Karan G. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

GetSet helps students thrive in college and in careers. Our Higher Ed Suite (Community, Analytics, and Social Nudging) develop a sense of belonging and growth mindset at scale through peer behavior modeling. Our new Sponsored Degree™ platform helps employers source, identify, and select talented 2nd year, low-income students to train (3rd and 4th year of Bachelor's paid for at top tier online partner schools like ASU) and hire/retain (2 years guaranteed employee retention built in) to fill critical job openings, increase diversity, and reduce turnover.135% net customer retention.4 to 8 percentage point gains in persistence.4.6 average app rating.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

PrepMe built and sold the first open adaptive learning platform (Coursification®).-Launched PrepMe by winning University of Chicago's New Venture Challenge and became first full-time employee in March 2006-Garnered significant press coverage including front cover of FORTUNE Small Business Magazine and front page of CNN.com-Managed and closed capital raising efforts for all financings-Closed statewide college readiness relationships-Closed all major licensing deals for adaptive learning platform -Led company to profitability-Successfully split business into two parts and drove two acquisitions:*Leading adaptive learning platform (Higher Ed) acquired by Providence Equity-backed Ascend Learning in July 2011 (Ascend Learning acquired by Blackstone and OTPP for $2 billion in April 2017)*Leading college test prep business and adaptive learning platform (K-12) acquired by Naviance/Hobson's (a division of DMGT) in February 2012

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Corporate finance and strategy work for leading forestry products company. Project work included detailing at consumer mass retail, drug, and home improvement chains to analyze potential adjacencies and board of directors presentation preparation.

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked on a variety of publicly-traded company analyses, valuations, equity recommendations, and private-company analyses, including analysis of candidates for acquisition. Specific work in the hospitality and education technology sectors. Protected over 50% of value within a 12 month period by recommending sale of specific publicly-traded assets.

M.B.A., Entrepreneurship And Finance

A.B., Economics

Web Development