Innosphere-backed fund seeds education start-up

FORT COLLINS — Israel-Colorado Innovation fund co-led a seed round for Tailor-ED, an education software start-up. ICI is a U.S.-based venture capital group investing in early-stage Israeli firms.

Tailor-ED uses artificial intelligence to prepare teaching materials according to student social-emotional and academic readiness, to personalize lessons and to predict progress, a press release said.

It’s introducing new products this year and works with about 40 content providers and 100,000 students.

The company has domestic offices in San Francisco. The round was co-led by Lucas Venture Group in Menlo Park, California, and joined by Israel-based Benson Oak Ventures, Symbiosis Technology and others. Y Combinator…