Jason Palmer

Co-Founder & President

2024

Socrait is a fast-growing edtech startup reducing teacher burnout with our revolutionary AI-powered class assistant. Our mission is to empower educators by saving time on behavior management, attendance, and parent communication, thereby improving student learning. Socrait allows teachers to spend more time focusing on what they love: teaching.

Advisory Board Chairman

2025

Bay Bridge Ventures is a climate technology venture capital firm, purpose-built from the ground up as a diverse-owned and managed organization investing in scalable, profitable, and impactful companies across technology sectors. Bay Bridge believes the world’s hardest environmental problems will be accelerated by the advancement of foundational technologies, such as AI & Big Data, Advanced Computing, Sensors & IoT, High-Bandwidth Connectivity, Energy Storage, Robotics and Synthetic Biology

Senior Advisor

2025

NCEE is dedicated to building broadly shared prosperity in the United States by supporting education leaders, practitioners, and policymakers to study, design and build equitable, high-performing, and cost-effective education and workforce development systems. The students these systems educate will be prepared to contribute to our democratic society and compete in the global economy.

Co-Founder, Board Chair

2024

Board Member, Senior Advisor

2021

CreatorUp is a mission-driven digital media and AI production company that provides rich content for businesses and educational institutions, including video, livestreaming, animation, immersive experiences, and generative AI. CreatorUp is trusted by over 250 global brands including Google, YouTube, TikTok, IBM, Airbnb, Stride, Kaplan, The Special Olympics and more, CreatorUp has completed work in over 20 countries, and has offices in Los Angeles, Athens, Dubai, Mumbai, and Singapore.

General Partner

2016

New Markets is a leading global impact investor focused on education and workforce technologies. As a double-bottom-line venture capital firm, we focus on innovative, growth stage companies that improve people-centered outcomes while building profitable organizations. My focus is on fund strategy and development, as well as supporting portfolio companies with operational expertise and industry relationships.

Presidential Candidate

2023 - 2024

Advisory Board Member

2022 - 2023

Board Chair

2019 - 2023

Board Member

2019 - 2023

Climb Credit is an innovative student payment platform that makes career advancement more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb utilizes a proprietary return-on-investment calculation to identify and evaluate programs and schools with a demonstrated ability to benefit their graduates. Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to healthcare training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. Climb and its partner schools are committed to providing access to valuable, cost effective education that enable individuals to reach their career goals and own their next chapter.