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Vignesh Rajendran

Vignesh Rajendran is an investment associate

  • November 25, 2019
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Vignesh Rajendran is an investment associate at GSV Ventures. Vignesh interned at GSV in summer 2018, prior to joining the GSV team full-time in August 2019. Vignesh is a 2019 graduate of Princeton University where he earned a BA in computer science and co-directed the Princeton Entrepreneurship club. Vignesh wrote his senior thesis on decentralized blockchain applications.  

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

While the pace of layoffs might be

Intellispark, an education

Tess Manning

Tess Manning is a Principal at GSV Ventures

  • November 25, 2019
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Tess Manning is a Principal at GSV Ventures based in San Francisco. Tess joined GSV in September 2019 after graduating from Stanford Graduate School of Business in spring 2019 where she was a Teaching Assistant for “Diverse Leadership in Education.” Her Stanford summer was spent at GSV portfolio company, Pluralsight. Prior to business school, Tess was a client success and top sales executive at Andela, another GSV portfolio company, and was also the head of talent at Timehop, a mobile app with 25mm users that displays a user’s historical social media content. Tess has a passion for dance and founded a 501(c)(3) that taught dance in New York City homeless shelters.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

While the pace of layoffs might be

Intellispark, an education

Margaret (Molly) Row …

Molly Rowe is an investment associate at GSV

  • November 25, 2019
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Molly Rowe is an investment associate at GSV Ventures. Prior to joining the GSV team in July 2019, Molly worked as a summer associate at Keystone Capital, and has previous venture capital experience from her time as an MBA intern working for Connectivity Ventures Fund in New York. Molly completed her MBA in 2019 from NYU Stern, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from George Washington University in 2017 with a degree in Information Systems and Technology Management.  

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

While the pace of layoffs might be

Intellispark, an education

Julia Stiglitz

Julia brings an extraordinary breadth of

  • October 9, 2018
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Julia brings an extraordinary breadth of "PreK to Gray" education and workforce innovation insights to the GSV Ventures team. She was most recently VP at Coursera where she started and scaled Coursera’s enterprise business sector, Coursera’s fastest growing business line. Julia was Coursera’s first business hire, leading its early work around monetization and global expansion. Her previous experience includes managing the Google Apps for Education team, being a Program Director for Teach for America, and teaching 4th grade in East San Jose. 

Julia has a BA from Pomona, and an MBA and MA in education from Stanford University. She is based in San Francisco and can be reached at [email protected].

 

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

While the pace of layoffs might be

Intellispark, an education

Michael Moe

Michael Moe is the Founder and CEO of GSV, a

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Michael Moe is the Founder and CEO of GSV, a growth-focused investment platform based in Silicon Valley. GSV has invested in game-changing businesses such as Facebook, Twitter, Snap, Palantir and Spotify. GSV has several funds focused on the digital learning sector and has invested in Coursera, Chegg, Course Hero, Masterclass, and Guild Education. GSV stands for “Global Silicon Valley,” inspired by the entrepreneurial mindset of Silicon Valley spreading throughout the world.
Michael is also the co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit, which Forbes called “the Davos of Education.” Additionally, Michael is on the Board of the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame, Center for Education Reform, ClassDojo, Bookclub, FatBrain, Hi Solutions, OZY Media, and is an advisor to Arizona State University.
Before GSV, Michael was the Founder and CEO of ThinkEquity Partners, Head of Global Growth Research at Merrill Lynch, and was voted to be on the Institutional All American Research Team and named "Best on the Street" by the Wall Street Journal.
Michael is the author of three books, “Finding the Next Starbucks”, “the Global Silicon Valley Handbook” and his most recent, “The Mission Corporation.”
Michael holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Minnesota and is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst). He and his wife Bonnie live in Dallas, Texas where they moved to in 2021 after living in Silicon Valley for twenty-five years.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

While the pace of layoffs might be

Intellispark, an education

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