Dan Sommer

Established in 2006, Yellow Brick Road (YBR) Early Childhood Development Center is a growing childcare and early learning organization with 30+ locations across Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. We operate three early learning brands, including Sonnet Montessori and Seeds to Seedlings, offering diverse learning environments and meaningful, long-term career pathways for early childhood professionals. Our centers provide safe, engaging environments where children thrive and where educators are empowered to grow, lead, and make a lasting impact. Our mission is to put good humans into the world and leave the world better than we found it. This mission guides how we care for children, partner with families, and invest in our educators every day. We are known for: • Stable, long-standing leadership • A collaborative, people-first culture • Strong relationships with families and local schools • Ongoing opportunities for professional growth and advancement As we continue to grow, we remain deeply committed to delivering exceptional early learning experiences while supporting educators through thoughtful leadership, consistent standards, and a shared sense of purpose.

3i Members is a network for accomplished private investors who source opportunities, share expertise, and build value for one another that goes far beyond the deal. Note: 3i Members is not associated with 3i Group Plc or any of its affiliates. Were hiring! https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/3imembers

Sales Impact Academy is the worlds leading go-to-market learning platform providing a continuous live learning solution for high-growth technology companies. 79% of sales organizations miss their forecasts by more than 10%. Sales Impact Academy (SIA) helps revenue teams build pipeline and expand customers–faster. The traditional education system has let B2B companies down, with a complete lack of formal, structured education in sales and go-to-market. It means 100 million + people across the world are learning on the job, and every commercial individual contributor and leader is at constant risk of missing their targets and often do. Sales Impact Academy is solving this skills crisis by bringing together the world’s best talent to teach structured, live online courses with high learning design principles, and now supports the skills development of over 12,000 learners across 280 customers including Paypal, HubSpot, Github, Gong, Klaviyo, Rubrik & Thoughtspot. Over 70 instructors on the platform include people like Mark Roberge who was CRO at Hubspot, Sarah Brazier from Gong, Chris Voss (FBIs lead international hostage negotiator), Sam Nelson from Outreach, Dan Steinman from Gainsight, Elissa Fink former CMO of Tableau, and many others. Sales Impact Academy is backed by VCs Stage 2 Capital, MIT, Hubspot Ventures, and Emerge Education.

Experiences shared. Decisions made. Build communities, confidence, and empower life-changing decisions. We connect university student ambassadors and future students digitally around the world to make more informed decisions about higher education. Prospective students get information, reassurance and a greater shot at success. Student ambassadors create connections, gain confidence and get to pay it forward. And universities attract, engage and retain a diverse student population. Because shared experience is the most powerful tool for choosing the right path.

Amerigo supports international students at U.S. high schools with a holistic and supportive approach that emphasizes success and growth. We help international students seeking a preparatory education in the United States thrive both in and out of the American classroom. Combining a nurturing boarding environment, supplemental academic support, English language development, and an approach oriented around successful college outcomes, Amerigo prepares students with the skills, values, and care required to succeed in high school, at the college level, and beyond.

Empowered Education is the parent company of Health Coach Institute and Functional Nutrition Alliance—the leading online schools for health coaches and wellness practitioners. Empowered Education is a company built on a metrics-driven remote workforce platform with 200+ employees throughout the US and the globe.

Established in 2006, Yellow Brick Road (YBR) Early Childhood Development Center is a growing childcare and early learning organization with 30+ locations across Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. We operate three early learning brands, including Sonnet Montessori and Seeds to Seedlings, offering diverse learning environments and meaningful, long-term career pathways for early childhood professionals. Our centers provide safe, engaging environments where children thrive and where educators are empowered to grow, lead, and make a lasting impact. Our mission is to put good humans into the world and leave the world better than we found it. This mission guides how we care for children, partner with families, and invest in our educators every day. We are known for: • Stable, long-standing leadership • A collaborative, people-first culture • Strong relationships with families and local schools • Ongoing opportunities for professional growth and advancement As we continue to grow, we remain deeply committed to delivering exceptional early learning experiences while supporting educators through thoughtful leadership, consistent standards, and a shared sense of purpose.

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.

Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs, providing the first professional round of capital to promising entrepreneurs with compelling business concepts. Founder Collective is focused on helping the next generation of great entrepreneurs build important and lasting businesses. Founder Collective focuses on technology-driven companies across a broad range of industries.

3i Members is a network for accomplished private investors who source opportunities, share expertise, and build value for one another that goes far beyond the deal. Note: 3i Members is not associated with 3i Group Plc or any of its affiliates. Were hiring! https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/3imembers

Sales Impact Academy is the worlds leading go-to-market learning platform providing a continuous live learning solution for high-growth technology companies. 79% of sales organizations miss their forecasts by more than 10%. Sales Impact Academy (SIA) helps revenue teams build pipeline and expand customers–faster. The traditional education system has let B2B companies down, with a complete lack of formal, structured education in sales and go-to-market. It means 100 million + people across the world are learning on the job, and every commercial individual contributor and leader is at constant risk of missing their targets and often do. Sales Impact Academy is solving this skills crisis by bringing together the world’s best talent to teach structured, live online courses with high learning design principles, and now supports the skills development of over 12,000 learners across 280 customers including Paypal, HubSpot, Github, Gong, Klaviyo, Rubrik & Thoughtspot. Over 70 instructors on the platform include people like Mark Roberge who was CRO at Hubspot, Sarah Brazier from Gong, Chris Voss (FBIs lead international hostage negotiator), Sam Nelson from Outreach, Dan Steinman from Gainsight, Elissa Fink former CMO of Tableau, and many others. Sales Impact Academy is backed by VCs Stage 2 Capital, MIT, Hubspot Ventures, and Emerge Education.