Companies · Edtech
San Francisco · CA, USA · Edtech · refined from filed group “Other” · founded 2011 · http://www.makeschool.com
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Make School Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Make School Inc. looks over-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the edtech sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
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Make School Inc. is one of 262 Edtech companies tracked from San Francisco, CA, USA, on record since 2011. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 91% of sector peers), and among the largest by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Students…
Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Our bachelor's degree program combines liberal arts, computer science theory, software development, and character development with an emphasis on preparing students for successful careers as software engineers, product managers, or entrepreneurs. Our alumni work at Facebook, Google, Apple, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Lyft and more. Our college is accessible to students of all backgrounds, 40% are underrepresented minority students and 50% come from low income families. Students pay tuition as a percentage of earnings once they are employed, directly aligning their incentives with ours. Make School is funded by Learn Capital, Y Combinator, Mitch Kapor, Alexis Ohanian, Tim Draper and others.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series A — a $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the edtech sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 262 companies in Edtech. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 91% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 95% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful. This company ranks #1 of 15.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make School Inc. this company | Series A | $27.3M | $235.2M | 2.71× |
| Calvert Education Services, LLC | Series A | $13.3M | $208.9M | 2.41× |
| Grovo Learning, Inc. | Series A | $12.8M | $177.4M | 2.05× |
| MarcoPolo Learning, Inc. | Series A | $10.9M | $159.3M | 1.84× |
| Carolina Education & Ministry Investors Two, LLC | Series A | $8.4M | $132.1M | 1.52× |
| Higher Learning Technologies Inc. | Series A | $12.8M | $129.5M | 1.49× |
| Educational Products Holdings LLC | Series A | $6.1M | $95.6M | 1.10× |
| QuickStart Learning Inc. | Series A | $5.5M | $86.7M | 1.00× |
| Puzzlebox Academy Of Orlando Holding Llc | Series A | $5.5M | $86.2M | 0.99× |
| Big Blue Swim School, Llc | Series A | $6.3M | $78.4M | 0.90× |
| Quad Learning, Inc. | Series A | $46.2M | $75.2M | 0.87× |
| Triumph Higher Education Group, LLC | Series A | $30.1M | $70.6M | 0.81× |
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | $10.1M | 2016-08-12 | $46.0M | $158.8M | 90% |
| Series A | $2.1M | 2018-05-11 | $9.7M | $33.3M | 90% |
| Series A | $15.0M | 2018-12-04 | $68.2M | $235.2M | 90% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Hutter | — | 6 other | 2016-08 |
| Adam Draper | — | — | 2016-08 |
| Ashutosh Desai | — | — | 2016-08 |
| Jeremy Rossmann | — | — | 2016-08 |
| Tom Willerer | — | — | 2018-12 |
Make School Inc. is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas Flight Academy | Edtech | Series A | $28.5M | $13.3M | same sector · same stage |
| Rize Education, Inc. | Edtech | Series A | $25.0M | $44.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Triumph Higher Education Group, LLC | Edtech | Series A | $30.1M | $70.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Full Measure Education, Inc. | Edtech | Series A | $22.8M | $111.1M | same sector · same stage |
| Kyron Learning, PBC | Edtech | Series A | $20.1M | $78.7M | same sector · same stage |
| Jail Education Solutions, Inc. | Edtech | Series A | $18.8M | $42.8M | same sector · same stage |
| LearnZillion, Inc. | Other Technology | Series A | $22.1M | $360.6M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| Quad Learning, Inc. | Edtech | Series A | $46.2M | $75.2M | same sector · same stage |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synthesis School, Inc. | Edtech | Series A | $54.1M | 75% |
| Codecademy The leading online learning platform for technical skills. | Edtech | — | — | 72% |
| Strive School Training the next generation of software engineers in Europe 🇪🇺 | Fintech | — | — | 71% |
| Freestyle We run and deploy code your AI wrote | AI / ML | — | — | 71% |
| Edlyft Helps enterprises train college CS students on essential job skills | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | 71% |
| Turing College AI-driven online tech school for busy professionals | AI / ML | — | — | 71% |
| Strive Math Online Coding School for Kids 8-16 | — | — | — | 70% |
| Laureate Education, Inc. | Edtech | Series D+ | $7.2B | 70% |
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