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Podium Education
Experiential education company for universities
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Education
- Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
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Company mission
To supercharge student outcomes.
Our take
College students often face the challenge of lacking real-world experience, making it difficult to land their first job. This can be particularly true for students who don't have connections or access to internship opportunities.
Podium Education tackles this problem by providing undergraduate students with real-world project-based experiences through its university network and career accelerator platform. Partnering with over 60 universities and leading corporations like Intel, Podium allows students to build in-demand skills in areas like digital marketing, coding, and data analytics.
To further strengthen its reach and impact, Podium recently acquired Untapped, an all-in-one early career talent platform connecting students with top companies like JP Morgan and Stripe. This acquisition brings together Podium's extensive university network with Untapped's vast employer network, ultimately, positioning Podium to become a leader in experiential education.
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Benefits
- 401k, health, vision, and dental insurance package
- Unlimited paid time off
- Excellent birthing and bonding leave policies
- Monday team lunches
- Extremely passionate and intelligent colleagues
- Super cool offices, if you live in Austin or Phoenix
- Monthly team events
- Have a massive impact on the lives of others, every day
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$20m
SERIES B
Oct 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32m
Leadership
Brooks Morgan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the founder and CEO of GetAccepted (acquired by The Princeton Review). They also served as the CRO at The Princeton Review, COO at Uversity, and worked in VP, BD, and Sales at Infegy.
Alex Ricken
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously a Director of the Global Freshman Academy at EdPlus at Arizona State University. Prior to this, they held Directorial roles at Kaplan Test Prep and served as the COO at Grockit.
Christopher Parrish
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at 2U in various roles, including Director of Strategic Operations and Senior Vice President. Prior to this, they worked at McGladrey and Bank of America.