Shailu Tipparaju

Shailu is an active serial entrepreneur with a focus on Education industry, a technologist, and an executive educator. Shailu has a cross-industry global footprint spanning over two decades. He has been a founding member of several purpose-driven Education Tech companies from concept to scale before very successful exits that have generated a massive enterprise value.

Shailu is the Founder of Magna Education, a global school for Entrepreneurship.

He is a Venture Partner at Emerge Education Ventures in Europe, Founder-CTO at Examity (one of the world’s leading online proctoring EdTech organizations). He also serves as the Chairman of Chicago based Colosseum Group, a global brand of companies that focuses on investments, incubation, research, engineering, education, and creative brand communications. He is also a Venture Partner at Dallas Venture Capital. Shailu has helped foster entrepreneurship by mentoring, investing and advising over 50 startups enterprises globally.

Prior to his current roles, he was Founder-CTO at EdAssist (acquired by Bain Capital Bright Horizons in 2010), Founder-CTO Strateology (acquired by University Ventures in 2017), and Founder- CTO at Examity (acquired by Great Hill Partners in 2019). Between 2008 – 2013, he also led the Technology Innovation program at CVS Pharmacy, a Global Fortune 10 enterprise, heading implementations of shared services platforms.

A widely published author and speaker, Shailu has been recognized as one of the top 100 Education pioneers in 2020 and is an active contributor in various standardized and certification global councils in the EdTech domain. A patriot, artist, musician, educator, and a strong family-man, Shailu believes in purposeful balanced living and compassionate capitalism. He heads up the Colosseum Foundation with a mission to create self-belief in individuals and guide the next generations to use entrepreneurship as a medium to build global ties, showcase global patriotism to promote the spirit of intellectuality, hospitality, and spirituality universally.

Shailu has a Bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India and a Master’s in Computer Science from Loyola University, Chicago. He is currently pursuing a management program at the Harvard Business School at Boston, US.