Jennifer Carolan is a former K-12 history teacher who co-founded Reach Capital after building NewSchools' Seed Fund, positioning herself as one of the earliest dedicated edtech seed investors who explicitly uses venture capital as a tool to address educational inequality rather than pursuing it as a traditional finance career. She maintains an unusually disciplined investment approach, rejecting founders she considers mercenary and focusing exclusively on tools that can deliver personalized learning at mass scale while requiring the 7-10 year timelines typical of meaningful K-12 companies. Jennifer Carolan is a former K-12 history teacher who co-founded Reach Capital after building NewSchools' Seed Fund, positioning herself as one of the earliest dedicated edtech seed investors who explicitly uses venture capital as a tool to address educational inequality rather than pursuing it as a traditional finance career. She maintains an unusually disciplined investment approach, rejecting founders she considers mercenary and focusing exclusively on tools that can deliver personalized learning at mass scale while requiring the 7-10 year timelines typical of meaningful K-12 companies.