Emerge Career is an online job training platform that provides customized post-secondary certificate-based vocational training programs. The platform is designed to help individuals who have been incarcerated or are currently incarcerated, as well as those who receive SNAP benefits. Emerge Career’s technology is corrections-compatible and can be deployed even in offline environments.
The platform has been successful in creating jobs for reentrants, workers for labor-starved industries, and reducing crime and recidivism. Emerge Career’s pre-release job training has landed $3.2M seed and new state contracts.
The platform has been successful in creating jobs for reentrants, workers for labor-starved industries, and reducing crime and recidivism. Emerge Career’s pre-release job training has landed $3.2M seed and new state contracts.
Total raised: $3.2M
Founders Related Locations: United States, Connecticut, New Haven
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 23.07.2022 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 07.11.2022 | Seed | $3.2M | Seven Seve... |
Persons 1
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| - | - | - | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | - |
Mentions in press and media 6
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.09.2023 | Emerging From Incarceration: The Future Of Reentry | Forbes Under 30. CEO at Emerge Career, a prison-to-employment platform breaking the cycle of poverty through holistic vocational training. |
| 07.11.2022 | Emerge Career Raises $3.2M in Seed Funding | Emerge Career, a US provider of a platform for online job training solutions to governments, raised $3.2m in seed funding. The round was led by 776, with participation from SoftBank Opportunity Fund, Y Combinator, Lenny Rachitsky and Y Comb... |
| 06.11.2022 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за последнюю неделю | Севетри Уилсон, основатель Resilia 0 Обсудить 53 просмотров Что стало известно об инвестировании в стартапы EdTech за прошедшую неделю В порядке возрастания привлеченных инвестиций Ruba Обеспечивает ежемесячную плату за обучение, универсаль... |
| 04.11.2022 | Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts | Education options during and after incarceration have never been particularly extensive, despite the best intentions of educators. Emerge Career is working on changing that, and its early success in putting formerly incarcerated folks to wo... |
| 16.08.2022 | Emerge Career’s tech-forward job training lets incarcerated folks hit the road on release | Reentering society after years in prison is difficult for many reasons, among which perhaps the most prosaic is simply that it’s hard to get a job — and what training and transition programs exist are far from sufficient. Emerge Career hope... |
| - | Emerge Career | “Powering a prison-to-employment pipeline leveraging an online job training platform.” |