Steve Kupfer
Partner @ Reach Capital
Brooklyn, United States
Steve Kupfer is a seed investor at Reach Capital in Brooklyn focused on Software and Education. Steve is the Founder and Managing Director at Red House Education, a K-12 knowledge brokerage and social venture capital firm. Most recently, Steve supported a national effort to improve the size and quality of the pipeline for superintendents and school district executives. He has co-led workshops on transition planning, board governance,political mapping, budget management, collective bargaining, organizational development, media relations, and community engagement with some of the nation’s most forward thinking superintendents. In only five years, over 120 senior school district executives who completed these workshops were hired into the superintendency.Prior to that, Steve was a Senior Consultant in the Education practice at Public Consulting Group, where he led teams of developers, subject matter experts, and operating staff through successful large scale software as a service (SaaS) implementations in several of the largest and most complex urban school systems in the country. Steve is a proud product of public K-12 schools and holds a BA in Political Economy from Skidmore College and an MBA from Clark University. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Steve Kupfer invests in
Stages Steve Kupfer invests in
Countries Steve Kupfer invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (60%)
- Education 5 (50%)
- EdTech 3 (30%)
- SaaS 2 (20%)
- E-Learning 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
Investments
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| Cartwheel offers mental health support to students in order to help schools regain balance in the midst of the student mental health crisis. | $35.2M / Series B / Aug 18, 2025 | ||
| CurvePoint is a leader in spatial intelligence, using Wi-Fi signals and AI to provide real-time, privacy-conscious insights that enhance safety and efficiency in schools, workplaces, and public spaces. The company’s Wi-AI platform offers a new approach to situational awareness, helping organizations make smarter decisions while respectingindividual privacy. | Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2025 | ||
| Cartwheel offers mental health support to students in order to help schools regain balance in the midst of the student mental health crisis. | $20M / Series A / Sep 26, 2023 | ||
| Swing provides substitute teachers to fill hard-to-fill staff absences. On average, U.S. students spend 5% of the typical school year with substitute teachers, which translates to over 6 months of their K-12 school career.Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening not only impacts students, but causes teachers, school leaders, andadministrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time administrators spend on the logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling, and paying contract substitute teachers. Swing's marketplace helps schools cover hard-to-fill absences by seamlessly providing substitute teachers on-demand. | $38M / Series C / Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| Odyssey is the first business to create a product specifically for managing education savings accounts and microgrants. | $4.8M / Seed / Oct 26, 2022 | ||
| Edlink provides two-way connections for e-learning and companies and publishers to tackle challenges like single-sign-on (SSO), content integration, and grade pass-back. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. | $2M / Seed / May 13, 2022 | ||
| Rhithm is a wellness check-in tool. The platform selects an ideal 1-2 minute activity video to regulate well-being based on user given data from a simple emoji assessment. This data is available on dashboards to reflect and connect with as desired at the campus, district/network and state levels. | $4M / Seed / May 18, 2021 | ||
| KickUp helps professional development teams differentiate teacher support through analytics.Its SaaS-based analytics platform is designed to offer professional learning services. The analytics platform helps users customize pre-loaded goals to align with their district or region's strategic goals, pull together real-time data from surveys.They partner with K-12 organizations to coordinate professional learning efforts, improve decision-making, and ensure that great ideas translate into demonstrable outcomes in the classroom.Jeremy Rogoff, Victoria Kinzig, and Eric Krupski headquartered KickUp in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2014. | $1.5M / Seed / May 20, 2016 | ||
| Allovue is a software platform that helps school districts create and plan budgets and monitor spending to make financial. The user-friendly software applications allow district officials, principals, and other school administrators to visualize, analyze, and optimize the impact of spending on outcomes in education. The company's flagshipproduct, Balance, contains applications to analyze school budgets, track and forecast expenditures, identify trends over time, and plan for future capital investments.Allovue allows superintendents to easily communicate district budgets with their staff, board, and community leaders, ensuring that budgets are strategically aligned to district goals and priorities. It connects education, finance, and technology to meet the needs of education decision-makers. | $5.1M / Series A / Dec 16, 2015 | ||
| Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and English learners. Ellevation specializes in the fields of education, e-learning, and language learning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2M / Jul 09, 2014 |
Co-Investors
General Catalyst
5 deals together
Bling Capital
3 deals together
Reach Capital
3 deals together
Able Partners
2 deals together
A-Street Ventures
2 deals together
Edovate Capital
2 deals together
About Reach Capital
Reach Capital invests in exceptional founders who elevate human potential and ignite purpose across learning, health, and work. Since 2015, we’ve backed hundreds of visionary entrepreneurs building technologies that expand access to opportunity — from a child’s first learning experience to pathways toward economic mobility and wellbeing. Our beliefis that when people are equipped to grow their skills, nurture relationships, and find meaning in what they do, communities thrive.
Reach Capital Contacts
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Enzo Cavalie
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Jennifer Wu
Venture Partner
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Jim Lobdell
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Tony Wan
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Chian Gong
Partner
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What does Steve Kupfer invest in?
Steve Kupfer invests primarily in Software, Education and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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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