2019 Entrepreneur in Residence

Sergio Monsalve

Sergio Monsalve is the Co-Founder of the Entrepreneur in Residence Program and the author and Lecturer of the popular course “EDUC 295: Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Education Technology.”

Sergio is Founding Partner at Roble Ventures (www.robleventures.com), which is an early stage technology venture capital fund focused on the future of human enablement technologies, including workplace productivity cloud software, remote work platforms, skills development technologies, edtech, and job-creating marketplaces. His whole focus at Roble is to enable entrepreneurs interested in helping all humans get ahead with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Sergio started his venture career as a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners for 12 years he was an early investor and board member of 2 unicorns, including Udemy, and Adaptive Insights. At Roble, he has invested in dozens of companies and was an early investor in Kahoot! (IPO 2021) and Clerio (IPO 2022). Sergio has held various entrepreneurship and leadership roles in high-growth technology companies like eBay, Portal Software (IPO during tenure), as well various venture-backed startups he helped get off the ground as a founder or founding executive. He is on the Board of Trustees at Harvey Mudd College where he co-chairs the entrepreneurial initiatives committee.

Sergio holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Sergio was born in Mexico and came to the United States when he was a teen.

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Sergio Monsalve, the 2019 EIR.

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Courses & Seminars

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education Technology Seminar

How do entrepreneurs, educators, and VC's evaluate and grow successful education and edtech startups? Why do most startups fail, and what are the key ingredients for success? This course will teach you the skills and strategies necessary to effectively evaluate educational services and technology startups much like prospective employees, expert educators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and venture capital investors do. Each week, we will invite an executive or entrepreneur from a innovative education technology startup (for-profit & non-profit) as a guest speaker, and we'll evaluate all aspects of their invention.

A fundamental question we'll explore in this course is how educators and technologists can collaborate to improve equity and access to education by leveraging the massive impact technology solutions can provide. Maximum capacity is 30 students; students will be admitted to the course by the professor. Juniors, Seniors and all graduate students are welcome.

Students should complete this brief course interest form at http://bit.ly/educ-295
We will notify all students of their status before the first class on Monday, Sept. 23rd.
Syllabus can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/educ295-syllabus2019

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EDUC 295

Directed Reading

For advanced graduate students. (all areas)

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EDUC 480

Articles & Research

Bridging the Gap: Making an impact in education technology startups with Sergio Monsalve

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Exciting career opportunities exist in some of the most transformational education technology (edtech) startups in Silicon Valley, and many new disruptive edtech products and services are launching at record pace. While these early stage startups and established organizations may have some skilled technical and business talent, we know that they absolutely need the analytical skills, research discipline, learning science, and knowledge that Stanford graduates have. This means that if you are interested in education, you could have an opportunity to shape one of these companies and make an enormous impact early in your career. This discussion is helpful to anyone at Stanford interested in learning more about careers in entrepreneurial companies that use technology to help improve education.

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Sergio Monsalve – 2018 Annenberg Speaker Series

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Sergio Monsalve, venture partner at Norwest Venture Partners, discusses why an entrepreneur is a special kind of leader who possesses unique skills and characteristics. This mindset is essential for all effective leaders in today’s rapidly changing environment. Monsalve defines the entrepreneurial mindset, describe its importance in the context of our future and offer suggestions on how we all can develop it.

Monsalve spoke on March 27, 2018, as part of the Annenberg Leadership and Management Speaker Series at Harvey Mudd College.

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GSE Welcomes Entrepreneur-in-Residence Sergio Monsalve

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In-house entrepreneur looks to share expertise in industry, startups, and employment landscape

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The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are jobs to computerization?

| Sergio Monsalve

We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerization. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerization for 702 detailed occupations, using a Gaussian process classifier

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New program provides entrepreneurial expertise at Stanford Graduate School of Education

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Sergio Monsalve will lead the new Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, advising faculty and students on innovative projects in education.

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