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GSV Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in the most important founders and leaders across the global “Pre-K to Gray” digital learning and workforce skills landscape. Investments include ClassDojo, Clever (exited), Coursera, Degreed, Gradescope (exited), Guild, Learneo (formerly Course Hero), Nearpod (exited), PhotoMath (exited), Physicswallah and QuillBot (exited) amongst other notable investments in education technology leaders positioned to achieve disproportionate gains. GSV Ventures manages over $1.0bn in assets across three funds and several SPVs, and partners include Michael Cohn, Adam Freed, Jason Horne, Michael Moe, Luben Pampoulov, Deborah Quazzo and Tiffany Taylor. Critical platforms for GSV Ventures’ investing activity also include the All Eyes on India Summit and the world-renowned ASU+GSV Summit, drawing some of the globe’s most prominent speakers including Tencent Co-founder and Yidan Prize founder, Charles Chen; Stanford Dean, Dan Schwartz, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Sal Khan, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Arne Duncan, Bari Weiss, Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein, Sheryl Lee Ralph, amongst many, many others.

Emerge is a community-powered seed fund, home to practical guidance for founders building the future of learning and work. At Emerge, our purpose is to democratise access to opportunity. That’s why we invest in companies that use innovation and technology to bridge the divide between the people who need access to opportunities to acquire skills - and industry that needs access to skilled workers. Emerge invested at pre-seed in game-changing companies like Engageli (raised a $33m Series A), Yoto (raised a $17m Series A) and Unibuddy (raised a $20m Series B). Emerge has a portfolio of 73 companies that have collectively raised over $500m and achieved a combined market cap of over $1.5bn.

We are committed to establishing productive, supportive and engaging relationships with our portfolio companies to help them think innovatively, scale outcomes and generate competitive returns. In addition to direct investments, we also invest in and partner with other mission-driven education investors.

JFF Ventures is building a future where innovative products and solutions give everyone increased access to learning, employment, and economic advancement opportunities. We do this through: Connections: Our network of forward-thinking corporate leaders is committed to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses and deepen their impact. Community: Our portfolio companies are part of a community of impact-oriented leaders focused on creating opportunity for learners and workers. Investments: Our investments in early-stage companies and entrepreneurs help build inclusive technology solutions. JFF Ventures marks a major expansion of JFF’s growing focus on technology investing and acceleration, building on the organization’s 2019 acquisition and incubation of the Employment Technology Fund in JFFLabs (ETF@JFFLabs). JFF has already invested in more than 35 high-impact technology startups through ETF@JFFLabs, now JFF Ventures Fund I.

We build and invest in mission-driven companies. A new type of co-founder, and a more valuable investor.Build With Experts: Every venture is co-founded alongside serial entrepreneurs who have taken companies from 0 to IPO and raised $250M+, and a collective of world-class engineers, designers, and more. Double Your Success: Our performance coaches, startup building playbooks, investor network and capital help us strive to build ventures at twice the speed and half the risk. Stay Focused: Our team and startup building process enables founders to focus on building a great product while we help take care of fundraising, accounting, engineering, legal, and more. We believe that the best way to unlock this potential is to:Invest in world-class entrepreneurs. Help them reach their full human potential through extensive coaching and operational playbooks. Build and invest in companies that help millions of people reach for greater economic opportunity. Why Build With Us?Speed: Skip the 18 months of self-funding with pre-vetted ideas and an EIR stipend. Support: Launch your MVP with studio resources and support. Capital: We’ll invest $250-500K of seed funding. Reduced Risk: Double your success rate and cut your time in half with our ops playbooks, talent and advisory network, and executive coaching. Our ProcessIdeate: We generate and source hundreds of business ideas through our venture partner network, and select the few with potential to become $10B businesses that advance human potential. Explore: We work with entrepreneurs to explore high-potential businesses that fit their expertise; “getting out of the building” with customer development, interviews and prototypes. Validate: We provide entrepreneurs with a stipend to run an MVP to de-risk the business, build the product, acquire early customers, and prepare for launch. The entrepreneur stipend unlocks founding talent that couldn’t otherwise afford 18 months without a paycheck. Launch: We invest $250-500k in each venture, and setup the books, legal, and HR. Founders typically own >50% equity stake, depending on their founding team and investment amount – skipping straight to growing their business, without the early funding slog. Grow: We provide ongoing founder coaching, operational playbooks, recruiting and fundraising support to help founders grow their own skills as they grow their companies. What To Expect For 3-9 months, you’ll be working directly with our general partners, talent collective, and coaches to co-found a company. If we mutually find an idea we’re all excited about, we will invest up to $500k with the potential for substantially more when company milestones are met. Services Provided: Recruiting Fundraising Market Research Engineering Data-Science UI & UX Design Finance Company Formation Marketing Go-To-Market Operations Legal & HR Product Management Validation

Roble Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm working to foster equitable human progress. 80% of our companies are co-founded b women or underrepresented founders. We invest in entrepreneurs building human enablement technologies and have a proven playbook that has helped entrepreneurs generate over $8B in market value (3 unicorns) by following a mission-driven approach that fosters human progress. Some companies in our portfolio: Udemy, Kahoot, Adaptive Insights.