Redefining innovation in education and product-market fit.
At Hana Education Partners, we help our clients – education companies, investors, universities, and start-ups – to set a vision, conceive solutions, execute successfully, and most importantly, ensure that you are meeting a market need in the ed tech field.
Market research is no substitute for lived experience.
Too often, products and services in the early education and ed tech space are created with the best of intentions, but with outsized reliance on market research and focus groups to define what is good, right, and true for students, teachers and families.
We offer decades of practical experience and education market knowledge.
Hana Education Partners brings together decades of direct classroom experience, subject matter expertise, product development expertise, and deep market knowledge to help companies find success in an increasingly crowded ed tech market. We partner with education companies, investors, universities, and start-ups to set a vision, conceive solutions, execute successfully, and most importantly, ensure that they’re meeting a market need.
Here's how we help ensure your success in the education market.
Strategy
We help companies focus on what matters now for a successful future. From determining short term priorities to achieving long-term growth, we help companies define a market need and offer support for developing a plan to meet it. We’ve guided companies through multiple successful private equity transactions and developed a start-up that was acquired in under a year. We know that a strong, focused product strategy is the only path to success.
Evaluation
We help investors make sure they’re spending resources wisely. Simply put, the ed tech solutions market is incredibly congested. Our early childhood expertise and in-depth knowledge of the early education market can help investors evaluate opportunities and guide their investments toward acquisitions that both meet a market need and can scale and sustain growth. Where there are holes, we can help create a plan to fill the gaps.
Product Development
We support companies with product development, all the way from vision to execution. A solid product roadmap should be a company’s number one priority. Our track record of moving quickly from concepts, research, and ideas to market-changing solutions helps companies set the right priorities, hire the right people and the right positions, and quickly get products to market. Our extended team of content developers, technologists, branding and design experts, editorial consultants, and subject matter experts are brought in to support execution and help ensure that goals set for product development are not just innovative, but also realistic and achievable.
Branding, Marketing & Communications
We communicate in a way that resonates with the field. Our early childhood knowledge and practical experience allows us to help companies to develop an approach to brand strategy, communications and marketing that conveys the deep empathy, professionalism, and respect that educators deserve. We don’t just know how to create impactful solutions—we know how to help companies find their “voice” and develop a credible, respectful approach to the market they’re serving. Having been on both sides of the equation—both classroom and solutions provider—we bring particularly unique knowledge and perspective to help companies communicate about their vision, mission, and solutions.
LEADERSHIP
We help companies to build and strengthen their leadership teams. From helping to identify gaps in key skill sets within an organization, to ongoing mentoring and coaching of executive team members, our ability to help the members of the leadership team to deliver their best work will lead to successful outcomes. We’ve helped companies with executive job searches and recruitment efforts, even temporarily filling roles within the C-suite while new talent is being acquired.
“Real innovation—to change the game and close the gaps—can only begin from a place of deep knowledge, understanding, respect, and empathy for the lived experiences of the market being served.”
Kai-leé Berke, Founding Partner
Redefining innovation in education and product-market fit.
At Hana Education Partners, we help our clients – education companies, investors, universities, and start-ups – to set a vision, conceive solutions, execute successfully, and most importantly, ensure that you are meeting a market need in the ed tech field.
Market research is no substitute for lived experience.
Too often, products and services in the early education and ed tech space are created with the best of intentions, but with outsized reliance on market research and focus groups to define what is good, right, and true for students, teachers and families.
We offer decades of practical experience and education market knowledge.
Hana Education Partners brings together decades of direct classroom experience, subject matter expertise, product development expertise, and deep market knowledge to help companies find success in an increasingly crowded ed tech market. We partner with education companies, investors, universities, and start-ups to set a vision, conceive solutions, execute successfully, and most importantly, ensure that they’re meeting a market need.
Here's how we help ensure your success in the education market.
Strategy
We help companies focus on what matters now for a successful future. From determining short term priorities to achieving long-term growth, we help companies define a market need and offer support for developing a plan to meet it. We’ve guided companies through multiple successful private equity transactions and developed a start-up that was acquired in under a year. We know that a strong, focused product strategy is the only path to success.
Evaluation
We help investors make sure they’re spending resources wisely. Simply put, the ed tech solutions market is incredibly congested. Our early childhood expertise and in-depth knowledge of the early education market can help investors evaluate opportunities and guide their investments toward acquisitions that both meet a market need and can scale and sustain growth. Where there are holes, we can help create a plan to fill the gaps.
