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What if US colleges just found 17 billion more dollars every year?

We know education, we know the markets there, we know we can sell there. We're going to kick butt there.

Education. In my experience, investors don't often get excited about startups in this field.

It's a complicated world with all sorts of different players and moving parts, the government's involved. It just feels messy.

But Marquette Burton is out to solve a fundamental problem in the classroom and he thinks the payoff will be massive

if he can secure the cash he needs to grow the business.

I'm Josh Mujio and from G Gimlet Media this is the pitch.

Our investors today, Phil Naidill.

As a serial entrepreneur, Phil built companies that sold in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Now he manages one of the largest syndicates on Angel list.

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