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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in United States (September 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
Edward Lando
Angel
18 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $125k–$37M
Naval Ravikant
Angel
13 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, FinTech $1M–$25M
Deborah Quazzo
Angel
13 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Education, EdTech, E-Learning $814k–$135M
Mark Cuban
Angel
11 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain $200k–$23M
Walter Winshall
Angel
11 United States, France Seed, Series A, Angel SaaS, Software, Finance $223k–$7M
Jason Calacanis
Angel
10 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$16M
John Katzman
Angel
10 United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Angel Education, EdTech, E-Learning $460k–$11M
Joanne Wilson
Angel
9 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$8.8M
Mitch Kapor
Angel
9 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Mobile, Software, Education $300k–$27M
Wei Guo
Angel
9 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $245k–$19M
Jon Oringer
Angel
9 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $125k–$56M
Lachy Groom
Angel
8 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $2.2M–$80M
Dharmesh Shah
Angel
8 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $500k–$29M
Sam Altman
Angel
8 United States, Canada, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$100M
Frederick Grauer
Angel
8 United States Seed, Angel EdTech, Education, E-Learning $183k–$1.5M
Scott Belsky
Angel
8 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1.1M–$50M
Kevin Hartz
Angel
8 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$100M
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
7 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $120k–$30M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
7 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Jeff Weiner
Angel
7 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1.3M–$200M
Jason Palmer
Angel
7 United States Series A, Seed Education, Enterprise Software, EdTech $900k–$25M
Tom Williams
Angel
7 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $1.3M–$57M
Josh Richards
Angel
7 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Finance, Internet $1.2M–$18M
Benjamin Ling
Angel
7 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $650k–$50M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $5k–$5M
John Kobs
Angel
6 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Health Care $150k–$10M
Garry Tan
Angel
6 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $500k–$40M
Eric Ries
Angel
6 United States, Serbia, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $40k–$15M
Jean Hammond
Angel
6 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Non-Equity Assistance Education, Software, EdTech $100k–$1.5M
Shervin Pishevar
Angel
6 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, E-Commerce $1M–$40M
John Danner
Angel
6 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, E-Learning $75k–$17M
Griffin Johnson
Angel
6 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $1.2M–$17M
Reid Hoffman
Angel
6 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Internet, Social Media $800k–$80M
Esther Dyson
Angel
6 United States, Egypt, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$16M
Chris M. Willliams
Angel
6 United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Video Streaming, Internet $800k–$35M
Thomas Lehrman
Angel
6 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Education $550k–$157M
Roger Dickey
Angel
5 United States, Canada, Colombia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence $756k–$5M
Payam Zamani
Angel
5 United States, Australia, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$27M
Paul Buchheit
Angel
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$14M
Scott Garber
Angel
5 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$9.5M
Matthew Pittinsky
Angel
5 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Education, EdTech, SaaS $2.3M–$15M
David Blake
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $1.2M–$13M
Ahmed Haque
Angel
5 United States Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Training, Education
Kelly Perdew
Angel
5 United States Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Social Media $400k–$12M
Paul Graham
Angel
5 United States, Egypt, India Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $70k–$30M
Caterina Fake
Angel
5 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Retail $500k–$13M
Dan Rose
Angel
5 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $750k–$110M
Larry Braitman
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Education $450k–$10M
Charlie Cheever
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$120M
Wayne Chang
Angel
5 United States, Canada, Australia Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $1M–$20M
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 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, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 575
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M; Series A $5.5M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Humera — Humera - AI CAPTCHA That Knows You're Human
  • Allonic — Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines.
  • Heywa Labs — Two products, one engine. Heywa Studio for businesses, Heywa for anyone with a question worth following.
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Naval Ravikant
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in United States Education startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 261
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • W4 Games — W4 Games helps to support the open-source Godot ecosystem by giving businesses the goods and services they require on a commercial level.
  • Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world.
  • Blackstar Computers — Blackstar Computers is a forward-looking company dedicated to reshaping the computing experience by innovating across hardware design, operating systems, and human–computer interaction. It aims to create tightly integrated systems where performance, usability, and adaptability work seamlessly together, rethinking how users interact with technologythrough more intuitive interfaces, smarter software, and purpose-built devices that enhance productivity, creativity, and everyday digital experiences.
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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: 121
  • Round size: Seed $814k–$8.5M; Series A $4.7M–$20M; Series B $4.6M–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unmudl — Unmudl is the Skills-to-Jobs™ Marketplace, connects learners and employers via a coast-to-coast network of leading community colleges. Through Unmudl, learners easily access courses and short-term credential programs that lead to jobs. These jobs pay family-supporting wages and contribute directly to the country's economic growth and recovery.Employers use the Unmudl marketplace to source diverse talent directly from courses and programs.
  • 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.
  • The New Club — The leading private network for women in engineering. Find your community of women engineering peers, accelerate your career through executive coaching and courses, and unlock professional and personal growth through our in-person retreats.
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Mark Cuban
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 11 investments in United States Education startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 250
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$8.5M; Angel $200k–$900k; Series A $3.2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Payam Music — Payam Music is where students fall in love with piano. Not only do they have fun but they win competitions. Endorsed by composer Hans Zimmer. Sign up for a trial in-person or online lesson!
  • Kind Designs — Kind Designs is a trusted 3D Printed seawall contractor in Miami offering custom seawall construction, shoreline protection, erosion control solutions.
  • The Athletics — The Athletics franchise is a professional spectator sports organization that operates a Major League Baseball club. The company manages athletic team rosters, player scouting, talent development, and medical staff for its baseball operations. It coordinates live event production, stadium technology, corporate sponsorships, and ticket saleslogistics for professional games. Additionally, the business oversees regional television, radio, and streaming broadcast infrastructure to distribute sports media content.
