Waseem Alam

Waseem Alam is a Managing Director at Weld North LLC, a Stamford, Connecticut–based investment and operating firm founded in 2010 by former Kaplan CEO Jonathan Grayer to build and back digital-education businesses. Alam joined Weld North's investment team in 2015 and has spent his tenure there focused on the firm's education portfolio, most prominently Imagine Learning, the largest pure-play Pre-K–12 digital education company in the U.S., where he has served in corporate development and financial leadership roles (variously reported as Chief Corporate Development Officer and Chief Financial/Corporate Development Officer).

Before Weld North, Alam worked at EdisonLearning, where he focused on corporate strategy, operations, business development, and strategic initiatives. He began his career as a consultant/advisory associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), advising large corporations. Aggregator profiles additionally associate earlier or adjacent experience with firms such as IBM and UBS.

He earned a B.S. in Management from Binghamton University (2009) and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School (Columbia University), completed in 2015.

Weld North operates as both an investor and an operator. Over its history it has partnered with major institutional capital providers — an early, prolific partnership with KKR (spanning 15+ education-technology investments), followed by Silver Lake's 2018 acquisition of Weld North's K-12 digital assets, and Onex joining as a partner in 2021. Alam's work sits at the intersection of investing and corporate development for these platforms.

• Invests in and operates education and edtech businesses across the full spectrum: Pre-K–12 digital curriculum, post-secondary, and corporate training / lifelong learning.
• Pursues a "patient capital" strategy — a longer investment time horizon with a willingness to make organic and new investments over time, emphasizing operational excellence, customer experience, marketing, and disciplined financial management.
• Focuses on control and platform investments in high-potential education companies, building them through organic growth plus a steady stream of add-on acquisitions.
• Backs businesses with durable, growing cash flow and strong long-term positioning in the education market, rather than early-stage speculative bets.
• Note: the "angel / seed round" framing in the stub does not match the firm's publicly stated approach; Weld North's model is platform build-up in education, though it has made select venture-stage edtech investments (e.g., Voxy, Relationship Science).