# John Abele

> John Abele is a seed investor in Marlborough backing Education and EdTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Marlborough, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-abele/5/6/71
- Website: https://x.com/abelej1
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.abele.14

John Abele is a seed investor in Marlborough focused on Education and EdTech. John E. Abele is the current Co-Founder of Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation. He previously worked at For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology as a Chairman. John E. Abele attended Amherst College .

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 3 | 33% |
| EdTech | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Health Care | 2 | 22% |
| Personal Health | 2 | 22% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 56% |
| Canada | 1 | 11% |
| Israel | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SOND | SOND is a startup company providing digital health solutions | $7M | Seed | May 27, 2026 | https://www.sond.com |
| Edifii | Edifii is a digital school counselor helping students to set academic and professional goals based on their strengths and values. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Sep 06, 2023 | https://edifii.me/ |
| Groundwork BioAg | Groundwork develops, manufactures and commercializes mycorrhizal inoculants for mainstream agriculture. Their customers achieve significantly higher crop yields, while reducing their environmental impact and saving money on agricultural inputs. | $18M | Series B | Aug 18, 2022 | http://www.groundworkbioag.com/ |
| Biocogniv | More than a decade since the HITECH Act established a timeline for EHR adoption, US hospitals today find themselves generating more clinical and administrative data on any given day than previously thought possible. Yet clinical operations are still based on subjective decision-making and traditional processes that ignore not only the raw data, butalso the valuable efficiency improvements that can be automatically derived from them.Biocogniv picks up where the EHR transformation left off and introduces real-time intelligence on top of this vast backdrop of data, to improve the quality, cost, and ultimately access to care in US health systems. | $6M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 | https://biocogniv.com/ |
| InSpace | Built for educators by educators, InSpace Proximity, Inc. is a socially intuitive video learning platform that allows you to teach online the way you would in a classroom. The company's technology replicates the personal interaction students and faculty crave that was lost when colleges, universities and K-12 classrooms introduced virtualeducation. In addition to being lifelong friends, co-founders Dr. Narine Hall and Haykanush Lputyan are experts in machine learning, data science, and online video education technologies. | $6M | Seed | Jun 08, 2021 | https://inspace.chat |
| InSpace | Built for educators by educators, InSpace Proximity, Inc. is a socially intuitive video learning platform that allows you to teach online the way you would in a classroom. The company's technology replicates the personal interaction students and faculty crave that was lost when colleges, universities and K-12 classrooms introduced virtualeducation. In addition to being lifelong friends, co-founders Dr. Narine Hall and Haykanush Lputyan are experts in machine learning, data science, and online video education technologies. | $2.6M | Seed | Jan 26, 2021 | https://inspace.chat |
| Bloomer Health Tech | Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases. It develops a device designed to understand bodies and use ordinary clothing to collect extraordinary data. The company builds a reliable and vast data set on women’s heart health. Through integrated healthcarepractices in monitoring and treatment, it accelerates progress on solving cardiovascular global health problems.Through biometric sensors in everyday clothing, meaningful data is collected, analyzed and made accessible to users, doctors, and medical professionals for real-time personalized healthcare. Bloomer Tech's technology is seamlessly embedded into women’s bras to read metrics such as the electrocardiogram, pulse rate, respiratory rate, heart rhythm, and more.Bloomer Health Tech was founded by Aceil Halaby, Alicia Chong Rodriguez, and Monica Abarca and it is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $3M | Seed | Mar 12, 2020 | https://www.bloomertech.com/ |
| Knowledgehook | Knowledgehook combines deep domain expertise with data science to create a technology platform that helps school boards and teachers assess gaps in math education, and apply predictive insights. Knowledgehook’s insights have led to major partnerships with leading universities, research institutes, and leading educational companies. Knowledgehook isutilizing its access into the classroom to enable at-home tutoring and additional support and insights for parents being the first in class to create this vertically integrated educational ecosystem. Knowledgehook has won several awards in the Tech community including the Google Game Changer award, and B.N.N. Knowledgehook has recently partnered with UCL Educate research and investment fund to be the first EdTech company to be backed by them globally. |  |  | Dec 06, 2016 | http://knowledgehook.com |
| Knowledgehook | Knowledgehook combines deep domain expertise with data science to create a technology platform that helps school boards and teachers assess gaps in math education, and apply predictive insights. Knowledgehook’s insights have led to major partnerships with leading universities, research institutes, and leading educational companies. Knowledgehook isutilizing its access into the classroom to enable at-home tutoring and additional support and insights for parents being the first in class to create this vertically integrated educational ecosystem. Knowledgehook has won several awards in the Tech community including the Google Game Changer award, and B.N.N. Knowledgehook has recently partnered with UCL Educate research and investment fund to be the first EdTech company to be backed by them globally. | $641K | Seed | Dec 06, 2016 | http://knowledgehook.com |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does John Abele invest in?

John Abele invests primarily in Education, EdTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did John Abele last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Abele closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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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