Our Approach

As with building a great company, impact at scale does not happen overnight. It’s an ongoing process, one that can be intentional and measurable. We help companies monitor and increase their impact along three dimensions:

Access

Reducing barriers to learning, care and economic mobility, so that opportunity is within reach for everybody, particularly underserved populations and marginalized communities.

Scale

Reaching as many people as possible, wherever they might be — in schools, at home, at work and everywhere else.

Quality

Ensuring solutions are rooted in evidence, involve experts in the design process, are beloved by users, and deliver the outcomes they promise.

2024 Impact Report

This report shares how Reach invests for impact and how current macro-trends in the labor markets and AI influence our impact theses. It features portfolio companies in these areas, and provides a snapshot of where they are in their impact journey, how they got there, and what the next steps will be.

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How Reach invests for impact and supports founders in their journey, and future opportunities for impactful solutions.

Higher Ed Impact Report (2023)

In 2017 we developed our higher-ed impact thesis: technology can make 2- and 4-year degrees more accessible through improved (1) instruction, (2) student access and success, and (3) career readiness. From our 14 core investments, what lessons have we learned, and what opportunities for impact lay ahead?

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Reach Capital Higher Ed Impact Report 2023

K-12 Impact Report (2022)

Since 2015 we have made 48 K-12 investments across three funds. With seven years and a ground-shifting global pandemic under our belts, we reflect on our founding hypotheses. Did our investments impact the K-12 sector as we had hoped?

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Reflecting on Our Impact on K-12 Since 2015

Reach II Impact Report (2020)

Get to know the mission-driven founders in our Reach II portfolio — the problems they’re tackling, their innovative approaches to solving them, and progress they’ve made toward achieving their intended outcomes.

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Reach Capital Impact Report 2020