# LearnStart

> LearnStart is a VC fund in New York backing Education and E-Learning. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.learnstart.vc/

LearnStart is a seed fund that focuses on the development of global education technology companies through seed funding.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for LearnStart. Shizune tracks 2 team members at LearnStart. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/learnstart?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$3.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$3.5M |
| Series A | $3M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 23 | 61% |
| E-Learning | 13 | 34% |
| EdTech | 10 | 26% |
| Training | 5 | 13% |
| Internet | 4 | 11% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 47% |
| Series A | 10 | 26% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Kenya | 1 | 3% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Don Burton | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-durton |
| Michael Staton | Founding Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-staton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Socrait | Founded by a teacher for teachers, Socrait is the innovative, voice-powered classroom assistant that's revolutionizing K12 classroom management for teachers, schools, and districts worldwide. Socrait leverages advanced AI technology to listen to teachers' voices and turns what they say into classroom data, events, and interactions,significantly reducing administrative tasks and enhancing student outcomes. By AI technology, Socrait provides K12 educators with valuable insights that help them better manage student behavior, track attendance, and even generate personalized feedback for students and parents. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Millie | Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there. | $12M | Series A | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| Skillprint | Skillprint wants you to be the best version of yourself, and have fun doing it. People use Skillprint to create a positive mindset and mood, all by playing series of research-backed games and quick interactions. We then share those insights with you in a fun way to help you get ahead in everyday life. As you build your Skillprint, we enable you toshare and compare your strengths with friends and colleagues and connect you with learning, development, and career opportunities to help you achieve your goals. Skillprint is currently in private beta. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2023 |  |
| Neol | Neol is a technology company that develops an AI-powered network intelligence and talent management platform designed to help organizations understand, manage, and mobilize their professional networks. The platform transforms fragmented organizational data about people, partners, and communities into a structured intelligence layer that allowscompanies to discover expertise, connect collaborators, and assemble teams more efficiently. | $5.2M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| AltaClaro | Provider of interactive experiential legal training to bring legal associates to practice-readiness. AltaClaro is designed to scale Experiential Learning, making it possible for Firms to facilitate fast, meaningful training to their associates: increasing associate effectiveness, drastically reducing T&D costs, and reducing unconscious bias. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Capybara | Enabling teens to on-ramp into the creative economy | $750K | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Fluence | Fluence offers continuing education and certificate programs in psychedelic integration and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Our programs are designed for licensed professionals and advanced graduate students who have an opportunity to work with patient populations. Although none of our courses have specific prerequisites, a basic working knowledge ofthe mental health field and practice of psychotherapy is helpful. Our programs are interactive; we engage in discussion, demonstration, self-reflection exercises, and role plays. Some of our classes and programs are reserved for licensed clinicians, but many are open to anyone who wishes to attend. | $1.4M | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| YaizY | YaizY is a live online education platform that allows 8-to-17-year-olds to explore their passions, develop future-proof skills and competencies focused on innovation, leadership, design, and multimedia arts.YaizY exists to help students identify and explore their natural aspirations through advanced and diverse courses that seek to bridge the gapbetween today’s traditional educational system and what’s needed to succeed in the job market of tomorrow. Turning passions into professions, YaizY curates a child’s learning path based on their interests, goals, and achievements. Our outcome-based curriculum offers flexible course selection to spark or nurture kids' curiosities and encourages a test-drive experience through real-world applications, with the ultimate goal of building a personalized learning path that inspires the next generation of designers, innovators, and thought leaders.YaizY was founded in 2019 by a global team of entrepreneurs, industry experts, and professionally trained, award-winning educators with decades of international experience - all on a mission to become the most trusted online learning platform inspiring students to turn their passions into professions. | $1M | Seed | Feb 11, 2022 |  |
| Englease | Englease.com is an online English learning platform for users in the MENA region. It offers English courses, including IELTS and TOEFL preparation, through a subscription-based model with live and flexible online classes. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 19, 2021 |  |
| Framework | Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning. | $2M | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Learn Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/learncapital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [City Light Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/city-light-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kube VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kube-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rethink Education](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rethink-education) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SEI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sei-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Beni VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beni-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does LearnStart invest in?

LearnStart invests primarily in Education, E-Learning and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 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 LearnStart's check size?

LearnStart typically joins rounds of $1M–$3.4M at Seed, $100k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$18M 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 LearnStart participates in.

### How do I contact LearnStart?

Public channels for LearnStart include 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 LearnStart?

The team at LearnStart includes Don Burton (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Michael Staton (Founding Partner). 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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