Amit Patel
Managing Director at Owl Ventures
Amit Patel
Managing Director at Owl Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2014 - Current
Owl Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area based venture capital fund that invests in the world’s leading education technology companies. We back entrepreneurs with solutions that seek to meaningfully drive improvement in student achievement. www.owlvc.com
Board Member
2019
In 2030, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics will touch 800 Million jobs. WhiteHat Jr makes kids creators in the new world with the first structured coding curriculum in the world for early childhood. Kids learn logic, structure, sequence and algorithmic thinking to generate creative outcomes like animations and apps. All classes are taught via a live 1:1 Online platform connecting Top 99.9th percentile of certified teachers to kids 6-14 years of age.
Board Member
2019
The first Intelligent Reading Assistant that listens, assesses & coaches, Amira accelerates reading mastery. Proven in field tests conducted by leading universities, Amira helps K-3 students become motivated, masterful readers.
Board Member
2019
We prepare tomorrow's tech leaders for today's jobs. The SV Academy Business Development Fellowship takes students from an internship to a great job in tech with an average starting salary of $79,000. Kick-off your career without worrying about financial limitations. Our mission is to democratize access to the tech industry for young professionals from different backgrounds - 60% of our graduates are women, 40% are African American/Latinx, and 70% are first-generation college students. We welcome all backgrounds and experience levels - invest in your future today.
Board Member
2018
On average, U.S. students are with substitute teachers for 5% of the typical school year. That means our students have substitute teachers for more than six months of their K-12 school career. The problem? We're suffering from a national shortage of substitute teachers. Swing Education is focused on tackling the substitute teacher shortage. We make it easy for great schools and quality subs to find each other. We help schools access more subs and offload tedious work (recruiting, screening, payroll, etc.) and we help subs find jobs, gain experience and build their professional network.
Board Member
2018
We create beautifully designed, cloud-delivered products that simplify college and university operations so that institutions can focus more on teaching and research. Our current products simplify student services, financials, research, and continuity planning.
Board Member
2017
Tinkergarten brings high quality early childhood education to a park near you. Our technology platform vets, trains and mobilizes a distributed workforce of passionate, local leaders who run fun, social, and educational activity-based kids classes in green spaces everywhere. With Tinkergarten, kids become well-balanced people who can problem-solve, lead, and create.
Board Member
2016
Lingo Live teaches employees of multinational companies to learn to speak English or any other foreign language through live, online lessons with native instructors over video conference. Students progress through Lingo Live’s globally-recognized Task-Based Learning curriculum anytime and anywhere and their employers save substantial time and money. Lingo Live has taught tens of thousands of students across the globe at some of the world’s largest multinational companies.
Board Member
2016
Cloud-based web filtering for K-12 Schools | Parental controls for families | Manage screen time. Any device, anywhere. Securly helps schools and parents understand how students are utilizing their screen time in school and at home. A cloud-based solution that takes only a few minutes to set up and can be used to manage any device (Chromebooks, iPads, etc.) wherever it travels. Some of the innovations the pioneered in the web filtering industry include: Integration with Google Apps for Education and Chromebooks, Google Safe Keyword and Image Search, YouTube Safety Mode, Differentiated Take-Home Policies and Bullying/Self-Harm Detection. The company's patent-pending "Securly for Parents" offering is the first solution that allows parents to co-manage school 1:1 device policies. Additionally, parents can use Securly as powerful parental control software, as it is the only cloud-based solution to offer safe search, images, and videos for all users and devices in the home. Securly was founded by two network security veterans with a combined 20+ years of security experience.
Board Member
2015
Over 6,500 schools rely on Panorama Education for data analysis and feedback surveys. We help school districts, charter networks, and state governments conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. Our classroom surveys collect feedback about teachers, and our school surveys gather data about the school environment and administrators. We believe that stakeholder feedback is a powerful professional development tool, and we believe that stakeholder surveys--when done correctly--make educator evaluation systems more fair and more effective. At the heart of our work is the Panorama Platform, a flexible, highly-secure, easy-to-use, and low-cost technology platform we built for conducting surveys and analyzing data in the school environment. With Panorama, schools can administer surveys online and on paper. Panorama analyzes this data and presents teachers and administrators with clear and constructive feedback that they can use to improve their teaching and their schools. http://www.panoramaed.com