Malvika Bhagwat

Partner and Head of Outcomes

2021 - Current

Owl Ventures is the largest EdTech focused venture capital firm globally with $2.2 billion AUM. At Owl, I lead the portfolio services team and partner closely with Owl’s 80+ portfolio companies on their impact and outcomes objectives. I also serve as a thought partner to many of Owl’s limited partners globally and lead the creation of Owl’s annual Education Outcomes Report and Owl Insights.

Director, Outcomes and Efficacy (Portfolio Services)

2019 - 2021

As Owl's first platform hire, I lead all portfolio services for the firm with a primary focus on Outcomes and Efficacy.

Board Member

2023

Leanlab Education is a nonprofit organization that focuses on innovating and improving the education system through collaboration and research. They work closely with educators, entrepreneurs, and researchers to develop and implement new educational technologies and practices that enhance student learning and outcomes.

Member

2023

EdTech Advisor and Speaker

2019

Industry Council member: EdTech Evidence Exchange (now a part of InnovateEDU) Member: AERDF Strategy Council Member: HP Futures Leaders Council Judge: NSF Vital Prize Advisor: Google’s Education Advisory Council Mentor: StartED Judge: ASU GSV Cup Member: NVCA AI Working Group Advisor: IES’s Council for Scaling Innovations I've been an invited speaker at several different conferences including Bloomberg for their panel on Gen AI, SOCAP for a discussion on DEI efforts, VC Platform summit, NYC Edtech Week, Credit Suisse’s Global Women’s Financial Forum, ISTE, NVCA Capitol Podcast, and World Economic Forum's different small group convenings, amongst others.

Manager, EdTech Portfolio Services - Impact

2018 - 2019

Create a community of research and practice for portfolio companies to engage with each other on an ongoing basis. Engage directly with portfolio companies to understand their efficacy and impact goals, help define goals as needed, and develop ways to measure them. Build programs and design convenings that help portfolio companies engage more effectively with education thought leaders, policymakers, and education leaders.

Senior Researcher, Learning & Efficacy

2018 - 2018

Research Manager

2017 - 2018

1. Single-handedly leading the operations (budget, grants, legal contracts) and implementation for eight on-going research studies with leading organizations like Empirical Education and Wested 2. Analyzing product usage data to develop recommendations for classroom implementation and improved student reading outcomes. 3. Managing relationships with external research partners and schools partnering with Newsela to further research into literacy. 4. Collaborating with the product team to incorporate research best practices into the product roadmap and building features (power words, quizzes, article reactions) that are aligned with the latest pedagogical research.

Assessment Manager

2015 - 2016

I oversee Newsela's assessment department that produces leveled common-core aligned assessments and non-fiction articles that are used in 75% classrooms across United States to improve student reading. My responsibilities include developing the overall assessment strategy for the company, creating new assessment offerings to drive learning goals, vetting companies for potential partnerships and acquisitions and leading assessment alignment. 1. Onboarded and managed Newsela’s assessment team of four and oversaw the freelance contributor pool of 60+ writers and reviewers 2. Built scalable assessment processes to produce 800+ common-core aligned quiz items per week in two languages for 10 million+ students. 3. Collaborated with product, design and engineering teams to create and launch research-based assessment and learning tools. Selected examples: recommended annotations, feedback panels and other contributor facing productivity tools.

Assessment Specialist

2014 - 2015

1. Scaled assessment production to increase content output by 80% and reduce production cost by 60% 2. Oversaw the design and review of 300+ common-core aligned quiz items every week 3. Built and scaled our network of contributors from 0 to 50+ in five months 4. Analyzed quiz results to help draw insights into how Newsela helps student’s reading progress.

Reading Curriculum Designer

2014 - 2014

Developed chapter-by-chapter guided tutoring curriculum for fiction and non-fiction books as part of the ExpandED after-school programming run in 20 middle schools in New York City

Education Specialist, ELA

2011 - 2013

-Researched and designed grade equivalent testing items to understand emerging trends of student misconceptions across grades and schools; used these assessments for student and school benchmarking -Worked on the founding team for a pilot-product called MindSpark, a computer-adaptive learning product built to teach vernacular languages and expose non-native English speakers to the language; was responsible for market research, content creation, wire-framing and prototyping of the activities as well as working with coders to develop the game into HTML5 and iterating it based on user needs -Developed papers for Large Scale Assessment projects like Teach for India and Michael and Susan Dell Foundation that allow benchmarking of India’s rural sections against both India’s private schools and International standards

English Teacher

2010 - 2010

Developed the curriculum for a self-lead lecture series on Jean Anouilh’s Antigone to teach grade 12 students the play through the psychoanalytic and feminist perspective