# Education Catalyst Fund (ECF)

> Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) is a VC fund backing Education and Information Technology. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) is a VC fund focused on Education and Information Technology. Education Catalyst Fund, an early-stage education and skilling fund for low-income groups

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 5 | 83% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Laser | 1 | 17% |
| Video | 1 | 17% |
| EdTech | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 83% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clever Harvey | Clever Harvey’s programs are designed for teenagers to explore different career options and build creativity, confidence, and business acumen. They helping students bridge the gap between academics and the 21st Century workplace. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 09, 2021 |  |
| Oliveboard | Oliveboard is an online platform that enables students to learn and prepare for exams such as CAT, GMAT, CMAT, XAT, GRE, and bank exams. It offers videos, lessons, topic tests, mock tests, and practice questions. Oliveboard was launched in 2012 and is operated from Bangalore, India. | $3.1M | Seed | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Callido Learning | Callido is improving student outcomes by enabling any school to develop critical thinkers with plug-and-play resources for explicitly tracking and developing students' critical thinking, problem-solving, research and communication skills. All educators agree that the purpose of education is to develop students into critical thinkers.However, translating this into action is difficult due to the lack of a roadmap for skills, constrained teacher time and legacy reporting systems which do not show progress on skills. Callido makes this easy by providing: (i) a roadmap for critical thinking, problem-solving, research and communication skills at each grade (ii) digital assessments to understand each student's starting point (iii) blended learning resources for the targeted development of each skill (iv) data dashboards to track students' growth year on year Our solutions save schools over 400 hours and are 10x cheaper than the next best alternative - replicating all of these resources and expertise in-house. Since inception, we have partnered with leading schools in over 28 countries. |  | Seed | Mar 07, 2020 |  |
| Skillenza | Skillenza is the optimum gap filler between required market-ready skills and the current college student skillset. We directly address the growing concerns of students & job seekers while connecting the right person with the right opportunity. | $1M | Seed | May 08, 2019 |  |
| MIRICO | MIRICO leads the way in high performance gas sensing intelligence using unique Laser Dispersion Spectroscopy (LDS) in any weather conditions to transform productivity and deliver a positive impact on the environment.Located in a brand new, purpose built facility on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus near Oxford, UK, MIRICO is a spin outfrom the Laser Spectroscopy Group at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The company was established in December 2015.MIRICO’s specialist team of experts are actively designing and developing LDS to set new standards for gas sensing in challenging measurement conditions for targeted applications. | $4.6M |  | Apr 30, 2018 |  |
| Simulanis | We at Simulanis are a multi-award winning Ed-Tech company leveraging Augmented (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D simulation technologies to develop cutting-edge interactive, engaging and immersive products for learning & training. Our products cut across a range of sectors in the engineering and manufacturing domains to better skillindividuals. | $500K | Seed | Jan 08, 2018 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CBA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cba-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CIO Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cio-angel-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Foresight Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foresight-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hyderabad Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyderabad-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IAN Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-fund-ba3d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) invest in?

Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) invests primarily in Education, Information Technology and Laser startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Education Catalyst Fund (ECF)'s check size?

Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) participates in.

### When did Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Education Catalyst Fund (ECF) closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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