{"id":154,"date":"2021-01-27T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-50-17-66-55.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/01\/27\/cooleypitchevent\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:02:04","slug":"cirkled-in-cooleyed-pitch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/cirkled-in-specific\/cirkled-in-cooleyed-pitch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirkled In Selected as CooleyED Pitch Event Participant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BELLEVUE&#8211; Today, Cirkled In and company CEO and founder Reetu Gupta were named as participants in the 2021 CooleyED Pitch Event. The company, founded in 2018, is among nine companies who will be presenting a three-minute pitch on Tuesday, February 2 at 4pm ET.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting opportunity and a fantastic way to start off the year,\u201d said Gupta, Cirkled In CEO. \u201cWe are thankful to be chosen by Cooley LLC and look forward to introducing the panel to our 21st century solution for college admissions, especially as colleges and universities make the shift from grades and test scores to holistic evaluations of students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Cooley LLC, the event will begin with a short panel discussing the state of edtech investments, followed by angel and venture stage companies presenting three-minute rapid-fire pitches and questions from the panelists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investor panel will include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Naomi Harralson May \u2013 Moderator, Associate, Cooley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ebony Brown\u2013 Principal, Rethink Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ash Kaluarachchi \u2013 Co-Founder, StartED and Producer, NY EdTechWeek<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liam Pisano \u2013 Managing Partner, EduLab Capital Partners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>George Straschnov \u2013 Managing Director, Bisk Ventures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To register for the event, visit the Virtual Event Series\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cooley.com\/events\/2021\/2021-02-02-cooleyed-cooleyed-pitch-event\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">BELLEVUE&#8211; Today, Cirkled In and company CEO and founder Reetu Gupta were named as participants in the 2021 CooleyED Pitch Event. The company, founded in 2018, is among nine companies who will be presenting a three-minute pitch on Tuesday, February 2 at 4pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cirkled-in-specific"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirkledin.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}