Deborah Quazzo

Managing Partner at GSV Ventures · Joined 2016

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Biography

Deborah Quazzo is Managing Partner of GSV Ventures, an education and workforce technology venture fund she co-founded in 2016 that manages more than $500 million across three funds. She co-founded the ASU+GSV Summit, an annual education innovation gathering that has grown to more than 15,000 attendees. Her investments include Coursera, Nearpod, Handshake, QuillBot, PhysicsWallah, ClassDojo, Quizizz, and MasterClass, and she serves on the boards of Ascend Learning, Degreed, Uplimit, Toddle, Ellucian, and Turnitin. Earlier she co-founded ThinkEquity Partners, a technology investment bank acquired in 2007, and worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. She holds a BA in History from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Coursera COURNearpodHandshakeQuillBotPhysicsWallahClassDojoQuizizzMasterClass

Board Seats

Career Timeline

2007
ThinkEquity Partners, the technology investment bank she co-founded, was acquired.
2010
Co-founded the ASU+GSV Summit, which now draws more than 15,000 attendees annually.
2016
Co-founded GSV Ventures (originally GSV AcceleraTE), an education and workforce technology fund.

Sources & References

GSV Ventures - Team ↗ASU+GSV Summit - Deborah Quazzo ↗SALT - Deborah Quazzo speaker bio ↗