# Paul Freedman

> Paul Freedman is a seed investor at Guild (San Francisco) backing Finance and Education. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Guild](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guild-education)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmfreedman
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/pmfreedm

Paul Freedman is a seed investor at Guild in San Francisco focused on Finance and Education. Paul Freedman is the President, Learning Marketplace at Guild Education. Paul Freedman attended the University of Chicago.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 1 | 100% |
| Education | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RaiseMe | The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school toaward financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 22, 2015 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GSV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsv-acceleration) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Montage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/montage-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Owl Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/owl-ventures-lp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SJF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sjf-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Guild

VC Fund · Denver, United States

Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with theirtech-enabled student advising model.Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

5 contacts available at Guild.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Natalie McCullough | President & Chief Commercial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natalie-mccullough |
| Paul Freedman | President, Learning Marketplace | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-freedman |
| Rachel Carlson | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rachel-carlson |
| Brittany Stich | Co-Founder and Vice President of Learning at Work | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brittany-stich |
| Chandler Koglmeier | VP of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chandler-koglmeier |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Freedman invest in?

Paul Freedman invests primarily in Finance and Education startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Paul Freedman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Freedman closed in Apr 2015. Shizune tracks 1 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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