ABOUT THE CO-FOUNDERS
Marissa Evans Alden is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and founder with more than a decade of experience in startups. She currently serves as CEO and Co-Founder of Sawyer, which uses technology to connect parents and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Prior to starting Sawyer, Marissa founded the consumer fashion application Go Try It On. After being acquired in 2014, Marissa led the Growth Team at Rent the Runway until starting Sawyer. She holds a BS in Human Development from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband Ben and their daughter Blake.
Stephanie Choi is a millennial parent who, after having her first child a few years back, found it challenging to discover and book great classes for her daughter. In a world where you could order a car, book a workout class, and stock your wardrobe all via your phone, the pen and paper system that many children’s activity businesses utilized seemed outdated. Stephanie had over 10 years of experience in merchandise planning and was leading the Inventory Planning Team at Rent the Runway when she approached her good friend and RTR colleague Marissa Evans Alden to co-found Sawyer.
ABOUT SAWYER
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning.
Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and helps parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives.
Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in our children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.
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