# Firework Ventures

> Firework Ventures is a VC fund backing Education and Software. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Firework Ventures is a VC fund focused on Education and Software. Firework Ventures

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 4 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| E-Learning | 3 | 19% |
| Corporate Training | 3 | 19% |
| EdTech | 2 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 38% |
| Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ashley Bittner | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-bittner-9809 |
| Brigette Lau | Co-Founding Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brigette-lau |
| Ashley Bittner | Founding Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-bittner |

## 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 |  |
| Inclusively | Inclusively is the technology-centered professional network and employment platform. Our modern recruitment process connects job seekers with disabilities, mental health conditions, and chronic illnesses, to inclusive employers committed to providing needed workplace accommodations. We are dedicated to driving employment among the disabilitycommunity as a matter of both human dignity and economic urgency.1 in 4 of us have or will have, a disability during our working years. We are a marketplace for candidates who benefit from workplace accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including mobility/physical, visual, hearing, neurodivergent, cognitive, speech, chronic illnesses, mental health conditions, and intellectual disabilities. | $13M | Series A | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Transfr | TRANSFR VR’s core technology is a dialogue system between the trainee and our virtual coach. This unique VR apprenticeship model lets trainees move at their own pace and provides strategic, specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes and master the skills they need to successfully perform their job. | $40M | Series C | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Hazel Health | Hazel Health is a healthcare company that improves the health and well-being of students by increasing access to healthcare.It partners with schools and nurses, supporting student health to keep them healthy and ready to learn. With Hazel, students can talk with a doctor over the video, and get the care they need whether they are at home or inschool. Its doctors provide treatment for a wide range of conditions. They can prescribe over-the-counter medicine at school with parent approval, or call in prescriptions. | $51.5M | Series C | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Transfr | TRANSFR VR’s core technology is a dialogue system between the trainee and our virtual coach. This unique VR apprenticeship model lets trainees move at their own pace and provides strategic, specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes and master the skills they need to successfully perform their job. | $35M | Series B | Jun 16, 2022 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Praxis Labs | Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology. Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias training. It was established in 2019 and is based in Stanford, California. | $15.5M | Series A | Oct 15, 2021 |  |
| 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. | $5M | Series A | Sep 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/album) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peak-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [GSV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsv-acceleration) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Emerson Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerson-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Firework Ventures invest in?

Firework Ventures invests primarily in Education, Software and E-Learning startups, most often at Series A and Seed 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.

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### Who are the partners at Firework Ventures?

The team at Firework Ventures includes Ashley Bittner (Founding Partner), Brigette Lau (Co-Founding Partner) and Ashley Bittner (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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