# Michael Cohn

> Michael Cohn is a seed investor at GSV Ventures (Chicago) backing EdTech and Sports. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [GSV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsv-acceleration)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-cohn-06500723/

Michael Cohn is a Partner at GSV Ventures and was a Senior Associate at Deloitte. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| Sports | 1 | 25% |
| Fitness | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Education | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Athlete Community (PAC) | PAC delivers tailored executive education, experiences, and a luminary network designed to unlock your full potential. | $7.6M | Series A | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Uplimit | Uplimit is where anyone can learn the most in-demand skills and actually put them to work. Where leading organizations build technical skills at scale. It’s where industry-leading instructors show how they tackle real problems, with real methods. And where the perfect combination of teaching best practices, top practitioners, technology, andcollective peer learning makes real growth accessible to us all. | $11M | Series A | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Uplimit | Uplimit is where anyone can learn the most in-demand skills and actually put them to work. Where leading organizations build technical skills at scale. It’s where industry-leading instructors show how they tackle real problems, with real methods. And where the perfect combination of teaching best practices, top practitioners, technology, andcollective peer learning makes real growth accessible to us all. | $8.5M | Seed | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| QuillBot | QuillBot is an AI writing collaborator that rewrites full paragraphs and refines content. The company’s mission is to make writing painless. QuillBot is driven by sophisticated AI paraphrasing technology that uses natural language understanding (NLU) to automatically reconstruct the user’s content to improve the clarity of the intended message.More than a million people around the world use QuillBot to improve their writing and deliver a more compelling message. | $4.2M | Seed | Apr 22, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cowboy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cowboy-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Conviction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conviction-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maveron](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maveron) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Service Provider Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/service-provider-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About GSV Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

GSV Ventures is a global venture capital fund focused on the rapidly growing digital education market from Pre-K to Gray. We back early and late stage entrepreneurs transforming the $7 trillion digital education and future of work sectors. Investments include Coursera, ClassDojo, Degreed, and Guild Education. GSV is also the convener of the worldrenowned ASU+GSV Summit. The 11th annual summit gathered 35,000 founders, investors, educators, and policy makers from 135 countries.

5 contacts available at GSV Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Freed | Co-Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-freed |
| Deborah Quazzo | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deborah-quazzo |
| Luben Pampoulov | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luben-pampoulov |
| Michael Cohn | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-cohn-2 |
| Michael Moe | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-moe |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Cohn invest in?

Michael Cohn invests primarily in EdTech, Sports and Fitness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Michael Cohn last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Cohn closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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