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Board Member
May 2023
Venture capitalists are committed to funding America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, working closely with them to transform breakthrough ideas into emerging growth companies that drive U.S. job creation and economic growth.
As the voice of the U.S. venture capital community, the National Venture Capital Association empowers its members and the entrepreneurs they fund by advocating for policies that encourage innovation and reward long-term investment. The NVCA also serves as the definitive resource for venture capital data and unites its members through a full range of professional services.
Board Member
Oct 2022
TeachFX enables teachers to reach their fullest potential by revealing insights about their own teaching. The TeachFX app captures and analyzes a teacher’s classroom instruction, then surfaces insights about classroom discourse patterns personalized to the teacher. Teachers across the country leverage our data insights and professional learning experiences to create more engaging and equitable classrooms for their students. Over 60 school districts, including Detroit Public Schools Community District, Anaheim Union High School District, and Newport News Public Schools, trust TeachFX to empower their teachers with formative feedback that gets students engaged.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Brilliant helps people learn quantitative and technical skills, especially in math, data, and computer science / AI.
On Brilliant, you’re learning by doing – there are no videos, and everything is interactive. Our courses are a delightful experience of guided discovery, designed to improve your ability to think and reason from first principles.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
WorkWhile is an hourly labor marketplace for flexible work that matches workers to shifts that fit their skills, schedule, and location. It uses behavioral analysis, feedback loops, and powerful machine learning models to help identify the most reliable hourly workers and supports them with perks not available at traditional hourly wage jobs. Employers leverage WorkWhile for a high-quality, reliable workforce that they can scale up or down, as needed. Launched in 2020, WorkWhile serves businesses in the warehousing, hospitality, logistics, and event industries across the United States and is backed by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures, Reach Capital, F7 Ventures. A World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer.
Board Member
Feb 2021
FourthRev is an education-technology start-up working across Australia, the UK and the US with a strong belief that collaboration between industry and universities is the best way to solve the skills crisis of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
FourthRev builds world class online learning programmes that lead to qualifications from leading universities, certifications from the worlds best technology companies and digital technology jobs with a global network of employer partners.
Our Purpose: FourthRev exists to create social & economic value through access to high-growth careers in the digital economy.
Our Vision: To establish a new education category of choice at the intersection of universities, employers & lifelong learners.
Board Member
Dec 2020
Ellevation is the only web-based software platform specifically designed for EL educators and the English learners they serve. As a mission-driven company, Ellevation focuses on helping English learners achieve their highest aspirations.
A trusted partner to school district administrators, teachers, and students across the United States, the platform simplifies complex program requirements, builds teacher capacity to serve multilingual learners, and equips students with the academic language skills necessary for success.
More than just an EL program management solution, Ellevation goes beyond compliance to impact instruction in every classroom. Currently supporting over 1,700 partner districts and 2.5 million students across nearly every state, Ellevation is committed to educational equity.
Board Member
Sep 2019
Riipen is enabling transformative opportunities for companies to collaborate with post-secondary students on real-time, real-world challenges that are embedded directly into coursework.
To date, Riipen has enabled over 272,000 learner experiences and over 18.4M+ hours of applied learning at 700+ post-secondary academic partnerships & portals with more than 44,000 employers. Riipen’s mission is to be the experiential learning platform on which learners of all backgrounds and employers of all sizes engage actively, frequently and authentically – through real projects.
Board Member
Dec 2017
Become a Full-Stack Software Engineer.
Holberton School is a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers.
Board Observer
Jan 2016
We’re on a mission to make the most of every minute, with scheduling that’s built to help reshape what’s possible for our schools, and each student within them.
Board Member
Nov 2015
Schoolzilla helps school systems turn data into insight and action, so we can all make data-driven decisions that help students achieve. We provide easy-to-use tools that combine all of the important data in your school system into proven reports that save teachers and principals precious time and help them maximize their impact on students. We also empower Data Champions in the school district to go beyond simple reporting and use their talents to uncover answers to the most pressing questions for students and schools.
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Jun 2014
Tales2go believes children must be good listeners before they can become great readers. Repeated exposure to spoken sophisticated words drives vocabulary acquisition and retention, which is a key component of reading proficiency. Reading proficiency, in turn, is critical to academic success. Tales2go is your partner in the fight for better literacy, making it easier and more cost-effective to add a listening component to reading instruction. We stream over five thousand audio book titles from leading publishers to desktops, laptops and mobile devices in the classroom and beyond. Tales2go is used in a growing number of schools and districts across the U.S., including Los Angeles USD, Broward County Schools, Berkeley USD and Heartland AEA. More information is available at www.tales2go.com.
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2023
Board Member
May 2023
Venture capitalists are committed to funding America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, working closely with them to transform breakthrough ideas into emerging growth companies that drive U.S. job creation and economic growth.
As the voice of the U.S. venture capital community, the National Venture Capital Association empowers its members and the entrepreneurs they fund by advocating for policies that encourage innovation and reward long-term investment. The NVCA also serves as the definitive resource for venture capital data and unites its members through a full range of professional services.
2022
Board Member
Oct 2022
TeachFX enables teachers to reach their fullest potential by revealing insights about their own teaching. The TeachFX app captures and analyzes a teacher’s classroom instruction, then surfaces insights about classroom discourse patterns personalized to the teacher. Teachers across the country leverage our data insights and professional learning experiences to create more engaging and equitable classrooms for their students. Over 60 school districts, including Detroit Public Schools Community District, Anaheim Union High School District, and Newport News Public Schools, trust TeachFX to empower their teachers with formative feedback that gets students engaged.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Brilliant helps people learn quantitative and technical skills, especially in math, data, and computer science / AI.
On Brilliant, you’re learning by doing – there are no videos, and everything is interactive. Our courses are a delightful experience of guided discovery, designed to improve your ability to think and reason from first principles.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
WorkWhile is an hourly labor marketplace for flexible work that matches workers to shifts that fit their skills, schedule, and location. It uses behavioral analysis, feedback loops, and powerful machine learning models to help identify the most reliable hourly workers and supports them with perks not available at traditional hourly wage jobs. Employers leverage WorkWhile for a high-quality, reliable workforce that they can scale up or down, as needed. Launched in 2020, WorkWhile serves businesses in the warehousing, hospitality, logistics, and event industries across the United States and is backed by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures, Reach Capital, F7 Ventures. A World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer.
2021
Board Member
Feb 2021
FourthRev is an education-technology start-up working across Australia, the UK and the US with a strong belief that collaboration between industry and universities is the best way to solve the skills crisis of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
FourthRev builds world class online learning programmes that lead to qualifications from leading universities, certifications from the worlds best technology companies and digital technology jobs with a global network of employer partners.
Our Purpose: FourthRev exists to create social & economic value through access to high-growth careers in the digital economy.
Our Vision: To establish a new education category of choice at the intersection of universities, employers & lifelong learners.
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