Don Burton Overview

  • Primary Position
  • Founding Partner...

  • Primary Industry
  • Information Technology

  • Med. Deal Size

  • Med. Valuation

Don Burton General Information

Biography

Mr. Don Burton serves as the Founding Partner and Managing Partner at LearnStart. He serves as an Executive at Learn Capital. He served as an Advisor at Playpower Labs. He was also a Co-Founder of EDGE Edtech and served as its Managing Partner. He has had an interesting career at the cutting edge of education innovation and technology -- primarily launching, scaling, and exiting companies. As a strategic advisor, he worked with McKinsey & Co. consulting on strategies to launch interactive media business units and how to create open innovation internally; and with Goldman Sachs advising on exits and acquisitions. As an intrapreneur, he has built education startups within large companies such as Walt Disney Company and Kaplan. As an entrepreneur, he has built multiple tech startups on his own as a founder with a major exit to Kaplan/Washington Post. He most recently has been a successful tech investor with a portfolio of more than 30 startups via the seed stage investment platform called Learning Edge, which builds upon his work with Techstars and as an angel investor. He has run Startup Accelerator programs and has graduated three cohorts which have raised more than $100M in financing and have an estimated market cap of $400M. He graduated from Harvard Business School and Duke University.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Founding Partner & Managing Partner, LearnStart
Education
Duke University, Degree
Gender
Male
Total Investments
Exits
Email
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Address
  • 119 West 24th Street
  • 4th Floor
  • New York, NY 10011
  • United States

Don Burton Positions (2)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Learn Capital Investor Executive San Mateo, CA Venture Capital
LearnStart Investor Founding Partner & Managing Partner New York, NY Venture Capital

Don Burton Lead Partner on Deals (8)

Don Burton has been the lead partner on 8 deals. Their latest deal was with YaizY, a educational software company. The deal was made for on 03-Dec-2021.

Company Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Deal Status Industry Location
YaizY 03-Dec-2021 Seed Round Completed Educational Software Wilmington, DE
LearnPlatform 29-Jan-2020 Completed Educational Software Raleigh, NC
Edvisor 13-Feb-2019 Completed Business/Productivity Software Vancouver, Canada
Rekode Education 24-Jul-2014 Completed Educational and Training Services (B2C) Redmond, WA
Tuva 01-Jul-2014 Completed Educational Software Chester Springs, PA
ModernGuild 23-Dec-2013 Completed Educational Software New York, NY
MentorMob 01-Jan-2012 Early Stage VC (Series A1) Completed Educational Software Chicago, IL
CoachTube Seed Round Completed Educational and Training Services (B2C) Austin, TX

Don Burton Network (44)

Portfolio Executives (44)

Name Company Role Deal date Location
Stephen Betta YaizY Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer 03-Dec-2021 Wilmington, DE
Aleksey Popov YaizY Chief Technology Officer 03-Dec-2021 Wilmington, DE
YaizY Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer 03-Dec-2021 Wilmington, DE
YaizY Global Head of Product and Strategic Development 03-Dec-2021 Wilmington, DE
YaizY Co-Founder & Chairman 03-Dec-2021 Wilmington, DE

Don Burton FAQs

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    Don Burton’s primary position is Founding Partner & Managing Partner.

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