# Liam Pisano

> Liam Pisano is a seed investor at EduLab Capital Partners (Boston) backing Software and Education. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EduLab Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edulab-capital-partners)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-pisano-266bb21
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/liampisano

Liam Pisano is a Managing Partner at EduLab Capital Partners. Prior to co-founding EduLab Capital Partners, Liam was the Managing Director at LearnLaunch, an early-stage education technology investment platform, and co-working space. There he managed all LearnLaunch investment activity and drove domestic and international strategy for theorganization. He has over 16 years of direct investing experience, holding investment professional positions at Spectrum Equity Investors, Hercules Capital, and Patriot Capital. He also co-founded one of the first MOOC’s for student use, Academic Earth, which was named as Time Magazine top websites of 2009 and was eventually sold to an ABRY Partners portfolio company.Liam received his B.A. in Political Science from Williams College, where he was a member of the two time National Championship Division III cross country team. He received his M.B.A from Yale University where he was a founding member of the Yale Economic Review.He is a proud 19-year member of the Big Brothers Association of Massachusetts, a two-time big brother and former Big Brother of the Year. He is also co-founder of the William Gaines Foundation (Biggie’s Kids), a non-profit organization serving underprivileged inner-city high school students.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 60% |
| Education | 3 | 60% |
| SaaS | 2 | 40% |
| Recruiting | 2 | 40% |
| Service Industry | 2 | 40% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| Singapore | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Authentica Solutions | We are thrilled to share the exciting news about the launch of Authentica 2.0, featuring the return of our original founders from Microsoft after successfully reacquiring the brand from Google last year. Our dynamic team, boasting extensive experience in technology and education, is dedicated to addressing the interoperability challenges faced byglobal learning institutions across PK-12, Higher Education, and Workforce solutions. In light of the evolving educational landscape, intensified by the impact of COVID, the demand for secure data exchange, data pipeline management, and data cleansing has never been more critical. Education paradigms have shifted, necessitating not only access to cutting-edge integrated cloud technology but also to seasoned teams capable of addressing long-term challenges. Authentica stands ready to meet these challenges head-on, drawing upon our team's global experience in designing, building, and deploying technology for various education organizations. This marks the inception of our ambitious vision, the Education Intelligence Platform - Seed™. Focused on significant revenue growth through a strategic mix of indirect and direct go-to-market approaches, our primary commitment is to serve our B2B partners, including EdTech Software Providers, Strategic Alliances with Google and Microsoft, Resellers, and System Integrators. It is worth noting that Authentica is already operating profitably and is reinvesting for substantial growth. To propel our platform's growth, market penetration, and B2B expansion at an optimal pace, we are seeking partnerships with the right venture capital firms to raise $7 million. Seed™, our cloud-native platform, is poised to revolutionize education data solutions by addressing challenges such as data integration, analytics, and overall data quality. By focusing on Data Sharing, Security & Control, and Data Quality, Seed™ ensures that valuable data becomes a catalyst for machine learning and artificial intelligence in education. This innovative platform leverages cutting-edge technologies, including IPaaS, Master Data Management, and ML/AI, to empower stakeholders across the education sector. With Seed™, you gain access to a low-cost, scalable solution facilitating data acquisition, data quality and cleansing, cloud-managed storage, and AI-driven performance analytics. This, in turn, enables data-driven decision-making and propels student success by delivering the highest quality data to serve the potential impact of ML and AI technologies.We are the creators of AIM, Adoption Improvement Method. A methodology and practice driven approach to helping our clients reach the full potential, student achievement gains, in deploying their solutions. Our eleven factors create a systemic and dynamic approach to address core needs, issues, and providing immediate solutions to the most complex challenges with software deployment. By focusing on ADOPTION over just the implementation project, purpose changes and allows faster deployments, higher quality expectations, and a faster customer embrace of solutions. The greatest challenge presently with any implementation is data integration. It has been said that the K12 space has more data available with greater challenges to access that data than any other industry. And our focus is on more than profitability, it's about changes students lives.To address the tide of data that every enterprise solution needs to consume and provide to the many disparate systems, we created DataSense. Designed as an IPaaS technology but made ready to meet education institutions where they are today, we can deploy DataSense behind the firewall, ASP, SaaS, or in the Cloud. Designed to reduce implementation time frames by 50% or more over traditional ETL and MDM solutions, DataSense is a required asset to reach faster implementations with less stress on district IT and staying focused on your core application's purpose. | $6.2M | Seed | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Ceresa | Ceresa's platform delivers a data-driven, personalized, and whole-person leadership journey, designed to address the specific needs of diverse aspiring leaders. The company hires go-getters with a serious bias towards action who tackle new challenges with gusto and show up every day itching to create impact. | $3M | Seed | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| Prompt | Prompt develops a writing feedback service platform that makes people better writers. The company's writing coaches support thousands of students on tens of thousands of essays per year. The writing feedback is what great teachers provide when they have more time.Prompt's goal is to support students with their writing skills. They workdirectly with students, educators, and educational institutions as a Virtual Writing Center. They provide coaching and feedback on all types of student writing from college admissions essays to AP essays to college-level writing. | $2.1M | Seed | Oct 27, 2020 |  |
| JOBHOPin | JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates. | $2.5M | Series A | May 11, 2020 |  |
| 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 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Canaan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KK Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kk-fund-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LiveOak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liveoak-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mynavi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mynavi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About EduLab Capital Partners

VC Fund · Boston, United States

EduLab Capital Partners is seed-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on the education market, investing in business models that transcend the traditional education landscape. The Company’s Boston- and Tokyo-based team provides foundational support to entrepreneurs to help expand their customer base, make key early-stage hires, and raiseadditional capital for profitable and sustainable growth. EduLab’s education market savvy and artificial intelligence expertise provide unique leverage points for its investments, while the Company’s network of global partnerships and distribution channels provide its portfolio companies with the depth and reach to quickly accelerate product integration and impact.

4 contacts available at EduLab Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dahler Battle | Sr. Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dahler-battle |
| Liam Pisano | Manager of the General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liam-pisano |
| Norihisa Wada | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norihisa-wada |
| William Pisano | Manager of the General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-pisano |

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## FAQ

### What does Liam Pisano invest in?

Liam Pisano invests primarily in Software, Education and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Liam Pisano last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Liam Pisano closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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