From Zero to Scale: A Fireside Chat with Caleb Hicks, Founder & CEO of SchoolAI for #SFTechWeek
Please join NextView Ventures and SchoolAI for an SF #TechWeek Fireside Chat on Wednesday, October 8th at 5:30 PM PT.
NextView Partner Stephanie Palmeri will lead a conversation with Caleb Hicks, Founder & CEO of SchoolAI, one of the fastest-growing AI companies in education. Since launching in 2021, SchoolAI has scaled to over 1 million classrooms across all 50 states and over 150 countries, becoming a leader in safe, practical AI implementations for educators and students.
The conversation will dive deep into Caleb's founder journey - the strategic decisions, pivotal moments, and hard-won lessons that enabled SchoolAI to achieve rapid scale in a notoriously difficult market. Whether you’re scaling your own company or looking to understand how AI is reshaping entire industries, this is your chance to learn from a founder who’s doing it in real time.
Before the panel begins, there will be time for mingling amongst fellow founder, operator, and VC guests. Light bites and refreshing drinks will be provided. The exact location of the venue will be revealed upon registration approval. We're looking forward to seeing you there!
ABOUT SCHOOL AI
SchoolAI believes every student deserves to feel seen, supported, and successful—and that every educator deserves tools that help them make that happen without burning out. Their Classroom Experience Platform helps schools transform the everyday learning experience with powerful, safe AI tools that adapt to how students learn best—and show teachers what’s working, what’s not, and who needs help right now. The outcome? Educators worldwide can reach every student, every day.
ABOUT NEXTVIEW VENTURES
NextView Ventures is a high-conviction, hands-on venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. NextView specializes in leading seed and pre-seed rounds in pre-traction businesses that leverage software and AI to tackle mass-market human problems. Since 2011, NextView has invested in 200+ portfolio companies nationally, including Attentive, ThredUP, WHOOP, Devoted Health, Setpoint, TripleLift, and Bobbie.
ABOUT STEPHANIE PALMERI
Stephanie Palmeri is a Partner at NextView Ventures, a seed-specialist firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston. For the past fifteen years, she has backed founders building exceptional end-user experiences using software and AI to tackle the biggest challenges people face at home and work. Prior to NextView, Stephanie invested in dozens of seed-stage companies as a partner at Uncork Capital, including Poshmark ($POSH), Clever (acquired by Kahoot!), Chariot (acquired by Ford), ClassDojo, Carrot Fertility, Hallow, Panorama Education, Phil, Wrapbook, and Wonderschool. Earlier in her career, she worked as a technology consultant and marketer at Accenture, Estée Lauder, and several startups. Stephanie is a founding member of All Raise, a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Coaching, and serves on the investment committee of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund.
ABOUT CALEB HICKS
Caleb Hicks is a lifelong educator with 20+ years of experience as a classroom teacher, instructional designer, edtech founder, and now CEO of SchoolAI. From creating a teen entrepreneurship program where students started businesses to make $1000, to leading instructional design at Apple, to cofounding Lambda School with innovative income-share agreements, Caleb has focused on creating personalized learning experiences that drive outcomes. Today, nearly 1M teachers worldwide use SchoolAI to share safe, managed AI-powered learning activities with millions of students while gaining real-time insights into how each student is doing, feeling, and why—helping teachers identify exactly who needs personal attention.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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