Richard D. Segal

Author @ The Heart of It | 10 Pillars of Mindful Impact Investing

📍 Harrison, New York, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2020
Operator-angel🌍 United States
10
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2
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3
Mid stage
1
Late stage
22y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Nov 2018
Noodle empowers universities to transform the world through life-changing learning. Noodle offers strategic consulting to advise university partners as they navigate their futures. We provide services tailored to meet their growth aspirations and deploy technology, tools, and platforms that integrate for scale. This approach makes our partners more resilient, responsive, efficient, and interconnected.
Board Observer
Sep 2016
Orijin is transforming how correctional jurisdictions prepare incarcerated populations for employment. The Orijin platform delivers comprehensive learning and workforce development experiences, supported by motivational tools for learners and actionable insights for correctional staff. Orijin partners with jurisdictions and agencies including Massachusetts Department of Correction, Tennessee Department of Labor, and North Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to accelerate employability, ensuring that learning investments translate to reentry successes. As a public benefit corporation, Orijin is on a mission to prepare every justice-impacted individual for sustainable employment and change corrections for good. For more information, visit orijin.works.
early stageEducation
Member of the Board
Sep 2016
Founded in 2014, APDS is the only Certified B Corporation in Corrections Reform in the USA. Our vision is to break the cycle of incarceration. Our mission is to prepare every justice-involved individual for a living wage career upon their reentry to society. Our charge: Day one access to evidence-based education technology in every jurisdiction and state in the USA to create pathways to living-wage careers.
Board Member
Feb 2016
We are experts in adult learning and postgraduate medical education. We utilize advanced learning theory and techniques, along with a sophisticated technology platform to provide personalized CME for primary care providers and cardiologists that measurably improve clinical judgment, critical thinking, and patient care. Our Internal Medicine and Cardiology Board Review products are backed by a Board Pass Guarantee.
Board Member
Aug 2014
About HOMER, a BEGiN Brand HOMER is the proven early learning program that provides the best educational start possible. We offer personalized, fun, and proven learning products for kids ages 2-8 to help build confidence, mastery, and a love of learning. Our learning experts have crafted the HOMER Method to support parents in delivering knowledge, personal development, and motivation - a recipe for growing, enthusiastic, lifelong learners. Our parent company, BEGiN, is the award-winning education technology company that creates engaging and effective learning products to bring the highest quality education to young children everywhere. We are New-York-City-based and leverage the best talent in technology, education, and entertainment to create learning programs that cultivate the critical skills children need to succeed in the future. We are deeply committed to our members and to their children, and we are building a creative and strategic team to develop a portfolio of early learning products that support learning everywhere. LEARN MORE ABOUT HOMER Team: https://learnwithhomer.com/about/ Awards & Press: https://learnwithhomer.com/buzz/press/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/learnwithhomer Facebook: www.facebook.com/learnwithhomer
Former Member of the Board
Aug 2013
We help people change as fast as their industries. Our crowdsourced tests validate skills in as few as 10 questions & 120 seconds. http://smarterer.com Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Our dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serious software developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Learn more at http://pluralsight.com. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
Member of the Board
Jul 2013
Voxy offers language training that meets business needs with job-specific programs to increase productivity, foster collaboration, and unlock peoples potential. Since its foundation in 2010, Voxy has supported corporate customers in over 150 countries with access to live language coaching led by certified teachers, and an extensive library of role-specific courses that fill crucial soft and technical skill gaps.
mid stageE-learning
Former Member of the Board
Jan 2004
Wireless Generation is now Amplify, a company that's dedicated to reimagining the way teachers teach and students learn through the use of innovative technology and educator training. To learn more and keep in touch with us, follow the Amplify page: http://www.linkedin.com/company/amplify-inc-?trk=top_nav_home
Experience · 12 entries
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2020
Viivi, Inc.
Board Member
Feb 2020
2018
Board Member
Nov 2018
Noodle empowers universities to transform the world through life-changing learning. Noodle offers strategic consulting to advise university partners as they navigate their futures. We provide services tailored to meet their growth aspirations and deploy technology, tools, and platforms that integrate for scale. This approach makes our partners more resilient, responsive, efficient, and interconnected.
2016
Board Observer
Sep 2016
Orijin is transforming how correctional jurisdictions prepare incarcerated populations for employment. The Orijin platform delivers comprehensive learning and workforce development experiences, supported by motivational tools for learners and actionable insights for correctional staff. Orijin partners with jurisdictions and agencies including Massachusetts Department of Correction, Tennessee Department of Labor, and North Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to accelerate employability, ensuring that learning investments translate to reentry successes. As a public benefit corporation, Orijin is on a mission to prepare every justice-impacted individual for sustainable employment and change corrections for good. For more information, visit orijin.works.
early stageEducation
Member of the Board
Sep 2016
Founded in 2014, APDS is the only Certified B Corporation in Corrections Reform in the USA. Our vision is to break the cycle of incarceration. Our mission is to prepare every justice-involved individual for a living wage career upon their reentry to society. Our charge: Day one access to evidence-based education technology in every jurisdiction and state in the USA to create pathways to living-wage careers.
Member of the Board
Jun 2016
Flocabulary is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teachers at 20,000 schools use Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to supplement instruction and develop core literacy skills.
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