Rize Education

Mission: fundamentally transform higher education and provide every student with a fun and affordable path to a fulfilling career\n\nInitial Problem: colleges and universities desperately need to increase enrollment \u0026 improve outcomes, but can’t afford the upfront investment \u0026 fixed costs required for new degree programs\n\nSolution: pay-as-you-go degree programs that require virtually zero upfront investment or risk. By allowing colleges to add new online courses taught by other institutions, Rize provides non-profit, accredited colleges \u0026 universities with skills-based majors \u0026 minors for college credit at a fraction of the cost of traditional programs\n\nTraction: working with 135+ private colleges. ~350 college programs already fully adopted across 90 colleges, with many more in the pipeline. Google and Unity Technologies partnerships\n\nFunding: raised Series A from top VCs\n\nTeam: 20 person team that includes a College President, 2 former Blackstone, Decoded’s former Head of Product, a former VP at Cadre, a Y Combinator alum, and eight Harvard/Yale/Princeton/UPenn/MIT grads