CRV has been an investor in technology companies for almost half a century. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups in its 47-year history, including foundational companies like Twitter, Zendesk, Amgen, Hubspot, Parametric Technologies, Yammer, EqualLogic, and Sonus Networks. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired. The firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and deep-insight bioengineering. CRV has offices in Palo Alto, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Bertelsmann is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gütersloh, Germany. Bertelsmann is a media, services and education company that operates in about 50 countries around the world. It includes the broadcaster RTL Group, the trade book publisher Penguin Random House, the magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, the music company BMG, the service provider Arvato, the Bertelsmann Printing Group, the Bertelsmann Education Group and Bertelsmann Investments, an international network of funds. The company has 116,000 employees and generated revenues of €17.0 billion in the 2016 financial year. Bertelsmann stands for creativity and entrepreneurship. This combination promotes first-class media content and innovative service solutions that inspire customers around the world.

Bertelsmann

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Valor Capital Group

Recruit Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルート) is a classified advertisement, publication and human resources company in Japan, founded in 1963 originally as an advertisement company specialized in university newspapers.  (Source: [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruit_%28company%29))

Recruit Holdings

Drive Capital invests in innovative technology, healthcare, and consumer companies in the Midwest. The firm is looking for innovative entrepreneurs addressing big market opportunities. Its goal is to partner with entrepreneurs that have audacious goals and strive to build large sustainable companies. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, financial services, and mobile sectors. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Drive Capital

Cox Enterprises is a communications, media, and automotive services company. With revenues of $18 billion and approximately 60,000 employees, the company's major operating subsidiaries include Cox Communications (cable television distribution, high-speed Internet access, telephone, home security, and automation, commercial telecommunications, and advertising solutions); Cox Automotive (automotive-related auctions, financial services, media, and software solutions); and Cox Media Group (television and radio stations, digital media, newspapers, and advertising sales rep firms). The company's major national brands include Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, and Manheim. Through Cox Automotive, the company's international operations stretch across Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America.

Cox Enterprises

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. We invest across the life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology sectors. With Alphabet as a sole limited partner, GV operates on long time horizons and deals in decades, not rounds. Our operating partners support startups at the earliest stages of company-building across design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering. We also help startups interface with Google, providing unique access to the world's best technology and talent. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV has over $8 billion in assets under management and 400 active portfolio companies across North America and Europe. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical. GV is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

Google Ventures

Emerson Collective is an organization dedicated to removing barriers to opportunity so people can live to their full potential. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, we center our work on education, immigration reform, the environment, and other social justice initiatives. We use a wide range of tools and strategies—partnering with entrepreneurs and experts, parents and policymakers, advocates and administrators—to develop and execute innovative solutions that will spur change and promote equality.

Emerson Collective

Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives, who operate as a partnership, a structure that has endured for over a century and provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with an emphasis on genuine long-term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short-term targets.

Baillie Gifford

Udacity

Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector, as well as data science, autonomous systems, and cloud computing. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full-stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS and Android developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and deliver credentials endorsed by employers. The company aims to democratize education making it affordable and accessible to get the jobs they desire to improve their lives.  David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

<div><p>Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector, as well as data science, autonomous systems, and cloud computing. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full-stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS andAndroid developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and deliver credentials endorsed by employers. The company aims to democratize education making it affordable and accessible to get the jobs they desire to improve their lives. David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.</p></div>

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    Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector, as well as data science, autonomous systems, and cloud computing. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full-stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS andAndroid developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and deliver credentials endorsed by employers. The company aims to democratize education making it affordable and accessible to get the jobs they desire to improve their lives. David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
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    Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content.
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    Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world&rsquo;s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personal enrichment goals throughout their lives. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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    The Glimpse Group is a Virtual and Augmented Reality company, comprised of multiple VR/AR software &amp; services companies.  Our unique structure allows our companies to share operational,   financial, development and IP infrastructure, while providing access to an ecosystem of like-minded VR/AR entrepreneurs, experienced management, and extensive commercial and technical networks.
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    Amesite is a high tech artificial intelligence software company developing a cloud-based platform for college and university courses to be cost-effectively and conveniently delivered to learners online and in hybrid online or on campus formats.  Amesite uses artificial intelligence to provide customized environments for learners, easier-to-manage interfaces for instructors, and greater accessibility for college degree seekers in the US education market and beyond.
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    Meazure Learning is a full-service testing solutions company for academic, professional, and lifelong learners. It is the world's most secure testing network and platform as the first end-to-end testing provider – incorporating psychometrics, test development, test delivery, secure proctoring, reporting, and more – to lead with an online delivery model, Meazure Learning is poised to transform the testing and assessment landscape.
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Learning platforms and tools provide students with equitable access to education and improve career readiness

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Designers of learning programs and creators of learning content, aggregators and libraries of learning content and program, massive open online course (MOOC) platform operators, and providers of content development tools for authoring and course-building.

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