Good morning. Reporter Lily Mae Lazarus pinch hitting here today for Andrew. Apparently, the PTA has a better portfolio than you. Silicon Valley private schools are trading silent auctions for cap tables with a handful of Bay Area campuses now running miniature venture funds steered by parent -investors from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Battery. The programs have become somewhat of Silicon Valley lore, Fortune’s Amanda Gerut writes. Saint Francis High School’s parent-run growth fund turned a $15,000 bet on Snap into roughly $34 million at IPO. With SpaceX just pulling off the biggest IPO in history and Anthropic and OpenAI widely expected to follow, these school funds could be sitting on the next windfall. Here’s what else moved tech and money today. Want to send thoughts or suggestions to Fortune Tech? Drop a line here. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com ...read more read less