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Tory Patterson is Managing Director at Owl Ventures, based in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Tory Patterson is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Owl Ventures, LP, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on investments within the education technology sector. He established the firm in 2014, catalyzed by the Obama administration's classroom broadband subsidies, and subsequently scaled the organization to manage over $1.2 billion in total assets by 2020. Under his leadership, the firm successfully raised $585 million across its latest funds to back prominent educational platforms such as MasterClass, Quizlet, DreamBox, and BYJU’S. Prior to launching Owl Ventures, Patterson served as a Partner at Catamount Ventures and earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, following a BA in Economics from Williams College. His current professional focus centers on directing institutional capital toward scalable software solutions that modernize global learning environments and address historical underfunding in education.