Nurture
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Nurture is a developer of an educational app aimed at children aged 4 to 7, designed to impart essential life skills through interactive storytelling and engaging games. The app focuses on teaching critical areas such as socialization, basic financial understanding, mindfulness, exercise, and nutrition, tailored to the developmental needs of young children. By promoting intergenerational learning, Nurture creates relatable learning experiences that guide families through a curated set of essential skills necessary for navigating a rapidly changing world. This approach emphasizes play-based learning and positive reinforcement, enabling parents to effectively support their children's growth and development.
Legends
Seed Round in 2024
Legends is a company that specializes in developing an application platform focused on confidence training and motivational exercises. The app is designed to enhance users' self-esteem through regular notifications that deliver a daily feed of inspirational stories. By providing these motivational narratives, Legends aims to foster a stronger bond between children and their parents while encouraging personal growth and confidence development.
Clayful
Seed Round in 2023
Clayful is a developer of a text-based mental health coaching platform aimed at providing preventative mental health support for students aged eight to fourteen. The platform connects young users with mental health coaches through one-on-one text-based chats, allowing children to seek support whenever they need it. By facilitating these interactions, Clayful helps to bridge the gap to affordable mental health care for individual users and schools alike, ensuring that every student has access to someone to talk to.
Xip is an online education company that delivers personalized learning experiences aimed at transforming the way individuals learn. It specializes in providing one-on-one coaching services that enable creators to monetize their expertise across various subjects, including Mathematics, Science, English, and History. Xip's platform offers fully customized instruction tailored to meet individual learning needs, allowing users to progress at their own pace. Additionally, the company fosters a global community by connecting students and instructors, enhancing the overall learning experience through collaboration and support.
Wayfinder
Series A in 2022
Wayfinder, founded at Stanford University's d.school, provides a comprehensive K-12 curriculum focused on developing essential future-ready skills beyond traditional social-emotional learning. The program emphasizes Self-Awareness, Adaptability, Empathy, Collaboration, Agency, and Purpose, aiming to connect classroom learning with real-world applications. Wayfinder includes the Waypoints assessment suite for real-time insights into student growth, supporting targeted instruction and timely interventions. Since 2015, it has been positively received by students and teachers alike, showing improvements in engagement, social awareness, and sense of purpose. The program serves students globally, including major US school districts, and has earned high ratings from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and Common Sense Education.
Aprende Institute
Series A in 2021
Aprende Institute is an online education platform focused on providing vocational skills training to students. It offers a diverse array of online courses and diploma programs aimed at helping individuals acquire practical skills necessary for launching their own businesses or pursuing new career opportunities in high-demand sectors. By equipping students with the tools they need, Aprende Institute enables them to generate additional income through small self-owned businesses, thereby fostering economic empowerment and career advancement.
Wayfinder
Seed Round in 2021
Wayfinder, founded at Stanford University's d.school, provides a comprehensive K-12 curriculum focused on developing essential future-ready skills beyond traditional social-emotional learning. The program emphasizes Self-Awareness, Adaptability, Empathy, Collaboration, Agency, and Purpose, aiming to connect classroom learning with real-world applications. Wayfinder includes the Waypoints assessment suite for real-time insights into student growth, supporting targeted instruction and timely interventions. Since 2015, it has been positively received by students and teachers alike, showing improvements in engagement, social awareness, and sense of purpose. The program serves students globally, including major US school districts, and has earned high ratings from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and Common Sense Education.
Aprende Institute
Series A in 2020
Aprende Institute is an online education platform focused on providing vocational skills training to students. It offers a diverse array of online courses and diploma programs aimed at helping individuals acquire practical skills necessary for launching their own businesses or pursuing new career opportunities in high-demand sectors. By equipping students with the tools they need, Aprende Institute enables them to generate additional income through small self-owned businesses, thereby fostering economic empowerment and career advancement.