Early Stage Career Education Impact Investing: Fueling Innovation | ASU+GSV Summit 2024

Jomayra Herrera (Partner, Reach Capital), Deborah Quazzo (Managing Partner of GSV Ventures and Co-Founder of the ASU+GSV Summit, GSV Ventures), Jessica Hinkle (SVP Strategic Investments, Strada Education Foundation) Henry Hipps (Co-founder and CEO, Diffusion Venture Studio), and Rilwan Meeran (Head of Impact, ASA) at the ASU+GSV Summit.

It’s been a tough year for education technology startups–35% drop in seed funding across all sectors and 50% decrease in investment in education technology companies. In the current environment, seed-stage education startups with less than $2 million in revenue will have the greatest difficulties navigating choppy economic waters to find customers and investors in order to survive. Seed funding provides education companies with the resources needed to continue to survive and grow. But just 19 of 739 institutional seed investors in the education technology sector are purely education focused and funding for career education still lags other areas in the sector. Join the conversation as impact investors reveal why they are digging deep and investing in career readiness startups and learn from founders on how to snag funding for career readiness start ups.

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