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Transfr Put the Trade School in a Headset - Then Learned Who Would Pay for It
The workforce-education company sells institutions a safer, repeatable way to let learners try real jobs before betting their lives on them. Its useful lesson is less about virtual reality than about finding the buyer with both the pain and the budget.
SchooLinks
SchooLinks is an Austin-based edtech company that builds an all-in-one college and career readiness (CCR) platform for K-12 school districts. It replaces the patchwork of separate counseling, course-planning, career-exploration, work-based-learning and compliance tools with a single student-first system, using behavioral data and machine learning to personalize each student's postsecondary path while giving administrators the accountability and state-reporting tools they need. Founded by Katie Fang in 2015, the company operates across 40 states and raised an $80 million Series B in October 2024 - the largest U.S. edtech deal of that year.