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Benoit Wirz is a partner at\u00a0Brighteye<\/a>\u00a0which he helped launch in 2017. Brighteye Ventures is Europe\u2019s leading edtech focused venture capital fund, backing companies that leverage technology to help people learn and grow. Brighteye portfolio companies include:\u00a0\u00a0Ornikar<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 France\u2019s largest driving school,\u00a0Aula<\/a>\u00a0a digital campus for universities,\u00a0Epic<\/a>\u00a0 an online library for kids in over 90% of US elementary schools,\u00a0IronHack<\/a>, Europe\u2019s largest tech bootcamp and\u00a0ZenEducate<\/a>\u00a0the best solution for supply teacher placement in the UK.<\/p>\n

Prior to Brighteye, Ben spent 20 years financing and building startups. He launched and ran the Knight Enterprise Fund, a venture capital fund investing in early stage media and edtech companies in the US and UK as part of the Knight Foundation from 2010-2017. Previously, as a principal with US Global, he invested in and developed businesses in energy, manufacturing and tech.<\/p>\n

Before working with startups, Ben was a journalist with Asahi Shimbun and an investment banker with Jefferies & Company. 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