Edovate Capital

Scaling solutions to education’s hardest challenges

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Edovate Capital partners with social entrepreneurs to scale companies solving education’s hardest challenges.

“Shortly after we started the company in 2014, we partnered with Edovate and received seed investment, but more importantly we collaborated on a go-to-market approach that resulted in both a high growth rate and early profitability. Edovate helped us refine our strategy and with a key early hire that helped put us on the path to success. We highly recommend working with Graham and the Edovate team.”

Anthony Showalter
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Pear Deck

What We Do

We identify capital efficient education technology companies tackling education’s hardest challenges, fund their growth, and help increase their impact.

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PEAR DECK

We invest in companies whose products are loved by schools, teachers, and students

Pear Deck is a communication platform that lets teachers create interactive assessments and presentations that students can follow along on their devices. Pear Deck makes it easy for teachers to connect with every single student in class—across every subject, every grade, and every day. Acquired by Go Guardian.

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PAPER

We invest in founders who put equity into action

Paper is the first comprehensive Educational Support System (ESS) featuring live help and writing feedback for students, paired with real-time feedback and intervention tools for teachers. Overcome any academic obstacle with the personalized learning provided by Paper’s ESS. Paper allows for equitable access to 1:1 support across all students and families.

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LEARNPLATFORM

We invest in leaders like Karl Rectanus who create new categories

LearnPlatform is an edtech effectiveness system that equips education organizations to control their "Wild West" ecosystem by empowering them to organize, streamline, and analyze their technology to save time, save money, and improve outcomes. We help support Karl’s vision of an ecosystem of edtech tools that are procured by schools and districts to support the right students at the right time to get outstanding results.

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NETCHEMIA

We invest in companies that become market leaders

Netchemia’s applications enable school districts of any size to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and achieve positive educational impacts. The company was acquired by Vista Equity Partners and is now part of Powerschool. Today, the Unified TalentTM suite of products serves tens of thousands of schools across the U.S. and internationally.

Our Commitment to Impact

100 by 40: Investing in 100 sustainable K12 Edtech companies by 2040

We are committed to accelerate the growth and impact of new companies tackling the hardest problems across K12 education. We urgently need novel solutions to improve our public school systems’ digital infrastructure, how we serve our most marginalized students, ways to rapidly address learning loss, integration of social and emotional learning, and paths to build stronger connections to jobs and the workforce.

We believe this opportunity can only be realized with the expansion of aligned capital structures. Our mission is to increase the number of entrepreneurs pursuing cutting-edge solutions to education’s most pressing problems and be a key partner empowering these products and services to achieve both scale and sustainability.

We are pursuing a vision to empower 100+ impact-first edtech companies over the next 30 years. We believe our aligned funding and coalition of industry partners can be one of the most significant catalysts of social change of the last decade.

Just a couple of the many impact stories from the Edovate portfolio:

EveryDay Labs helps scale up school district PreK–12 attendance initiatives by uniting behavioral science, data science, and evidence-based family communication. At the Los Angeles Unified School District, EveryDay Labs reduced absences by 12%.

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BookNook helps K12 schools and districts advance literacy goals by providing rigorous distance learning and in-person solutions for live reading interventions. Preliminary results from the fall of 2020 show that BookNook is helping to close reading gaps for K–3 early readers.

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