Empowerly is an edtech company that offers personalized college counseling, essay editing, financial planning, admissions reviews, internship prep and research mentorship. Its service model pairs students with a network of over 100 college counselors, former admissions officers, essay specialists and pre‑professional mentors. The company highlights a proprietary machine‑learning metric, the Empowerly Score, which evaluates extracurriculars, achievements, academics and essays to prioritize areas for improvement. Pricing varies by service, with comprehensive counseling packages typically $5,000 and above; anecdotal user reports of specific session costs appeared in the article. Empowerly is building out AI‑powered products and plans to launch its first mobile app in the U.S. by the end of 2024. The company has raised $15M in the current round and $30M in total to date. Empowerly is a San Francisco, CA-based data-driven education technology company that provides personalized college and career guidance to students and their families. It combines algorithms and human counselors to connect students with best-match counselors who have diverse academic backgrounds, including medicine, science, economics, and engineering, to assess competitiveness for top U.S. colleges, internships, and research programs. The company uses its Empowerly Score™, a predictive technology system that quantifies subjective material and offers a three-pronged evaluation of academics, essays, and extracurricular activities to give students a 360-degree view of competitiveness. Empowerly raised $10M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to grow product and engineering teams, invest in existing and new acquisition channels, and prepare for the launch of a mobile app. Backers named in the article include Goodwater Capital, FJ Labs, Scrum Ventures, Translink Capital, Azure Capital Partners, Spero Ventures, Thinkplus Ventures and Mentors Fund. Empowerly is a data-driven education technology platform that combines predictive machine learning algorithms with personalized college counseling to help students navigate U.S. college admissions. Its flagship feature, the Empowerly Score, quantitatively assesses academics, extracurriculars, and essays using models developed with former admissions officers and benchmarked against years of admitted student data. The platform also offers counselors, mock admissions-committee reviews, virtual extracurriculars, and internship opportunities at Silicon Valley startups. Empowerly says it has helped thousands of students, with 95% gaining admission to a top 50 U.S. college and 94% admitted to one of their top three choices. Founded in 2018, the company plans to expand service offerings and round out its team to drive growth and operational efficiencies using the new funding. Early users have been enthusiastic about the tool’s ability to quantify subjective materials and provide actionable insights to improve admissions competitiveness.

Total raised

$27M

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3

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Equity

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Feb 2024