Learning By Design: Education

A full-stack AI partner for education.

We build, advise and sell alongside edtech and education teams, and we design the learning that makes AI stick. Fifteen years in education, and the builders to ship it.

For edtech companies, education nonprofits, funders and learning teams.

Clients
Willow Education African Leadership Group XtraMath Shine Early Learning Imagine Worldwide Edstruments
Teaching and training with
Penn GSE Springboard General Assembly Reforge

What we do

Build

Edtech product

AI-native learning products and platforms, built with your team and shipped to real learners. Product →

Strategy

Advisory

AI roadmaps, buy/build/partner decisions and efficacy, for leadership teams and boards.

Grow

GTM for edtech

District and institutional sales, funder relationships, CRM and AI-assisted outbound. GTM →

Learn

Learning design & training

Courses, workshops and enablement that change how people work, not a one-day training.

We have upskilled leaders in product and AI from Google, BCG, JPMorgan, Vanta and Disney.

Recent work

Willow Education
K12 career & college readiness

From founder-led to AI-native sales. 2,000+ ICP accounts identified.

50+
meetings from 500+ target accounts
LeanLab Education
Edtech efficacy research

Repositioned to a new ICP, with clients including Magic School and McGraw Hill.

$250K
closed in 90 days
African Leadership Group
Pan-African workforce development

Group PM and Director across 25 countries. Activation 60 to 90%, retention 25 to 60%.

10x
user growth
XtraMath
Nonprofit · funded by NewSchools

Built relationships with funders, foundations and partners.

$100K+
in new funding from NewSchools
Shine / Acelero
Early childhood · BlackRock-backed

AI-accelerated roadmaps and a reusable buy, build or partner framework.

5
areas with AI roadmaps
Imagine Worldwide
Pan-African K12 edtech nonprofit

AI product and partner landscape, and a next-phase roadmap for leadership.

4
countries mapped
"A new CRM, 150 personalized emails and 5+ high-value meetings a week."James Cryan · CEO, Willow Education
"He didn't just advise, he showed up like a cofounder."Max Haining · CEO, 100 School

Who you'll work with

David Fu

David Fu

Founder & CEO · adjunct, Penn GSE

Co-founded Streetlight Schools, helped scale African Leadership Group 10x, and teaches AI and entrepreneurship at Penn GSE.

Vedansh Garg

Vedansh Garg

Co-founder & CTO

Builds AI products end to end, for Fortune 500 companies and startups.

Louis Masensi

Louis Masensi

Production delivery

Ships production software with a team of Claude-certified developers. Worked with Shine Early Learning and Michigan State University.

Building in education?

Book 30 minutes with David. Bring the product, the sales motion or the program you want to change.

Book a call