Steve Kupfer

Steve has spent his career at the intersection of education, health, and policy, supporting founders and school systems through periods of major transition. He’s led software implementations in large urban school districts, including the first digital special education platform in post-Katrina New Orleans. Influenced by the impact of strong public leadership, he spent several years recruiting and training hundreds of school superintendents in the critical areas of board governance, collective bargaining, political mapping, media relations, community engagement, and bond measure strategy.

With firsthand exposure to district challenges and inspired by the big visions of ambitious founders, Steve made early investments in Presence, Ellevation, Paper, Goalbook, several other market-leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Reach, he served as an operating partner on the Knowledge and Learning team at The Vistria Group, a private equity firm focused on high impact, market leading companies in health care and learning.