Edan Shahar
Edan Shahar is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Wild Zebra and a Founding Board Member at Modex, Inc. He founded Wild Zebra, which is still running, and has previously held executive roles at Quantum Machines, Test Innovators, Utrip, and Watch 2 Help.
Wild Zebra raises $6M seed led by Trilogy Equity Partners to scale AI Socratic tutor
Seattle edtech startup Wild Zebra raised $6 million in a seed round led by Trilogy Equity Partners on August 6, 2026, bringing total funding to $8 million to expand its AI-driven Socratic learning platform for grades 2–9.
Wild Zebra raises $6M seed led by Trilogy to scale Socratic AI tutor for grades 2–9, total funding $8M
Seattle edtech startup Wild Zebra raised $6 million in an oversubscribed seed round to expand its AI math and reading tutor that uses a Socratic, interest-grounded approach for students in grades 2–9 and now reaches tens of thousands of users. The company will hire engineers and expand sales and marketing, and the round was led by Trilogy Equity Partners, bringing total funding to $8 million.
Organizations
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Wild Zebra Executive Officer, Director 2026–present, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer 2024–present, Co-Founder · current
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Modex, Inc. Founding Board Member 2016–present · current
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Quantum Machines General Manager, Israeli Quantum Computing Center 2022–2024 · past
Education
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University of Washington BS, Physics, Economics
