Julia StiglitzFounder

United States - San Francisco, California

Julia is passionate about building and supporting mission-driven organizations and teams. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Uplimit (formerly CoRise), a new edtech platform that uses AI and social to unlimit the world's learning potential.

Before co-founding Uplimit, she was a Partner at GSV Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies in education and the future of work.

She previously was one of the first leadership hires at Coursera, joining the company one month after the company launched as one of the first ten full time employees. She helped the company grow to over 40 million learners, and from pre-business model to $XXXM in revenue. Her most recent role at Coursera was Vice President of Enterprise, where she found and led Coursera's enterprise business growing it from concept to over 1400 companies and organizations, including over 60 Fortune 500 companies, and with on the ground operations in the US, Europe and India. Her team also pioneered Coursera’s Industry Content Partnerships (including Google, IBM and Cisco), and started the Coursera for Refugee program, which to date has reached over ten thousand refugees. In Coursera's earlier years, she led their consumer international growth and monetization effort, including launching Specializations, the product that has driven the majority of the company’s revenue.

Before Coursera she managed the Google Apps for Education team, growing its user base to over 18m active students, faculty and staff and 70% of the top 100 US universities. Her team was featured as one of Tech&Learnings top ten most influential people in edtech. Julia started out as a fourth-grade teacher in East San Jose through Teach For America (Bay Area finalist for the Sue Lehmann award for teaching excellence) and went on to lead professional development for TFA in the Bay Area.

Julia holds a BA from Pomona College, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MA in education from Stanford University. Julia sits on the boards of Outlier.org, Team4Tech and Rocketship Public Schools, and is a member of McKinsey's Consortium on the Advancement of Adult Learning and Development (CAALD).