# Brigette Lau

> Brigette Lau is a seed investor at Firework Ventures (Palo Alto) backing Education and EdTech. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Firework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firework-ventures)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigette-lau-404477
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/blau00
- Website: https://x.com/blau00

Brigette Lau is a seed investor at Firework Ventures in Palo Alto focused on Education and EdTech. Brigette is a Founding Partner at Firework Ventures. He attended Georgetown University McDonough School of Business from 2005 to 2007.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 5 | 31% |
| EdTech | 4 | 25% |
| Human Resources | 3 | 19% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 13% |
| Employee Benefits | 2 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Grant | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 50% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tilt | TiLT is an information technology company that specializes in reimagining the employee leave management process. It focuses on the field of business development, employee benefits, and human resources. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. | $15M | Series B | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Tilt | TiLT is an information technology company that specializes in reimagining the employee leave management process. It focuses on the field of business development, employee benefits, and human resources. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. | $10M | Series B | Dec 02, 2022 |  |
| Clasp.com | Stride Funding (AlmaPact Inc.) is a mission-driven company focused on enabling debt-free lives for students, by supplementing student loans with flexible income sharing agreements. Unlike student loans that lock students into a single rigid payment, Stride’s payments rise and fall with a student’s income so that payments are always affordable. Thecompany has been recognized as a visionary leader by FinTech analysts for its efforts on income protection and career support. Stride was created by students, for students, aiming to change student lives for the better. The company has been recognized by Harvard and MIT as a top new venture. Stride has received venture investments from GSV Accelerate, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures and Pear VC; and its strategic investors include Strada Education. Its advisors include serial entrepreneurs, Doug Levin and Tina Sharkey. Fund your Future, Find your Stride! | $12M | Series A | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Maker Wine | Maker is a wine marketplace featuring premium wines in innovative formats, so you can bring it and drink it anywhere. Maker Wine was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Marin, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Guild | Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with theirtech-enabled student advising model.Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States. | $21M | Series B | Sep 06, 2017 |  |
| Slang | Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offersproficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years. | $2M | Seed | Jun 12, 2017 |  |
| Vena Medical | Vena Medical has created the Vena Microcatheter in order to provide physicians with a view inside blood vessels. This microcatheter uses bleeding edge fiberoptics and a saline flush in order to give physicians a point of view of their tools. We're even working on a second generation that uses infrared light to eliminate the saline flush. Thiswill greatly improve vascular navigation during minimally invasive procedures. This tool would replace traditional catheters and would provide a first-person navigational perspective for physicians, allowing them to inspect their work once they're done. This new perspective would make procedures faster by eliminating the iterative nature of navigation and safer by reducing guidewire induced punctures of arteries and veins. The harmless visible light would reduce the quantity of fluoroscopy and iodine required for these procedures. Patients, physicians and nurses would all be subjected to less radiation while simultaneously increasing the size of the candidate pool for these interventional procedures. | $37K | Grant | Mar 23, 2017 |  |
| BetterUp | BetterUp provides AI and human coaching through its platform, offering leadership, manager, resilience, and employee development programs. It uses behavioral science to align workforce performance with organizational goals and support professional growth. The platform delivers tools for coaching, training, and development to enhance productivity,leadership effectiveness, and employee well-being. | $12.9M | Series A | Nov 16, 2016 |  |
| Guild | Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with theirtech-enabled student advising model.Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States. | $8.5M | Series A | Sep 16, 2016 |  |
| AdmitSee | The online platform features the largest searchable database of college and graduate school application files – including essays, extracurriculars, test scores, and advice. The files are all uploaded by college students themselves and displayed in LinkedIn-style profiles. Prospective college students get to read real application examples andconnect with the college students behind them.The revenue-share model offers college students an easy way to make money by passing down their personal application journeys and insights to younger students – for every view their profiles get, they earn a commission. Not only does it bring transparency to the black box of admissions, AdmitSee believes it pays to pay it forward.AdmitSee's mission is to level the admissions playing field so college is accessible to any student who has the smarts and the ambition to attend. True to its mission, AdmitSee offers affordable access. Users may pay a monthly fee of $49.99/mo or an annual fee of $169.99/yr to view an unlimited number of profiles and gain access to exclusive data insights. But, cost should never be a factor when it comes to access. Students who qualify for aid under college readiness programs can upgrade to unlimited access at no cost.AdmitSee's database boasts millions of data points that allow the team to apply data science to the admissions process. Now, both quantitative AND qualitative information can be analyzed to provide big picture admissions trends or personalized recommendations for individual users. The data is applicable not just for students but for institutional players as well to achieve better retention rates or improve recruitment methods.By providing cost-effective, direct access to data-driven peer insights, AdmitSee empowers applicants to improve their application strategies, find trusted peer mentors, and plan for their futures. | $1.8M | Convertible Note | Oct 06, 2015 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cowboy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cowboy-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Harrison Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-metal-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Valar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valar-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Valor Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Firework Ventures

VC Fund

Firework Ventures

3 contacts available at Firework Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashley Bittner | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-bittner-9809 |
| Brigette Lau | Co-Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brigette-lau |
| Ashley Bittner | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-bittner |

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## FAQ

### What does Brigette Lau invest in?

Brigette Lau invests primarily in Education, EdTech and Human Resources startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brigette Lau last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brigette Lau closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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