New Markets Venture Partners

New Markets Venture Partners backs education and workforce technology companies. It describes its record as more than twenty years long and argues that positive social impact can go together with market-rate returns.

Services

• Growth-stage investment: funding from Series A onward, once a company has shown that its product fits its market.
• Impact focus: companies that remove obstacles and open routes to prosperity for people most at risk.
• Industry input: insight and deal flow from strategic partners and limited partners, including foundations, non-profits, government bodies and corporations.
• Advisory board: A group of more than thirty sector figures, led by Jim Shelton.

Clients

Education and workforce technology companies with strong margins, a scalable model, an experienced team and evidence that their product works. Its portfolio aims to raise economic mobility for Americans, especially those most in need.

Key facts

• Sector: Education and workforce technology
• Stage: Series A and later
• Team experience: Investment staff with ten to over thirty years each in institutional investing