The Jobs Frontier 2025: Annual VocTech Market Report
April 2, 2025 PapersThe Jobs Frontier 2025 Tyton Partners and Ufi Ventures Release 2025 Annual VocTech Market Report: Policy Inflection, Skills…
Nick Kind
Managing Director
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About Nick
Nick Kind has spent more than 25 years helping mission-driven organizations discover and deliver their next chapter. With a career spanning strategy, investment, corporate development, and digital product management, he partners with leaders around the world to turn vision into action.
As a Managing Director at Tyton Partners, Nick leads strategic consulting projects for impact investors, family offices, philanthropies, foundations, governments, nonprofits, and corporations. His work spans the full education lifecycle – “Pre-K to grey” – and draws on his deep understanding of global education landscapes. Recent highlights of his work include helping to design a major mission-driven investment fund in U.S. K-12 education with a family office, investing over $100 million to date; coordinating a network of leading impact-oriented investors for a European education foundation; co-creating and advising Cambiar’s Thrive Grant program, which has distributed $3 million to cutting-edge organizations supporting underserved families; and advising multinational edtech companies on international expansion.
Before joining Tyton Partners, Nick was head of business insights for Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, leading a thought leadership and market intelligence team serving the board. He co-founded a successful edtech startup and executive-produced major digital learning projects for the BBC. Earlier in his career, he helped create, manage, and advise high-profile software development companies and initiatives across education markets globally.
Industry Focus
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Impact investing
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Venture philanthropy
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Future of Work/ Workforce Development
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K-12 System Change
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Global perspectives
Publications and Speaking Engagements
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Speaker, ASU+GSV
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Judge, BESA Awards
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Author, Key Learnings of VocTech Market Activity quarterly and The Jobs Frontier annual reports, Making an Impact, Improving Instructional Resources to Enhance the Teacher Experience, Supplier Benchmarking Toolkit: A supplemental resource to Improving Instructional Resources to Enhance the Teacher Experience
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
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Trustee, Big Change
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Senior Advisor, Creas
Interests and Passion Projects
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Culture and the world’s diversity
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Outdoor adventures, notably in the mountains
Education
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MA (Hons) University of Cambridge