🍦Our May Update: Anonymous Exits Pt. 03 and Events, Events, Events
Dear all ☀️
It turns out people like learning from other people’s stories. Our first two Anonymous Exit interviews — which detail the ins and outs of how edtech companies were successfully sold 🚪— were very well received. Thanks for your feedback, friends 🙏🏻. We are excited to have recently published Pt. 03 in the series, detailed below.
We've also been engaged in a deep dive exploring the opportunities in Edtech around green ♻️ skills in the built environment 🧱. We’ll share our findings next week, and you’re all invited to the online launch! Please join us as we highlight some of the most interesting startups and opportunities to build new companies in this space. Full details and registration in the Events section👇🏽.
Finally, event season is upon us! We have loads coming up 🎈 both as hosts and attendees. We really hope to see you around, please read on for our full list 🗓️ and registration links.
We hope you will enjoy this update, including:
Selected News from the Portfolio - Plato acquired by Coda
Insights – Anonymous Exits Pt. 03
Events – We’re London Edtech Week partners
Have a great Tuesday!
🌷Best,
The Brighteye Team
📣 SELECTED NEWS FROM THE PORTFOLIO
🤝 Coda acquires Plato
Plato, the mentorship platform for engineers, was acquired by Coda to double down on their mission to Spread Engineering Excellence, through 1) Scaling the community and 2) Building an EngineeringOS. Since 2018, 100k+ 1-1 mentorship sessions happened on the Plato platform, 1,000+ group mentorship sessions, 2,000+ mentors were onboarded, and 500+ companies became customers. What a journey, Quang Hoang and team – we are thrilled to have been a part of it!
🗓️ And, event heads up, Coda is hosting the San Francisco Plato Elevate 2024 in June – for all who want to know more about the vision!!
🔥 Two portcos on Sifted top Early-stage HR Tech startups to watch
Brilliant to discover two of our portfolio companies on the HR Tech top Early-stage Startups to Watch, published by European tech publication Sifted recently. Well done, Lynx Educate 🇫🇷 and Shakers 🇪🇸!!
🔎 INSIGHTS
🏄🏾♂️ Anonymous Exits Pt. 03
In our Anonymous Exit series, we meet founders and executives who have exited their Edtech business. We want to make sure it’s as useful for you as possible, with founders and executives being as honest as they feel appropriate - so it’s anonymous. We are talking with people who exited at a range of valuations in a range of Edtech verticals.
In this edition, we are providing the perspective of an outgoing COO/CFO - this person was not formally a member of the founding team and has since left the company 👋🏽.
🎪 EVENTS
Events season is on! Here’s a chronological rundown of when and where we’d love to see you in the next few weeks, in person and online.
🔷 28 May: AI in L&D Meetup, in partnership with Mindstone, London
Meetup number 4️⃣ in the community shaping the future of learning and development with AI is coming up shortly! We are looking forward to seeing new and familiar faces at the event in Central London on Tuesday 28 May.
Click on the image now to secure your spot 👇🏽.
🔷 29 May: Report and Market Map Launch for “Building a Sustainable Workforce: Greening the Built Environment,” online
We’re just putting the finishing touches to our dive into challenges and Edtech opportunities in the upskilling and reskilling needed to make the green ☘️ transition in the built environment. It’s been a pleasure to collaborate with Ufi Ventures on the content, and we are excited to present findings and hear from some of the experts in an online launch event on Wednesday 29 May. Want to join? Register here, please.
🔷 5-7 June: South Summit, Madrid
Team Brighteye are out in force for the always great South Summit in Madrid 🇪🇸 next month. We are looking forward to catching up with our portfolio companies and other Edtech founders and teams, investors and the wider community. Please let us know if you will be around and want to catch up? Our Associates Izzy and Ghita, and Head of Community Hege are excited to meet you!
🔷 17-21 June: London Edtech Week, London
We’re again proud to be partners of the 🇬🇧 London Edtech Week, hosting and attending several events with friends in the Edtech Community. First on our agenda is what is becoming a tradition, the Official Opening Reception 🎉, co-hosted alongside Oppenheimer on Monday 17 June. On the Wednesday, 19 June, we are joining forces with Matt Walton 🧩 to present a free Product-Market Fit interactive workshop. Both in person.
You can register interest to attend both (and much more) when you sign up on the London Edtech Week website here.
