Brighteye Closes $72M for Future-of-Work Fund
Brighteye Ventures has reached a $72 million first close for its third fund, broadening from Edtech into learning and future-of-work technologies.
AI is changing both how people learn and what skills employers need. Brighteye Ventures has reached a $72 million first close for its third fund around that transition.
What happened
New limited partners include Lumina Foundation, Zanichelli and PI Impact, alongside existing backers such as the European Investment Fund and Jacobs Foundation.
Brighteye's mandate is expanding beyond conventional education technology toward technologies for continuous learning, workforce adaptation and human-AI collaboration.
Why it matters
Edtech historically focused heavily on schools, courses and learning-management systems.
The rise of AI is pushing learning into the workplace as employees need to update skills continuously and companies rethink how knowledge work is organised.
The bigger picture
Future-of-work investing increasingly overlaps with Edtech, enterprise software and AI infrastructure.
Brighteye's fund reflects that convergence. The opportunity is not only helping people learn faster, but helping organisations adapt workflows and skills as automation changes the structure of jobs.