# New Markets Venture Partners

> New Markets Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Education and EdTech. See 56 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fulton, United States
- Total investments: 56
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Fund size: $160M
- Last fund: Feb 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/200804
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/newmarketsvp
- Website: http://www.newmarketsvp.com

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.8M–$14M |
| Series B | $2.1M–$10M |
| Series C | $2M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 22 | 39% |
| EdTech | 9 | 16% |
| Software | 8 | 14% |
| SaaS | 7 | 13% |
| Internet | 6 | 11% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 20 | 36% |
| Series B | 11 | 20% |
| Series C | 6 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 11% |
| Series D | 3 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brooks Taylor | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brooks-taylor |
| Donald Spero | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-donald-don-spero |
| Marissa Lowman | Venture Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marissa-lowman |
| Mark Grovic | General Partner & Founder | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-a-grovic |
| Robb Doub | Co-Founder and General Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robb-tyler-doub |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FamilyWell Health | FamilyWell Health is a digital health company focused on integrating behavioral health services in Obstetric practices through a tech-enabled, peer-driven collaborative care approach. FamilyWell's mission is to provide equitable and affordable access to mental health services for pregnant and postpartum patients to address the growing maternalmental health crisis in the U.S. FamilyWell’s tech-enabled program includes in-person and virtual care from psychiatric consultants, licensed therapists, and certified health coaches that engage heavily with patients at several touch points in the perinatal journey, including through a peer-to-peer text message support hotline. | $8M | Series A | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Knack | Knack is an online tutoring platform enabling higher education institutions to supplement existing academic support services and create a more personalized, equitable, and accessible support experience for every student at scale: from freshman through senior year. Its goal is to empower campuses with 21st-century technology that transforms academicsupport services into high-impact, skill-building interactions to reach historically underserved students on campus. | $4.8M | Series B | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Concentric Educational Solutions | Concentric Educational Solutions focuses on student culture, special education, mental health, and organizational development in schools. The company was founded in 2010 by David Heiber. | $5M | Series A | Oct 05, 2023 |  |
| Datapeople | Datapeople organizes and augments your recruiting data to help you improve key parts of your hiring process, from the job description candidates first see to the reports you share with your company. | $13M | Series A | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Nexford University | Nexford University is an online higher education institution that provides degree programs and courses. It offers flexible learning options for students. Nexford University serves various industries, including technology, business, and healthcare. | $8M | Series A | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Orijin, PBC | (Formerly APDS) Launched in 2014, Orijin’s mission is to rewrite every justice-impacted person’s story, allowing each to re-enter society with renewed career-readiness, re-skilled education, and training through a customized pathway, to rebuild their lives and create sustainable employment. Orijin provides a robust cloud-based learning andcommunications platform delivered on secure tablet computers in hundreds of correctional facilities across the country. Orijin is a public benefit corporation and certified Certified B Corporation that never charges incarcerated individuals or their families for its technology or services. To learn more, go to https://Orijin.works | $7M | Series C | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| PAIRIN | PAIRIN is a social enterprise company that uses friendly science to personalize career exploration, hiring, and professional development. It aims to make education relevant and hiring equitable. PAIRIN's My Journey product is a workforce process management platform that personalizes career exploration, job matching, and skill development foreducation, workforce programs, and governments. | $2.1M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Mantra Health | Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students. Using its proprietary Collaboration Portal, Mantra develops custom, integrated telemental health programs that improve clinical outcomes and reduce time to access care for universities of all sizes. | $22M | Series A | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Pathstream | Pathstream is a web-based platform for teaching in-demand tech skills for work. Pathstream partners with industry-leading tech companies and higher education institutions to transform digital skills learning. The company's platform allows students to immediately access pre-configured, project based instruction, realistic workplace simulations,and on-demand coaching. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 09, 2021 |  |
| Orijin, PBC | (Formerly APDS) Launched in 2014, Orijin’s mission is to rewrite every justice-impacted person’s story, allowing each to re-enter society with renewed career-readiness, re-skilled education, and training through a customized pathway, to rebuild their lives and create sustainable employment. Orijin provides a robust cloud-based learning andcommunications platform delivered on secure tablet computers in hundreds of correctional facilities across the country. Orijin is a public benefit corporation and certified Certified B Corporation that never charges incarcerated individuals or their families for its technology or services. To learn more, go to https://Orijin.works | $5M | Series B | Jun 25, 2020 |  |

10 of 56 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [University Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/university-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Strada Education Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/strada-education-network) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bonsal Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonsal-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Catamount Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catamount-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does New Markets Venture Partners invest in?

New Markets Venture Partners invests primarily in Education, EdTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 56 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 New Markets Venture Partners's check size?

New Markets Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$14M at Series A, $2.1M–$10M at Series B and $2M–$32M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds New Markets Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact New Markets Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at New Markets Venture Partners?

The team at New Markets Venture Partners includes Brooks Taylor (Analyst), Donald Spero (General Partner) and Marissa Lowman (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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