Top 17 Career Jumpstart startups

Oct 27, 2024 | By Nadia Neveu

1
Handshake
Country: USA | Funding: $434M
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
2
OpenClassrooms
Country: France | Funding: $149.7M
OpenClassrooms is a European online education platform with more than 2 million members and fully online degrees.
3
Gravyty
Country: UK | Funding: $75.8M
Graduway provides alumni networking platforms for colleges and universities to stay connected with their former students and alumni.
4
Forage
Country: USA | Funding: $37M
Forage works with the world’s top employers to create job simulations for students to build career skills, visibility, and confidence.
5
Goodwall
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $16.3M
Goodwall is a social development platform for young people to connect over shared interests and discover opportunities.
6
HIVE Diversity
Country: USA | Funding: $9.3M
HIVE Diversity provides a virtual recruiting platform that connects talent to companies that value diversity.
7
uConnect
Country: USA | Funding: $9.1M
The first all-in-one virtual career center for higher education
8
Emversity
Country: India | Funding: ₹910M
Emversity is an employability-focused education organization that prepares students for success in today's competitive job market.
9
Practera
Country: Australia | Funding: $3.8M
Practera is a technology platform that helps deliver high quality experiential learning programs at larger scale and lower cost
10
Preplaced
Country: India | Funding: $1M
It is a personalised career growth platform that helps people achieve their career aspirations via a new 1:1 Long-term Mentorship concept.
Editor: Nadia Neveu
Nadia Neveu is a senior editor for EdTechStartups. She is a writer covering early childhood education, K-12, higher education and edtech business, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice. Nadia holds a degree in mass communication from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Nadia is also a student in the Master of Science in Data Analytics program at the University of Houston-Downtown. Nadia seeks to uplift all teachers in the work that they do and support them as leaders and agents of change. You can contact Nadia at neveu(at)edtechstartups(dot)com