University Ventures is a private equity firm in New York that is focused on companies belonging to the global higher education sector. This firm invests in Series A, Seed, Series B, Series C and other ventures. Its portfolio companies include Techtonic, ProSky, MPOWER Financing,MeasureOne, and PeopleGrove.
The companies invests in companies that make higher education more affordable, those that pioneer new approaches to learning, and those that help employers think differently about how and where they discover talent.
Timeline
Funded Companies
EverTrue is a Boston-based company founded by Eric Carlstrom, Brent Grinna and Jesse Bardo.
Packback is a Chicago-based company founded by Nick Currier, Kasey Gandham, Jessica Tenuta and Mike Shannon.
A company providing a career guidance marketplace platform matching college students with coaches, professionals and jobs
Vemo Education designs, implements, and sustains income share agreement programs for universities and alternative education providers.
MissionU is a San Francisco-based higher education company.
People
Aanand Radia
Managing Director
Cassidy Leventhal
Vice President
Corinne Spears
Associate
Daniel Pianko
General Partner
Gregg Rosenthal
Managing Director
Prateek Aneja
Vice President
Ryan Craig
Managing Director
Troy Williams
General Partner
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Packback
CollegeVine
Credly
Meritize
Motimatic
MPOWER Financing
PeopleGrove
Techtonic
UNICAF