Jason Palmer

Co-Founder and CEO

2024 - Current

General Partner

2016

New Markets is a leading global impact investor focused on education and workforce technologies. As a double-bottom-line venture capital firm, we focus on innovative, growth stage companies that improve people-centered outcomes while building profitable organizations. My focus is on fund strategy and development, as well as supporting portfolio companies with operational expertise and industry relationships.

Presidential Candidate

2023 - 2024

Board Member

2021 - 2024

CreatorUp is a mission-driven digital media and AI production company that provides rich content for businesses and educational institutions, including video, livestreaming, animation, immersive experiences, and generative AI. CreatorUp is trusted by over 250 global brands including Google, YouTube, TikTok, IBM, Airbnb, Stride, Kaplan, The Special Olympics and more, CreatorUp has completed work in over 20 countries, and has offices in Los Angeles, Athens, Dubai, Mumbai, and Singapore.

Board Member

2019 - 2024

Climb Credit is an innovative student payment platform that makes career advancement more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb utilizes a proprietary return-on-investment calculation to identify and evaluate programs and schools with a demonstrated ability to benefit their graduates. Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to healthcare training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. Climb and its partner schools are committed to providing access to valuable, cost effective education that enable individuals to reach their career goals and own their next chapter.

Board Observer

2018 - 2024

Founded in 2012, Orijin’s mission is to rewrite every justice-impacted person’s story, allowing each to re-enter society with renewed career-readiness, re-skilled education, and training through a customized pathway, to rebuild their lives and create sustainable employment. Orijin provides a robust cloud-based learning and communications platform delivered on secure tablet computers in hundreds of correctional facilities across the country. Orijin is a public benefit corporation and certified Certified B Corporation that never charges incarcerated individuals or their families for its technology or services.

Board Member

2017 - 2024

Motimatic is higher education’s marketing-for-good behavioral science company. Motimatic combines science-backed strategies with data-driven digital marketing to enable more students to take action and succeed throughout their educational journeys. As a public benefit corporation, Motimatic offers leaders a results-first, no-risk approach to engaging, activating, and motivating the students who need it most. Motimatic's expert team delivers rapid, proven support without requiring IT integration, giving higher education leaders immediate results they can count on.

Board Member

2022 - 2024

Nexford University is a global, online institution offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business administration, data analytics, and entrepreneurship. With a learner-centric approach, Nexford University is committed to providing accessible, affordable, and high-quality education to learners around the world. Nexford University is fully accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (“DEAC”) and also has state licensure granted by the Higher Education Licensure Commission ("HELC").

Board Member

2020 - 2024

PAIRIN is a nationally recognized social impact technology company that is revolutionizing the way workforce and education intersect to foster a seamless, rewarding, and relevant journey for students and career-seeking professionals. PAIRIN's My Journey platform enables workforce programs, government, and educational organizations to more effectively deliver training, AI-personalized career guidance, skills development, and tailored community services through automated data integrations and easy-to-implement no-code workflows. Founded in 2012 in Denver, Colorado, PAIRIN today is an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company serving government, education and workforce partners across the nation.

Board Member/Observer

2018 - 2024

Powered by a blend of artificial intelligence and live human interaction, Mursion provides immersive training for essential skills in the workplace. Mursion simulations are designed for the modern workforce, staging interactions between learners and avatars to achieve the realism needed for measurable, high-impact results. Drawing upon research in learning science and psychology, Mursion harnesses the best in technology and human interaction to deliver outcomes for both learners and organizations. Mursion was named one of Americas' Fastest-Growing Companies in 2021 by the Financial Times and Inc and has received multiple awards for innovation, including in Learning Technology and Diversity & Inclusion Innovation.