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
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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
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Thomas DavidsonCEO, EverFi, Inc.Unconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Joshua NewmanFounder/CEOUnconfirmed
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