Julia Stiglitz
Founder of Uplimit (Formerly CoRise)
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO and Co-Founder
2021 - Current
Uplimit is on a mission to unlimit the world's learning potential. Through our AI driven platform we help companies and individuals get the skills they need for the future. We're proud to be backed by Greylock, GSV Ventures and Cowboy Ventures, as well as the co-founders of OpenAI and DeepMind.
Uplimit is an end-to-end AI learning platform that educates businesses and individuals with technical knowledge and practices.
Raised $19,500,000.00 from Workday Ventures, Conviction Partners, Cowboy Ventures, GSV Ventures, Translink Capital, Greylock and Salesforce Ventures.
Board Member
2019 - 2023
Outlier is an online education platform that offers intro-level college courses online at a relatively affordable price.
Raised $46,000,000.00 from Google Ventures, Arrive, Unusual Ventures, GSV Ventures, Gaingels and Harrison Metal.
National Board Member
2019 - 2022
At Rocketship Public Schools, we believe in the infinite possibility of human potential. We believe that every student deserves the right to dream, to discover, and to develop their unique potential. And it is our responsibility and our privilege to unleash the potential inside every Rocketeer we serve. Our non-profit network of public elementary charter schools propels student achievement, develops exceptional educators, and partners with parents who enable high-quality public schools to thrive in their community. Rocketship is currently serving almost 10,000 students.
Partner
2018 - 2021
Partner at the GSV Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in education and the future of work. Portfolio companies include Coursera, CourseHero, ClassDojo, Handshake, Remind, Degreed, MasterClass, and Fairygodboss.
GSV Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the education technology sector.
Consortium for Learning Innovation, Member
2017 - 2021
The Consortium for Learning Innovation is a new interdisciplinary network of leading thinkers and doers drawn together by the possibility of re-imagining how businesses and society approach adult learning and growth—from workplace training to workforce re-skilling, higher ed to ed tech. The group is convened by McKinsey and Company. https://solutions.mckinsey.com/msd/consortium/
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Vice President, Enterprise (executive team)
2016 - 2018
Founded and led Coursera's global enterprise business, empowering organizations and governments to up-skill and grow their employees and citizens through the in-demand skills of tomorrow. Grew business from concept to over 1400 customers, including 60 fortune 500 companies, and with on the ground operations in the US, Europe and Asia. Directly managed sales, BD, sales operations, customer success, and professional services. Cross-functional lead across marketing, finance, product and engineering. Owned P&L for enterprise business, Coursera’s fastest growing business line. Reported to Coursera's CEO and member of Coursera's executive team.
Global Director, Business Development, Strategy and International
2012 - 2015
Recruited by Coursera's founders before the company launched as one of Coursera's first ten employes and one of the first leadership hires. Built and managed the core business teams including Business Development, International Growth, Content Strategy, and Corporate Strategy. Led Coursera's monetization effort including launching Specializations, which has brought in the majority of company revenue, and launching Enterprise, Coursera's fastest growing business.
Coursera is an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform.
Raised $458,900,000.00 from Second Alpha Partners, The Garage Syndicate and Scale-Up.
Google Apps for Education
2010 - 2012
Managed the North America sales and global community management team for Google Apps for Education (K12 and Higher Education). Grew users from 8m to 18m active students, faculty and staff globally, and to over 70% of the top 100 US universities. Launched the education category of the Google App Marketplace. Team featured in Tech&Learning's 10 most influential people in edtech 2011 (http://www.techlearning.com/features/0039/the-big-10/48010)
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Program Director
2006 - 2008
Supervised 37 new Teach For America corps members across the Bay Area.
4th Grade Teacher, Alum Rock Unified School District, San Jose
2004 - 2006
Sue Lehmann Award for Excellence in Teaching, Bay Area Semi-Finalist, 2006
is a nonprofit whose mission is to engage our nation's most promising future leaders to strengthen the movement for educational equity.
Raised $4,235,000.00 from Appalachian Regional Commission, Martha Holden Jennings Foundation and U.S. Department of Education.