NewSchools Venture Fund

Cameron White is a Senior Partner at NewSchools leading a team that invests in K-8 reading and math learning solutions, with over a decade of experience across educational equity, student learning, and technology. He was on the founding team of co.lab, began his career at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, holds an M.A. from Columbia's Teachers College and a B.A. in Architecture from Princeton, and teaches trauma-sensitive yoga.

Pallavi Abraham is an Associate Partner at NewSchools who works on impact measurement and education strategy. With a background in science, she develops data-informed systems and measurement frameworks to help organizations strengthen education and workforce outcomes. Her work over the past decade has focused on applying systems-based approaches to align capital, strategy, and community insight in social impact initiatives.

Works in marketing at Triple Point.

John Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins in 1980 after selling chips at Intel and went on to back Google, Amazon, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems. He brought Andy Grove's OKR goal-setting system to Google and turned it into the management bestseller Measure What Matters. Now the firm's chairman, he devotes much of his time to climate technology and funded Stanford's school of sustainability.

Brook Byers has worked as a venture capital investor since 1972, spending his career at Kleiner Perkins, where he is a founder. In 1984 he created the first life sciences practice group in the venture capital profession, steering the firm into healthcare and biotechnology. He has helped build more than 60 technology-based companies and served as founding president or chairman of four biotech companies incubated in Kleiner Perkins' offices that went public with an aggregate market value exceeding $8 billion. His current board work spans companies including Arsenal Bio, Octave Bio, Newsela and Verana Health, and he was a founder of TechNet.

Chief Executive Officer of NewSchools, who authored an essay for Stanford Social Innovation Review examining the purpose of public education in a diverse democracy.

Leads the development (fundraising) team at NewSchools, working to direct funding toward education innovators and underserved communities. Previously led fundraising at 826 National and the individual giving team at Teach For America-Bay Area, with about 20 years in nonprofit development. Holds an M.A. from Boston University and a B.A. from Dickinson College.