John Rogers

John Rogers is a Partner and the Education Sector Lead for The Rise Fund. John developed The Rise Fund’s global education strategy which focuses on personalized learning, career education and private multi-site school operators. John also led the fund’s investments in DreamBox Learning, InStride and Digital House and assisted with investments in Renaissance Learning, EverFi, Allogene, Viewpoint Therapeutics and RefleXion. John joined the Rise Fund with nearly two decades of experience acquiring two dozen companies while building nine platform companies in the education and healthcare sectors. Most recently, John was a founding partner of Bridges Ventures’ U.S. Sustainable Growth Fund, where he was the architect of Bridges’ U.S. investment strategy and led Bridges’ investment in Springboard Education.