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Walter Winshall
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 11 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: SaaS, Software, Finance
  • 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: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revio — Revio is a telematics hardware platform that uses connected devices to make power sports safer and more secure.
  • 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.
  • RISE Robotics — RISE Robotics is a technology company that develops fluid-free motion control systems for heavy machinery. The company makes the electrification, teleoperation, and automation of heavy machinery economically viable using its hydraulic replacement technology called Beltdraulic. It is a belt-and-pulley-based linear actuation technology thatreplicates—and in some cases surpasses—the force and precision of hydraulic systems, without using oil. This innovation enables machines to operate faster, more efficiently, and with lower emissions while reducing operational costs.RISE Robotics also offers design and implementation support, working closely with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and the U.S. Department of Defense to integrate Beltdraulic solutions into existing systems. Its mission emphasizes boosting machine productivity, reducing maintenance needs, and promoting environmental sustainability through cutting-edge actuation technology.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 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: 714
  • Round size: Seed $525k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $2.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
  • Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
  • howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
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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 Chief Executive Officer of Noodle.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, hefounded and ran The Princeton Review, which helped over 50% of students 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.
  • Cricket eLearning — 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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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: 91
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Redstamp — We’re full-service. And we don’t just say that: we back it up, from brand conceptualization and design all the way to SEO and print campaigns. Our services are top-shelf, our work is top-quality, and our people are top-notch. We’re based out of Vancouver, helping us get that perfect blend of Canadian nice and urban know-how that’ll serve yourbusiness and build your brand. You tell us what you want, and we’ll nail it. Rest your weary head: we’ve got it.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
  • littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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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: Mobile, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.4M; Angel $300k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
  • Redcar — Scale your B2B sales with the most flexible AI Agent. Customize your GTM and outreach on Redcar, which qualifies, researches, personalizes, and follows up like your best reps.
  • 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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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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $245k–$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.
  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
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Jon Oringer
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 9 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, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.2M; Series A $4M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code deskop UI for training and running open models on your local hardware.
  • 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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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: 228
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $8.5M–$35M; Series B $20M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Airbound — Welcome to Airbound, where we're reaching the unreachable with our zero infrastructure deliveries. Discover our innovative solutions for efficient and sustainable delivery systems.
  • FSH Technologies (formerly Contenda) — Contenda helps repurpose old content into a new engagement. It contextually identifies content's key topics and spins it into the proper format for an audience to discover.
  • Netic — The AI revenue engine for essential service industries that keep America running.
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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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • JustAI — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
  • Neurometric AI — Making Intelligence Free | https://t.co/ZxWxeMBJt2 | https://t.co/W8nlLqYwQi
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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $10M–$50M; Series B $17M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
  • Preventive — Preventive mission is to determine whether the newest generation of gene editing technologies can be used safely and responsibly to correct devastating genetic conditions for future children.
  • Red Queen Bio — Red Queen Bio is an AI biosecurity company. Think of us as the cybersecurity layer for biology. AI is making it dramatically easier to design powerful new drugs and therapies, which is extraordinary news for medicine. But the same tools are also lowering the barrier for bad actors to engineer dangerous pathogens, and opening up an entirely new category of threats, including viruses designed to evade human immunity.Defense has to keep pace with offense.
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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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Scott Belsky
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in United States Education startups, 17 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: 274
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meticulous — Meticulous auto-generates and auto-maintains visual frontend browser tests, providing a level of coverage that is unattainable with manually written tests.
  • Osmo Studio — Osmo is an AI-native video editor for product launch videos and motion graphics. Turn ideas, Figma files, and footage into polished, on-brand animations, built as editable code.
  • Gravity — The Ad Network for AI
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Kevin Hartz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in United States Education startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $18M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaap — We build & operate onchain trading systems. We are a group of scientists and technologists committed to build open systems.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1140
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Padue — Padue is an all-in-one, on-demand service marketplace built for the Zambian market, designed to centralize access to emergency.
  • Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
  • Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $8M–$28M; Series C $12M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Speak — Speak is a developer of a mobile language-learning application focused on English learning. The application uses speech recognition technology to support conversational practice in real-world contexts. It enables users to improve spoken English skills and listening comprehension, including exposure to different accents, through structured speakingexercises and interaction-based learning features.
  • 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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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

