Top 26 Career Jumpstart startups

Updated: Dec 31, 2025
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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
Taawoni
Country: Saudi Arabia | Funding: $1.6M
Taawoni platform automates internship processes and offers AI-powered mentorship tools.
2
Interactive Cares
Country: Bangladesh | Funding: $1.4M
Interactive Cares is a one stop virtual Edtech Platform for creating employability.
3
Find Your Grind
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Find Your Grind is developing an online platform for alternative careers such as pop-music, content creation, social media management or eSports athlete. It focuses on self-awareness, career insight, social awareness and action awareness. It also includes a lifestyle assessment that helps students identify three career paths based on their preferences. For example, they might discover that they prefer roles as an artist, content creator, or humanitarian. Students then receive a personalized plan for their future after graduation. Additionally, students can access videos and interactive lessons and a group of mentors provides practical advice on starting their careers and the steps they took to achieve success. Notable mentors include Tony Hawk, Tony Hoffman, and will.i.am, among others.
4
SchooLinks
Country: USA | Funding: $90.6M
SchooLinks is a career readiness platform that engages students in career education and college planning and application.
5
Year13
Country: Australia | Funding: A$13M
Year13 is a digital enterprise that helps young Australians reach their potential and succeed in life after school.
6
Handshake
Country: USA | Funding: $434M
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
7
OpenClassrooms
Country: France | Funding: $149.7M
OpenClassrooms is a European online education platform with more than 2 million members and fully online degrees.
8
Gravyty
Country: UK | Funding: $75.8M
Graduway provides alumni networking platforms for colleges and universities to stay connected with their former students and alumni.
9
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.
10
Emversity
Country: India | Funding: $16M
Emversity is an employability-focused education organization that prepares students for success in today's competitive job market.
11
Goodwall
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $16.3M
Goodwall is a social development platform for young people to connect over shared interests and discover opportunities.
12
HIVE Diversity
Country: USA | Funding: $9.3M
HIVE Diversity provides a virtual recruiting platform that connects talent to companies that value diversity.
13
uConnect
Country: USA | Funding: $9.1M
The first all-in-one virtual career center for higher education
14
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
15
Imarticus Learning
Country: India | Funding: $3M
MDaudit is an AI-based platform for billing compliance, coding accuracy, and revenue integrity in healthcare.
16
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.
17
Birmingham Promise
Country: USA | Funding: $1M
Birmingham Promise supports every Birmingham City School student by providing internships and apprenticeships.
18
Beep
Country: India | Funding: $890.4K
Beep offers over 28 live programmes across design, certification, and internship tracks, helping for students from Tier 2 and Tier 3 India cities move more quickly from education to employment.
19
SkillCo
Country: USA | Funding: $300K
SkillCo empower students to track the real-world skills they gain in school.
20
Nxus
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €150K
Nxus is a conviction that the recruitment process of young professionals can be done differently.
21
SanicsEdu
Country: India | Funding: ₹10M
SanicsEdu.com is an edtech platform that prepares students and early-career professionals for industry roles through skill-based education, project-oriented learning, and career development programs in CAD, software engineering, electronics, and other technical fields.
22
Casers
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $40K
Casers - is a web platform for solving real cases from the business and government representatives.
23
GradConnection
Country: Australia
GradConnection connects employers and graduates.
24
Prepory
Country: USA
Prepory guides students through college admissions and career decisions. It boasts the most talented group of college admissions and career experts in the industry
25
12twenty
Country: USA
The #1 place where elite college students get hired
26
Symplicity
Country: USA
Symplicity offers enterprise technology and information systems management solutions for higher education, government, and businesses.
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Nadia Neveu
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