GSV Ventures

The 3rd Annual Education & Skills Innovation Summit—hosted by GSV, Arizona State University, and Emeritus—is returning February 3-5 in Gurgaon. Registration is now open. Secure your spot to join 650 of the best and brightest learning and skills leaders, including: #EdTech founders, innovators, school and institute leaders, government and policy leaders, university presidents and chairs, workforce leaders, global technology leaders, public and private investors, and many more! https://hubs.li/Q02Vw2mc0 Dr. Chandra Pemmasani, Deborah Quazzo, Alakh Pandey (PhysicsWallah), Ronnie Screwvala, Michael Crow, Ashish Dhawan, Rukmini Banerji, Ashwin Damera, Pramath Raj Sinha, Esther T. Benjamin, Prateek Maheshwari, Ankur Dahiya, Sneha Sundaram, Anshuman Singh, Pratham Mittal, Mayank Kumar, Mukul Rustagi, Anil Nagar, Sonali Khan, Sumeet Mehta, Ashish Munjal, Atul Khosla, Nirmit Parikh, Karthik B. Reddy, Rudra Pratap, Pratik Poddar, Sajith Pai, Zemina Hasham, Ambrish Sinha, Aakash Chaudhry, Prerna A Jhunjhunwala, and more to come!

If you could hear a drum roll, it’d be right here ➡️ 🥁 Today we announced the close of Ednition’s $3.5M seed round. The round is led by GSV Ventures, and includes some of the most respected names in edtech: including Reach Capital, Avalanche, Array Ventures, and an amazing group of angel investors. We can’t believe it was over three years ago that we set out to solve the most time-consuming and costly challenges for K-12 technology vendors: rostering and data interoperability. We now have millions of students on the RosterStream platform, and we have processed billions of student records. That means our partners have saved countless development hours and dollars, freeing their product and engineering teams to build tools that make a direct impact in the classroom. That’s why we are all here, isn’t it? Read our full announcement to learn more about what this investment means for our edtech partners and what’s next for Ednition: https://lnkd.in/g-6bcq8h Thanks for your support through the years and joining us for an awesome and better-connected future! #Ednition #Edtech #Innovation #FinancingRound #ASUGSV #TransformingEdtech #AI #Investment #TechStartup #LearningTechnology #EducationTechnology

The AI Show @ ASU+GSV is BACK 💥 Hands-on workshops, cutting-edge exhibits, live demos, networking, and so much more! Join 12,000+ industry experts, visionary technologists, and innovative peers at the most exciting exploration of the AI Revolution in education. It’s not a conference. It’s a movement. Register for free: https://hubs.li/Q02TJ6yQ0 April 5-7, 2025 | San Diego Convention Center #ASUGSVShow2025

Since we partnered with OpenAI startup fund for our Series B, BY FAR what we were most excited about was audio multimodality. The day has finally come! We’re super excited to be part of OpenAI’s Realtime API launch. https://lnkd.in/ghgHi8hE With true speech-to-speech, we can now offer a dramatically more natural speaking experience that feels so much more human. It’s the holy grail for our use case and is something we will be thoughtfully incorporating across our entire learning experience. We’ve been working closely with OpenAI on this API for quite a while now. It’s going to be a true game changer not just for Speak but for all of software. But this is clearly just the beginning. And of course as always, please check out speak.com/careers if any of this sounds like interesting work to you!

It is with incredible excitement that I announce that Jennifer Lee has joined the amazing team at GSV Ventures as a #Partner leading the charge from her home base in #SiliconValley . Jenn joins us from Photomath where she was a board member and led growth as a critical partner to #rockstarfounder and CEO Damir Sabol. Croatia-based Photomath is one of the great global #edtech and #AI success stories having been acquired by Google in 2023 where Jenn worked until joining #TeamGSV. #ProudInvestor We have all known and loved Jenn for many years and are so happy to have her onboard especially in the new AI era where #LearningIsHappeningAtTheSpeedOfLight Jenn also joins me and Claire Zau in a growing female investment partner contingent. A huge welcome to Jenn from all of us 👏👏👏Adam Freed Luben Pampoulov Claire Zau Michael T. Moe Michael Cohn Jason Horne Raymond Kattoula Hannah Karzmer Mujtaba Wani Tiffany Taylor Join us all at the ASU+GSV Summit and THE SHOW @ ASU+GSV - #TheAIShow to experience #LearningAtTheSpeedOfLight

2025 GSV Cup nominations are officially open! 🏆 Without bold, creative innovators and game-changing technology, Learning at the Speed of Light would be impossible. Help us find the best of the best and nominate your favorite startup—including your own—for the 2025 GSV Cup 50! The GSV Cup elevates the most innovative and impactful startups in the global education and workforce sector, opening new doors to opportunity and expanding exposure for pre-seed and seed stage companies that are poised to transform lifelong learning for years to come.  Submit your nomination: https://lnkd.in/gGU3Wkct #GSVCup #GSVCup50 #ASUGSVSummit