About
Don has had an interesting career at the cutting edge of education innovation and technology-- primarily launching, scaling, and exiting companies as well as a thought leader on the topic of the Future of Education. As a strategic advisor, Don worked with McKinsey & Co consulting on strategies to launch interactive media business units and how to create open innovation within large corporates such as Apple, IBM, Sony, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Cox Cable, Viacom and Disney and with Goldman Sachs advising on exits and acquisitions. As an Intrapreneur, he has built education startups within large companies such as Walt Disney Company and Kaplan. As an Entrepreneur, he has built multiple edtech startups on his own as a founder with a major exit to Kaplan/Washington Post. He most recently has been a successful edtech investor with a portfolio of more than 30 startups as a seed stage investor. Don was an angel investor before running edtech Startup Accelerator programs with Techstars, and for
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 2 investors at LearnStart are tracked.
- • 4 investors hold the Venture Investor role in VCSift. Don Burton is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- New York, US
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