Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO Primary Organization Praxis Labs
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Female
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Elise Smith is a co-founder and CEO at Praxis Labs. Elise Smith is a Head of AI Growth at Torch. Prior to co-founding Praxis Labs, Elise invested in and coached entrepreneurs developing diversity and inclusion solutions at NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy. Prior to that work, she developed ed-tech products and led ed-tech
partnerships at IBM Watson. Elise holds a B.A. in Geography & Social Inequity from Dartmouth College and an MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University. Inspired by her parents' fight for educational equity, Elise is dedicated to scaling access and opportunity with the goal of creating a more equitable society.
