# Calvert Social Venture Partners

> Calvert Social Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Education. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/162864
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/calvertinvests
- Website: http://www.calvert.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CalvertInvestments

Calvert Social Venture Partners is a VC fund in Bethesda focused on Software and Education. Calvert Group Ltd., known in 1976 as the Government Securities Management Company (GSMC), was brought to life by two young entrepreneurs driven by the need for change and creativity. While conventional investment strategies at the time recommended putting capital into low-interest-bearing savings accounts, former college friends D. Wayne Silby andJohn G. Guffey, Jr., saw the opportunity to create a higher-yielding money market fund available to the general public. In 1976, they introduced the First Variable Rate Fund—the first variable-rate money fund in the country—that sought to combine short-term, fixed-rate securities with long-term, variable-rate securities to provide attractive yields, as well as a strong measure of safety.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Education | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |
| Health Care | 2 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barbara J. Krumsiek | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chair | 0 | — |
| Bennett Freeman | Senior Vice President | 0 | — |
| Craig Cloyed | President | 0 | — |
| Karen Becker | Chief Compliance Officer | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EnTouch Controls | EnTouch Controls provides SaaS-based energy management systems (EMS) for retail and restaurant chains. The company EnTouch 360°™ service platform integrates turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing and resolution tracking that detects HVAC maintenance issues, optimizes performance, and lowers energy costs for nationalchains, franchise owners, schools and offices. | $8M | Series C | Feb 15, 2016 |  |
| Presence | PresenceLearning makes live, online special education related services available to K-12 students around the United States. As the leader in the delivery of clinical services via the web, PresenceLearning has provided over 2.5 million teletherapy sessions. Services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral interventions andmental health services, assessments, and early childhood services. | $8M | Series B | Apr 26, 2013 |  |
| LearnZillion | LearnZillion provides educators with curricular products for the new standards in digital and print. Its platform offers access to instructional materials for mathematics and literacy, as well as provides task-implementation guides for teachers that enable students and teachers to get benefited from each other through interactive learning.LearnZillion was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia. | $7M | Series A | Apr 15, 2013 |  |
| Kickboard | Kickboard is a next-generation grade book-as-a-platform. Using Kickboard, teachers collect, analyze and share mission-critical data, including multiple assessments, standards mastery, reading growth, 21st-century skills, parent communication, and, most uniquely, student behavior and character strengths. The platform is built by educators foreducators and offers a simple yet powerful web-based dashboard to increase alignment, consistency, and real-time visibility of student performance across classrooms. |  | Seed | Apr 15, 2011 |  |
| Powerspan | Founded in 1994 as Zero Emissions Technology and later renamed Powerspan Corp, Powerspan initially provided technology to control particulate emissions from coal-fired, electric power plants. As compliance deadlines of the Clean Air Act Acid Rain Program approached, Powerspan recognized the growing importance of a multi-pollutant solution forcontrolling emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in addition to particulate emissions. Standard technology generally addresses each pollutant individually, necessitating the installation of separate, costly devices, requiring large spaces not always available on space-constrained sites that are typical of existing power plants. Powerspan sought to develop an integrated approach to achieve multi-pollutant reductions at a lower cost than commercially available systems, enabling power plant owners to meet existing and future environmental requirements in a cost-effective manner. | $50M | Series D | Jun 20, 2008 |  |
| groSolar | groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000installations. | $2.5M |  | Jun 16, 2008 |  |
| groSolar | groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000installations. | $10M | Series B | Dec 18, 2007 |  |
| Marrone Bio Innovations | Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., a biopesticide company, engages in the discovery, development, and marketing of natural products for weed, pest, and plant disease management. Its products include Regalia, a product that protects food and ornamental crops from fungal and bacterial diseases; GreenMatch EX, a post-emergence herbicide for burndown weedcontrol for organic growers; and GreenMatch, a burndown herbicide that controls various annual and perennial weeds. The company also offers insecticides, herbicides, and products for controlling invasive zebra and quagga mussels in waterways. In addition, it finds naturally occurring microorganisms from habitats and develops them into products for controlling insects, weeds, nematodes, and plant diseases. The company provides its products online. Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Davis, California. | $3.8M | Series A | May 02, 2007 |  |
| Viracor-IBT Laboratories | Viracor-IBT Laboratories is dedicated to being the leading specialty diagnostics laboratory partner in allergy, immunology, and infectious disease testing.They provide doctors and hospitals the tests, results and support they need to deliver the best care possible, and they collaborate with pharmaceutical researchers to solve difficult problemsand accelerate drug development. | $20.5M | Series C | Mar 07, 2007 |  |
| groSolar | groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000installations. | $2.3M | Series A | Oct 04, 2006 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Calvert Social Venture Partners invest in?

Calvert Social Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Education and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Calvert Social Venture Partners?

The team at Calvert Social Venture Partners includes Barbara J. Krumsiek (President, Chief Executive Officer and Chair), Bennett Freeman (Senior Vice President) and Craig Cloyed (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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