About Us
About New Markets
Invest. Serve. Grow.
New Markets Venture Partners is a leading, growth-stage, double bottom-line investor that scales transformative technology companies that improve education and workforce outcomes, resulting in superior financial returns.
New Markets is led by a veteran investment team with a 30-year track record of outperformance.
As one of the pioneers and leading education and workforce technology investors in North America, we maintain deep relationships with states, districts, universities, large employers, co-investors, buyers, and workforce organizations that enable us to provide exceptional value to all of our stakeholders.
We believe that growth is driven by:
Founders
Visionary entrepreneurs and mission-driven companies can address big social problems.
Evidence-Based Solutions
Research-based, evidence-driven solutions yield superior double-bottom line performance.
Innovation
Innovative technologies and business models can deliver impact, topline growth, and profitability.
Collaboration
Scale is best achieved by highly collaborative leadership teams following best practices.
Team
The best formula for success is KPI-driven leadership teams supported by an experienced board and investors who help with strategic partnerships, capital relationships and strategy advice needed to drive healthy growth.
Capital
Capital efficient growth improves liquidity options and successful outcomes, and reduces failure risk over long-term growth cycles.
TESTIMONIALS
What Our Companies Say
New Markets is uniquely positioned because they don’t expect their portfolio companies to fail. They expect every one of those companies to succeed... they take the mission very seriously – they don’t want any company that’s serving students or learners to fail.
Alan Tripp, former CEO
Motimatic
I am an LGBTQ founder, and I believe in elevating and providing access to education and training as a means to work, and New Markets is very focused on providing access to education in order to create social mobility. That’s very important to me as a founder. For us growth is important, and going to market and solving problems. But what’s even more important to us is changing the world. And for us New Markets was that partner who was going to help us make a difference and change the world for the better.
Michael Tringe, CEO
CreatorUp
In a word: engagement. Lots of venture capital firms and venture capitalists claim they are in the trenches with their entrepreneurs. New Markets actually delivers it.
Mihir Shah, CEO
Motimatic
I feel like they are sitting beside me at the table and trying to figure out how to make our business successful. We’ve gone through some rocky roads at APDS, when the future didn’t feel all that certain, and yet Mark’s commitment in the company and what we could achieve never wavered...you just feel they are by your side and not going to let you fail.
Harris Ferrell, CEO
APDS
Jason [is] a great listener who really looks out for entrepreneurs who have the right mission in their heart and a good strategy in place, and he supported me. It’s been a great partnership, and he’s always at the top of the list when I think of someone I want to call when we have good news or when we have a challenge or area of improvement. I always look for his advice.
Eleanor Cooper, CEO
Pathstream
One of things when you think about an investor, you need to have a partner who will give you the cold, hard facts, that’s going to tell you what they think and how they think you can do better as a business and as a CEO. That was very valuable. We went through a tough time and [they] helped guide us to make good decisions so that we would get through that and be stronger. That was a real special sauce for them.
Brian Kathman, former CEO
Signal Vine
New Markets Venture Partners has been a steadfast partner to Credly from the start. From reliable operational advice to critical partner introductions, to playing a key role in supporting Credly’s transformative acquisition of the Pearson’s Acclaim digital credential business, New Markets has been a trusted partner to me and our company.
Jonathan Finkelstein, CEO
Credly
New Markets has a very deep history in education – now decades of relationships to tap, experience and seeing education investments through cycle and how to support entrepreneurs. I really feel like they are in our corner in a way that is quite unique.
Kush Patel, CEO
App Academy
Mark Grovic and New Markets had the skills and acumen to thoughtfully articulate their position (they have deep knowledge of the edtech sector) while not distracting the execution. The result was New Markets had significant influence on GA’s ability to execute and its resultant growth. Mark Grovic was a critical partner and became a trusted friend.
Ron Klauser, former CEO
Graduation Alliance
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.
Identify
We work collaboratively with entrepreneurs, strategic partners, educational institutions, and co-investors to source the best portfolio companies. We engage a national network of education, employment, and workforce thought leaders.
Serve
We embrace the philosophy of “servant leadership” and pledge to add value before, during, and after the investment process.
Commit
We believe in structuring a fair transaction with all contingencies documented up-front, properly capitalizing investments, and aligning resources to achieve the most advantageous outcome for all.
Build
We are true partners with our portfolio companies – we roll up our sleeves and work together to help commercialize and scale efficacy.
