Friday, June 06, 2014
By Vicki Smith Bigham 

An excerpt from "She Snoops for Scoops: The Personal Side of the EdNET Community"

Greetings, friends, and congrats on making it through another week. I am feeling one of my "hair on fire" periods—you know how that can be. Lots going on and lots to do. I am looking forward to the weekend and trust you are as well. But first....let's get to those scoops!

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

Matt Greenfield, Managing Partner at ReThink Education, a venture capital partnership focused on educational technology, has joined the Board of Directors for MOUSE, a national nonprofit organization that empowers youth to learn, lead, and create with technology. Matt's passion for education and technology has led him on a career-long path of investing in and reshaping the way we learn and teach. He is on the board of BrightBytes and serves as an advisor to University Ventures, the NewSchool Ventures Seed Fund, and Laureate Education. Matt previously helped start three technology businesses, including Rethink Autism, DB Software (acquired by Cadre Software and now part of CA), and Synernetics (acquired by 3Com), and worked as an associate at ABS Ventures. In addition to Synernetics, his successful investments include Engrade (where he chaired the board through the company's acquisition by McGraw Hill Education), Wireless Generation (acquired by News Corp.), Analog Analytics (acquired by Barclays), Atricure (NASDAQ:ATRC), and Wellfleet (merged with Synoptics to form Bay Networks and then acquired by Nortel). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English from Yale University, where he won five academic prizes and fellowships from the Mellon and Whiting Foundations and served on the editorial board of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Congratulations on all your accomplishments, Matt, and on your new role with the great folks at MOUSE!