Nesta Impact Investments is an investment firm that provides capital to support business growth with a strategic focus on narrowing the education outcomes gap.
Nathan serves as Chief Investment Officer at Nesta Impact Investments and brings extensive non-executive director experience across various organisations.
Lisa Barclay
Executive Director of Investments
Lisa brings investment and portfolio experience from roles at Love Ventures, Nesta, and Nesta Impact Investments.
The funding round was led by Nesta Impact Investments with co-investment from GC Angels to support national and international growth.
"We’re so pleased to have our new investment partners on board and them acknowledging the potential in all we do at Gaia Learning to help school partners, learners and their families. We have tripled our learners this academic year, grown our team to 12 staff members and seen huge demand from children who are struggling in mainstream education. Now, more than ever, schools need flexible, digital solutions that can scale within budget supporting each neurodivergent child’s needs."
The funding round was led by Nesta Impact Investments to support product development and international growth.
"WeWALK’s products are already transforming the lives of visually impaired people across the world by improving their mobility, but there’s so much more to be done. We want to scale our business to reach a wider global audience and advance our technology to offer better, more meaningful information to visually impaired people, older people, and anyone that faces mobility challenges. This VC-backed round will enable us to unlock that next phase of development and transform mobility for millions."
The Series A round was led by Nesta Impact Investments and Guinness Asset Management to support remote learning initiatives.
"As a student at Oxford and the University of Western Australia, I would’ve loved to have had access to this content online for free. That’s why I founded BibliU and I’m proud to say we’ve addressed that for hundreds of thousands of students at our partner universities. We’re investing in our team and continuing to develop our institutional delivery tools. I’m also thrilled to have Sean Devine joining our board as Chairman, his experience as CEO and President of CourseSmart and Safari Books Online brings invaluable industry experience to our team."
Nesta Impact Investments backed the round to support workforce optimisation and collective intelligence.
"ProFinda is a platform that will help transform the workplace, empowering people to demonstrate, use and develop their skills more effectively and facilitating the development of new forms of collaborative working that break down the limitations of traditional enterprise structures."
