YouScience's core product is the Brightpath platform, which combines scientifically backed aptitude discovery, AI, and industry-recognized certifications to guide college and career planning. The platform is used by over 13,400 schools and organizations and has guided 4.1 million individuals, with more than 8 million certifications taken to date. Leadership emphasizes breaking down bias and aligning innate aptitudes with in-demand careers and educational pathways. Through career-connected learning, YouScience links classroom learning to employer needs, industry certifications, and work-based learning opportunities. The company says it will use the new strategic partnership to expand its mission, scale its platform, and connect more students with data-driven pathways to success. YouScience was founded in 2006 and is based in American Fork, Utah. YouScience builds a workforce development platform and student profiling tool that helps users discover the intersection of their aptitudes, interests and career opportunities to set education and career direction. The company aims to address workforce development and educational debt issues by guiding students toward suitable education and career paths. Founded in 2012 and based in Nashville, Tenn., YouScience has developed a profile product to align aptitudes and interests with career opportunities. The company has filed a Form D with the SEC and has raised $3.9M of a planned $5M investment round. Proceeds will be used for further development of the product platform, marketing and sales expansion, and working capital. Investors in the round include CEO Philip Hardin and The Ball Foundation, alongside other private investors. YouScience provides an edtech platform to consumers and the professionals who serve them. Its core product, Latitude, is an online career-discovery platform that leverages real mental exercises—not self-reported data—to align aptitudes and interests, reveal strengths, and identify ideal post-secondary majors and career choices. Latitude launched in late June 2014 and will be available directly to consumers and through secondary schools, education consultants, career counselors, and universities. The company plans to expand Latitude in 2015 beyond young adults to career changers, returning military, and anyone needing career and educational guidance. YouScience intends to use the seed funds for development of its initial consumer product, Latitude. Leadership includes founders Betsy Wills and Richard Patton and CEO Philip Hardin, and the company is based in Nashville with additional offices in Dallas.

Total raised

$12M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

May 2015