Strada
VC Fund
Indianapolis, United States
Strada is a Social impact org improving lives by forging clearer .
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Strada invests in
EducationSaaSArtificial IntelligenceEdTechSoftware
Stages Strada invests in
Series BSeries ASeed
Countries Strada invests in
United States
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Rhonda Powell
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 4 (67%)
- SaaS 3 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (50%)
- EdTech 2 (33%)
- Software 2 (33%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (50%)
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Seed 1 (17%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Rhonda Powell
EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
|
EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stride Funding (AlmaPact Inc.) is a mission-driven company focused on enabling debt-free lives for students, by supplementing student loans with flexible income sharing agreements. Unlike student loans that lock students into a single rigid payment, Stride’s payments rise and fall with a student’s income so that payments are always affordable. Thecompany has been recognized as a visionary leader by FinTech analysts for its efforts on income protection and career support. Stride was created by students, for students, aiming to change student lives for the better. The company has been recognized by Harvard and MIT as a top new venture. Stride has received venture investments from GSV Accelerate, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures and Pear VC; and its strategic investors include Strada Education. Its advisors include serial entrepreneurs, Doug Levin and Tina Sharkey. Fund your Future, Find your Stride! | $20M / Series B / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| Nectir AI is a powerful platform that allows educators to create customizable, FERPA-compliant AI Assistants that live within the LMS. Provide students with 24/7 personalized support, lighten faculty and staff workloads, and drive measurable improvements in student outcomes. | $12.5M / Series A / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Opus is a hospitality training platform purpose-built for the frontline that provides digital tools to help service staff learn skills, complete training modules, and access performance resources. The platform offers structured learning pathways, micro-lessons, and interactive content tailored to operational roles such as servers, housekeepers,bartenders, and guest services teams. It supports onboarding, upskilling, and continuous education by enabling employees to engage with training materials on mobile devices and track progress through competency checklists. Opus also includes features for managers to assign courses, monitor completion rates, and align training activities with service standards and operational needs. The platform integrates assessment and feedback mechanisms that help learners reinforce knowledge and demonstrate proficiency in core hospitality tasks. Through its digital training infrastructure, Opus supports workforce development and skill alignment within hospitality environments. | $9M / Series B / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| SchooLinks is a modern, AI-powered college and career readiness platform that helps K12 districts streamline their counseling activities and improve district outcomes. The student-centric experience creates a wealth of behavioral data, and its machine learning algorithms leverage those data to personalize college recommendations and content tofurther drive student engagement.SchooLinks then delivers actionable insights to counselors that help them act in real-time to become more effective. On a district level, the data models power a full suite of accountability tools to allow administrators to monitor and accomplish desired college and career readiness outcomes. | $80M / Series B / Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| Skillfully was founded on the belief that hiring should be efficient, inclusive, and skills-centric. Through experiential hiring methods using virtual simulations, employers now see applicant skills in action. This solution uncovers the perfect fit for a role before the interview phase, saving HR teams time, money, and effort.For decades,recruiters have relied on resume-based hiring to superficially qualify candidates by parsing applicant descriptions of skills to determine employability. The rise of AI tools that automatically enhance and submit applications at an unprecedented scale has overwhelmed employer pipelines, making accurate and precise decision-making nearly impossible.Enter Skillfully’s recruitment solution - HiredNow. The HiredNow tool allows employers create custom simulations of real-life, on-the-job scenarios to effectively assess an applicant’s actual skill level. For the first time, employers can see an applicant’s skills firsthand to determine if their abilities match the unique requirements of a job opening before engaging with the applicant directly. These simulations provide a precise skills scorecard for every applicant, vastly improving hiring efficiency compared to traditional resume-driven tools and enabling skills-first hiring at scale.Through the Skillfully platform, employers can also hire directly from our exclusive, skill-verified TalentNetwork, which includes national career partners such as leading universities, community college systems, HBCUs and workforce development organizations. Employers hiring from our TalentNetwork get access to a deeply diverse and highly motivated candidate pool often overlooked by conventional resume-first hiring tools and professional networks.In this new Age of AI “Good on Paper” is no longer good enough for employers searching for the very best talent. Discover how Skillfully can transform your hiring process today! | $2.5M / Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Kenzie Academy provides a solution to the dramatic shortage of tech talent in the U.S., by reimagining higher education for the tech sector.Kenzie Academy is a tech apprenticeship school focused on education, mentorship, and job placement. They offer 6-month to 2-year programs with a paid apprenticeship after 6 months. They are founded by techentrepreneurs with years of experience developing and cultivating talent for startups and major tech companies. Kenzie instructors, leadership, mentors and volunteers are all advocates for our students. Our top priority is job placement upon completion -- either at our Kenzie Studio consulting arm or at other technology companies. | $7.8M / Series A / Sep 30, 2019 |
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FAQ
What does Strada invest in?
Strada invests primarily in Education, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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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Who are the partners at Strada?
The team at Strada includes Rhonda Powell (EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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