and incredibly excited to lead its $10M Series A! — by Tony Wan, Head of Investor Content Since we first invested in TeachFX in 2017, the team has expanded its reach to teachers in every state across the country, capturing classroom conversations, providing personalized feedback on their instruction, and surfacing opportunities to improve and learn with their peers. Along the…

by Jennifer Wu (Venture Partner) and Jennifer Carolan (General Partner) Reach was founded on the belief that technology can meaningfully extend access to education and opportunity. It can be a powerful tool for equity but it has its limits, partly because of the social — and serendipitous — nature of…

by Esteban Sosnik (Partner) Uncertainty is perhaps the only certainty in the current economic climate. We do not know how long it will take for inflation to return to normal levels, or what interest rates will be by then. We don’t know how long the public markets will continue on…

by Tony Wan, Head of Investor Content Art brings math to life, and vice versa. Of the thousands of stories I’ve filed as a former journalist, one of the most delightful has been Desmos’ student art contest. The creativity and complexity of the submissions — with every line, curve, shade…

by Chian Gong (Partner) Personal connections unlock professional opportunities, and career paths are shaped just as much by networks as knowledge. Yet too often, connections happen by circumstance. Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of Education Research at the Christensen Institute, has written at length about the need to intentionally weave social…

Important takeaways from an early education panel at the 2022 ASU GSV conference — by Christine Hernandez, Content Specialist, Winnie The COVID-19 pandemic thrust childcare and early education into the spotlight. When most industries shifted to operating remotely, the childcare industry remained open and in-person to care for and educate our youngest and most vulnerable. We saw first-hand how essential child care really is…

Why We Led Stellic’s Series A — by Tony Wan, Head of Investor Content It’s no surprise that the best solutions are often designed by those who feel the pain most acutely, and some of the most popular education tools are built by students. Such is the case for Quizlet and Course Hero, both category leaders in…

by Esteban Sosnik, General Partner In 2011, Marc Andreessen proclaimed that “Software Is Eating the World.” We have seen that prediction unfold across every industry, from commerce to real estate, finance and fashion, media and hospitality, and especially in recent years, education. What sometimes gets glossed over are the humans…

Why we invested in WorkWhile — by Jomayra Herrera (Partner) and Shauntel Garvey (General Partner) ​​Everyday we depend on our 83 million hourly workers — the delivery drivers, store cashiers, restaurant servers — who altogether make up over 58 percent of the U.S. workforce. Yet given how essential they are to our economy, they have historically…