# GSV Ventures

> GSV Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Education and EdTech. See 168 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 168
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Fund size: $180M
- Last fund: Mar 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gsvventures/
- Website: https://gsv.ventures/

GSV Ventures is a global venture capital fund focused on the rapidly growing digital education market from Pre-K to Gray. We back early and late stage entrepreneurs transforming the $7 trillion digital education and future of work sectors. Investments include Coursera, ClassDojo, Degreed, and Guild Education. GSV is also the convener of the worldrenowned ASU+GSV Summit. The 11th annual summit gathered 35,000 founders, investors, educators, and policy makers from 135 countries.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8.5M |
| Series A | $4.5M–$22M |
| Series B | $5.6M–$135M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 64 | 38% |
| EdTech | 44 | 26% |
| E-Learning | 34 | 20% |
| Software | 22 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 8% |

97 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 51 | 30% |
| Series A | 46 | 27% |
| Series B | 16 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 6% |
| Series C | 8 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 79 | 47% |
| India | 12 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Peru | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Freed | Co-Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-freed |
| Deborah Quazzo | Managing Partner | 119 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deborah-quazzo |
| Luben Pampoulov | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luben-pampoulov |
| Michael Cohn | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-cohn-2 |
| Michael Moe | Senior Advisor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-moe |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gizmo | Gizmo develops educational software that utilizes generative AI learning to engage learners for better learning. The software generates quizzes from a user’s class notes, which can either be copied and pasted into the platform or the AI can pull out information from PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, web pages, or even a YouTube video, allowing themto adapt the study material faster and learn more. | $22M | Series A | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Training All People | Training All People is a vocational education company that uses tech-enabled, accelerated programs to train people for middle-class careers |  |  | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Pro Athlete Community (PAC) | PAC delivers tailored executive education, experiences, and a luminary network designed to unlock your full potential. | $7.6M | Series A | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| SigIQ | SigIQ offers and builds reliable & trustworthy GenAI for lowering the cost of personalized learning to the cost of computation. | $9.5M | Seed | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Ropes | Ropes is a software platform that bridges the gap between technical assessment and real-world performance. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Amigo AI | AI as diverse as you. Amigo’s cloning platform enables any professional to scale their expertise, preserving your uniqueness. Increase your revenue, not your hours. | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Leland | Leland is a coaching marketplace for education and career goals. The marketplace provides coaches to assist people in taking standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, or GRE, as well as breaking into private equity, product management, investment banking, and other tech fields. It navigates career transitions and receives specializedmentorship to build skills in your chosen field. Leland charges transaction fees depending on how much a client pays a coach. | $12M | Series A | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Edu AI Last | With a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, Edu AI Last specializes in delivering AI-powered solutions that redefine corporate training. Our mission is to help businesses unlock their full potential through intelligent, adaptive learning technologies. | $200K | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Physics Wallah | Physics is . Class 11th, 12th, JEE, NEET preparation. PhysicsWallah aims at providing quality content to every child for free. Live classes, video lectures, test series, lecturewise notes, topicwise assignment with best questions, dynamic exercise and much more. Almost 90% content on this App is for free and will always be. | $175M | Series B | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Uplimit | Uplimit is where anyone can learn the most in-demand skills and actually put them to work. Where leading organizations build technical skills at scale. It’s where industry-leading instructors show how they tackle real problems, with real methods. And where the perfect combination of teaching best practices, top practitioners, technology, andcollective peer learning makes real growth accessible to us all. | $11M | Series A | Jul 23, 2024 |  |

10 of 168 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does GSV Ventures invest in?

GSV Ventures invests primarily in Education, EdTech and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 168 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 GSV Ventures's check size?

GSV Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.5M at Seed, $4.5M–$22M at Series A and $5.6M–$135M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GSV Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact GSV Ventures?

Public channels for GSV Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at GSV Ventures?

The team at GSV Ventures includes Adam Freed (Co-Managing Partner), Deborah Quazzo (Managing Partner) and Luben Pampoulov (Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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