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Reach Capital

A healthy ecosystem of education technology products and services can strengthen K-12 public schools—providing new ways to connect students, teachers, and families.

Owl Ventures

Owl Ventures is a venture investment fund that leads Series A/B investments in US K-12 education technology companies.

KIPP Houston

KIPP Houston is a Charter Management Organization (CMO) and a top-ranked school system for low-income students. The investment provided affordable facility financing to high-performing CMOs.

Charter School Growth Fund Facility Fund III

As a follow-on to the CSGF Facility Fund, the organization created a new fund in 2016, to broaden their lending to include early-stage operators, provide more proactive technical assistance and partner with other key stakeholders to remove barriers to affordable charter facilities and financing.

Charter School Growth Fund Facility Fund

The Charter School Growth Fund provides strategic support to high-performing charter management organizations. Inclusive within its support, CSGF provided subordinated bridge loans to address the short-term financing gap CMOs face during construction.

Civic Builders

Funding from the foundation and New Markets Tax Credits, alongside support from Civic Builders, built new schools in a bankrupt city where facilities assistance was otherwise unavailable.

BloomBoard

Software development company BloomBoard received funding from the foundation to help efforts in improving teachers’ instructional practices.

Aspire Public Schools

Aspire Public Schools is a Charter Management Organization (CMO) and a top-ranked school system for low-income students.

Press Release: BloomBoard secures $7.2 million in series B funding

BloomBoard June 30, 2015 BloomBoard, a Silicon Valley education technology company focused on empowering teacher growth, announced today that it received $7.2 million in Series B funding. The round includes increased capital from three original investors: Birchmere Ventures, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Read More