically improve the entire plant buying and care experience in every area of the home and garden.
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Dan Rose
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Dan Rose is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the chairman of Coatue Ventures. Dan Rose previously worked at Facebook as a VP. Dan attended the University of Michigan Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.1M; Series A $8M–$26M; Series B $16M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
  • CONBODY — CONBODY. Cardio, HIIT, strength training, and metabolic conditioning all in one class using only your body weight at the only prison style bootcamp in Manhattan NYC.
  • Superplum — Superplum addresses Indian agriculture’s supply chain problems by designing, building, and digitizing the farm-to-store network. Consumers get fresh and fully traceable food that is free of pesticides and farmers get a better deal.
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Wayne Chang
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 185
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.6M; Series A $6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Dispense — Manage, sell, and scale with Dispense CRM: the digital dispensary management software powering the country's top cannabis dispensaries.
  • Around — Around provides an AI-based camera framing designed for high-impact video calls. It helps users take video meetings less intrusive and less clunky. Around gives users a clear view of their teammates while making space for work.
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Chris Eyre
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Managing Director, Legacy Venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$6.9M; Series A $9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Giide — Engage and educate with interactive audio storytelling for your work, in retail, on products, and online.
  • BookClub — We take reading beyond the page, connecting you to authors and reader communities with conversations and cinematic content.
  • Learn In — Learn In helps companies establish talent academies to easily attract, build and retain an always-skilled workforce.
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David Blake
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

David Blake is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Degreed, a firm that helps anyone score and validate their lifelong education from any source. He also serves as a contributor to MOOCS.com. Prior to this, Blake was a NEW.edu Launch Consultant with UniversityNow and a founding member of Zinch, a social networking site connecting students to amyriad of study and professional opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stellic — Stellic provides next generation degree management tools for your entire campus - students, advisors, administrators and leaders - with one goal in mind. A better path to academic success.
  • Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
  • Sounding Board, Inc — Your strategic partner for leader transformation. Leadership development through coaching solutions, mentoring management, and flexible program software.
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Caterina Fake
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Caterina Fake is the Co-Founder and General Partner and Investor of Yes VC. She previously worked at Should This Exist? as a Host. Caterina Fake attended The New School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $800k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
  • Adept AI — Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively.
  • Career Karma — Learn about bootcamps, ask questions and read reviews to find the best job training program for you. Connect with peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate your technology career.
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Payam Zamani
Angel · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Payam Past is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at One Planet Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$3.6M; Series A $7.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gybe — Water Quality Monitoring. Gybe is a technology start-up that provides autonomous measurements of water quality for lakes, rivers and coastal areas. We help businesses and governments reduce pollution and improve the health of watersheds, communities, and cities.
  • Glass — G-Commerce is where Government agencies can search, sort and buy from verified diverse businesses with government prices, while businesses can set up Government Online Stores in seconds and start selling to governments seamlessly.
  • Predict Health — Predict Health helps healthcare organizations grow their Medicare, consumer, individual, group, and patient populations by using AI and data analytics. Predict Health uses Health AI and Data Analytics to accelerate Medicare growth and improve Medicare STARS scores. www.predicthealth.ai
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Brigette Lau
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Education startups

Brigette is a Founding Partner at Firework Ventures. He attended Georgetown University McDonough School of Business from 2005 to 2007.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AdmitSee — Admitsee makes applying to college easier. See thousands of real successful application examples, including full essays and advice. See how thousands of students got in, and improve your chance of admission.
  • Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
  • Guild — Guild transforms education & skilling into a strategic talent advantage, improving recruitment, retention, mobility, & diversity.
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Timothy Ferriss
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Education startups

Timothy Ferriss is a start-up angel investor Twitter, Posterous, RescueTime and others, blogger and entrepreneur. Tim's best-known written work is The 4-Hour Workweek, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2ndstraight year on The New York Times business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007. Tim is a Guest Lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering at Princeton University since 2003. Other education-related interests includes social media-based fundraising experiments, such as LitLiberation, which outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs. Most recently, Tim used Twitter as a distributed tool for gathering data on post-campaign donations (see Tweet to Beat). Tim is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, Evernote, StumbleUpon, Trippy, about.me, TaskRabbit and Uber. Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, PayPal, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, Ask.com, Nielsen, Princeton University, the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tim has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including EG, FOO Camp, E-Tech, Supernova, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon. Tim received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mentava — Our mission is to give options to kids whose learning needs aren't being met. Our first product teaches preschoolers to read.
  • Harbor — Harbor offers the first and only baby monitoring system with a dedicated, local Monitor that works without internet and securely connects to the cloud if and when you want it to, allowing you to access remotely with failsafe notifications. Learn why Harbor is better than Nanit & Owlet at harbor.co!
  • Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 4 investments in United States Education startups, 180 in the past 12 months

Bashar Hamood is the Managing Director and co-founder of FasterCapital and attended Heriot-Watt University. He has broad experience across various organizational domains, including marketing strategy, branding, direct marketing, product launches, analysis, and reporting. As an entrepreneur, he has expertise in brand development and communityoutreach. Bashar is skilled in optimizing team dynamics, aligning diverse agendas, and leveraging strategic and operational drivers to achieve results. He also has a strong analytical approach, carefully studying each case and parameter variation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 303
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tikkno — Tikkno is a dynamic and innovative company offering an extensive portfolio of 100 high-quality services across key sectors such as technology, marketing, education, training, management, and design. Our mission is to empower businesses and individuals by providing cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique needs.In technology, Tikknodelivers comprehensive IT services that streamline operations, boost efficiency, and enhance digital transformation. From software development to cybersecurity, our solutions are built to keep businesses ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.In marketing, we craft data-driven strategies designed to maximize brand visibility, engagement, and growth. Our team excels in digital marketing, SEO, social media management, and advertising, helping businesses connect with their target audiences effectively.Our education and training services focus on upskilling teams and individuals through tailored programs that combine industry-leading knowledge with practical application. We offer specialized training to ensure that clients stay competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.Management and design services from Tikkno ensure that businesses operate efficiently while presenting a strong visual identity. Our management consulting aids in optimizing workflows and strategic planning, while our design services deliver creative, visually compelling solutions that resonate with audiences.Investing in Tikkno means investing in a forward-thinking company that is dedicated to delivering measurable value, innovative solutions, and long-term growth. With a commitment to excellence and a proven track record of success, Tikkno is positioned to become a key player in driving business success across various industries.
  • Accel Growth — Accel Growth has created an amazing super oxygenation machine that uses a radical technique to supersaturate water with oxygen by forming new chemical interactions with the minerals in the water.
  • Intech Research Group — Welcome to the world of TROT FTRs. Empowering the world like never before. Opens up many new business opportunities. And opportunities for the businesses. The opportunities you can’t afford to miss. An ideal for investors. TROT FTRs enjoy huge potential to become a trillion-dollar business. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Robust, sustained revenuestreams. Saves on future inflation for the global households. Year after year, Plan your budget without worrying. Hedge your costs or sell the rights for a good profit. Save big on your vacation, buying a home, children's education, healthcare. And many more. Why not earn while hedging? Good returns. Anytime liquidity, High Safety. Buy, sell, redeem, gift – all from your home comfort. No brokers. FTRs sold by vetted, reputed businesses. Blockchain registered. Legally compliant. Many Govt. corporations may soon offer their FTRs. Tourism, healthcare, agriculture, real estate, education, lifestyle, and many others. Freely tradable on TROT Exchange. ideal investment for households and businesses alike. FTRs for HNIs as the Market Makers. Multiply your returns. Minimal risk. One platform to weave the world's largest and the best network of all the participants – from businesses to households to the service providers An ideal solution for businesses. Meet all your finance needs. No ownership sharing. Think big. Plus, a huge marketing boost. Market Maker support as the up-front buyers.
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Maneesh Arora
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Education startups

Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
  • CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
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Zac Zeitlin
Angel · Westport, Connecticut, United States · 4 investments in United States Education startups

