# Jean Hammond

> Jean Hammond is a seed investor at LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator backing Education and Software. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/learnlaunchfund)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jean-hammond/0/44b/77b
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jeanhammond
- Website: https://x.com/jeanhammond

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, Jeanserves 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 11 | 41% |
| Software | 7 | 26% |
| EdTech | 5 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 19% |
| Advertising | 4 | 15% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 48% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 22% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 3 | 11% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 78% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UpBrainery Technologies | 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-Education | 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 |  |
| KiddieKredit | 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 |  |
| Alchemy Vision | 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 Language Labs | 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. |  |  | Jul 05, 2023 |  |
| Lingco Language Labs | 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 | Respiratory Motion is a commercial-stage medical device company that specializes in the fields of medical device, clinical evaluation and testing, manufacturing, and respiratory monitoring. The company is developing and commercializing the ExSpiron. RMI’s goal is to cost-effectively improve the standard of care in respiratory monitoring. It wasfounded in 2010 and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts. |  |  | Jul 13, 2017 |  |
| Choosito | 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 |  |
| Knowledge to Practice | Knowledge to Practice catalyzes and accelerates progress in postgraduate medical education. It offers self-directed learning solutions, self-assessment tools reveal knowledge gaps, content modules can be reviewed repeatedly, and more. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Bethesda, United States. | $1.7M | Convertible Note | Dec 15, 2015 |  |
| FillMyFork | 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. |  | Seed | Nov 30, 2015 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Maine Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maine-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SK Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sk-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [645 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/645-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AT&T](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-t) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-franklin-technology-partners-of-southeastern-pennsylvania) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator

VC Fund · Boston, United States

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 toadvance 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.

5 contacts available at LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aditya Vikram | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-vikram-b87b |
| Jay Dia | Director of Finance & Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-dia |
| Jean Hammond | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-hammond |
| Eric Cantor | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-cantor-2 |
| Justin Mott | Investment Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-mott-daf6 |

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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 Funding Round 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 is Jean Hammond's check size?

Jean Hammond typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jean Hammond participates in.

### 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.

### 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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