Colin Brown

Kide Science by Accelerate Learning is an award-winning, child-centric approach to teaching that helps early childhood educators equip 3-to-8-year-olds with life long skills from problem solving to communication. Born from a five-year academic research project at the University of Helsinki. Backed by Education Finland and loved by teachers in over 30 other countries. Kide was named the best learning solution from Finland to international markets 2022 and won Supes' Choise Award 2023 for the best STEAM solution. Kide is on a mission to get children excited about how the world around them works. With us, school is child's play. Accelerate Learning provides STEM curriculum and professional development solutions that empower teachers, increase scores, and inspire students to become tomorrow’s STEM leaders.

The mission of GCH Partners is to help turn business assets into intelligent, profitable returns for our partners and clients. We focus on companies whose businesses are a part of world trade flows and that seek to increase significantly the value of those businesses by connecting to China. We provide partners with our collective intellectual capital and provide access to our proprietary relationships inside and outside of China. We employ a private merchant banking model, both advising and and investing in China-focused growth equity strategies. Our China Market Strategy division helps businesses prepare for the China market, develop their China market strategy, establish trusted local partners, and provide oversight of local China operations. Our team consists of Shanghai and New York-based professionals who have worked closely together on cross-border advisory, direct investment, strategic partnership development, joint ventures, acquisitions and the management of portfolio companies in the e-commerce, education, healthcare, outsourcing and information services industries.

Kide Science by Accelerate Learning is an award-winning, child-centric approach to teaching that helps early childhood educators equip 3-to-8-year-olds with life long skills from problem solving to communication. Born from a five-year academic research project at the University of Helsinki. Backed by Education Finland and loved by teachers in over 30 other countries. Kide was named the best learning solution from Finland to international markets 2022 and won Supes' Choise Award 2023 for the best STEAM solution. Kide is on a mission to get children excited about how the world around them works. With us, school is child's play. Accelerate Learning provides STEM curriculum and professional development solutions that empower teachers, increase scores, and inspire students to become tomorrow’s STEM leaders.

Emerge - The first check for founders defining the future of work and learning Emerge is a global pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best future of work and learning operators. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity – by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders, providing first-cheque financial support, ongoing expertise and access to a community who have ‘been there and built it’ with unrivalled market-specific know-how. Founded in 2014 as Europe’s only edtech specialist fund, Emerge now invests in B2B and B2C startups across all categories enabling people to grow and fulfil their potential, from early childhood, K12 and higher education through to lifelong learning, workforce development, career navigation and the future of work. Emerge has invested in over 80 companies, now valued at over $2b and impacting more than 31M people worldwide, including Yoto, Causaly, Colossyan, Edurino, Mattilda, Unibuddy, MyEdSpace and Solvely. Emerge invests anywhere between $250k and $2.5M at pre-seed and seed. The team welcomes direct applications - apply through our website. Read more about Emerge’s investment thesis and the startup ideas we’re excited by in our Fund II manifesto linked below.