CUnet
RealizedCUnet
A performance-based education marketing and managed services company.
Acquired by Nelnet in 2006
View company storyNEW ENTERPRISE PARTNERS
We Don’t Just Invest in Companies. We Help Build Them.
New Enterprise Partners combines capital with firsthand entrepreneurial and operating experience to help exceptional companies build, scale and create long-term enterprise value.
Operator-Led Investing / Growth Strategy / Partnerships / Execution
BUILT. BACKED. SCALED.
Experience Measured in Outcomes
We know entrepreneurship from the inside. Our experience includes starting businesses, raising and investing capital, building teams, creating distribution and navigating successful exits.
That perspective changes how we evaluate opportunities and how we work with founders and leadership teams.
Edufficient
RealizedEdufficient
An education-focused digital marketing company built around accountability and performance.
Acquired by PX in 2022
View company storyHOW WE PARTNER
Capital When It Fits. Operating Experience When It Matters.
Two distinct ways to work with New Enterprise Partners.
THE OPERATOR ADVANTAGE
Built by Operators. Not Observers.
Our perspective comes from the decisions, setbacks and responsibilities of building companies firsthand.
We’ve built businesses.
We’ve operated through change.
We’ve invested with conviction.
We’ve seen exits through.
OPERATOR EXPERIENCE
Built From Operating Experience
Tom Ferrara has founded and led technology-enabled businesses, built performance-marketing and customer-acquisition systems, developed partnerships and invested alongside founders.
Growth
Built customer-acquisition platforms and performance-marketing businesses.
Execution
Led teams, developed technology, created partnerships and turned plans into operating work.
Investing
Placed capital behind early-stage companies and supported founders through consequential decisions.
Outcomes
Helped build CUnet and Edufficient through acquisitions documented by their buyers.
INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY
We Invest Selectively
We look for exceptional founders, meaningful markets, real customer value and a credible path to durable economics.
Founder quality
Integrity, adaptability and the ability to recruit and lead exceptional people.
A real market
A meaningful customer problem in a market with room for a durable company.
Practical distribution
A credible route to customers, not only a large theoretical opportunity.
THE NEXT CONVERSATION
The next company matters more than the last one.
Tell us what you are building and why it matters.