Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

NewSchools Venture Fund

Founders John Doerr Kim Smith

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 116
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 102
Rounds per year 4.64
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 23
Key employees 22
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • E-Learning
  • EdTech
  • Software
  • Non Profit
Summary

NewSchools Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Oakland. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the NewSchools Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Imagine K12, Rick Burnes, Kapor Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Eileen Rudden, Rick Burnes, Josh Tolkoff. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Learn Capital, Rethink Education, Kapor Capital.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this NewSchools Venture Fund performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from NewSchools Venture Fund is 1-5 millions dollars.

The fund was created by John Doerr, Kim Smith. Besides them, we counted 22 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight EdCast, ClassDojo, Newsela. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Skill Assessment. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of NewSchools Venture Fund:
Typical Co-investors
NewSchools Venture Fund is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after NewSchools Venture Fund:
There are no funds here. If we find new data, we will add it here.

Funds with similar focus

Funds from United States
Funds with similar focus located in United States:
Funds with the same geo focus
Funds with similar geography of portfolio companies:
Funds doing lead investments
Funds with similar focus acting as lead investors:

Look at other 50 related and similar funds Collapse list
Fund NameLocation
Amber Group China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
Autodesk Foundation California, San Francisco, United States
Becker Ventures Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, United States
Chivas Venture England, London, United Kingdom
Dreammove China, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Fresh Capital China, Huangpu, Shanghai
Fuhui Yida Keji Beijing, Beijing, China
GSV AcceleraTE California, San Francisco, United States
Hongtai Capital Holdings Beijing, Beijing, China
Launchpad -
Lucros Investment -
National Digital Infrastructure Fund England, London, United Kingdom
Northbridge Investments and Trust Limited Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
Relational Investors LLC. California, San Diego, United States
ReumaNederland -
Timeline Ventures California, San Diego, United States
Venture Highway Delhi, India, New Delhi
Vespa Capital England, London, United Kingdom
Yamaguchi Capital Japan, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Outline-it

EdTech
Education
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$865K31 Aug 2022 -

Tutored by Teachers

EdTech
$10M24 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Mursion

Augmented Reality
Education
Health Care
Software
Virtual Reality
$8M26 Mar 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

NexusEdge

Artificial Intelligence
Career Planning
E-Learning
Education
Higher Education
$265K18 May 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

ClassWallet

Financial Services
FinTech
$2M07 May 2018 Hollywood, Florida, United States

Majorwise

Career Planning
EdTech
Education
Human Resources
Marketing
Software
$200K15 Jun 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

CodeHS

Developer Platform
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Secondary Education
Software
STEM Education
$1M21 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Kaizena

Education
Internet
$900K15 Jul 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

ClassWallet

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M13 Jul 2015 Hollywood, Florida, United States

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent NewSchools Venture Fund?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 116
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 4.64
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Outline-it

EdTech
Education
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$865K31 Aug 2022 -

Tutored by Teachers

EdTech
$10M24 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Mursion

Augmented Reality
Education
Health Care
Software
Virtual Reality
$8M26 Mar 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

NexusEdge

Artificial Intelligence
Career Planning
E-Learning
Education
Higher Education
$265K18 May 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

ClassWallet

Financial Services
FinTech
$2M07 May 2018 Hollywood, Florida, United States

Majorwise

Career Planning
EdTech
Education
Human Resources
Marketing
Software
$200K15 Jun 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

CodeHS

Developer Platform
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Secondary Education
Software
STEM Education
$1M21 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Kaizena

Education
Internet
$900K15 Jul 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

ClassWallet

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M13 Jul 2015 Hollywood, Florida, United States
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: