accelerate your vision for education
World-renowned StartEd membership empowers you to scale your business with top EdTech leaders and investors. Get ready to access every kind of social and financial capital available to unlock growth.
Membership includes
Customize your transformation
Participation is offered to an intimate group of founders. You’ll have access to a dedicated sounding board to set goals and strategy in advisory sessions on a frequent basis.
build an edtech network
Exclusive access to the industry’s most experienced and supportive network. You’ll have conversations with fellow CEOs, prolific investors, seasoned founders, and tenured educators — each with decades of industry experience.
masterclasses with experts
We’ve developed practices specifically relevant to EdTech companies to ensure optimal results while saving you time. Our experts show how to fundraise, enter and grow markets, and build products — because they’ve done so many times over in every market condition imaginable.
visibility
Visibility with hundreds of stakeholders to amplify your mission. Present your transformed company at EDTECH WEEK — the #1 EdTech event in New York City — to the industry and alongside fellow CEOs, and publicize your wins.
designed for you.
After you becoming a member, we’ll do the heavy lifting of figuring out which introductory experience is a fit based on your goals and company stage. We customize the experience for your stage of building and immediate objectives.
INTRO: immersion
For companies with traction, up to $5MM in funding or revenue from anywhere in the world.
Intensive: Consecutive Days, ~4 hours/day
One-on-One Mentor & Investor Meetings
Cost: Equity-free + included in the cost of membership after 6 months
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Advanced Fundamentals:
Fundraising in EdTech
US Market Entry
Distribution Channels
Board Building
Positioning Guidance
Other Perks:StartEd Managing Director as your sounding board
Refine Positioning & Pitch Deck
Pitch at Virtual Demo Day broadcast live to the broader EdTech community
AI MASTERCLASS
AI-enhanced customer development, go-to-market, fundraising, and product development guidance from exited founders.
Flexible: Each course distilled to less than 3 hours
Strategy and execution tactics
case studies and templates
Cost: $500 one-time fee per person
INTRO: bootcamp
For entrepreneurs who want to achieve or enhance early product and customers
Part-time: Consecutive Weeks, ~4 hours/week
Feedback from EdTech Peers
Cost: Equity-free + included in the cost of membership after 3 months
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Best Practices:
Fundraise for Early-Stage EdTech
Build Sales & Marketing Process
Deep Dive into EdTech Markets
Engage Advisors and Investors
Other Perks
Peer cohort of EdTech CEOs as your sounding board
Build Pitch Deck & Value Proposition
Pitch at Virtual Demo Day broadcast live to the EdTech founder community
EDTECH WEEK
Live access to investors, customers, designed as a program at the #1 EdTech event in New York City
EdTech Shark Tanks feature prolific investors who invest up to $100,000 in finalists
EdTech Expo grants access and feedback from 100,000 customers, 2K selected based on alignment with members
started Membership
The bedrock of the StartEd experience. For any EdTech company executive, aiming to access a community of leaders, growth, product, and operational capacity on an ongoing basis.
Monthly one-to-one advisory day with senior mentors
Access to course materials and AI-enablement tools
Live, virtual coaching with EdTech CEO peers
Monthly Subscription: $500
Introductions
Optional introductions to StartEd, based on your stage and objective
Build your network from ours.
Our founders and investors hail from the leading companies and organizations in the EdTech community.
what alumni say
Our world-class EdTech network has in-depth expertise in early childhood, K-12, HigherEd, workforce & adult learning. You’ll work alongside peer CEOs in EdTech and mentors who align with where you are on your entrepreneur’s journey, where ever you are in the world.
meet our network of edtech innovators
While most accelerators purely focus on the basics, our experts personalize their approach based on the problems you want to solve for your organization and the stage of your company. We provide expert guidance on the fundamentals for growing companies at any stage to help you conquer the complex EdTech ecosystem.
LEARN the Fundamentals: fundraising, sales, & strategy
Fundraising is a full-time role and a team effort, whether you’re a solopreneur or a growth stage company. In EdTech, we recognize that founders should have access to multiple types of dilutive and non-dilutive capital. Our proven fundraising principles leverage these industry-specific nuances to show you how you can save months of effort in just 40 hours. Just ask our alums.
fundraise: fuel your vision’s growth
We believe EdTech founders and their companies have unique needs and have a bigger mission that goes beyond most technology startups. Join a community of thousands of innovators who care about both financial and social outcomes on the journey to ensure equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all. Join the ‘Army of EdTech’!
WE SHARE YOUR VISION!
Education creates a better world for everyone.
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