Will Wagner

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Founder & CEO, Bridge Data - education · growth · content

Bridge Data
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
4+ years experience
Yale University
English
AdvisingRaising
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Overview

Building Bridge Data in Chicago - edtech. Signed 55 paying customers, 8 of them enterprises. Previously built and sold a small edtech company. Chess on lunch breaks.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on edtech
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Fundraising consultants

Best reached early in the week

Skills
educationgrowthcontentmobile
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first-time founders: edtech and growth

Topics
edtech, mobile, content
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

4 years of edtech. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Chicago, ILgrowthmobilecontent
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - tutoring for independent clinics, $335k MRR

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$335k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$772k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$335k MRR after 20 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$335k MRR after 20 months. Looking for investors who know travel and can help with pricing.

Chicago, ILgrowthcontenteducation
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Bridge Data · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Signed 274 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
    Johnson & Johnson · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Took creator activation from 32% to 42% in three quarters.
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.

Projects

Open-source growth toolkit
2025

A small library for edtech that 428 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Yale University
    BA, Engineering
    2017 - 2021

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