  • DecisionDesk — DecisionDesk is a recruitment, application, and enrollment management solution for Higher Education Institutions.DecisionDesk manages the admissions process, from prospect to decision.DecisionDesk saves institutions time and money with its next-generation admissions and enrollment platform. DecisionDesk's cloud-based solution includescomplete supplemental materials management, online routing and review, video profiles, reporting, and CRM/SIS integration.
  • StraighterLine — As the cost of higher education skyrockets and the average household income declines, StraighterLine is enabling thousands of students to affordably obtain their degrees. StraighterLine provides online, self-paced, pay-as-you-go introductory level college courses for $99 per month or $1000 per year . The goal of this company is to increase accessand affordability and lower the cost threshold for starting in college. Through StraighterLine, students are able to inexpensively take their core courses online and then seamlessly transfer those courses for credit at accredited partner universities to earn their ultimate degree.
  • Interactive Achievement — Interactive Achievement is an educational software solutions company that creates assessment tools which allow educators to evaluate student performance over a school year. It also provides a web-based monitoring and analysis tool that can be used to make long-term curriculum decisions.Interactive Achievement was established in 2006 and is basedin Roanoke, Virginia.
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Tom Williams
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in United States Education startups

Tom Williams

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $7.9M–$32M; Series B $10M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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.
  • Delphia — Delphia puts your data to work for you.
  • 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.
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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–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whop — Whop is the place for business operators. Scale up customer acquisition and distribute your products with a few clicks. Spin up an empire in an afternoon.
  • 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.
  • 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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Benjamin Ling
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 7 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: 139
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • eyesAtop — eyesAtop develops a hardware-agnostic software and edge-AI platform designed to coordinate multi-drone fleets from a unified interface. The technology integrates autonomous control, video analytics, and jam-resistant communications, enabling a single operator to command diverse drone types simultaneously for defense and surveillance missions
  • Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
  • 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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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 617
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$2M; Pre-Seed $5k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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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; Series A $10M–$10M
  • 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 breaking new ground in online eyecare.
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Garry Tan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups, 44 in the past 12 months

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: 319
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hypercubic — Hypercubic is agentic AI for mainframe modernization, helping enterprises and governments preserve institutional knowledge and modernize COBOL.
  • Modus — Modus Audit is a technology-driven platform revolutionizing the industry by developing AI-powered tools and acquiring CPA firms to deliver audits in a fraction of the traditional time. By integrating intelligent workflows with specialized IT and security services, the company empowers accounting firms to achieve unprecedented efficiency andsecurity.
  • Odyssey — Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to understand and simulate the world.
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Eric Ries
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 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, SaaS, Internet
  • 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–$3.4M; Series A $1M–$15M
  • 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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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, Non-Equity Assistance
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Respiratory Motion — Respiratory Motion has a wide variety of patient populations and environments to assess respiratory function and provide early warning of respiratory collapse. It is a commercial-stage medical device company that specializes in the fields of medical devices, clinical evaluation and testing, manufacturing, and respiratory monitoring.
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Shervin Pishevar
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.7M–$15M; Series B $8.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
  • Teleport — Meet your most compatible connections. Attend members only curated experiences. Receive proposed matches from your AI Matchmaker.
  • NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence-based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products. NUE Life has created a therapeutic ecosystem of ketamine therapy, an interactive companion app, and virtual aftercare programs to help people heal.
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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: 34
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$10M; Pre-Seed $75k–$1M; Series A $6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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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 — Whop is the place for business operators. Scale up customer acquisition and distribute your products with a few clicks. Spin up an empire in an afternoon.
  • 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.
  • Zion — Join our mission in creating the last platform you will ever build
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Reid Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.5M–$31M; Series B $10M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brain Co. — AI platform and applications for the world's most important institutions
  • Niteshift — Niteshift is a software development company that builds the full-stack cloud platform for coding agents. enabling background coding agents that can simulate and close loops on complex tasks end-to-end.
  • Entrepreneurs First — We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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Esther Dyson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in United States Education startups

