Spotlight

Ed tech start-up w/ $600k traction & experienced team. Technology is applicable in other verticals. Has already raised $250K towards $500K round.

  • Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Education
  • Location Davis, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2012
  • Employees 6
  • Website spotlight-education.com

Company Summary

Spotlight's SaaS Platform automatically creates narrative-text and video-based reports of education data to make insights understandable and actionable. At a time when education data is proliferating rapidly, the need for such automation is profound.

Co-Founders are experienced education-industry entrepreneurs.

-$585K in revenue over 2.5 years
-5 institutional customers; 3 B2B partners
-Annual recurring revenues over $200K
-Low cost structure

Team

  • Co-Founder

    -Spent entire career in education starting as a Teach For America teacher, later leading a range of programs and organizations
    -Ran a division of international education company Intrax
    -Founded Lango, a multi-site company that teaches foreign languages to kids.
    -Served as Executive Vice President at EverFi, a Washington, D.C.-based education technology company.
    -BA and MBA degrees from Stanford (’91 and ’99)

  • Founder and CEO

    -Experienced entrepreneur; 20 years in education.
    -Founded & ran EdTec Inc., leading provider of technology & business services to schools
    -VP Business Development for LeapFrog, the educational toy company.
    -Policy analyst for the CA State Assembly and CA Post-Secondary Education Commission.
    -Founded & ran a venture-backed e-commerce company; served as divisional CEO of a NASDAQ tech company.
    -Former BCG consultant
    -Harvard MBA (’88)

  • Co-Founder

    -Has created & evolved web backend systems since 1995
    -Led development of You Don’t Know Jack the Netshow (winner, Cool Site of the Year Award, '96)
    -Played key roles building web systems for health, automated trading, e-commerce and online training systems
    -Built a “big data” Amazon deployment for BAM Labs
    -BA in Math from UCLA

Advisors

Previous Investors

  • Joshua Newman
    Founder/CEO
    Unconfirmed

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