Ian Connell

Ian acts as a senior advisor to Edovate Capital, tapping his school-model innovation expertise and experience in scaling organizations.
Outside of Edovate, Ian leads the innovative schools strategy at a national nonprofit, providing grant funding to support the launch of schools and school networks reimagining the K12 experience.
Prior to his time in venture philanthropy, Ian was an associate for Techstars and Kapor Capital.
At Kapor Capital, he focused on the education sector and provided strategic support for a competency-based education startup, UniversityNow (acquired by National University System).
Ian started his career as a cofounder of a California software company providing state and local workforce development programs with real-time reporting and analytics.
Ian is also a founding board member of Moonshot edVentures, a nonprofit working to surface and support diverse leaders to design and launch the schools of tomorrow.
He received a BA in economics from the University of California, Irvine, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.