NewSchools Venture Fund
Investment Details
Investor Type
Charitable Foundation
Asset Class Focus
Venture Capital, ESG and Impact Investing
Stage Focus
Seed, Early Stage, Series A, Series B, Growth, Late Stage
Geographical Focus
United States
Industries Focus
- Financial Services
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Energy
- Consumer Goods
- Real Estate
- Telecommunications
- Media
- Retail
- Education
- Agriculture
- Transportation
- Hospitality
- Manufacturing
- Professional Services
- Nonprofit Organizations
Investment Size:
100,000 to 500,000 USD
Investor Details Founded: 1998
NewSchools Venture Fund is a national non-profit venture philanthropy firm dedicated to transforming public education by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs and organizations. Their mission is to reimagine learning so that all children, especially those in underserved communities, have the opportunity to succeed. They achieve this by raising philanthropic funds and investing them in education innovators who are creating new possibilities for students.
The firm focuses on several key areas: Innovative Schools, Diverse Leaders, and Learning Solutions. They provide financial support, management assistance, and a network of resources to help these ventures scale and succeed. Their investments span various stages, from seed funding to growth capital, and they have a particular emphasis on ventures that are reimagining the student experience and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in education.
Since its founding in 1998, NewSchools Venture Fund has invested over $400 million in early-stage education innovators, impacting approximately 60% of the nation's public school students. Their approach combines the best of private philanthropy and venture capital to ensure that every child has access to an excellent education, preparing them for success in college and beyond.
Requirements
- Innovative solutions in education
- Alignment with NewSchools' funding areas
- Commitment to equity and inclusion
- Potential for significant impact on student success
- Early-stage organizations or new initiatives within existing organizations
- Innovative approaches to public education
- Focus on underserved communities
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Scalable and sustainable models
- Clear plan for student success
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Portfolio Companies
- 10story
- 4th-Dimension Leaders
- 7 Generation Games
- A+ Unlimited Potential (A+UP)
- Academy of Visual and Performing Arts
- Acuarela Curriculum Cooperative
- Admissions Gambit
- Advance Rural Education Foundation
- AI for Equity
- AI-Learners
- AIM – Academy for Innovation in Medicine
- Albuquerque Public Schools
- ALL in Education
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
- Aventura Community School
- Barbershop Books
- Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter Schools
- BeeReaders
- BELIEVE Schools, Inc
- BELIEVE St. Louis
- Bernalillo Public Schools
- KIPP
- Rocketship Education
- Summit Public Schools
- Uncommon Schools
- Success Academy Charter Schools
- Teach For America
- New Leaders
- TNTP
- EdTech Foundry
- Education Pioneers
- The New Teacher Project
- City Year
- Aspire Public Schools
- Green Dot Public Schools
- Achievement First
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