Emerge Education is a European early-stage fund that writes unusually large first checks ($500k–$2.5M) to pre-product companies building AI-first learning and work tools, backed by 100+ Venture Partners who founded top global education companies like Udemy, Coursera, and Kahoot. The fund explicitly filters out companies that risk increasing inequality and focuses on "democratising access to opportunity," with partners whose personal backgrounds as immigrants, refugees, and working-class families drive their investment thesis.