Jason Palmer brings an unusual combination of founder experience, senior operating roles at major tech and education companies, and deep hands-on exposure to philanthropy-backed innovation through his work on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Postsecondary Success team, where he helped oversee more than $75 million in grant investments. He has specialized experience shepherding companies through recapitalizations in the cyclical edtech market and launched a U.S. presidential primary campaign while remaining a venture partner, advocating for conscious capitalism and youth-centered policy in a way that's atypical for sector-focused investors.
What they've been talking about across their social media accounts

- Focus on the intersection of advanced technology and infrastructure. He believes that tech giants developing AI data centers and nuclear power sources will do more to unlock an abundance agenda and modernization than decades of traditional regulatory reform.
- Engagement with data-driven public policy and civic truth. He frequently dives into the specific numbers behind government programs to debunk narratives, such as breaking down the exact demographics of SNAP benefit recipients to clarify how much actually goes to citizens versus immigrants.
- Advocacy for the evolution of higher education and workforce training. He has pointed out the declining viability of traditional liberal arts colleges due to cost and expressed optimism for high-quality, shorter-term credentials that can replace the standard four-year degree.
- Fascination with hard science, physics, and space exploration. He actively shares updates on potential interstellar objects entering the solar system and enjoys deep intellectual threads about complex concepts like the relationship between human life and the laws of thermodynamics.
- Interest in political independence and election mechanics. He tracks polling data closely, specifically looking at the rise of independent voters and how bipartisan actions in Congress affect government stability.
About their Fund
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Education, Future of Work, HR Tech, Fintech, Health
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Series A - Series B+
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$100K - $5M
Notable Investments
New Markets Venture Partners is a true "early mover" impact fund that has specialized exclusively in education and workforce investing since the early 1990s, with their founders doing socially responsible investing when only ~0.5% of global assets were managed with an ESG/impact lens compared to more than 30% today. Over two decades they've invested in just 38 education and workforce companies yet report touching over 75 million learners with 21 realized exits, while their partners are deeply embedded as public intellectuals in the education market and consistently tapped as "go-to" experts when national media needs serious analysis of K-12 and workforce capital flows.
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