Jean Hammond
General Partner @ LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator
Boston, United States
Jean Hammond is an angel investor and the founder of LearnLaunch. Jean Hammond is an active angel investor usually focusing on early stage high tech start-ups. She was a founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds (focused on investing in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad and Hub Angels. In addition to TenMarks, Jean serves on the boards of The Technology Capital Network, Thompson Island Outward Bound and of Boston Rising. She plays or played an active board level role with a number of her Boston area investments including: Crimson Hexagon, Hire Reach, Home Portfolio, iTeam, and ZipCar. Jean is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. Her entrepreneurial activities include co-founding and managing Quarry Technologies and AXON Networks and following 3Com's acquisition of AXON, focusing 3Com's WAN strategy. She earned a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is currently a part time Entrepreneur in Residence.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Jean Hammond invests in
Stages Jean Hammond invests in
Countries Jean Hammond invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 11 (41%)
- Software 7 (26%)
- EdTech 5 (19%)
- E-Learning 5 (19%)
- Information Technology 5 (19%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (48%)
- Non-equity Assistance 5 (19%)
- Funding Round 3 (11%)
- Angel 1 (4%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 21 (78%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| UpBrainery Technologies aims to revolutionize and disrupt the concept of teaching and learning virtually at home, school, and the office. Their objective is to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to build better brains. The company's data analytics and machine learning, together with its platform, present each learner with anexperiential trip. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Ann is the ultimate e-reader for educational materials. A SaaS that helps education publishers with their digital transformation, by making legacy static content (textbooks, workbooks, etc) interactive, with assessments for all exercises and reports in real time for teachers, while maintaining the same feeling of the original publications. Theconversion of the materials is handled automatically, using AI. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Kiddie Kredit is a mobile chore tracking app that teaches kids about credit. The premise of the app is that the better a child performs their household duties, the higher their Kiddie Kredit score will be. The algorithm to calculate this parallels traditional FICO models to determine how much of a weekly reward they will receive, which can bemonetary or non monetary. The child will mark off their daily chores as they complete them, and the parent/guardian will either approve/deny the chore submission. These chores will all count towards a kredit score that is calculated weekly and will determine how much of their predetermined weekly allowance they will receive. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Through an easy to follow, video based curriculum, our eye care staff training is focused around efficiency, consistency, and accountability to develop a high performing team on which you can count. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Lingco Classroom is an online personalized language learning platform for students. It uses artificial intelligence to quickly assess students’ existing language level so it can guide them, fix their mistakes, and work on exactly what they need in order to improve. It provides instructors with real-time insights on where their students arestruggling and uses machine learning to recommend activities and content for the instructors to assign. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Respiratory Motion has a wide variety of patient populations and environments to assess respiratory function and provide early warning of respiratory collapse. It is a commercial-stage medical device company that specializes in the fields of medical devices, clinical evaluation and testing, manufacturing, and respiratory monitoring. | Jul 13, 2017 | ||
| Zulama Modern Learning is the first platform to combine game design technologies and project-based strategies. Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center helped us develop a way to bring game design, programming, art, and screenwriting to middle and high schoolers.Zulama provides extensive mentor-based professionaldevelopment so teachers learn to become “Creative Directors” and facilitate our rigorous new curriculum in their own classrooms. We help teachers see how both building and playing games satisfies state and national curriculum standards, develops 21st Century Skills, and promotes higher-order Blooms.We combine STEM with the Arts (STEAM) to give students not only the skills but also the creativity they need to thrive in the global digital workplace. Zulama is leading a movement away from the current industrial-era educational model towards interest-driven deeper learning that prepares students for success in the 21st Century.The payoff we are seeing with current schools includes improvement in statewide school rankings, fewer dropouts and behavioral problems, and improved student math and reading proficiency levels.With Zulama, students are building games. They are building enthusiasm. They are building skills that lead to high-tech careers … and that’s how, together, the Zulama community is building tomorrow’s workforce. | $650K / Seed / Mar 03, 2017 | ||
| Choosito! search and learn optimizes learning with personalized search. We analyze human language to identify quality resources that match the student's comprehension ability for any subject. Choosito! is transforming the web into a revolutionary learning tool.see less | $100K / Seed / Jan 14, 2017 | ||
| FillMyFork is a mobile application that helps people to redesign their grocery list creation. It enables its users to stream past grocery purchases and receive personalized food recommendations based on their profile. FillMyFork was founded by Arun Nijhawan and Kartik Shastri in 2014 and is located in San Francisco, California. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 19, 2016 | ||
| Ask any parent and they’ll tell you the same thing: paying for the countless number of athletics, after-school care, lunch, classroom supplies, donations, field-trips, and other school-related fees is extremely difficult to keep up with. Add in multiple kids at different schools with different payment procedures and systems and the process getsdownright impossible. Ask any school business manager and they'll tell you how hard it's to collect and track payments. That's where Skookii comes in.Skookii is the first and only completely free online payment/finance system for schools and educational nonprofits. It’s simple: schools get a robust SaaS solution in less than 20 minutes and parents get a simple web/mobile app to instantly pay for their kids’ aftercare, donations, athletics, or anything else. | $25K / Seed / May 15, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
LearnLaunch Accelerator program is designed to help early-stage EdTech entrepreneurs successfully grow startups. Founders participate in a three-month residential program in Boston, Massachusetts, where founder are immersed in a community of like-minded professionals committed to helping to grow businesses. The goal of LearnLaunch Accelerator is to advance the product and market development process so that entrepreneurs will be able to secure the resources needed to grow. LearnLaunch Accelerator provides seed funding ($200k of value – up to $120K in funding depending on program) for companies selected to its cohort. Participating companies meet weekly with mentors who push to identify and take the most leveraged next steps to grow products and companies. During the program, companies regularly interact with leading EdTech experts. LearnLaunch Accelerator has also developed an EdTech-focused curriculum that provides tremendous insight into how to navigate the education industry.
LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator Contacts
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Aditya Vikram
Investment Analyst
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Jay Dia
Director of Finance & Operations
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Jean Hammond
General Partner
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Eric Cantor
Venture Partner
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Hakan Satiroglu
Co-Founder
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FAQ
What does Jean Hammond invest in?
Jean Hammond invests primarily in Education, Software and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jean Hammond invest in?
Jean Hammond typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.5M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jean Hammond's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jean Hammond took part in.
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When did Jean Hammond last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jean Hammond closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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