Tory Patterson

LearnZillion, Inc. engages in the development of a web-based education tool and video library of math and literacy lessons. LearnZillion was founded by Eric Westendorf and Alix Guerrier in 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Degreed, Inc. operates a learning platform for college students, professionals and organizations. It offers course-by-course scores and validation of education from accredited and non-accredited sources. The firm provides scores that quantifies a person?s lifelong education by credit hours and mastery levels. The company was founded by David A. Wiley, Eric Sharp and David Blake and in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Gather Technologies, Inc. develops event management software for restaurants and venues. It offers Gather, a cloud based platform to manage, track and store event related information. The company was founded by Nicholas Miller, Alex Lassiter and Tom Merrihew in 2012 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC is the investment bank asset management and brokerage arm of Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). The firm is headquartered San Francisco. Their services include fixed-income sales and trading, equities sales and trading, market analysis and research and investment banking and advisory services.

Savvian LLC provides investment banking and advisory services. The investment bank serves growth companies through its merger and acquisition advisory and capital market financing services. It covers industries including the technology, media, communications, healthcare, business services, financial technology and consumer commerce sectors. Savvian is located in San Francisco, CA.

Catamount Ventures Management LLC (Catamount Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Jed Smith. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Remind101, Inc. provides mobile application that offers teachers to instantly text students and parents. It helps students, teachers, and school leaders to connect at place. The company was founded by Brett Kopf and David Kopf in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Newsela, Inc. publishes news articles online. Its common core-aligned quizzes attached to articles give educators and parents insight to student's reading strengths and weaknesses. The company was founded by Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

EdSurge, Inc. operates website for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. The company was founded by Elizabeth Corcoranin, Nick Punt, Bowman Matt and Agustin Vilaseca in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Preply, Inc. provides online english tutorial services. It offers other foreign languages such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. The company was founded by Kyrylo Bigay, Sergey Lukyanov and Dmytro Voloshyn on August 2, 2012 and is headquartered in Brookline, MA.

Part of Wells Fargo & Co., Wells Fargo Securities, Inc. is a brokerage firm. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Accelerate Learning, Inc. provides educational services. It offers STEMscopes, a digital science solution for PreK through 12th grade students offering three core curriculum programs: STEMscopes K-12, STEMscopes NGSS, and STEMscopes Early Explorer. The company was founded by Jarrett Reid Whitaker in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kiddom, Inc. develops education technology platform, which enables to plan, assess and analyze personalized learning for teachers and learners. It specializes in education technology, personalized learning, education management, blended learning, standards-based grading and data-informed instruction. The company was founded by Ahsan Rizvi in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Morressier GmbH develops software that collects and manages presentations and posters for scientific events. The company was founded by Sami Benchekroun and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Bakpax, Inc. engages in the provision of educational services. The company was founded by Jose Ferreira and Will Fleiss and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hazel Health, Inc. operates as a software company, which provides healthcare services for students in school. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Excellence & Intelligence Co., Ltd. is an online programming learning platform. The company is based in Zhongshan, China. The Chinese company was founded in 2017 by Zhi Xu and Jian Bin Mo.

Laerdal Million Lives Fund (Laerdal Million Lives) is a venture capital firm affiliated with the Laerdal Family, founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Real Collaborative, Inc. provides women’s mental healthcare services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

ULesson Inc. develops education applications. The CEO of the Nigerian company is Simdul Shagaya.

Rebel Girls, Inc. operates as a cultural media engine. The company was founded by Elena Favilli and is headquartered in Cloverdale, CA.

Labster Group ApS is a Danish company that develops fully interactive virtual training simulations to enhance traditional learning outcomes by stimulating students' natural curiosity and reinforcing the connection between science and the real world. Labster is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has subsidiaries in Denmark and Canada. The simulations can be used in a variety of different ways, from a full lab replacement to a supplemental learning activity. The company collaborates with over 1,000 institutions around the world, including ETH in, MIT, and Imperial College, and has over 6 million students in high schools and universities in 100-plus countries who have used Labster to perform realistic experiments, learn key science concepts, and practice their skills in a risk-free learning environment. The company was founded in 2017, and Michael Bodekær Jensen has been the CEO of the company since 2017.

Part of Owl Ventures LLC, Owl Ventures Partnership Holdings III LLC operates as a venture capital firm. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA.

Kyron Learning PBC is a startup that was founded with the aim of providing equitable access to great instructors for all learners. The American company provides a platform that uses "interactive video" to deliver learning content, with AI that guides the conversation between the instructor and learner. Kyron is headquartered in the US, with offices in two other locations. The team is comprised of prominent educators and veteran leaders from Google and Amazon. The company believes that great education starts with great teachers and that students succeed most when they have access to high-quality, one-on-one feedback. Kyron Learning is not just another video lesson platform, as it uses conversational AI to provide immediate one-on-one differentiated support. The company was founded by Rajen Sheth, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Eco.logic Brands, Inc. produces recycled paper laundry detergent bottles. It also designs and manufactures recyclable packaging solutions for consumer applications. The firm offers ready-to-fill bottles to hold pourable liquid or dry products. The company also offers cardboard bottles through stores in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Eco.logic Brands was founded by Julie Corbett on May 2008 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Noodle Partners, Inc. helps students make better decisions about learning. It operates an Internet portal for education and search index website. The company was founded by John S. Katzman and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Owl Ventures LLC (Owl Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Tory Patterson and Jed Smith. The firm headquartered in San Francisco.