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Founder Spotlight: Meet Our Five Most Recent Investments

Bonsal Capital’s first direct investments of 2022 The last few years has been anything but normal. In fact, it has been historic, tragic time, disruptive to learning, living, and predictable…

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Venture Capital’s Enlightenment: Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes

Bonsal Capital tilts to underrepresented founders in evolved era In venture capital these days, it is in vogue to talk about backing diverse or underserved founders. It is wholly another matter, however,…

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Bonsal Capital Celebrates 20 Years of Mission-Driven Investing

Announces first two investments in new leadership era 1999 was the final year of a dynamic millennium, a year with memorable national and global milestones. It was the year of…

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If EdTech Investment Scar Tissue Could Talk

Do’s and Don’ts from 20 years in the trenches It has been too long since I have been in the game, actively making new investments in education technology; I do partake…

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My Life as ‘Practice Coach’ — The EdTech Investor Part

The Journey from the Classroom to the Boardroom In the late 1990’s, as a full-time teacher-coach in Charlottesville, Virginia, with over a decade of part- and full-time teaching and coaching,…

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The Impact of a Portfolio

Mission-Driven Investing in Education Impact, mission-driven, or mission-related investing begins with discrete social goals and aims to yield tangible, scalable social + financial returns. To me, it is focusing on what you know,…

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Building and Scaling an EdTech Company

N.B. This post was prompted by a December 2014 Slideshare. Since the turn of the second Millenium, the onslaught of the dotcom bubble, and the rise and scale of the Internet,…

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