Winners announced for 2023 Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition
The seven finalists, including EdVisorly, pitched their ventures to a live judging panel as well as an audience of investors, researchers, and practitioners. The final competition was a keystone event of EDTECH WEEK 2023
The Innovators - A Conversation with Manny Smith
Manny Smith, Founder and CEO of EdVisorly shares his experiences in higher education, his personal journey and he highlights the work happening at EdVisorly, and online platform for helping students transfer and succeed.
The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its fourth investments in EdVisorly
A Black- and female-founded business that has developed a community college-to-university platform, empowering community college students to connect with a university and achieve a bachelor’s degree.
Finalists Announced for 2023 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition
Catalyst @ Penn GSE — a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE)—and the Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation announced the finalists for the 14th annual Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.
Opinion: Want more diversity in schools?
Eileen Strempel, Inaugural Dean, Herb Alpert School of Music, and Stephen Handel, serving as an EdVisorly Board Observer and the former Vice President of Enrollment for the University of California System on "the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw the use of race and ethnicity in college admissions."
The Story Behind EdVisorly | Manny Smith, Hanna Ving, & Lizzie Allison
We had a conversation with our portfolio company EdVisorly with Manny Smith, Hanna Ving, & Lizzie Allison. We learned more about their founding journey and how they will make an impact in the EdTech space.
EY Entrepreneurs Access Network’s 2023 Cohort of Black and Hispanic/Latino entrepreneurs
Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announces Manny Smith, EdVisorly Founder & CEO, as a member of the 2023 EY Entrepreneurs Access Network (EAN) cohort.
Technology Can Expand Awareness of Career and Education Opportunities
EdVisorly’s platform helps connect learners to four-year institutions.
Grants and Investments for Transfer Success
The ECMC Foundation announced the launch of the Catalyzing Transfer Initiative and informed Education Innovation Ventures’ $250,000 investment in the expansion of EdVisorly. The software platform guides community college students interested in transferring to a four-year institution.
Meet the Entrepreneurs: JFFLabs Lifts Up the Innovators at the Heart of Career Navigation
JFFLabs’s new cohort of entrepreneurs is tackling the challenges and opportunities of career navigation from all angles, bringing innovative solutions and new insights to this fast-evolving landscape.
EdVisorly COO Hanna Ving at AIRC Annual Conference 2022 Student Voices Plenary Panel
The panel includes eight current and recently graduated international students who will speak about their experiences as students in the United States and their educational and career journeys.
EdVisorly CEO Manny Smith at Blackstone LaunchPad Annual Conference
Manny Smith, Founder and CEO of EdVisorly, joined the near-peer Fireside Chat at our Annual Conference alongside fellow LaunchPad alumni Kelsey Davis and Jon Wang.
UC Berkeley’s Big Ideas Contest Builds Student-Led Social Innovations
Today, EdVisorly is a nationwide community college-to-university transfer platform — the first of its kind.
Observations from NYEdtech Week 2023
EdVisorly, which supports the community college to university transfer process was the SharkTank 2023 winner.
Strategic Growth Forum®
Forging high-value CEO-to-CEO connections is the name of the game. The shape of things to come.
Palm Springs, California
November 9-12, 2023
The 25 most promising education-tech startups of 2023, according to top VCs
We asked top education investors to name the most promising edtech startups of 2023.
Finalist Spotlight: EdVisorly
EdVisorly is building a nationwide community college-to-university transfer platform, empowering aspiring community college students to connect with universities to boost enrollment success.
California Innovation Fund Portfolio: EdVisorly
Manny, Hanna, and Lizzie are committed to ensuring that freshmen and sophomores in community college are afforded an equitable opportunity to become juniors, seniors, and graduates at universities and colleges across the United States.
Announcing the 2023 Winners!
Congratulations to the 2023 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition winners who pitched their ventures live in NYC at EDTECH WEEK 2023!
Worried about the “enrollment cliff”? It’s time to change our perception of who goes to college.
Dr. Katy Launius, and EdVisorly board observer and Strategy Officer Mary Laphen Pope from Lumina Foundation, on the capacity that community colleges offer 4-year universities to overcome their continued decline in enrollment. Colleges and universities must think more creatively about how to advance community college transfer enrollment and engage the adult student population.
Welcome New ECMC Foundation Grantees and Investees - OVER $14 MILLION IN NEW GRANTS
As part of our commitment to strengthening higher education for career success among underserved populations through evidence-based innovation, ECMC Foundation is proud to announce a new series of grants and investments made from May 12, 2022, to September 16, 2022.
Breakthroughs in Higher Ed Transfer & Degree Attainment Programs
We'll share insights on how EdVisorly is partnering with universities to pioneer new transfer and degree attainment programs.
AIRC Annual Conference Panelist: Former Transfer Student - EdVisorly COO Hanna Ving
“It is extremely powerful when we create a platform for students to voice and share their experiences. We can better serve the next generation of leaders when we listen, and then deliver on what we’ve learned from students."
Social Entrepreneurism in Career Navigation
Meet the Entrepreneurs: JFFLabs Lifts Up the Innovators at the Heart of Career Navigation.
The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its fourth investments in EdVisorly
A Black- and female-founded business that has developed a community college-to-university platform, empowering community college students to connect with a university and achieve a bachelor’s degree.
Meet the Entrepreneurs: JFFLabs Lifts Up the Innovators at the Heart of Career Navigation
Manny at EdVisorly: "Community colleges play a critical role in higher education and economic inclusion in the United States."
Magnitude Digital®, Sponsor of the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition
EdVisorly featured as one of seven finalists announced for 2023 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.
JFF Experts Push To Transform Our Workforce and Education Systems at ASU+GSV 2022
The theme at 2022’s ASU+GSV Summit called for attendees to imagine a new era—one where all people have equal access to the future.
A platform to support community college students who are transferring credit
In this second part of the Postcards from ASU GSV mini-series, we talk to a wide variety of amazing Higher Ed and workforce entrepreneurs about their companies, what they're seeing at the ASU conference, and what they're seeing in the field at large.
Magnitude Digital®, Sponsor of the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition
EdVisorly featured as one of seven finalists announced for 2023 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.