MasterClass
Launched in 2015, MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best. With an annual membership, subscribers get unlimited access to instructors and classes across a wide range of subjects including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more. Step into Anna Wintour’s office, Ron Finley’s garden and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Get inspired by RuPaul, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and discover your inner negotiator with Chris Voss. Each class features about 20 video lessons, at an average of 10 minutes per lesson. You can learn on your own terms — in bite-sized pieces or binge it all at once. Cinematic visuals and close-up, hands-on demonstrations make you feel one-on-one with the instructors, while the downloadable workbooks help reinforce your learning. With MasterClass, you can stream thousands of lessons anywhere, anytime, on mobile, desktop and TV.
Founding Year
2015
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
Sector(s)
Education
Funding State
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Total Funding Amount
$459.50M
Funds that Investested
GSV Ventures
Female-led, multi-stage venture capital firm investing in the $7+ trillion education technology sector across "Pre-K to Gray."
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Gaingels
Leading LGBTQIA+/Allies investment syndicate that has invested $110M+ in 200+ companies since 2016.
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IVP
IVP grows breakout companies into enduring market leaders.
They are engaged VC partners, but their guidance is focused on when and where it counts. It’s about expertise in moments that matter, answering your call as a counselor and confidant. It’s about bolstering the functions that make or break a business to ensure we make yours a success. It’s about being your compass on the winding path to market leadership. And about celebrating the milestones along the way.
While IVP's investment track record is four decades strong, their focus is on the horizon. From emerging to enduring market leadership, they look out so you can look ahead. Undaunted.
They are engaged VC partners, but their guidance is focused on when and where it counts. It’s about expertise in moments that matter, answering your call as a counselor and confidant. It’s about bolstering the functions that make or break a business to ensure we make yours a success. It’s about being your compass on the winding path to market leadership. And about celebrating the milestones along the way.
While IVP's investment track record is four decades strong, their focus is on the horizon. From emerging to enduring market leadership, they look out so you can look ahead. Undaunted.
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Sand Hill Angels
Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley angel investors passionate about helping entrepreneurs get to the next level.
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Advancit Capital
Advancit Capital focuses on early-stage companies at the intersection of media, entertainment, and technology.
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Javelin Venture Partners
Invests in scalable, high-growth technology companies with large addressable markets and strong competitive advantages.
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Owl Ventures
Founded in 2014, Owl Ventures is the largest venture capital firm in the world focused on the education technology market with over $2 billion in assets under management.
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Cleo Capital
Fund led by Sarah Kunst investing in the future of fintech, consumer, and enterprise.
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New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare
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Quiet Capital
Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.
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Bloomberg Beta
Bloomberg's early-stage venture fund investing in startups focusing on machine learning.
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Investors that Investested
Lee Linden
Managing Partner, Quiet Capital
Previously lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card. Lee also founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform which allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burden of physical mailing addresses. Karmawas acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale. Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms.
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Roseanne Wincek
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Renegade Partners
Roseanne currently serves on the boards of Renegade portfolio companies Spekit, Nate, Rewire, LaHaus, Daily, and Auxilius. Prior to starting Renegade, Roseanne was a Partner at IVP, a later-stage venture capital firm. At IVP, she invested across enterprise and consumer in companies such as Glossier, Compass (COMP), MasterClass, Wise (LSE:WISE), Looker (Acquired by GOOG), and Motive. She continues to serve on the board of MasterClass, where she had led the Series C and D. Roseanne started her venture career at Canaan Partners, where she invested in companies such as MetaCloud (Acquired by CSCO), Unifi Software (Acquired by Boomi/Dell), and Turo. Before moving to the dark side, Roseanne’s tech career began when she dropped out of her PhD to co-found imthemusic, building apps on the early Facebook platform. She was also a product manager at NextBio (Acquired by Ilumina).
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Brian McNamara
General Partner, Cosmic Venture Partners
General Partner at Cosmic Venture Partners
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Sam Lessin
General Partner, Slow Ventures
Sam is currently the co-CEO of Fin and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired byFacebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He writes a column at The Information, where he interns.
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Brendan Wallace
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Fifth Wall
Brendan Wallace is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision. Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brendan co-founded Identified, a workforce optimization data and analytics company that raised $33 million of venture funding and was acquired by Workday (NYSE: WKDY) in 2014. He also co-founded Cabify, the largest ridesharing service in Latin America, and has been an active investor, leading more than 60 angel investments including Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft, SpaceX, Clutter, and Philz Coffee. Brendan started his career at Goldman Sachs in the real estate, hospitality, and gaming group before joining The Blackstone Group’s real estate private equity practice. Brendan is from New York City and currently lives in Venice. He graduated from Princeton University, where he received his BA in political science and economics. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Michael Dearing
Founder , Harrison Metal
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.
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Sarah Kunst
Managing Director, Cleo Capital
Managing director of Cleo Capital & a former contributing editor at Marie Claire Magazine. She has served as a senior advisor at Bumble where she focused on their corporate VC arm Bumble Fund and on the board of the Michigan State University Foundation endowment. Kunst has been named a Future Innovator by Vanity Fair, Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 and a top 25 innovator in tech by Cool Hunting. She has been recognized for her work in Business Insider as a 30 under 30 Woman in Tech and Top African-American in Tech & Pitchbook Top Black VC To Watch and honored as a top woman in VC by the Wall St. Journal.
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