Top 23 Career Jumpstart startups

Aug 28, 2025 | By Nadia Neveu

These startups develop services that help students to improve employability and launch successful careers. From the other hand they help employees to recruit promising young talents.
1
Country: Saudi Arabia | Funding: $1.6M
Taawoni platform automates internship processes and offers AI-powered mentorship tools.
2
Country: Australia | Funding: A$13M
Year13 is a digital enterprise that helps young Australians reach their potential and succeed in life after school.
3
Country: India | Funding: $3M
MDaudit is an AI-based platform for billing compliance, coding accuracy, and revenue integrity in healthcare.
4
Country: Bangladesh | Funding: $1.4M
Interactive Cares is a one stop virtual Edtech Platform for creating employability.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $90.6M
SchooLinks is a career readiness platform that engages students in career education and college planning and application.
6
Country: India | Funding: $16M
Emversity is an employability-focused education organization that prepares students for success in today's competitive job market.
7
Handshake
Country: USA | Funding: $434M
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
8
OpenClassrooms
Country: France | Funding: $149.7M
OpenClassrooms is a European online education platform with more than 2 million members and fully online degrees.
9
Gravyty
Country: UK | Funding: $75.8M
Graduway provides alumni networking platforms for colleges and universities to stay connected with their former students and alumni.
10
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.
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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