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What does BridgeU do?
BridgeU, is a company which is driving better higher education decisions for global students, secondary schools and universities. The company helps students to make the right choice for their futures and helps them be the right choice for universities. The company has built its first truly adaptive university preparation and application platform for students. Its Software as a Service solution makes use of intelligent algorithms and machine learning techniques for matching students with the best global university programs for them, to manage preparation and application procedures on their behalf and for positioning the students competitively as applicants for the programs they choose. The company extends info and tools to students previously ignores by the university preparation industry through the creation of an affordable and much more efficient way of bridging the gap between secondary and higher education.
How much BridgeU was funded?
BridgeU raised $2.5M seed funding on November 16th, 2015 from Deborah Quazzo, Seedcamp, Jonnie Goodwin, Octopus Investments and Fresco Capital.
Previous Funding
$400k seed fund on November 1, 2014 from Fresco Capital, Deborah Quazzo, Seedcamp and MassChallenge
What is next for BridgeU?
BridgeU’s has raised the latest funding for fixing the chaos of university choice with data. The company has signed up schools and school groups in 16 countries with a majority in Asia or UK since 2014.
More about BridgeU
BridgeU was founded on August 1, 2013 by Lucy Stonehill and Hywel Carver. It has its headquarters in London. Stonehill built a private admissions consulting business after leaving university, but realized later that there was a place for an online platform. Stonehill and Carver had built an early prototype together and they received an early funding in the Spring of 2014. Now the company aims to take everything its knows about big data and apply it for creating an adaptive learning platform which helps students in making important decisions based on real data.
