• BloomBoard

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2015

  BloomBoard is a Palo Alto, California education-technology company that connects teachers with resources to achieve their professional learning goals. It provides an on-demand marketplace where educators can access videos, webinars, courses and e-books from trusted providers, and a procurement process that lets administrators track and measure teacher growth. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Jason Lange. BloomBoard works with over 7,000 schools across more than 700 districts in 22 states. It raised $7.2M in Series B financing and has raised $16M in total to date. The company plans to use the funds to scale its team, accelerate customer growth, expand school and district offerings, and launch new professional development opportunities for K12 educators. BloomBoard offers a platform for teachers and administrators to record, collect, and track professional development data, set learning goals, and create action plans. The platform recommends resources from over 50 third-party PD providers and BloomBoard takes a cut of sales, creating a marketplace tied to observation and outcome data. Administrators can upload observation notes and monitor teachers’ progress toward goals; the company primarily markets to district-level administrators. BloomBoard plans to expand its PD provider marketplace to well over 100 providers and develop social tools that let teachers form cross-school communities to share resources and feedback. It currently has five state-level contracts (Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, and North Carolina), including a Connecticut contract worth over $1 million. The company projects use by over 250,000 teachers across 18 states by the start of the 2014–2015 school year.

• Geekie

  Participated · Equity · May 2015

  Geekie provides an adaptive learning platform, Geekie Labs, designed to help learners improve performance across educational settings. The company’s products have been adopted by public and private high schools and by students preparing for the Exame Nacional do Ensino Medio (ENEM). Geekie also operates Geekie Games, a free online ENEM-preparation platform; last year 550,000 students used Geekie Games. Founded in 2011 by Claudio Sassaki and Eduardo Bontempo, the company plans to use recent funding for market expansion and product development. The articles report a US$7M funding round that supports the company’s growth initiatives.

• Kaltura

  Led · Equity · Feb 2014

  Kaltura provides a suite of video technology solutions including OTT TV and video monetization, enterprise video solutions, a video marketing suite, education video solutions, and Kaltura VPaaS (Video-Platform-as-a-Service). Its products are deployed globally in thousands of enterprises, media companies, service providers and educational institutions. The company offers solutions for internal communication, collaboration, training, webcasting, and customer-facing video applications and workflows. Kaltura positions VPaaS as a self-serve specialized cloud video service to enable organizations to build and deploy video applications and experiences. The company is led by Ron Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO. Kaltura says it will use new capital to extend its presence globally. Kaltura is an open source online video platform that offers video management, publishing and monetization tools to simplify creation of video experiences. Led by Chairman and CEO Ron Yekutiel, the New York–based company serves media companies, corporations and educational institutions, with customers such as HBO, ABC, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Bank of America, Intel, Harvard and Yale. The company also reports more than 50,000 community members at kaltura.org. Kaltura says it will use the new funding to accelerate product development and to extend operations into Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Korea. Prior financings include $25M in 2012 and $20M in 2011. The announcement reports an additional $47M of funding. Kaltura offers a suite of commercial video applications and an open-source development platform with extendible APIs that support video workflows such as ingestion, transcoding, management, distribution, publishing, engagement, monetization and analytics. The platform is supported by a global developer community of more than 40,000 members. Kaltura’s solutions can be deployed on-premise or on any public or private cloud, including Kaltura’s own SaaS cloud, and are supported on PCs, tablets, smartphones, set-top boxes and connected devices. The company sells products and services directly to organizations and via distributors and OEMs such as InterCall and Blackboard. Led by Chairman and CEO Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura intends to use new capital to expand its product offering and to grow into additional industries and geographies, mainly in the Asia‑Pacific region. The article reports the company raised $25M in funding. Kaltura is an open-source online video platform provider that helps publishers add video and interactive rich-media functionality to their websites. Its platform includes features for video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing and advertising. Led by Chairman, CEO and co-founder Ron Yekutiel, the company serves media and entertainment companies, enterprises, small- and medium-size businesses, educational institutions, service providers, platform vendors and system integrators. Kaltura received a $20M equity financing and intends to use the capital to enhance rich-media capabilities on tablets, mobile phones and other connected devices. The company is placing special emphasis on supporting the MeeGo mobile operating system and Intel’s AppUp application store. Kaltura has offices in San Francisco and London, with R&D headquarters in Ramat Gan, Israel.

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