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Angel $439k–$2.9M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Beans — The Beans offers a software application platform that creates personalized cash flow plans designed for its users. The Beans is Simplifying the path to financial balance through design and technology so that people can focus on what they love.
  • NextSense — Introducing NextSense Smartbuds: EEG-powered earbuds that go beyond sleep tracking. Backed by science, Smartbuds provide real-time insights to help you achieve deeper, more restorative sleep. Comfortable, intuitive, and easy to use, Smartbuds empower you to wake up your best self.
  • Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
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Chris M. Willliams
Angel · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 6 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, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$4M; Series A $3M–$12M; Series B $1.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
  • Mini Studio — Bring kids' imagination to life with Mini Studio AI. Create magic characters, card games, story books, and more. Start creating and playing today!
  • Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.
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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, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • 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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Roger Dickey
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $756k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
  • Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
  • Augment Markets — Buy and sell shares in private tech companies. Also private markets intelligence news: @TheAugmentPulse
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Payam Zamani
Angel · Walnut Creek, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Payam Zamani is based out of Walnut Creek, California, and is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of One Planet Group. Payam previously worked at Inspirato as a CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Payam Zamani attended the University of California, Davis. Payam Zamani has been awarded the Tahirih Justice Center’s Hope Award.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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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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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1.6M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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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Scott Garber
Angel · Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Scott Garber is the Managing Partner of Early Light Ventures. He attended The George Washington University School of Business.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.3M; Series A $3M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ethix360 — ETHIX360 provides Compliance as a Service (CaaS); a simple, affordable answer to employee ethics communication and human resources case management.
  • Ash & Erie — Men's clothes designed from scratch for shorter men 5'8" and under. Find men's casual and formal clothing from button-downs, t-shirts, sweaters, denim jeans, chinos, and more. FREE Shipping, Exchanges, and Returns.
  • Outlogic — Outlogic is a provider of location data for the retail, real estate, and financial markets. Outlogic has exemplified high standards and best practices for the collection and use of location data while still allowing companies to develop disruptive tools built on a foundation of quality data.
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Matthew Pittinsky
Angel · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Matthew Pittinsky is based out of Washington, District of Columbia, and is the Founder of Blackboard. Matthew previously worked at Parchment as a CEO. Matthew Pittinsky attended American University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
  • Flint — Flint uses Artificial Intelligence to provide personalized learning experience for every student of K-12 and also empower teachers.
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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, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3.2M; 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!
  • Transfr — Transfr is revolutionizing immersive learning with hands-on VR training, making career exploration and workforce development more engaging and effective than traditional methods.
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Ahmed Haque
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

Ahmed Haque is the Founder and CEO of Didactic Labs. He previously worked as a 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 program analytics. 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: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AltaClaro — Immersive, experiential online practice skills training by practicing attorneys, using mock transactions and live feedback.
  • Vantage Point — Vantage Point operates as a workforce learning and professional development company. It develops technology platforms that deliver immersive and interactive learning experiences for employees. The company focuses on improving workplace skills and fostering understanding through human-centered training programs. Its solutions support professionaldevelopment and organizational learning initiatives. It uses interactive technology to structure learning, track progress, and facilitate skill acquisition.
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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: 47
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tile — Tile Bluetooth trackers help you find your keys, wallet, phone and everything that matters. Join the world's largest lost and found community and never lose anything again.
  • Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
  • Milestone Brands — We acquire, innovate and build spirit brands.
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Paul Graham
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Angel $70k–$700k; Series A $3.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kopra Bio — Cancer immunotherapy that turns cancer cells into biofactories minting their own destruction.
  • Apollo Atomics — Apollo is building the most power-dense pressurized-water nuclear reactor. (YC P26)
  • Discovered Materials — AI Agents that discover new materials to improve compute
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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: Software, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Series A $800k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Era — Creating intelligence to fit objects you love.
  • Soxton.AI — Law at the speed of innovation. AI legal services for startups.
  • Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$6.1M; Series A $8M–$30M; Series B $16M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
  • 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.
  • Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
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Larry Braitman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Education startups

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER

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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: 37
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$3.7M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Felvin — Felvin saves 5 hours every week in the life of a software developer. We achieve this by allowing developers to instantly find the right code snippets, software packages, and dev utilities, without changing their search habits. While Felvin will start with software devs as the beachhead, we eventually plan to provide a vastly superior searchexperience for every knowledge worker through our instant apps platform that allows anyone to build and integrate domain specific mini-search engines.
  • Spacejoy — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
  • Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.
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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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • 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

  • Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
  • Etched — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
  • Harmonic — Building Mathematical Superintelligence
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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, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 188
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • 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.
  • T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
  • Ghost Message — Record and turn your classes into automated notes, quizzes, flashcards together with classmates.
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Education Angel investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 1.2k deals from 1.8k investors.

1.8k
investors
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1.2k
deals
in United States Education startups
$2M
median round
in United States Education startups
11%
lead investors
lead at least one round
45%
Seed
most common funding stage

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