1P Ventures was started in 2010 by Adam Miller, right before he took Cornerstone public. Since then he’s been investing and advising companies, and starting in 2020, he created some more.
1P Ventures is focused on entrepreneurs and their companies who are looking to change the world, often in the beginning, one user at a time. We believe in the power of technology to transform industries and help improve our lives.
“We wouldn’t be here without you! Your support has been critical in our mission to transform education for English learners.”
Teddy Rice, Ellevation Co-founder & COO
“Thank you for your continued support. Moreover, thank you for the incredible opportunity to leverage your experience and inject it into our company's DNA.”
Prashant Bhuyan, Accrete Co-Founder & CEO
“Thank you so much for your session with the team. It was wonderful and very well received.”
Ujj Nath, MyKaarma Founder & CEO
“A very special call out and thank you to my partner in crime and our incredible board member Adam Miller who I continue to learn so much from everyday. Adam thank you for all your mentorship and friendship these many years.”
Jason Nazar, Comparably Co-Founder & CEO
Adam Miller is a social entrepreneur and philanthropist, focused on impact.
His first company, Cornerstone OnDemand, became the largest educational technology company in the world. Cornerstone started in Adam’s one-bedroom apartment and grew to over 3,000 employees in 25 countries helping to empower over 75 million people around the world. Cornerstone has delivered over 2 billion courses to learners in 192 countries, achieving its original mission to improve access to education on a global basis. In 2021, Cornerstone was taken private in a $5.23B transaction.
Today, Adam is the CEO of Instil, which is revolutionizing the nonprofit sector with modern technology. He is a Co-Founder and Exec Chairman of Groundswell, which is democratizing philanthropy and corporate giving. He also serves as Exec Chairman of Profi, which is helping professional service providers to be more impactful with their clients, and Yumi, which blends science with fresh, organic ingredients to help children reach their full potential at every stage.
Adam’s philanthropic work extends across the local, national and global levels.
As Chairman of Team Rubicon from 2013-2020, Adam helped the team grow the nonprofit from 500 to over 150,000 volunteers and create America’s leading veterans service organization, which leverages the skills of military veterans to provide humanitarian aid globally. As Chairman of the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, he helped deliver over $125M of social impact, including the launch of WorkforceReady, which prepares people to enter the professional workforce, and DisasterReady, which has trained over 250,000 humanitarian aid workers around the world.
To support the food allergic community, Adam led the merger of FAAN and FAI to create FARE (Food Allergy Research & Education), the world’s largest voluntary health organization serving the food allergic community, seeded Aimmune, which developed the first FDA-approved treatment for food allergies, helped build the UCLA Food Allergy Program, and launched AllerFund, the first venture fund focused on food allergy companies. In Los Angeles, Adam played a leading role in harnessing the power of the tech sector to give back to the city with the founding of LA-Tech.org and the launch of the 1,000 Interns Initiative, which is providing internships for a thousand students of color at LA’s leading tech companies.
As the Co-Founder and Chairman of 1P.org, Adam is tackling some of the most intractable problems facing our one planet, including homelessness, workforce development, gun violence and climate change. 1P.org helped create 97percent, a bi-partisan organization focused on common sense solutions to increasing gun safety. In response to the rising homelessness epidemic in Los Angeles, and the lack of an effective response to the crisis by the government, Adam co-founded Better Angels, an innovative nonprofit focused on leveraging the strength of the LA community to address LA’s homeless crisis at scale. Better Angels is taking a bold, holistic approach to tackling the homeless epidemic by harnessing new models of intervention, community engagement, world-class technology, and a strong dose of pragmatism across five critical areas of need: Prevention, Services, Shelter, Housing and Technology.