PeopleGrove provides a Career Access Platform that delivers career exploration, career navigation, mentorship, and alumni engagement tools for universities and their students and alumni. The platform serves more than 450 customers, including 60% of the top 100 U.S. universities, and gives access to over 20 million students and alumni; it has facilitated more than 1,000,000 mentorship connections. In a survey of 1,638 student users, one in three reported obtaining a job or internship because of connections made inside PeopleGrove. With new funding, the company plans to expand product innovations, invest in its customer-facing teams, and pursue strategic acquisitions to strengthen its offering. PeopleGrove also plans to publish research-based career and alumni benchmark reports, release its first full-length book, and announce dates for its annual PeopleGrove Innovators conference. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company is actively hiring to support these objectives. PeopleGrove operates an online platform that enables universities to connect students with alumni, mentors, instructors, staff, and peers. The platform launched in 2015 with Stanford University as a close development partner and now partners with over 180 client institutions, including Kansas State, Clemson, the University of Michigan, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams, and UMUC. Led by CEO Adam Saven, the company provides support systems across Enrollment, Academic, Career, and Alumni success. PeopleGrove closed a $4.7m Series A financing to accelerate growth. The company plans to use the funds to increase investment in product and engineering, further develop offerings across the entire student lifecycle, and selectively expand its leadership team. No operating metrics such as revenue or user counts were provided in the article.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

May 2019