Guild Education

With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.

Partners with exceptional entrepreneurs starting at the earliest stages of the climb.

Multi-stage venture fund led by Laurene Powell Jobs and focused on accelerating the growth of companies positively impacting the world

For the most enterprising founders.

From 2008 - 2022 across six funds, Harrison Metal invested in early-stage technology companies on behalf of their limited partners: universities, charitable foundations, and pensioners' savings plans. Harrison Metal is led by Michael Dearing.

Helps their founders build a generational company by adding incredible connections, experience, sleeve-rolled up help, and a human touch. They are looking for founders who have a unique insight into a problem, are targeting a large and growing market, are obsessed with building an outstanding product and customer experience, and have a plan to execute on their opportunity.

Female-led, multi-stage venture capital firm investing in the $7+ trillion education technology sector across "Pre-K to Gray."

Led by Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Exec Chairman. Next Play coaches and invests in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations.

Believes that iconic companies transcend boundaries: they can be built anywhere, by anyone, and in any corner of the economy, from curing rare diseases at scale to powering global payments for organizations of all sizes. They partner with founders around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious.

An edtech and workforce training fund investing in early-stage companies.

Social Capital is a venture capital investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs at all stages

Led by investors including Donna Harris (named one of BI's best female early-stage VCs). 1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in consumer critical sectors.

Early-stage investments in enterprise cloud and smart data companies.

Fern Mandelbaum, is an entrepreneur, coach, lecturer and investor. Her portfolio includes: Guild Education, BetterUp, MissionU, Andela, Sparta Science, Blendoor, Pique Tea, Tinkergarten, Vocate, FaunaDB, GridSpace, popchips and PicnicHealth. She is also an advisor to Accompany, Talent Sonar, Aplomb, Pair Eyewear, ClockWise, and Ava. Fern was co-founder and CEO of Skyline Products (acquired by IDEO). She worked at Monitor Ventures, Metcal, Bain and Company, SRI International, Hewlett Packard and the Kyoto Shinyo Bank (in Kyoto, Japan).

He earned an AB from Brown in Economics with a special focus on economic and business history, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. Alumnus of Bain & Company, Filene's Basement, The Walt Disney Company, Industrial Shoe Warehouse, eBay, and currently serving as the founder of Harrison Metal, an early stage venture capital firm in San Francisco.

Wesley Chan is an early investor in five $10B+ Decacorns and 20+ $1B+ Unicorns, including Canva, Guild, Dialpad, & AngelList. He was first check into Flexport, Robinhood, Plaid, & Gusto. Founded Google Analytics and Google Voice during his 14 year career at Google. He also holds 17 patents for his work on building Google’s early Ads system.

Proud pardner at Cowboy Ventures, Co-founder of All Raise and coiner of the business term "unicorn".  Joined Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) in 1999 and was the founding CEO of RMG Networks, a company backed by KPCB. Lee worked at Kleiner Perkins for 13 years and left in 2012.