Economic Opportunity portfolio
Improving educational outcomes and equity across the lifespan and improving access to higher quality jobs and affordable essential services, including financial products and housing
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Acelero is an early childhood education platform serving low income communities, as a direct operator of Head Start centers and via tech-enabled services to other HS operators and states and municipalities. (PE)
BookNook is a peer-reading platform that addresses early literacy by building foundational reading skills. (VC+PE)
Borrowell Inc. is a leading Canadian online lending platform dedicated to making financial stability possible for everyone. (PE)
Candidly is a student loan benefit platform for employers that enables employees to manage their loans and reduce the cost of their debt. (VC)
Climb Credit is a financial technology company that offers an alternative approach to financing affordable and compelling career-skill programs, ultimately leading to higher paying jobs. (VC)
Dandi is a data analytics platform for DEI, enabling organizations to make data-driven DEI decisions. Their analysis ingests information from HR information systems , and then empowers CEOs and DEI teams to analyze the organization at a macro level and drill down for specific intersectional insights. (VC)
Edovo (by Jail Education Solutions) is a communications and education platform for correctional facilities. It provides affordable, on-demand access with the goal of reducing recidivism. (VC)
Fixer is a public benefit corp committed to providing training, certification and sustainable career paths for men and women in home repair and building trades. (VC)
Glimpse is a data analysis platform that enables school districts to align their spending on products, programs, and services with student outcomes. The platform maximizes schools’ education return on investment (eROI) by identifying what’s working so schools can optimize their time and money around solutions that meet the needs of their students. (VC)
HourWork helps businesses engage and rehire their best hourly employees, reducing time- and cost-to-hire by 90% or more. (VC)
Jetty is a fintech company on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and flexible for everyone. (PE)
KickUp is a platform listing and tracking usage and feedback from teachers of professional development (PD) opportunities. The platform also provides infrastructure for teacher coaching and feedback on their classroom practices. (VC)
LearnLux is a workplace financial wellbeing provider that blends fiduciary digital planning with access to one-on-one guidance from Certified Financial Planner™ professionals. (VC)
Lumos Capital Group is an investment firm with a focus on global high growth private companies developing innovative technologies and platforms in education technology, knowledge services and human capital development. (PE Fund)
Market Wagon is an online farmer’s market that shortens the food supply chain by sourcing and distributing local food directly to consumers. (VC)
Mosaic Capital Partners is the preeminent employee ownership-focused private equity firm in the US. Their employee ownership buyout strategy empowers employees while providing business owners an impactful, differentiated change-of-control transaction opportunity. (PE Fund)
Next Billion Digital Growth Fund is an inaugural growth equity fund investing in companies that serve the next billion digital consumers and small businesses across global emerging markets. (PE Fund)
OnlineMedEd is a digital healthcare learning platform that democratizes access to medical careers by helping students graduate from rigorous programs and succeed as practitioning physicians. (PE)
PadSplit is a platform enabling a new category of privately-owned affordable housing. They partner with property owners to convert rentals into co-living spaces and creating a marketplace to connect individuals looking for an affordable place to live near their job. (VC)
Reach Capital invests in US ventures providing education solutions with the ability to scale to millions of children and adults across all the education spectrum, from Early Childhood, K-12, Higher Education and Lifelong Learning. (Economic Opportunity Fund)
ReUp Education partners with universities to re-enroll students who have dropped out of college. The combination of coaches and proprietary tech tools gives students the support they need to set goals, develop positive and effective habits, and graduate. (VC)
Plum is a talent management platform that assesses the talents and potential of candidates and employees to better match them to roles and opportunities, improving employee performance and retention while increasing the diversity of the workplace. (VC)
SemperVirens is a Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies that are transforming the workforce, healthcare, and finance industries while improving the employee/employer relationship and the employee experience. (VC)
Slang is a modular learning platform that allows organizations to easily create professional English career paths at scale for any role using the largest catalog of specialized English courses in the world. (VC)
Stellic is on a mission to help universities ensure all students get the most value out of their increasingly diverse academic journeys with next generation tools that meet the needs of today's students and campus leaders. Their modern degree management platform helps students achieve success. (VC)
The Graide Network is building better writers through its online platform of feedback and grading support to K-12 schools. (VC)
ThinkCERCA is a literacy platform that gives teachers the tools and content they need to create and deliver personalized critical thinking instruction for all students. (VC)
The Vistria Group is an investment firm that operates at the intersection of purpose and profit. Leveraging an unparalleled expertise in policy they look to partner with the best US middle market firms across health, education, and financial services. (PE Fund)