Marissa Lowman
Head of Future of Work Practice @ Village Capital
Washington, United States
Marissa Lowman is a seed investor at Village Capital in Washington focused on EdTech and Internet. Marissa Lowman is the Venture Partner at New Markets Venture Partners
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Marissa Lowman invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- EdTech 1 (33%)
- Internet 1 (33%)
- Software 1 (33%)
- E-Learning 1 (33%)
- Higher Education 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (33%)
- Funding Round 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Upswing provides colleges and universities with an integrated student services platform to increase student retention. Colleges are able to integrate their various student support operations in a virtual environment to allow students to easily find and meet with staff in support functions like advising, counseling, student success coaching, andtutoring. Additionally, Upswing's virtual assistant connects students via SMS to college reminders and information. By streamlining student services, college administrators are able to manage support staff in a single location, oversee communication with students, and access streamlined reporting and insights. | $1.5M / Nov 29, 2017 | ||
| Higher Ed Institutions do not prepare learners for sales consulting in technology pathways. Virtanza solves the problem by providing Universities, Colleges, and Employers the only scalable, sales and technology consulting career-relevant, end-to-end solution in the University system. Virtanza produces credentialed sales professionals and unmatchedspeed to employment. Virtanza’s private label program includes credit-bearing short courses, certificates, industry technical certifications, digital badges, and competency-based learning. | Pre-Seed / Jun 19, 2017 | ||
| Upswing provides colleges and universities with an integrated student services platform to increase student retention. Colleges are able to integrate their various student support operations in a virtual environment to allow students to easily find and meet with staff in support functions like advising, counseling, student success coaching, andtutoring. Additionally, Upswing's virtual assistant connects students via SMS to college reminders and information. By streamlining student services, college administrators are able to manage support staff in a single location, oversee communication with students, and access streamlined reporting and insights. | $75K / Seed / Jun 01, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About Village Capital
Village Capital uses the power of peer support to change the traditional dynamics between investors and entrepreneurs, providing access to entrepreneurship for everyone. We recruit entrepreneurs solving specific problems in agriculture, energy, education, financial inclusion, and health. We then put the power of investment in the hands of theentrepreneurs, who award pre-committed seed funding to the two ventures ranked highest by the entrepreneurs at the end of every program. Our programs connect high potential, early-stage entrepreneurs with the people, institutions, and capital they need to succeed.We support early-stage ventures with a 501c3 nonprofit that operates training programs for founders, investors, and communities. We also manage a for-profit, managed investment fund that provides early-stage capital to top graduates of each program, as selected by their peers. Our unique peer-selection model received McKinsey/Harvard Business Review’s prestigious M-Prize for innovation in 2013, and we have supported more than 550 enterprises across 51 programs in 9 countries.Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs through our programs and partnered with affiliated investment funds, including VilCap Investments, that have invested seed capital in more than 90 program graduates. Over the past 8 years, our program graduates have gone on to generate $61.5M in revenue, reach 8.5 million customers, and create over 11,500 jobs. 96% of our alumni would recommend our program to other entrepreneurs, and to date and 91% of our entrepreneurs are still in business.
Village Capital Contacts
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Karla Newendorp
Interim Director of Investments
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Dahler Battle
Sourcing Associate, US Ventures
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Heather Matranga
Vice President
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Jason Palmer
Board Chair
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Kavon Badie
Investment officer
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What does Marissa Lowman invest in?
Marissa Lowman invests primarily in EdTech, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 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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The most recent investment recorded for Marissa Lowman closed in Nov 2017. Shizune tracks 3 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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