# Valentin Ruest

> Valentin Ruest is the co-founder and US co-CEO of Classtime, a Zurich-born edtech company building a formative and summative assessment platform used by educators and learners in more than 90 countries. A University of St. Gallen and Harvard-trained economist who once ran mortgages at a Swiss fintech, he traded banking for classrooms, splitting his life between Santa Barbara and Zurich while teaching personal finance in public schools and arguing that software should help teachers decide, not decide for them.

- **Role:** Co-founder & Co-CEO (US) at Classtime
- **Organizations:** Classtime, Go Pollock, MoneyPark, Zuhlke Group, Netmap Management Navigation, Triumph International
- **Nationality:** Swiss
- **Education:** Business Administration and Economics, University of St. Gallen, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Classtime, an assessment and feedback platform active in over 90 countries, Classtime named among the 14 most innovative assessment solutions globally by HundrED, Led Classtime's US market expansion as co-CEO

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Global Supply Chain Management intern at Triumph International
- **early career** — Assistant to the CEO at Netmap Management Navigation
- **pre-2016** — Product & Service Manager, then Head of Mortgages and Member of the Executive Board at MoneyPark
- **pre-2016** — Business Consultant for Digital Transformation at Zuhlke Group
- **2016** — Co-founded the assessment platform that became Classtime (originally Go Pollock), based at the EdTech Collider in Zurich
- **2024** — Classtime closed Series A growth financing from Swiss Post Ventures, SuperCharger Ventures and private investors

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Classtime, an assessment and feedback platform active in over 90 countries
- Classtime named among the 14 most innovative assessment solutions globally by HundrED
- Led Classtime's US market expansion as co-CEO
- Raised Series A growth capital (2024) from Swiss Post Ventures and SuperCharger Ventures
- Earlier served as Head of Mortgages and an Executive Board member at Swiss fintech MoneyPark

## Latest updates

- **2024-02** — Classtime secured Series A growth financing from Swiss Post Ventures, SuperCharger Ventures and private investors to scale in DACH, the UK and the USA and to integrate generative AI.

## Links

- Website: https://classtime.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinruest
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/valentin_ruest
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/classtime

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Last updated: 2026-06-04