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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.
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.
Education
Bachelor of Arts
2005 - 2009
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