# Jason Palmer

> Jason Palmer is a Series A investor at Village Capital backing Education and Enterprise Software. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Village Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-capital)
- Location: Baltimore, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduventions
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/educationpalmer
- Website: https://x.com/educationpalmer
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jason.michael.palmer

Jason Palmer is a General Partner at New Markets Venture Partners with twenty years of experience as an education technology entrepreneur, executive and investor. At New Markets, Jason focuses on fund strategy, supporting portfolio companies and leveraging deep connections with industry leaders. He is currently a Board Director for Motimatic andDecision Desk, and previously served as a Board Director for Moodlerooms and StraighterLine. Prior to re-joining New Markets in 2016, Jason served as Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led postsecondary innovation efforts to improve the outcomes of low-income, minority and first-generation college students by investing in colleges, universities and entrepreneurs pursuing digital and adaptive learning, student coaching and advising, financial aid structures, comprehensive credit transfer and employer pathways. Prior to the Foundation, Jason founded and grew three investor-backed technology and services companies before holding a series of executive positions at Microsoft, SchoolNet, Kaplan and StraighterLine. At Kaplan, Jason led three education businesses as general manager or president, in addition to founding and leading the company’s venture capital effort. Jason holds a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and also serves on the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education Foundation Board.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$1.1M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 9 | 56% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 25% |
| EdTech | 3 | 19% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

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

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nexford University | Nexford University is an online higher education institution that provides degree programs and courses. It offers flexible learning options for students. Nexford University serves various industries, including technology, business, and healthcare. | $8M | Series A | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Climb Credit | Climb Credit (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb identifies programs and schools with ademonstrated ability to improve the earnings of their graduates. Then they provide learners with financing options that are priced and structured to meet the unique needs of those seeking career elevation and increased earning power.Recognizing the dynamic and diverse nature of an economy in rapid change, Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to pilot training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. While some colleges are struggling to meet the real-world needs of their students, Climb and its partner schools are committed to an inspiring practicality that brings real career results as individuals Own Their Next chapter. | $9.3M | Series A | Jun 26, 2019 |  |
| Motimatic | The Motimatic platform blends the latest advances in online advertising technology and motivation science to deliver highly targeted messages that drive economically beneficial behavior. The messages support specific users in achieving their goals, while creating economic value for Motimatic client organizations in a wide variety of markets, fromHealthcare to Financial Services, Insurance and Education. | $4M | Series A | Apr 24, 2019 |  |
| Mursion | Mursion provides immersive simulated practice for essential skills in the workplace powered by humans and assisted by AI. Its virtual reality platform uses a combination of artificial intelligence and live actors to deliver powerful and personalized simulations. It provides a wide range of immersive and authentic workplace environments in which tosimulate challenging interpersonal on-the-job exchanges. | $8M | Series A | Mar 26, 2019 |  |
| Vemo Education | Vemo Education is a mission-driven educational technology company focused on expanding educational access for all Americans. We partner directly with colleges, universities, and other educational providers to design, implement, and sustain income share agreement (ISA) programs to help increase educational opportunity and reduce financial barriersto economic mobility. | $24.6M | Series A | Mar 15, 2019 |  |
| EdSurge | EdSurge is the leading site for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. They help educators discover the best products for their students; they inspire developers to build what educators and learners need; they help investors understand the emerging market. EdSurge is regularly cited as the most influentialbrand for education technology news and information. EdSurge hosts the most comprehensive database of edtech products, companies, and topics online in addition to more traditional daily reporting of news in the education technology ecosystem. It also runs a vibrant jobs board for entrepreneurs and educators. Alongside its online presence, EdSurge hosts the San Francisco education technology meetup, a robust nationwide series of Summits, a high-profile awards program called the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards. It is also hosts a service called Edtech Concierge, designed to support education leaders in choosing tools. The organization itself is operated as a technology-journalism hybrid, employing equal parts technologists, educators and journalists. The company's goal is to promote the smart adoption of education technology through impartial reporting on products and news, research, online community building and services, events and tools. EdSurge is a venture-backed company that has also received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | $2.5M | Series B | Dec 05, 2018 |  |
| Qualified | Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires. |  | Seed | Dec 05, 2017 |  |
| Wisr | Helping colleges and universities leverage technology to actively foster engagement through dynamic virtual communities. | $900K | Seed | May 07, 2017 |  |
| Motimatic | The Motimatic platform blends the latest advances in online advertising technology and motivation science to deliver highly targeted messages that drive economically beneficial behavior. The messages support specific users in achieving their goals, while creating economic value for Motimatic client organizations in a wide variety of markets, fromHealthcare to Financial Services, Insurance and Education. | $3.4M | Series A | Feb 28, 2017 |  |
| Nepris | Nepris is a cloud-based platform that connects industry professionals with K-16 classrooms, adult job seekers and out of school youth to bring real world relevance and career exposure to all learners. Nepris matches the skills of working professionals to learning objectives and virtually connects them with students to bring abstract lessons tolife, offer project mentoring and evaluation, virtual tours, mock interviews and virtual work place experiences. Nepris makes it easy for educators to leverage industry connections to bring real world knowledge and skills to students, while providing a reliable platform for companies and regional intermediaries (like workforce boards, chamber, STEM hubs) to easily and effectively engage current workforce with the future workforce. | $1.1M | Seed | Aug 25, 2016 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Learn Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/learncapital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [University Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/university-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bisk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bisk-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VilCap Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vilcap-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1/0 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1-0-capital-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acumen America](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acumen-america-b7c1) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Village Capital

VC Fund · Washington, United States

Village Capital uses the power of peer support to change the traditional dynamics between investors and entrepreneurs, providing access to entrepreneurship for everyone. We recruit entrepreneurs solving specific problems in agriculture, energy, education, financial inclusion, and health. We then put the power of investment in the hands of theentrepreneurs, who award pre-committed seed funding to the two ventures ranked highest by the entrepreneurs at the end of every program. Our programs connect high potential, early-stage entrepreneurs with the people, institutions, and capital they need to succeed.We support early-stage ventures with a 501c3 nonprofit that operates training programs for founders, investors, and communities. We also manage a for-profit, managed investment fund that provides early-stage capital to top graduates of each program, as selected by their peers. Our unique peer-selection model received McKinsey/Harvard Business Review’s prestigious M-Prize for innovation in 2013, and we have supported more than 550 enterprises across 51 programs in 9 countries.Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs through our programs and partnered with affiliated investment funds, including VilCap Investments, that have invested seed capital in more than 90 program graduates. Over the past 8 years, our program graduates have gone on to generate $61.5M in revenue, reach 8.5 million customers, and create over 11,500 jobs. 96% of our alumni would recommend our program to other entrepreneurs, and to date and 91% of our entrepreneurs are still in business.

5 contacts available at Village Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Karla Newendorp | Interim Director of Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karla-newendorp |
| Dahler Battle | Sourcing Associate, US Ventures | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dahler-battle |
| Heather Matranga | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-matranga-c707 |
| Jason Palmer | Board Chair | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-palmer |
| Kavon Badie | Investment officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kavon-badie-779e |

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## FAQ

### What does Jason Palmer invest in?

Jason Palmer invests primarily in Education, Enterprise Software and EdTech 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.

### What is Jason Palmer's check size?

Jason Palmer typically joins rounds of $900k–$1.1M at Seed and $1.6M–$25M 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 Jason Palmer participates in.

### When did Jason Palmer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jason Palmer closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 16 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?

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