What did we find at Founders’ Day? Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings “firing” our partner onstage. A psychologist getting 100 founders to swap photos that make us laugh. Words that change how people interact with Claude and Replit. First-timers and veterans trading stories under redwood trees. A night of Codenames, mahjong and other games that stoked our competitive spirit.

Every two years, Reach gathers our portfolio founders, friends, and guests somewhere beautiful to recharge, reconnect, and learn from one another. Here are a few highlights from this year’s sessions:

🎥 Our magical moments, captured in this highlight reel.

We are excited to announce that Rich Yang is joining Reach as a Venture Partner!

Those who have worked with Rich already know what he brings to the table: a rare quality to help leaders prioritize and make hard calls, paired with the empathy of someone who has made them himself. A longtime friend and partner, Rich has been mentoring our portfolio founders, serving on Boards alongside us, and helping companies navigate pivotal transitions and build strong teams.

Ten years ago, Jamie Poskin was a Reach intern, penning “Dear Abby” columns for education founders. The next year, he and Berk Coker started TeachFX, a pioneer in using AI to turn classroom audio into private feedback for teachers.

Today, schools and studies can attest to its effectiveness at helping educators use proven pedagogical practices that increase student talk time. Students attend class more often, improve academic performance, and feel more optimistic about their future.

We celebrate Jamie, Berk and the team as they enter their next chapter with McGraw Hill and reach even more educators and learners across the country. Congratulations!

Finding childcare usually makes parents choose between a sitter who’s readily available, or one who knows the kids and all the peculiarities of the household. Rosie offers both, thanks to its AI Family Brain that learns each family’s routines and shares them with a bench of vetted Pros. We’re delighted to lead its Seed round alongside Bling Capital, and joined by Precursor Ventures, Mother Ventures, and a chorus of angels. 

Our Partner James Kim on why we invested, and their open job opportunities.

We’re excited to back Bloomy, an AI-native academic system for K-12 schools that brings curriculum, teaching and assessments together to personalize instruction. Founded by Teach For America alum Alex Southmayd, Bloomy is built to make mastery learning practical — pinpointing each student’s skills gap in real time, and closing them with Socratic-style tutoring. Check out Alex’s launch post and Bloomy’s open roles. 

Congratulations to Straia, which helps colleges connect siloed data and turn it into early, actionable interventions for students. At Roane State Community College, admins use it to spot students who are behind on tuition and coursework and need help. We first invested in 2025 and are excited to join this Seed round led by Speedrun. Check out their exclusive in Bloomberg.

A home health aide walks into a patient’s house, and something seems off. Is it a minor allergic reaction, or something serious? An AI agent can know every step of a care plan, but it can’t make that call.

As AI takes on more everyday work, that kind of judgment is becoming the scarcest resource, especially in regulated work. In our latest investment thesis, Reach General Partner Esteban Sosnik argues that human judgment is about to grow an industry of its own, just as capital grew banks, payment rails and stock exchanges.

How will an agent know when to act on its own, when to delegate, and when to loop in a person? What does the org chart of a human-AI company look like? The companies that answer those questions will orchestrate how humans and AI work together.

When anyone can build software for next to nothing, what’s still defensible? In a recent webinar with Edtech Insiders and StartEd, Reach Partner Steve Kupfer explains how that question shapes our new $265 million fund. The short answer: own what the frontier labs can’t copy, like proprietary data, deep trust and verified outcomes.

In education, there is still opportunity in areas where traditional institutions are letting people down: teachers buried in paperwork, parents stuck on months-long waitlists, superintendents wrestling with impossible budgets. Catch the full conversation with Steve, alongside Ben Nelson, Richard Weiqi Zhang, Darrin Murriner, and Alan Todd.

November 6 at 3pm ET | New York

We’re bringing together a small group of engineers, product leaders, and sales leaders to build voice AI that doesn’t fall apart when someone interrupts, goes quiet, or veers off-script.

Take2’s engineers, who run AI phone interviews in production every day, will show how to connect speech-to-text, an LLM, and text-to-speech fast enough to feel conversational. Teams will then have three hours to build their own, with Take2 mentors on the floor.

In New York, Jomayra Herrera joined Tenor’s Frontier gathering to tackle the less flashy, more consequential side of workplace AI: keeping people at the center, managing adoption anxiety, and proving ROI.

In San Francisco, Caoimhe MacRunnels joined OURA, Able Partners, a16z, and J.P. Morgan at the Future of Health Summit, where one discussion connected patient trust with cost control.

In Las Vegas, James Kim returned to his Teach For America roots for its 35th Anniversary Summit. Alongside Adeel Khan, Marc Sternberg, Daniel Meekins, and Heather Y. Anichini, he explored how private and philanthropic capital can help promising education companies and organizations scale their impact.