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Solving Our Immigration Crisis And Building A Talent Economy
Talks about Immigration, Presidential Campaign and Presidential Election
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Jason Palmer
Founder of TOGETHER!
Baltimore, Maryland
Overview
Jason Palmer is an impact investor and entrepreneur based in Baltimore, Maryland, known for his roles as Co-Founder and CEO of TOGETHER! and as a General Partner at New Markets Venture Partners. He has invested in various impactful education-focused companies such as Nexford University and Climb Credit, demonstrating a strong commitment to supporting innovative ventures in the education sector.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & President
2024 - Current
Socrait is a fast-growing edtech startup reducing teacher burnout with our revolutionary AI-powered class assistant. Our mission is to empower educators by saving time on behavior management, attendance, and parent communication, thereby improving student learning. Socrait allows teachers to spend more time focusing on what they love: teaching.
Advisory Board Chairman
2025
Bay Bridge Ventures is a climate technology venture capital firm, purpose-built from the ground up as a diverse-owned and managed organization investing in scalable, profitable, and impactful companies across technology sectors. Bay Bridge believes the world’s hardest environmental problems will be accelerated by the advancement of foundational technologies, such as AI & Big Data, Advanced Computing, Sensors & IoT, High-Bandwidth Connectivity, Energy Storage, Robotics and Synthetic Biology
Institutional ESG and Sustainability focused venture capital firm.
Senior Advisor
2025
NCEE is dedicated to building broadly shared prosperity in the United States by supporting education leaders, practitioners, and policymakers to study, design and build equitable, high-performing, and cost-effective education and workforce development systems. The students these systems educate will be prepared to contribute to our democratic society and compete in the global economy.
NCEE has been researching the world’s best performing education systems to unlock their secrets.
Co-Founder, Board Chair
2024
Board Member, Senior Advisor
2021
CreatorUp is a mission-driven digital media and AI production company that provides rich content for businesses and educational institutions, including video, livestreaming, animation, immersive experiences, and generative AI. CreatorUp is trusted by over 250 global brands including Google, YouTube, TikTok, IBM, Airbnb, Stride, Kaplan, The Special Olympics and more, CreatorUp has completed work in over 20 countries, and has offices in Los Angeles, Athens, Dubai, Mumbai, and Singapore.
General Partner
2016
New Markets is a leading global impact investor focused on education and workforce technologies. As a double-bottom-line venture capital firm, we focus on innovative, growth stage companies that improve people-centered outcomes while building profitable organizations. My focus is on fund strategy and development, as well as supporting portfolio companies with operational expertise and industry relationships.
New Markets Venture Partners is an early and growth stage venture capital firm.
Raised $68,000,000.00 from Lumina Foundation, ACT and Strada Education Network.
Presidential Candidate
2023 - 2024
Advisory Board Member
2022 - 2023
Board Chair
2019 - 2023
Financial Solutions for Migrants initiative promotes financial inclusion for migrants, refugees, and women.
Board Member
2019 - 2023
Climb Credit is an innovative student payment platform that makes career advancement more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb utilizes a proprietary return-on-investment calculation to identify and evaluate programs and schools with a demonstrated ability to benefit their graduates. Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to healthcare training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. Climb and its partner schools are committed to providing access to valuable, cost effective education that enable individuals to reach their career goals and own their next chapter.
Innovative student payment platform that makes career-focused education more accessible and affordable than ever before.
Raised $68,568,160.00 from JFF Ventures, Financial Solutions Lab and Chaos Ventures.