Key Learnings from VocTech Market Activity Q1 2025
May 21, 2025 PapersKey Learnings from VocTech Market Activity Q1 2025 Tyton Partners and Ufi Ventures Release Q1 2025 VocTech Market…
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