Paying for college in the US is too hard. Students need to figure out what to apply for, when they need to apply for it, and juggle all the archaic applications for everything from scholarships, to government aid (FAFSA/CSS Profile), to state aid, to student loans and Income-Sharing Agreements.
We're going to fix this, and we want you to help.
We want to take advantage of the fact that all these applications ask the same core questions.
That's why at ScholarMe we're building the Common App for financing college. We want automate students' applications to all these forms of aid.
Ultimately, we will guarantee that once a student fills out our master application, we'll get their bill paid, period.
It's a tall order. We have lots of work to do and loads of experiments to run.
We just raised $2.7mm from the likes of Paul Graham, Paul Walker (Former CTO of Goldman Sachs), and Y Combinator, and are looking to expand the team!
This is us! We're not really sure what to do with our hands.
Femi (middle) is the CEO. He handles everything from raising money, to biz dev, to lender relationships, to answering 1am phone calls from students because we put his cell number in the website footer.
Caleb (left) is the CMO. He handles all things growth. In a past teen life, Caleb was Vine famous — if you dig deep in instagram, you can still find Caleb Cross fan-accounts.
Evan (right) is the CTO. He handles all things tech. Before ScholarMe, Evan built a profitable scholarship marketplace from his dorm in Ottawa, called Scholarly (the similar name is actually 100% a coincidence).
You (not pictured) is developer #1. They handle everything from helping Evan rebuild the backend with graphql, shipping a v1 React Native app 3 weeks after starting, blowing all our expectations out of the water, and building new features for the web app. They're stack-agnostic and see technologies as tools with tradeoffs, not a way of life or ideology. More below 👇