EdVisorly closes $13.3M Series A for college transfer AI automation
EdVisorly, an AI-native platform automating back-office workflows in college admissions and student transfers, has closed a $13.3 million Series A round led by Breachway Capital and including participation from U.S. News & World Report, Lumina Foundation, Strada Education Foundation, Motley Fool Ventures, Zeal Capital Partners, and others. The Los Angeles-based startup brings total funding to approximately $22 million. EdVisorly's core product, Eddie AI, automates tedious administrative tasks that historically bog down university registrars and admissions offices: transcript parsing, GPA recalculation per institutional criteria, and credit equivalency matching across the 10.5 million community college transfer market.
The company has grown to serve more than 100 colleges and universities, including Carnegie Mellon, University of Connecticut, UMass, and Cal Poly Pomona, and has helped over 250,000 students since inception. EdVisorly's funding comes as overall edtech investment has contracted from pandemic peaks ($20 billion in 2021): through H1 2026, edtech startups globally raised just under $1.8 billion. With this new capital, EdVisorly will upgrade its core engineering infrastructure and expand UX design capabilities to improve its student-facing app experience.
For practitioners in higher-ed operations, EdVisorly validates a narrower use case for AI: institutional automation of repetitive, rule-based workflows where AI reduces manual overhead rather than making gate-keeping decisions. The company explicitly avoids replacing human judgment on admissions—instead, it targets the 80% of time registrars spend on data entry and verification, freeing them for higher-value analysis and institutional strategy.
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- EdVisorly Raises $13.3M Series A
“The Los Angeles-based startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively that it has secured a $13.3 million Series A funding round to scale its AI-native platform, which automates the manual back-office workflows that can slow down university admissions.”
- EdVisorly Series A — Crunchbase
“EdVisorly counts more than 100 colleges, universities and higher education systems as customers including Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.”