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Education venture capital investors provide funding to private companies, with the goal of increasing student success. These VCs invest in businesses that make learning easier, more effective, and more engaging for students.
Top 10 Education Venture Capital Firms
1. Rethink Capital Partners
Rethink Capital Partners is an umbrella platform that facilitates the development of a suite of impact investment vehicles, which focus on financial and social returns including gender equity, education, health, environmental sustainability, economic empowerment, and community development.
Rethink Capital Partners is headquartered in White Plains,New York.
Website: www.rethink.vc
Founded: 2012
Total fund size: $15.7M
Stage: Seed, Series A, Series B
Sector: Impact
2. Owl Ventures
Owl Ventures was founded by Andrew Birt and Julian Righetti to help new device manufacturers leverage their experience across product development, commercialisation, manufacturing, distribution and business development.
They work on a project basis or partner with hardware startups if they believe there is a good fit and it makes sense toco-found, or co-invest.
Website: www.owlventures.com
Founded: 2014
Total fund size: $9M.
Stage: Seed, Series A
Sector: Education, Software, SaaS, Internet
Investment Geography: United States
3. Learn Capital
LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, andservices are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.
Website: www.learncapital.com
Founded: 2008
Total fund size: $106M
Stage: Series A, Series B, Growth, Seed
Sector: Enterprise, Mobile, Government and Military, Marketplaces, Financial Services, Impact
Learn Capital's most notable exits include Edmodo, Nerdy, and General Assembly.
4. Runa Capital
Runa Capital is a technology-focused venture capital firm managing two funds – Runa I was launched with $135M in 2010 and has made 33 investments, Runa II of $135M was launched in 2014 and has made 30 investmerns and Runa III was started in 2019 and is in active investment stage right now.
The fund was established to seek early stage opportunities in the rapidly growing tech sector, with the specific focus on cloud business applications, complex software (middleware, machine intelligence, etc), fintech, edutech and digital healthcare. Runa brings a team with extensive operational experience and is focused on finding growth businesses that generate revenues, supporting them in the global marketplace and turning them into international champions.
Founded by Serg Bell, Ilya Zubarev (founders of Parallels and Acronis) and Dmitry Chikhachev (Ericsson, Ritzio, Uvenco) Runa Capital is run by a team of successful entrepreneurs, most of whom have worked together for over 15 years.
It is a united team with broad geographical and cross-industry experience, as well as an extensive professional network. Runa Capital investment team members possess an excellent track record in tech investments.
Website: www.runacap.com
Founded: 2010
Total fund size: $250K
Sector: Financial Services, B2B, SaaS, Software, Enterprise
Investment Geography: United States, Bay Area (US)
Runa Capital's most notable exits include NGINX, Acumatica, and DrChrono.
5. Reach Capital
Reach supports entrepreneurs that develops technology solutions for challenges across early childhood, K-12, higher education, and workforce reskilling and upskilling. They invest in early-stage tech tools, applications, content, and services to improve educational opportunities for all learners. The Fund also acts as a catalyst, inspiring and enabling traditional and non-traditional investors to provide capital to the fast-growing ed-tech market.
Website: www.reachcapital.com
Founded: 2015
Total fund size: $300M
Stage: Seed, Series A, Series B
Sector: Education, Software, Impact
Investment Geography: United States, Europe
Reach Capital's most notable exits include Nearpod, Epic, and Nepris.
6. Educapital
Educapital are entrepreneurs in venture capital. Educapital combine strong financial and entrepreneurship backgrounds. Educapital invest in innovative European companies with the highest potential to scale and become European and global leaders. Educapital offer their portfolio companies access to a large edtech community.
Website: www.educapital.fr
Founded: 2017
Total fund size: €145M
Educapital's most notable exits include Lalilo and Appscho.
7. Bonsal Capital
Bonsal Capital is a mission-driven partnership investing primarily in the Capital Region in technology enabled services in education and workforce. The firm was founded in 1999 by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) cofounder Frank A. Bonsal, Jr and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Website: www.bonsalcapital.com
Founded: 1999
Bonsal Capital's most notable exits include Nepris, NxThera, and Torchlight.
8. Emerge Education
Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.
Website: www.emerge.education
Founded: 2013
Total fund size: $100K
Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
Sector: Education
Investment Geography: United States, Europe
9. Floodgate
Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Website: www.floodgate.com
Founded: 2006
Total fund size: $401.3M
Stage: Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth
Ticket Size: $ 1M - $ 10M
Floodgate's most notable exits include Lyft, Twitter, and BigCommerce.
10. Precursor Ventures
Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed investments in the San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles metropolitan regions. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
Website: www.precursorvc.com
Founded: 2015
Total fund size: $46.2M
Stage: Seed
Sector: AI, Mobile, E-Commerce, SaaS, Marketplaces, Underrepresented, Fintech, Internet, Software, Consumer
Ticket Size: $ 100K - $ 300K
Investment Geography: United States
Precursor Ventures's most notable exits include Fixt, Kit, and Dor.
