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Unibuddy
Connecting students with the right higher ed institutions
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Education
- Marketing
- SaaS
- Community
- Holborn, London, UK
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Company mission
Empowering the next generation of students to make the right choice for their future
Our take
Universities are big, complex institutions that can't afford to invest that much time and effort into their websites. At the same time, universities are facing increasing competition to attract students (it's getting more common to consider apprenticeships, coding bootcamps or go straight into work).
Unibuddy makes it easy for universities to connect with more prospective students to drive applications. Its peer-to-peer setup means the operational effort for the company is low, as current students answer the questions.
Unibuddy has firm goals in mind - partnering up with more institutions internationally to empower more students, grow the size of the company, expand its product range, and above all, Unibuddy wants to be an all-in-one platform - taking care of everything from selecting a programme, to onboarding to post-graduation.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Moving abroad policy - apply to work from anywhere and if eligible you can relocate
- Enhanced parental leave
- Mental health support with Spill
- Floating holidays - option to swap a national or bank holiday day for another holiday that's not nationally recognised
- 25 days annual leave plus "end of year shutdown" in the last week of December
Company values
- Power to the peers
- Thrive in the thick of it
- Hungry to grow
- Impact over input
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$20m
SERIES B
Mar 2020
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $32m
Leadership
Kimeshan Naidoo
(CTO)They previously founded StudentView. They worked as a Software Engineer at Schlumberger for 2.5 years before going to Entrepreneur First.
Diego Fanara
(CEO)They founded Unibuddy straight after completing their Masters degree at Imperial, with the idea born out of their own frustration in trying to find the right university.
People progressing
Joined the company as a Software Engineer, before being promoted to Engineering Manager 2 years later.
Amy recently celebrated her 5-year buddyversary. In that time she's progressed from a Customer Success Manager to Director of Customer Success for the EMEA, APAC & Canada region managing a great team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Unibuddy
- Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. They’re more than just words for Buddies. They’re the hard-and-fast principles guiding our team-building methods. It’s how we cultivate leaders and forge a company and community that’s the right fit for every person inside of it.
- We have a global, multicultural foundation—and we want to see it reflected across our employee landscape. It’s what helps us grow and support the peer-to-peer platform that serves one and all.
- As we continue to grow our team of Buddies during this exciting time, we’ll experiment with hiring in communities all across the globe, taking our diversity and inclusion recruiting goals to new heights.
- We're continuing to provide spaces for our Buddies to learn and have open conversations around a range of topics, with unconscious bias workshops, mental health first aid training and panel sessions on lived experiences of discrimination all born out of DEI initiatives this year.
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Meaningful work (2)
Nice people (2)
Flexible working (2)
Growing fast (2)
Challenging work (1)
Opportunities to learn (1)
Intelligent people (1)
Team energy (1)
The people at Unibuddy are what makes it! They are all incredibly bought into the mission to help students in their HE decisions and they genuinely care about the work they're doing. It's got a great culture with plenty of opportunity to learn and grow and it's always very sociable. I also love the customers, they are so friendly and share the same passion to help students as much as possible.
Operations & Strategy
Team energy
Jun 2021
Unibuddy is a rocket ship, there's so much space to grow and to develop your niche whilst enabling your team and the company achieve their goals. As the majority of the company has been here for less than a year everyone is really keen to get to know each other and are super friendly.
Operations & Strategy
Growing fast
Jun 2021
Unibuddy is actually helping students make the biggest decisions in their life and everything is built around that.
Operations & Strategy
Meaningful work
Jun 2021
Every single person I've encountered at Unibuddy has been incredibly supportive, kind and genuine. There are so many opportunities for cross-departmental collaboration which means you get to meet new people all of the time and learn more about the people around you on a day-to-day basis.
Marketing
Nice people
Jun 2021
Since I joined Unibuddy less than a year ago, the company has doubled in size. It's not only great to see so many new faces and additions to the culture here, but it's also fantastic to see the momentum and belief in our mission continuing to grow.
Marketing
Growing fast
Jun 2021
The new Future of Work Policy at Unibuddy facilitates flexible working, and allows each employee to choose how they would prefer to work. It's great to know that we can all still work effectively together while still maintaining personal flexibility!
Marketing
Flexible working
Jun 2021
Unibuddy is at a challenging time, moving from a small startup to a high growth company. That brings new challenge everyday to ensure that the engineering team is still performing.
Software Engineering
Challenging work
Jun 2021
Working in Unibuddy is helping Student to make better decisions, we are not working like another fintech, we are contributing to a better way of making decision that might change the life of our users.
Software Engineering
Meaningful work
Jun 2021
The people at Unibuddy are amazing, in a 1 year and a half I've met really good friends and it is incredible to work in this genuine environment!
Software Engineering
Nice people
Jun 2021
I am always surrounded by individuals who strive to do better and want to learn. Everyday you learn something new through new people joining the growing team!
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
Jun 2021
With our new Future of Work policy there has been massive flexibility given to all Buddies to work from the office, home, abroad and more! I am excited to see where it takes us as a company and the freedom to enjoy.
Operations & Strategy
Flexible working
Jun 2021
As we are a first growing start-up, the opportunities available to every Buddy are always growing. My manager is very approachable and accepting of any ideas and courses I want to go on to help grow and move forward in my career.
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Jun 2021