Zac has been an active investor in an exciting group of impact-minded, early stage companies, with a focus on food, health and wellness, education and financial technology. Prior to starting NGV, Zac was a co-founder and head of the Principal Finance business of Silver Point Capital, as well as one of the firm’s six partners. Zac began his careeras a private equity investor in the PIA group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and at TPG Capital. He is a Plan II-Business Honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Zac is the Treasurer and a Trustee of Greens Farms Academy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vocate — Vocate is the online upgrade of the student career center. The key feature is a matching marketplace for student jobs and internships, supported by tools that guide customers along their path.
  • Newsela — Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.
  • LightSail Education — Accelerate literacy development with LightSail. Students reading 30 minutes a day are seeing 2+ years of Lexile growth in a single year. Call (866) 876-7323 for details.
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Nathan Doctor
Angel · 4 investments in United States Education startups

Nathan Doctor is the Founder of Infinite Capital and Co-Founder of Qualified.io and Codewars.com. Infinite Capital is a crypto asset investment firm focused on crypto-native creators and community-led projects. The firm has invested early in many of the top 10 DeFi projects and top 50 cryptocurrencies. Nathan is also an active angel investoracross tech sectors.Qualified.io is a rapidly growing platform for assessing engineering skills, used by Apple, GE, Vimeo, and Zoom. The team also built the developer community, Codewars.com, where over 2 million engineers train their coding skills.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • nftperp — First perpetual futures dex for NFTs
  • Apollo ID — Powering the future of hospitality & entertainment globally.
  • H3X Technologies — Ultra high power density integrated motor drives for electric aircraft.
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Ahmed Haque
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in United States Education startups

Ahmed Haque is the Senior Vice President of Innovation at 2U Inc, a leading education technology company that powers graduate degree and skill-based certificate programs.Before his role at 2U, Ahmed was the Chief Academic Officer at Trilogy Education, where he oversaw product strategy, curriculum development, instructional management, and programanalytics. Under Ahmed's leadership, Trilogy developed a fleet of programs in software development, data analytics, ux/ui, cybersecurity, and financial technology taught to over 40,000 students at 50+ universities. Since creation, these programs have generated over $200M in total revenue and led to tens of thousands of adults transitioning into highly-paid careers in the tech sector. As a member of the starting executive team, Ahmed helped scale Trilogy from its initial 20 person staff to a 2,500+ workforce and through its acquisition by 2U, Inc. for $750M in 2019. He is also an investor and advisor focused on mission-driven companies in the education, health, wellness, and social impact sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Training, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AltaClaro — Immersive, experiential online practice skills training by practicing attorneys, using mock transactions and live feedback.
  • Vantage Point — Vantage Point's immersive training and HCM platform leverages Virtual Reality (VR) and focuses on Sexual Harassment and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training.Vantage Point was founded under the belief that while technology can cause apathy, immersive technology can drive empathy and fundamentally make the world more human. Webelieve that the heart of all we do is human. The way we make the world more human is by using technology to teach and inspire people to become the very best versions of themselves they always hoped to be. Today Vantage Point is actively developing the platform and the products to train people on EQ-driven and Soft Skills that matter, with the ultimate goal of enabling humans to unlock their full potential.Vantage Point is used by the top Fortune 500s, Global Law Firms, Startups, and more.Vantage Point is a female led company with executive leadership including the former Chief Software Architect of SAP SuccessFactors.We are "The Next Frontier in Immersive Enterprise Training".
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Jason Citron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Education startups

Jason Citron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Discord, one of the largest chat platforms for gamers with over 150 million users. Jason pivoted from game development in 2015 and launched Discord with the goal of bringing players together around the games they love. It has evolved into a top communications tool used by gamers for everything from smallgroups of friends to large game, developer and stream communities. Before Discord, Jason was the founder and CEO of OpenFeint, the biggest social mobile gaming platform, which sold to GREE in 2011 for $104 million.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Campus.edu — Campus.edu is a community college focused on maximizing access to world-class education.
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Backbone — Backbone is a mobile gaming controller with intuitive controls, clickable thumbsticks & zero latency that works with cloud and remote gaming.
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Education Angel investor funding in United States at a glance

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deals
in United States Education startups
$2M
median round
in United States Education startups
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lead at least one round
49%
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