About Interview Guest
Rita Ferrandino – Founding Partner, Arc Capital Development
Rita Ferrandino has built a reputation as one of the most effective strategist and coalition-builders in the education community. She is a nationally recognized STEM education expert and authority on education policy and politics.
Rita is the founding partner at Arc Capital Development, a global private investment and advisory firm. Arc invests in, operates and advises companies in the K-20 education and special needs markets and has served over 100 clients in the US, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Ireland, Turkey, Israel & India. Arc clients and portfolio companies provide products generating over a billion dollars a year to schools worldwide. www.arccd.com
Rita currently serves as the President of Education Design Studio Inc. (EDSi), a private seed fund/incubator created in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Since EDSi’s launch in 2013, we have invested/worked with 28 companies.  To date, these companies have raised over 27M in investment capital.
Rita serves as the Capstone Instructor for the Education Entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School.
Video Interview Series “AR based technology in the classroom”
Rita’s Contract Info:Â rita@arccd.com;Â 781-690-1555
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http://arccd.com/author/rita_ferrandino/
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Alchemie-Digital learning tools for Chemistry. http://www.alchem.ie/
MEL Chemistry-VR Chemistry lessons. https://melscience.com/vr/
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