What will happen in 2024?
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Partnering with k12, higher education and other education enterprises to drive AI literacy, criticality and creatorship at their organizations.
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.
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.
Select projects with schools, companies and ecosystem actors that build the future of education, learning and work.
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.
Learning/product design, marketing strategy
Mobile first career navigation tool; learned lots about direct to consumer ed tech and company building
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.
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.
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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