GSV Advisors

Leadership & Staff

Sidarth Balaji

• Associate (Dec 1 '14→?)

Michael Cohn

• Director (May 1 '11→?)

Brandon Thompson

• Associate (Aug 1 '14→?)

Courtney Reilly Vice President, Education Investment Banking

• Vice President (Mar 1 '14→?)

Deborah Quazzo Managing partner at GSV Advisors

• Founder and Managing Partner ('09→'19)*

Michael Moe Deb Quazzo's business partner

• Advisor

Donations

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Communities In Schools (CIS) Dropout prevention organization and is one of the largest networks serving at-risk youth

• Donation/Grant*

Power My Learning

• Donation/Grant

Jacksonville Public Education Fund

• Donation

One Goal

• Donation

Year Up

• Donation/Grant*

New Schools for Chicago venture philanthropy organization that invests in the growth of charter schools

• Donation/Grant*

Center for Education Reform

• Donation/Grant*

Marwen educates and inspires under-served young people through the visual arts.

• Donation/Grant

KIPP Foundation KIPP began in 1994 when two teachers, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, launched a fifth-grade public school program in inner-city Houston, TX, after completing their commitment to Teach For America.

• Donation/Grant

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

• Donation/Grant*

Holdings

Global Silicon Valley Partners investment firm

• Sister Organization

Child Organizations

ASU + GSV Summit annual conference at ASU

• Child Org

GSV Labs Platforms to Connect Innovators with Capital via Global Silicon Valley

• Child

Memberships

SIIA trade association for the software and digital content industry.

• Member [+1]

• Member

ASCD

• Member

CoSN professional association for school district technology leaders

• Member

ISTE

• Member

Foundation for Excellence in Education Founded by Jeb Bush

• Member

EdNET

• Member

Innovate+Educate

• Member

International Society for Technology in Education

• Member

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

• Member

Services & Transactions

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Edison Learning Charter operator, formerly known as Edison Schools Inc.

• Service/Transaction · 125,812,500 USD (Aug 1 '00→?) [+2]

• Service/Transaction · 56,000,000 USD (Jan 1 '98→?)

• investment ('01→?)

Taleo publicly traded database vendor acquired by Oracle in 2005

• client · 93,800,000 USD (?→'05)

HotChalk, Inc. Online education

• investment

C2 Collaborative

• Service/Transaction [+1]

• investment (past)*

LightSide edtech, improving student writing skills

• investment (Oct 1 '14→?)

ThinkCERCA Ed tech startup offering online courses aligned to Common Core

• investment

Raise Me

• investment

Voxy

• investment

Uvize

• investment

Tynker creative computing

• investment

Miscellaneous Relationships

GSV Ventures Deborah Quazzo Ed-Tech and HR Innovative Technology

• Related ('16→?)*