# Marissa Lowman

> Marissa Lowman is a seed investor at New Markets Venture Partners backing EdTech and Internet. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [New Markets Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-markets-venture-partners)
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marissalowman/

Marissa Lowman is a seed investor at New Markets Venture Partners in Washington focused on EdTech and Internet. Marissa Lowman is the Venture Partner at New Markets Venture Partners

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| E-Learning | 1 | 33% |
| Higher Education | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upswing | 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 |  |
| Virtanza | 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 | 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 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lumina Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lumina-impact-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rethink Education](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rethink-education) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stanford Graduate School of Business](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-graduate-school-of-business) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [VilCap Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vilcap-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About New Markets Venture Partners

VC Fund · Fulton, United States

New Markets Venture Partners is a leading, early and growth-stage, double bottom-line investor based in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. New Markets makes direct investments in transformative education and workforce technology companies, which leads to superior financial returns and positive social impact.Each of our partners has many decades ofinvestment and education experience. We maintain proprietary relationships with states, districts, universities and other centers of innovation that allow us to provide exceptional value to our portfolio companies. We help our companies succeed by adding value before, during, and after the investment process.

5 contacts available at New Markets Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brooks Taylor | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brooks-taylor |
| Donald Spero | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-donald-don-spero |
| Marissa Lowman | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marissa-lowman |
| Mark Grovic | General Partner & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-a-grovic |
| Robb Doub | Co-Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robb-tyler-doub |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Marissa Lowman last invest?

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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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