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Eric Scott Lavin

Founder of activeprimer.vc

New York, New York

Overview 

Eric Scott Lavin is the Founder and Head Agent of activeprimer.vc, specializing in education innovation and angel investing, with a background as a co-founder and CEO of Whetstone Education. He has served as a strategic advisor for various organizations, including Array Education and SchoolMint, showcasing expertise in leadership, strategic planning, and program development within the education sector.

Work Experience 

  • Partner Success

    2025 - Current

    Partnering with k12, higher education and other education enterprises to drive AI literacy, criticality and creatorship at their organizations.

  • Strategic Advisor & EIR

    2023

    Identifying and supporting entrepreneurs & education innovators working on smart approaches from early lit through early career. Exploring the next paradigm for data integration to enable future ready school culture and operations.

  • Partner

    2022

    Identifying and partnering with entrepreneurs building ventures powered by the megatrends of this decade. Invest in: ed & talent tech, the longtail of entrepreneurship, and other things that are obviously the future.

  • Independent Consultant

    2019

    Select projects with schools, companies and ecosystem actors that build the future of education, learning and work.

  • Angel investing

    2021 - 2024

    Not currently angel investing. I do advise / coach edtech the occasional edtech company. Made ~30 angel investments from 2021 - 2024 with a focus on k-12 innovation, direct to consumer learning apps, higher education disruption. And a few cool companies in the charter city, deeptech/climate and crypto spaces.

  • Advisor

    2019 - 2023

    Learning/product design, marketing strategy

  • Founder

    2021 - 2022

    Mobile first career navigation tool; learned lots about direct to consumer ed tech and company building

  • Strategic Advisor

    2021 - 2021

    Contributed to product innovation, marketing strategy, and M&A at SchoolMint. SchoolMint acquired Whetstone, which I co-founded.

SchoolMint helps schools and families manage the admissions process, simply and cost effectively.

Raised $7,700,000.00 from Sleeping Bear Capital.

  • Strategic Advisor & Program Producer

    2020 - 2021

    Leading update of open access courses to be cohorted, active and asynchronous to learners in various contexts, including: US high school & homeschool students, international HS students, opportunity youth, and mid career adults.

  • Co-founder, CEO, Board member

    2013 - 2021

    Whetstone is Saas based talent management and development software tool for k-12 education, with a focus on enabling high quality coaching and ongoing personalized professional learning. We partner with schools, districts, and teacher development programs to support and accelerate effective teaching with technology. We serve over 2000 schools and 100,000 teachers. I'm a co-founder, first CEO, and active board member focused on innovation/growth. Acquired by SchoolMint in Jan 2021.

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