# Chris Eyre

> Chris Eyre is a seed investor at Legacy Venture (Palo Alto) backing Education and EdTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Legacy Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/legacy-venture)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-eyre-8744324
- Website: http://www.legacyventure.com

Chris Eyre is a seed investor at Legacy Venture in Palo Alto focused on Education and EdTech. Managing Director, Legacy Venture

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $338k–$6.9M |
| Series A | $9M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 3 | 21% |
| EdTech | 2 | 14% |
| FinTech | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 14% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 57% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Learn In | Learn In provides a comprehensive upskilling-as-a-service platform, which enables companies to offer employees sabbaticals, during which time they can acquire the new skills that are essential within an evolving workplace. It delivers companies and their employees online, low-cost training programs, as well as traditional degree optionsparticularly focused on digital skills and hard-to-fill roles such as data science and software engineering. | $10M | Series A | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| BookClub | BookClub fosters deep connections between readers and authors, creating space for meaningful conversations through exclusive video content and live-audio discussions. | $20M | Series A | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| Giide | Giide is an audio authoring and publishing platform for businesses to create hyperlinked audio content. Our platform includes a mobile application, audio content authoring system and embeddable player for publishing Giides on web. We support creators and businesses with new tools and technologies for audio listening including audio plus anon-screen synchronous content feed. Giide provides detailed metrics to businesses that want to understand audio interaction beyond passive podcast listening and video consumption. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 10, 2020 |  |
| Giide | Giide is an audio authoring and publishing platform for businesses to create hyperlinked audio content. Our platform includes a mobile application, audio content authoring system and embeddable player for publishing Giides on web. We support creators and businesses with new tools and technologies for audio listening including audio plus anon-screen synchronous content feed. Giide provides detailed metrics to businesses that want to understand audio interaction beyond passive podcast listening and video consumption. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 05, 2020 |  |
| Joy School | Joy School is a provider of a digital education program intended to empower kids to be architects of their own future by teaching them English and values. The company's program uses games, songs, and stories and applies current research and proven instructional strategies to accelerate English fluency while incorporating social & emotionallearning, enabling kids to get strong character and learn proper vocabulary and English. | $870K | Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| WorldCover | WorldCover protects farmers around the world from droughts, by offering satellite-enabled insurance delivered with mobile money. Founded by MIT computer science and finance professionals, WorldCover is building an insurance platform to address the $100 billion in climate risks facing the world today. WorldCover's platform improves food andincome security for smallholder farmers in developing countries. More than 70% of the 2.5 billion people living at the “base of the pyramid” throughout the world rely on agriculture for income and sustenance. |  | Seed | Mar 22, 2016 |  |
| Neema | Neema is an app that helps people manage their money as well as send money to other people. Neema is a financial solution for 70 million underbanked Americans. Users download their app, which is a digital wallet, where they can cash their own pay check, send money internationally to their families in 90 countries, and they also provide them with adebit card, which they can use in any store or ATM. |  | Seed | Mar 22, 2016 |  |
| Tab | Tab is a Booking and payment platform for travellers abroad – cheaper and safer for travellers & tourist businesses. |  | Seed | Sep 15, 2015 |  |
| GiveMeTap | GiveMeTap is a people-powered movement that incentives a free water refilling network to support projects in Africa. Individuals who have brought GiveMeTap bottles can get them filled for free at a nearby shop that had signed up as a “provider”. The profit gathered from the bottles will be used to fund sustainable water, sanitation, and irrigationprojects in Africa. They create stainless steel water bottles, and each bottle funds 5 years of clean water for someone in Africa and build water projects in remote villages and elect a water committee to run the maintenance of the water. It also helps awesome companies create custom bottles for their staff, customers, and events so that they can stay hydrated, reduce plastic waste and help fund water projects. GiveMeTap was received the Invincible Business: British Young Business Award for CSR, August 2013 and VirginMoney's BeTheStartAward, August 2013 and also Rare Recruitment's 'Rare Rising Star' award, September 2011.GiveMeTap was launched by Edwin Mensah in February 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom. |  | Seed | Mar 23, 2015 |  |
| Degreed | Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millionsof courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts.The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $9M | Series A | Mar 19, 2015 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GSV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsv-acceleration) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/album) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maveron](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maveron) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peak-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Signal Peak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-peak-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Legacy Venture

VC Fund · California City, United States

Legacy Venture is a venture capital and private equity firm that specializes in the fields of finance and financial services. It offers a business model that is designed to make the other parts stronger in a synergistic way. The firm was founded in 1999 and headquartered in California City, California.

4 contacts available at Legacy Venture.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Eyre | Partner Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-eyre |
| Ben Choi | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-choi |
| Kelli Cullinane | Managing Director & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelli-cullinane-ba90 |
| Russ Hall | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/russ-hall-8827 |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Eyre invest in?

Chris Eyre invests primarily in Education, EdTech and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chris Eyre's check size?

Chris Eyre typically joins rounds of $338k–$6.9M at Seed and $9M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Eyre participates in.

### When did Chris Eyre last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Eyre closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 14 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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