EdVisorly has raised a 13.3 million dollar Series A to strengthen enrollment success across America’s colleges and universities, with participation from Juvo Ventures alongside Breachway Capital, U.S. News & World Report, Lumina Foundation, Strada Education Foundation, Motley Fool Ventures, Zeal Capital Partners, and others.
EdVisorly is building an AI-native enrollment platform designed to help higher education institutions modernize admissions and enrollment operations for transfer and first-year students. Its platform automates manual back-office workflows such as reading transcripts, recalculating GPAs based on institutional criteria, and matching coursework to university requirements.
The company’s model is particularly relevant for the 10.5 million community college students in the United States seeking to transfer to four-year institutions, where transfer credit evaluation has often been opaque and labor-intensive. By enabling unofficial credit evaluations before students speak with admissions counselors, EdVisorly helps bring greater transparency to how credits transfer, what a degree may cost, and how long completion may take.
EdVisorly, founded by CEO Manny Smith in 2019 while he was pursuing his MBA at UC Berkeley, now works with more than 100 colleges, universities, and higher education systems. Its customer base includes Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and the company says it has supported more than 250,000 students since inception.
The new financing brings EdVisorly’s total funding to about 22 million dollars. The company plans to use the Series A proceeds to upgrade its core engineering infrastructure and expand design resources for its student-facing product experience.
From Juvo Ventures’ perspective, the investment aligns with a focus on technology-enabled solutions that expand access, improve outcomes, and strengthen transfer pathways between community colleges and four-year institutions. EdVisorly’s growth reflects continued demand from higher education partners for tools that improve efficiency for admissions and registrar teams while making the student transfer process more transparent and predictable.