Early Childhood
01Childcare operations, enrollment, curriculum, and parent communication platforms serving the earliest years of learning.
Childcare softwareEnrollmentCurriculumParent comms
Tahoe Education Partners
Investing in the future of learning.
We partner with founder-led education software and services companies across Early Childhood, K12, Higher Education, and Workforce Learning — combining deep market experience with long-term, stewardship-driven capital.
Experience across leading education and education technology platforms
Scholastic
Illuminate Education
LearnPlatform
KEV Group
ParentSquare
Study Island
Education Advanced
FamilyID
USATestPrep
ArbiterSports
Why education
Learning shapes human potential.
Education is the most consequential industry we know. It compounds across generations, shapes economies, and quietly determines the shape of a life.
We believe great founders — supported by patient, education-native partners — can build the institutions and tools that prepare students for a world that looks nothing like the one their schools were designed for.
Curiosity should be cultivated, not suppressed. Teachers should be empowered, not replaced. And the businesses that serve them deserve investors who understand how education actually works.
Where we invest
Markets we know deeply.
K12
02Software and services across student engagement, SIS, assessment, payments, safety, and teacher workflow.
EngagementSIS & AssessmentSchool paymentsTeacher workflow
Higher Education
03Student lifecycle, enrollment optimization, retention, and continuing education across two- and four-year institutions.
LifecycleEnrollmentRetentionContinuing ed
Workforce & Continuing Education
04Professional development, certification, upskilling, and corporate learning serving a workforce in transition.
PDCertificationUpskillingCorporate learning
Selected education experience
Companies we've helped build.
Selected investments and operating experience across our team, including transactions led during Dan Herr's tenure at Serent Capital.
01
Illuminate Education
Assessment & data platform serving 17M+ students
02
ParentSquare
Unified school–family communication
03
Study Island
K12 standards-based learning
04
KEV Group
School payments and activity management
05
USATestPrep
Standards-aligned assessment for K12
06
Education Advanced
Teacher evaluation & curriculum workflow
For founders
Built for founder-led education businesses.
Long-term orientation
We invest with patience appropriate to education cycles — not artificial fund timelines.
Education-specific experience
We've sat across the table from districts, provosts, and IT departments. We speak the language.
Operational support
Hands-on help with go-to-market, product, finance, and hiring when you want it — never imposed.
Thoughtful transitions
Liquidity that preserves mission, team, and the parts of the culture that made the business work.
Partner
Dan Herr
Former Serent Capital. Led education investments including Illuminate Education, KEV Group, and Education Advanced. Basketball coach, substitute teacher, and parent of school-aged children.
Partner
Chris Kinner
Commercial strategy and M&A operator. Harvard-trained in cognitive neuroscience with a focus on how humans actually learn. Long-term strategic thinker.
If you're building something enduring in education, we'd like to hear about it.
No pitch deck required. A conversation is enough.