Product Development
We support companies with product development, all the way from vision to execution. A solid product roadmap should be a company’s number one priority. Our track record of moving quickly from concepts, research, and ideas to market-changing solutions helps companies set the right priorities, hire the right people and the right positions, and quickly get products to market. Our extended team of content developers, technologists, branding and design experts, editorial consultants, and subject matter experts are brought in to support execution and help ensure that goals set for product development are not just innovative, but also realistic and achievable.
Branding, Marketing & Communications
We communicate in a way that resonates with the field. Our early childhood knowledge and practical experience allows us to help companies to develop an approach to brand strategy, communications and marketing that conveys the deep empathy, professionalism, and respect that educators deserve. We don’t just know how to create impactful solutions—we know how to help companies find their “voice” and develop a credible, respectful approach to the market they’re serving. Having been on both sides of the equation—both classroom and solutions provider—we bring particularly unique knowledge and perspective to help companies communicate about their vision, mission, and solutions.
LEADERSHIP
We help companies to build and strengthen their leadership teams. From helping to identify gaps in key skill sets within an organization, to ongoing mentoring and coaching of executive team members, our ability to help the members of the leadership team to deliver their best work will lead to successful outcomes. We’ve helped companies with executive job searches and recruitment efforts, even temporarily filling roles within the C-suite while new talent is being acquired.
“Real innovation—to change the game and close the gaps—can only begin from a place of deep knowledge, understanding, respect, and empathy for the lived experiences of the market being served.”
Kai-leé Berke, Founding Partner
Redefining innovation in education and product-market fit.
At Hana Education Partners, we help our clients – education companies, investors, universities, and start-ups – to set a vision, conceive solutions, execute successfully, and most importantly, ensure that you are meeting a market need in the ed tech field.
Market research is no substitute for lived experience.
Too often, products and services in the early education and ed tech space are created with the best of intentions, but with outsized reliance on market research and focus groups to define what is good, right, and true for students, teachers and families.
We offer decades of practical experience and education market knowledge.
Hana Education Partners brings together decades of direct classroom experience, subject matter expertise, product development expertise, and deep market knowledge to help companies find success in an increasingly crowded ed tech market. We partner with education companies, investors, universities, and start-ups to set a vision, conceive solutions, execute successfully, and most importantly, ensure that they’re meeting a market need.
Here's how we help ensure your success in the education market.
Strategy
We help companies focus on what matters now for a successful future. From determining short term priorities to achieving long-term growth, we help companies define a market need and offer support for developing a plan to meet it. We’ve guided companies through multiple successful private equity transactions and developed a start-up that was acquired in under a year. We know that a strong, focused product strategy is the only path to success.
Evaluation
We help investors make sure they’re spending resources wisely. Simply put, the ed tech solutions market is incredibly congested. Our early childhood expertise and in-depth knowledge of the early education market can help investors evaluate opportunities and guide their investments toward acquisitions that both meet a market need and can scale and sustain growth. Where there are holes, we can help create a plan to fill the gaps.
Product Development
We support companies with product development, all the way from vision to execution. A solid product roadmap should be a company’s number one priority. Our track record of moving quickly from concepts, research, and ideas to market-changing solutions helps companies set the right priorities, hire the right people and the right positions, and quickly get products to market. Our extended team of content developers, technologists, branding and design experts, editorial consultants, and subject matter experts are brought in to support execution and help ensure that goals set for product development are not just innovative, but also realistic and achievable.
Branding, Marketing & Communications
We communicate in a way that resonates with the field. Our early childhood knowledge and practical experience allows us to help companies to develop an approach to brand strategy, communications and marketing that conveys the deep empathy, professionalism, and respect that educators deserve. We don’t just know how to create impactful solutions—we know how to help companies find their “voice” and develop a credible, respectful approach to the market they’re serving. Having been on both sides of the equation—both classroom and solutions provider—we bring particularly unique knowledge and perspective to help companies communicate about their vision, mission, and solutions.
LEADERSHIP
We help companies to build and strengthen their leadership teams. From helping to identify gaps in key skill sets within an organization, to ongoing mentoring and coaching of executive team members, our ability to help the members of the leadership team to deliver their best work will lead to successful outcomes. We’ve helped companies with executive job searches and recruitment efforts, even temporarily filling roles within the C-suite while new talent is being acquired.