Rob Cohen

EdTech Entrepreneur, Board Member, Advisor, Investor

📍 Warren, New Jersey, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
10
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2
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2
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2
Late stage
21y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Mar 2025
Ziplines Education is a career accelerator that partners with over 30 leading colleges and universities to bridge the gap between higher education and industry. Our mission is to equip professionals with the in-demand skills needed to thrive in today’s technology-driven workplace. Through flexible, cohort-based online certificate courses, Ziplines delivers knowledge, skills, and industry-recognized technology certifications that align with employers needs. Learn more at ziplines.com.
Advisor/Investor/Board Observer
Jun 2024
Oneday is a tech enabled university for entrepreneurs, where users earn their degrees from starting businesses. Instead of professors, we have entrepreneurs. Instead of curriculum, we have tools that help students launch businesses. And instead of graduating with just a degree, our students graduate with a degree and a revenue generating business.
Board Member
Jun 2024
Green Flower provides best-in-industry digital cannabis curriculum to help educate and destigmatize the plant for individuals and businesses around the world. As cannabis continues its path toward global legalization, we train the next generation of industry professionals and create a safe supply chain for all. Green Flower provides learning pathways for individuals to study on their own time, enterprise training for operations across the vertical, and continuing education programs for prestigious universities across the country.
late stageE-learning
Investor
Sep 2023
Did you know that employees with coach-like managers are eight times more likely to be highly engaged? (Source: Forrester) RunYourself is a pioneering prompt-driven, AI-assisted platform making it easy for managers to have effective coaching conversations. We blend expert coaching prompts on a spectrum of crucial topics with AI-powered support. This enables managers to have productive peer coaching conversations with other managers and more effective coaching, feedback, performance and career development conversations with their team members.
early stageEducation
Investor/Advisor
Aug 2019
Brains & Motion Education (BAM!) is a tech-enabled company unlocking the potential of students year-round through summer camp, after-school, and structured recess enrichment programs. By empowering the next generation with world-class STEM, Arts, and Sports programs, BAM fosters a lifelong love for learning, shaping well-rounded individuals who are not just ready for tomorrow but thriving in the present. To date, BAM has served 1,150+ schools and 93,000 students with 4,600 programs delivered.
Board Member
Jan 2019
At Stride, Inc. we support learners of all ages with inspired teachers and personalized experiences. Everything comes back to learners. And not just the 56.6 million K–12 students — the 331 million Americans. Learning never stops. It’s the best means of growth throughout your life. But learning simply cannot be one-size-fits-all. At Stride, we’re leading enormous and necessary change in a sector that’s left far too many behind. And it’s required us to challenge long-accepted beliefs and practices. With insight and input from learners, parents, teachers, administrators, boards of education, and policymakers, we continue to provide more effective ways to learn — focusing on building the skills and confidence learners need to make their way forward in life. Because the more learners grow, the more we all benefit. And the future holds vast opportunity — where learners are empowered to choose a path that unlocks their full potential. Help us champion a fairer system that creates a stronger workforce and a stronger society.
Investor, Strategic Advisor, Board Observer
Jul 2016
Trilogy Education Services is now operating under edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U. This page is closing on November 18th.
Experience · 15 entries
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2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
Ziplines Education is a career accelerator that partners with over 30 leading colleges and universities to bridge the gap between higher education and industry. Our mission is to equip professionals with the in-demand skills needed to thrive in today’s technology-driven workplace. Through flexible, cohort-based online certificate courses, Ziplines delivers knowledge, skills, and industry-recognized technology certifications that align with employers needs. Learn more at ziplines.com.
2024
Advisor/Investor/Board Observer
Jun 2024
Oneday is a tech enabled university for entrepreneurs, where users earn their degrees from starting businesses. Instead of professors, we have entrepreneurs. Instead of curriculum, we have tools that help students launch businesses. And instead of graduating with just a degree, our students graduate with a degree and a revenue generating business.
Board Member
Jun 2024
Green Flower provides best-in-industry digital cannabis curriculum to help educate and destigmatize the plant for individuals and businesses around the world. As cannabis continues its path toward global legalization, we train the next generation of industry professionals and create a safe supply chain for all. Green Flower provides learning pathways for individuals to study on their own time, enterprise training for operations across the vertical, and continuing education programs for prestigious universities across the country.
late stageE-learning
2023
Investor
Sep 2023
Did you know that employees with coach-like managers are eight times more likely to be highly engaged? (Source: Forrester) RunYourself is a pioneering prompt-driven, AI-assisted platform making it easy for managers to have effective coaching conversations. We blend expert coaching prompts on a spectrum of crucial topics with AI-powered support. This enables managers to have productive peer coaching conversations with other managers and more effective coaching, feedback, performance and career development conversations with their team members.
early stageEducation
2020
Advisor/Investor (former Board Member)
Aug 2020
LearningMate is a technology company offering domain expertise in teaching and learning solutions - leveraging digital, cloud, process automation, data, and strong learning design principles. For more than twenty years, LearningMate has been working with education institutions across the globe to help them build, deploy, and streamline their digital infrastructure. Through our powerful mix of products and services, we are proud to help lead the world toward a future where education is accessible, affordable, and effective. Since 2001, we have grown to employ more than 3,500 associates spread across the world and serve a global clientele of education publishers, traditional and nontraditional EdTech companies, K-20 schools, universities and career colleges, government agencies, non-profits, corporate training, and education consortia.
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