# Top 50 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in May 2026

## Reach Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 79
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.

## Learn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 78
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, andservices are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.

## Rethink Education
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: White Plains, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 72
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Software

Rethink Education is a venture capital fund focused exclusively on education technology that invests in early- and growth-stage start-ups looking to scale their solutions both domestically and across the globe.

## GSV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 71
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.

## University Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 48
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Education, Higher Education, EdTech

University Ventures is the only investment firm focused exclusively on the global higher education sector. UV pursues a differentiated strategy of innovation from within. UV has the deepest respect for the missions and traditions of colleges and universities around the world and is confident that through innovation, these same institutions will besuccessful in fulfilling and expanding their missions.

## Kapor Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 46
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Software, Health Care

Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. We redefine what venture capital is capable of by prioritizing a new outcome: a more fair, just, and equitable society for low income communities and underrepresented communities of color.

## NewSchools Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 45
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

NewSchools Venture Fund is a not-for-profit organization working to close the achievement gap by funding and supporting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to the problems in public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond.Since our founding in 1998, NewSchools has invested $180million in more than 70 nonprofit and for-profit educational organizations working to promote student achievement.Recognizing that neither private charity nor capital markets alone are enough to solve the problem of education inequality, we blend the best of both approaches to ensure an excellent education is available to every child. We actively share what we’ve learned through our investments, bring together educational leaders from across the country, and advocate for smart policies at the federal level.

## Owl Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 42
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.

## Emerge Education
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.

## Fresco Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Education, SaaS

Investing at the intersection of people and technology.

## 1776 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Software

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare. 

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Brighteye Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Software

Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!

## Goodwater Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

## ah! Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, EdTech, Education

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Education, Financial Services, Finance

Dedicated to transforming the lives of children living in urban poverty through better education, health, and family economic stability.

## Omidyar Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Education

Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Precursor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware.
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## Social Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

## Bisk Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Corporate Training

Bisk Ventures is a strategic venture capital firm focused on education technology. Founded by Mike Bisk in 2015, Bisk Ventures leverages Bisk Education’s 20 years of online program management expertise in the higher education space and shares the same mission to amplify the potential of people around the world. Learn more at biskventures.com.

## Ulu Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

With deep connections to Stanford and Silicon Valley, Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams.

## Better Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Better is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative business which deliver value & impact, and have a strong focus on profitability.
Better Labs is our operating portfolio of product businesses that we create and fund and includes ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple wall, and Maroun Place.

## Bossanova Investimentos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Inflection Point Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care

Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.

## Educapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech

The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.

## Indian Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Education, E-Commerce

Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.

## City Light Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## LearnStart
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech

LearnStart is a seed fund that focuses on the development of global education technology companies through seed funding.

## VilCap Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

## LetsVenture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

## Felicis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

## Unitus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Training

Unitus Ventures is India’s leading impact venture fund investing in startups innovating for the masses across healthcare, education and fintech sectors. Founded in 2012, Unitus Ventures is a part of Capria Network, the leading global network of impact fund managers investing in emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Unitus Ventures isbased in Bangalore and Seattle. Capria has offices in Bangalore, Singapore, Nairobi, and Seattle. More at: https://unitus.vc and http://capria.vc/network

## New Markets Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fulton, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Software, SaaS

New Markets Venture Partners is an early and growth stage venture capital firm that invests in and actively assists innovative education, information technology, and business services companies.

## Strada Education Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Grant, Series A
- Focus: Education, Higher Education, Universities

At Strada, we collaborate with students, policymakers, educators, and employers to ensure education provides equitable pathways to opportunity.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

## Impact Engine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Software

Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in companies driving positive impact in economic empowerment, education, environmental sustainability, and health.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

## K50 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Software

K50 Ventures is the most trusted first-check investor for mission-driven founders building a better future for the 99% in the US and LATAM.

## Yonghua Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Manufacturing

Shanghai Chung Hua Investment Management Co., Ltd. is specialized in Yongjin Group's equity investment management platform. Total investment scale Chung Hua invest over 6 billion yuan, it has invested in more than 80 outstanding enterprises, of which more than 40 enterprises have been successfully listed. Currently Chung Hua investment teamcovering the major cities Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Changsha, Chengdu, etc., and in many industries new energy, environmental protection, consumer goods, TMT, agriculture and other in-depth research team.

## Bloomberg Beta
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm with $375M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.

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