Exclusive: Google’s Black Founders Fund Boosts AI Innovators, EdVisorly CEO Manny Smith Among The Cohort
Google recently revealed the 20 recipients of its 2024 Google for Startups Founders Funds for Black and Latino entrepreneurs. This year, the focus is entirely on AI-centric startups, emphasizing Google’s dedication to promoting diversity in AI and aiding underrepresented founders in securing necessary funding.
Google Selects EdVisorly for 2024 Black Founders Fund
Google selects 20 artificial intelligence (AI)-focused startups and their founding teams to join the 2024 Black and Latino Founders Fund.
Drexel to Launch Direct Admission Transfer Pathway Program with Community College of Philadelphia to Support Local Students Pursuing a College Degree
Drexel is partnering with EdVisorly, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to streamline the transfer process.
FIVE BLACK-LED DEVELOPMENTS TRANSFORMING THE TECH INDUSTRY IN 2024
There’s no shortage of innovation by Black leaders in the evolving tech industry. Every day, Black programmers, coders and engineers are making strides in technology to benefit their communities and revolutionize the digital landscape forever.
SSU celebrates success of transfer students and pathways programs
The university partnered with EdVisorly, a mobile-friendly app that helps connect transfer students with Sonoma State and provides easy to access information on ADT and requirements for transfer.
Research to Impact: Four Steps to Build a Successful Edtech Enterprise
If you build it, will it work? And how will you measure it? Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses.
Google is awarding Black and Latino startup founders who are disrupting the artificial intelligence (AI) space
The 2024 Google for Startups cohort includes Manny Smith, the founder of EdVisorly, a platform to help college students apply to public and private universities through its mobile app.
These 20 AI-Focused, Black And Latino Startups Just Got A $150K Investment From Google
Google has announced the 20 recipients of the company’s Google for Startups Founders Funds, including its fifth Black Founders Fund and third Latino Founders Fund. According to a press, released for the first time since the funds’ inception, all of the fund’s recipients are AI-powered or AI-augmented companies.
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.
Beyond the Unicorn: Revolutionizing the University Transfer Problem with Manny Smith of EdVisorly
We dig into that and the following topics:
✓ why transfer rates from community colleges to four-year programs are so low (only 18% 😱)
✓ how EdVisorly is helping students improve the university transfer process and the potential 10 billion-dollar impact of doing so
✓ balancing company culture and competitiveness within a startup
Welcome New Board Members and Thank You to Outgoing Board Members
We now add an Impact Investee Partner as a Board member for the first time – Manny Smith is the Founder and CEO of EdVisorly, an edtech company which received an investment from SV2 this past year. We are delighted to welcome Bill, Aarti, Elaine, and Manny to the SV2 Board.
Google For Startups Founders Fund & AI
Meet The Black And Latine-Led AI Startups Joining Google’s Founders Fund 2024.
As AI developments are on the rise, this year, Google has funded 20 US-based companies that are pushing the boundaries in AI.
Goodie Nation Welcomes the 2024 Google for Startups Black and Latino Founders Fund Recipients
Google for Startups selected 20 incredible AI-powered startups founded by visionary Black and Latino leaders.
Introducing the 2024 Google for Startups Founders Funds recipients
These Black and Latino-led companies will receive equity-free funding and Google support to continue creating change and economic opportunity with AI.
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
Manny Smith CEO of EdVisorly: Day-in-the-life of an EdTech Pre-seed Founder
Host Debbie Goodman sits down with Manny Smith, the Founder and CEO of EdVisorly. From serving in the U.S. Air Force to creating an AI-enabled platform that simplifies the transfer process for community college students aiming for four-year universities, this conversation covers a lot of relevant topics.
Meet the latest cohort
The Google for Startups Black Founders Fund: United States provides cash awards — without giving up equity in return — and hands-on support to help Black-led startups in the U.S. build and grow their businesses.
Manny Smith: Transforming Education Access Through Innovation and AI with EdVisorly
🌟 Monday Movers & Shakers: Manny Smith — Revolutionizing Education with EdVisorly 🌟
Google is backing these 20 startups to help improve the world with AI
In 2020, Google launched its Google for Startups Founders Funds, providing equity-free cash awards to Black and Latino entrepreneurs. In 2024, all 20 recipients of the funds are connected to the hottest technology of the moment -- artificial intelligence (AI).
Seed Companies to Watch
What landed a company
on this list?
1) They’re building something cool and needed in this world.
2) Their founders are legitttttt.
3) They’ve raised money from esteemed venture capital firms.
4) They care about building a workplace where humans thrive and do great work together.
5) We keep hearing about them!
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 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.
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.
Bucking Anti-DEI Trend, Google Awards Grants To 20 Black And Latino Founders—All Using AI
The start-ups are aiming to use AI to do everything from eliminating bias in lending to personalizing beauty product recommendations.
Google Funds 20 Black And Latino Founders Of AI-Powered Companies With $150K Each
The tech giant established the Google for Startups Founders Funds to ensure Black and Latino entrepreneurs receive financial assistance and necessary support to influence multiple sectors. According to information provided to AFROTECH™, each recipient will receive $150,000 in non-dilutive cash awards and $100,000 in Google Cloud credits.
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.
Google is backing these 20 startups to help improve the world with AI
In 2020, Google launched its Google for Startups Founders Funds, providing equity-free cash awards to Black and Latino entrepreneurs. In 2024, all 20 recipients of the funds are connected to the hottest technology of the moment -- artificial intelligence (AI).
Winners of Education Startup Competition Reflect Urgent K-12 Needs
The ed-tech startups that competed in the latest Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition are focused on solving a range of students’ and educators most pressing needs, from helping students accelerate literacy skills to using data to drive decision-making in the classroom.
Google Funds 20 Black And Latino Founders Of AI-Powered Companies With $150K Each
The tech giant established the Google for Startups Founders Funds to ensure Black and Latino entrepreneurs receive financial assistance and necessary support to influence multiple sectors. According to information provided to AFROTECH™, each recipient will receive $150,000 in non-dilutive cash awards and $100,000 in Google Cloud credits.
Google Invests In 20 Black And Latino-Led Startups
For the fifth year, Google is funding 20 companies through the Google for Startups Founders Funds which provides equity-free capital and hands-on support to Black and Latino-led startups using AI to innovate responsibly and drive meaningful change.
Google is backing these 20 startups to help improve the world with A
A Google-funded program is helping 20 startups from Black and Latino entrepreneurs that use AI to tackle everyday problems.
Meet The 2024 Google for Startups Founders Funds Recipients
Launched in June 2020, Google for Startups’ Black Founders Fund is part of Google’s $175 million racial equity commitment. With over $50 million, the Fund has empowered Black-led startups across Africa, Brazil, Europe, and the US, fueling funding, fostering communities, and driving generational change.
