Joshua Pierce
Socratic Ventures
- Role
- Co-founder, Director at Acadeum
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Joshua Pierce
Once upon a time private equity grunt who found a calling building education businesses. Founded Socratic Ventures in 2010 to find bona fide entrepreneurs and to help them foster big ideas in education. Real change in education will only come if we can build lasting businesses providing fundamental value to the individual. Socratic has a modest fund focused on furthering the same approach that has helped it to launch Vault, MeasureOne, Acadeum, Meritize, UniversityNow, TeachTown, Collegiate Gateways, Synergis Education and Collegiate Gateways.
Experience
Co-founder, Director
Apr 2015 — Present
Education
Harvard Business School
MBA
2007 — 2009
Texas A&M University
BBA - Finance
1997 — 2001
Skills
- Investments
- Business Strategy
- Corporate Development
- Investment Banking
- Corporate Finance
- Valuation
- Strategy
- Finance
- Financial Modeling
- Due Diligence
- Management Consulting
- Private Equity
- Venture Capital
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Management
- Product Development
- Market Research
- Start-Ups
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