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Co-founder of Palo Alto AI EdTech startup Smartschool, backed by Inovo VC
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- Current Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Smartschool, an AI EdTech company based in Palo Alto.
- Past founder of Meet IT, a tutoring agency based in Europe serving 1,000+ students.
- Smartschool has co-founders, confirming the company was built with a founding team.
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- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Smartschool, an AI EdTech company based in Palo Alto.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Smartschool raised $1.5M in a pre-seed round from Inovo VC, The Explorer Fund, and angel investors.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Smartschool has co-founders, confirming the company was built with a founding team.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Meet IT, a tutoring agency based in Europe serving 1,000+ students.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Smartschool's domain therecursive.com (rank 120,051) appears in the Majestic Million, awarding a founder domain bonus.
What you likely need
You're at a critical inflection point: pre-seed traction across 5 countries but needing US proof points to close a seed round, which means the highest-value Festival events for you are rooms with EdTech-focused VCs like Owl Ventures and Learn Capital, K-12 district decision-makers, and founders who've navigated the UK-to-US EdTech expansion playbook. You'll also benefit from dinners with other Forbes 30u30 founders who can open warm doors fast, and tactical roundtables with founders who've landed their first US school district pilots.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA seed-stage EdTech founder dinner with partners from Owl Ventures and Learn Capital to pressure-test your $3–5M raise narrative and get direct feedback on what US traction signals they need to see
- introsA Forbes 30u30 founder dinner designed to surface warm introductions to US K-12 school district superintendents and curriculum decision-makers who can fast-track paid pilot conversations for Smartschool
- tacticalA roundtable for founders who've successfully expanded an EdTech product from the UK or Europe into US K-12 school districts, focused on the specific sequencing of pilots, procurement cycles, and investor signaling
- introsA Cambridge University Entrepreneurs alumni dinner with UK and European EdTech angels and operators to identify advisors who can open doors in markets where Smartschool already has a footprint
- hiringAn ex-Google founder happy hour to recruit a US-based Head of Sales with existing K-12 district relationships, leveraging the shared Googler network to find candidates who can hit the ground running
- positioningA positioning workshop for AI EdTech founders to sharpen messaging around a single teacher pain point — like math grading time — and differentiate from generic AI tutoring tools ahead of a seed raise
- wellbeingA small dinner for solo founders managing international expansion across multiple countries, focused on protecting strategic thinking time and avoiding the execution trap that comes with rapid multi-market growth