Chris Bennett (businessman)

Chris Bennett is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and early childhood education advocate. He is known for being the Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderschool, an education technology company with a network of child care and preschool programs in the United States.
Early life and education
Bennett, the son of Honduran immigrants, grew up in Miami and attended an in-home childcare program. He graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.
Career
After graduation, Bennett worked at a private equity firm in Chicago and then moved to San Francisco. In 2011, he started a non-profit organization called Black Founders, a network that hosts events, hackathons and conferences for founders, Later reports estimated that 51% of Americans live in “child care deserts” without sufficient supply of licensed child care. His company makes technology that enables child care providers to run successful businesses by defining their care philosophies, getting licensed, building a website, and marketing their services. The company has raised $24 million from investors like First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
In 2021, Bennett gave a TED talk on childcare transformation.

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