# Flat World Partners

> Flat World Partners is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Education. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flat-world-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/flatworldx
- Website: http://www.flatworldpartners.com/

Flat World Partners is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Education. Flat World Partners provides investment consulting services. They offer services that include impact investing, investment advisory services, and financial services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Education | 3 | 15% |
| Health Care | 3 | 15% |
| SaaS | 2 | 10% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Series B | 4 | 20% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Series G | 2 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 75% |
| Kenya | 1 | 5% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anna-Marie Wascher | Founder & CEO | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-marie-wascher |
| Kate Starr | CIO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kate-starr |
| Tucker Pribor | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tucker-pribor |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Helium Health | Helium Health is taking hospitals and clinics digital in Africa with a suite of software tools. It specializing in developing hospital software to manage patients’ health records and data. It helps hospitals digitize medical records, manage operations, and apply for financing; while providing a telemedicine solution to doctors. Using tech to builda modern and affordable healthcare system, Helium aims to be the largest healthcare data exchange in Africa.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria. | $30M | Series B | Jun 05, 2023 |  |
| BlueNalu | BlueNalu is a cellular aquaculture company that satisfies the global appetite for seafood in a fresh, sustainable, and humane way. It offers consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe, and trusted seafood products, that support the sustainability and diversity of the oceans. | $60M | Convertible Note | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Kenzie Academy | Kenzie Academy provides a solution to the dramatic shortage of tech talent in the U.S., by reimagining higher education for the tech sector.Kenzie Academy is a tech apprenticeship school focused on education, mentorship, and job placement. They offer 6-month to 2-year programs with a paid apprenticeship after 6 months. They are founded by techentrepreneurs with years of experience developing and cultivating talent for startups and major tech companies. Kenzie instructors, leadership, mentors and volunteers are all advocates for our students. Our top priority is job placement upon completion -- either at our Kenzie Studio consulting arm or at other technology companies. | $7.8M | Series A | Sep 30, 2019 |  |
| EBY | EBY is a membership-based company driving profits with purpose. EBY repositions underwear as a tool for empowerment rather than one of seduction. In fact, 10% of net sales go to the Seven Bar Foundation to empower women out of poverty and into business via microfinance with a small loan, what we call a first break, that can be as little as $80or as large as $7,000. This loan enables an underprivileged woman to start or grow her business. As she becomes self-sufficient the cycle of poverty is broken. Loans are repaid and passed to another woman, creating a multiplier effect. EBY consistently fuels this loop so that it never ends, creating more first breaks and more bionic women. We’re not about token donations, but rather long-term solutions. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2018 |  |
| Bridge International Academies | Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, freeof cost, for a brighter future. |  | Series E | Nov 01, 2017 |  |
| Werk | Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, andthe impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co | $2.8M | Seed | Aug 04, 2017 |  |
| Werk | Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, andthe impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co |  | Seed | Aug 04, 2017 |  |
| Clark | Clark is business software for your tutoring business. Clark works with individual tutors to large scale tutoring agencies, providing services that allow educators to tutor more and spend less time on administration. Their mission to to scale the rapidly growing mom-and-pop tutoring businesses industry in the U.S., putting more revenue ineducators’ pockets and more educational hours into the market. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2017 |  |
| Cue | Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep. Consumers can track 5 key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cueapp reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level. | $15.5M | Series B | May 17, 2017 |  |
| OpenInvest | Backed by capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and QED, OpenInvest was founded in 2015 with a core focus on helping advisors unlock the true impact of their clients’ investments.On June 29, 2021, J.P. Morgan announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OpenInvest. OpenInvest will retain its own brand and beintegrated into J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank and Wealth Management client offerings | $3.3M | Seed | May 16, 2017 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Better Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fuel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Halogen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/halogen-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rethink Education](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rethink-education) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Flat World Partners invest in?

Flat World Partners invests primarily in Software, Education and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Flat World Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Flat World Partners?

The team at Flat World Partners includes Anna-Marie Wascher (Founder & CEO), Kate Starr (CIO) and Tucker Pribor (Analyst). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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