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Over 20 Years of Successful Investing In Education and Workforce Technology Companies

Serving double bottom line investors scaling visionary education and workforce technology companies.  

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OUR PORTFOLIO

We invest in companies with proven solutions

New Markets’ track record proves our theory of change that positive social impact can drive market rate returns.  We are backed by thought-leading strategic and impact limited partners in our sector.

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Current Portfolio Companies

OUR TEAM

Expertise from Across the Industry

We have one of the most experienced teams of investment professionals in our field, as well as a highly accomplished group of advisors. We also rely on key strategic partners and our limited partners to contribute industry insights, deal flow, and value for our portfolio companies.

New Markets Team

Our investment and operations team is best-in-class with individual experience ranging from 10 to over 30 years of institutional investing experience.

Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board, led by Jim Shelton, includes over 30 thought leaders and successful operators in the education and workforce sectors.

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Strategic Partners

Our strategic partners include change-making foundations, non-profit organizations, governmental entities, and corporations.

Where we invest

Investment Focus Areas

21st Century Skills

21st century skills are tools that can be universally applied to enhance ways of thinking, learning, working and living in the world. These skills include critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, global citizenship, and information, media and technology literacy.

Preparation for the Workforce

Workforce preparation includes activities, programs or services designed to help an individual acquire a combination of basic academic skills, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skills and self-management skills, including competencies in utilizing resources, using information, working with others, understanding systems and obtaining skills necessary for successful transition into and completion of postsecondary education or training, or employment.

Alternative Pathways

Alternative pathways in education are alternative means of obtaining educational qualifications, other than the traditional means of gaining access to or completing the required study to obtain the educational qualifications.

Future of Work

The future of work is a projection of how work, workers and the workplace will evolve in the years ahead. There are varying components that experts have outlined in models explaining the future of work, but the three basic elements are: how the work is done, who does the work, and where and when work is done

21st Century Skills

21st century skills are tools that can be universally applied to enhance ways of thinking, learning, working and living in the world. These skills include critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, global citizenship, and information, media and technology literacy.

Preparation for the Workforce

Workforce preparation includes activities, programs or services designed to help an individual acquire a combination of basic academic skills, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skills and self-management skills, including competencies in utilizing resources, using information, working with others, understanding systems and obtaining skills necessary for successful transition into and completion of postsecondary education or training, or employment.

Alternative Pathways

Alternative pathways in education are alternative means of obtaining educational qualifications, other than the traditional means of gaining access to or completing the required study to obtain the educational qualifications.

Future of Work

The future of work is a projection of how work, workers and the workplace will evolve in the years ahead. There are varying components that experts have outlined in models explaining the future of work, but the three basic elements are: how the work is done, who does the work, and where and when work is done

HOW WE WORK

Bridging the Gap from Education to Employment

We look for growth-stage impact investments with demonstrated efficacy addressing critical gaps in the education and labor markets. 

Product/Market Fit

New Markets invests at the Series A stage and beyond - when a company has demonstrated product/market fit.

Scalable Growth

We look for high gross margins and a scalable business model that has been growing quickly led by an experienced team.

Impact Focus

We invest in innovative, mission-driven companies that remove obstacles and improve pathways to prosperity for the majority of Americans, especially those most at risk.

Efficacy

We require companies to have proven solutions and track the effectiveness of the work that they are doing.

TESTIMONIALS

What Our Companies Say

INSIGHTS

New Markets Insights

Our team writes about trends we see in the market and what we think is important to consider and discuss in the future of education and workforce technology investing.

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News Roundup – 3/15

Our weekly roundup of education technology, workforce technology, and venture capital news.

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New Markets Venture Partners Releases Latest Impact Report Highlighting Over A Decade of Double-Bottom Line Investments

Leading edtech and workforce VC’s portfolio companies achieve scalable impact for 72 million Americans New Markets Venture Partners (‘New Markets’), the …

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New Markets Venture Partners Raises Over $160 Million for Oversubscribed Economic Mobility Fund

The nation’s longest-running edtech and workforce technology VC has generated outsized returns and measurable social impact by investing in evidence-based solutions …

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IMPACT IS IN OUR DNA

New Markets portfolio companies improve economic mobility for millions of Americans, especially for those most in need, including low-income, minority, and underserved workers and students

The New Markets team has been investing in innovative technology-enabled, mission-driven companies driving sustainable social impact since our work with pioneers in the Socially Responsible Investor movement of the 1990’s.

CONTACT US

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We encourage you to read through the material on this website before reaching out.  We offer a lot of information regarding what we are looking for and how to reach us for different types of inquiries.

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(301) 362-5511

Address

8161 Maple Lawn Blvd. Suite 350 Fulton, MD 20759

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