Unibuddy

Connecting students with the right higher ed institutions

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Company mission

Empowering the next generation of students to make the right choice for their future

Employees

21-100

HQ Location

Holborn, London, UK

OTTA INSIGHTS

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

50% female employees

3% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take on Unibuddy

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Universities are big, complex institutions that can't afford to invest that much time and effort into their websites. At the same time, universities are facing increasing competition to attract students (it's getting more common to consider apprenticeships, coding bootcamps or go straight into work).

Unibuddy makes it easy for universities to connect with more prospective students to drive applications. Its peer-to-peer setup means the operational effort for the company is low, as current students answer the questions.

Unibuddy has firm goals in mind - partnering up with more institutions internationally to empower more students, grow the size of the company, expand its product range, and above all, Unibuddy wants to be an all-in-one platform - taking care of everything from selecting a programme, to onboarding to post-graduation.

Total funding - $32m

Last 2 fundraises

Mar 2020

$5m

EARLY VC

Jul 2021

$20m

SERIES B

Company benefits

    🌍 Company-wide benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus "end of year shutdown" in the last week of December
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Mental health support with Spill
  • Floating holidays - option to swap a national or bank holiday day for another holiday that's not nationally recognised
  • Moving abroad policy - apply to work from anywhere and if eligible you can relocate
  • 🇺🇸 US benefits

  • 401(k) matched to 6%
  • Healthcare, dental and vision options for you, spouse and family
  • 🇬🇧 UK benefits

  • Private Healthcare with Bupa
  • Pension matched up to 6%
  • Life insurance

Company values

  • Power to the peers
  • Thrive in the thick of it
  • Hungry to grow
  • Impact over input

Founders

They previously founded StudentView. They worked as a Software Engineer at Schlumberger for 2.5 years before going to Entrepreneur First.

They founded Unibuddy straight after completing their Masters degree at Imperial, with the idea born out of their own frustration in trying to find the right university.


People progressing

Joined the company as a Software Engineer, before being promoted to Engineering Manager 2 years later.

Amy recently celebrated her 5-year buddyversary. In that time she's progressed from a Customer Success Manager to Director of Customer Success for the EMEA, APAC & Canada region managing a great team.

Diversity & Inclusion at Unibuddy

  • Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. They’re more than just words for Buddies. They’re the hard-and-fast principles guiding our team-building methods. It’s how we cultivate leaders and forge a company and community that’s the right fit for every person inside of it.
  • We have a global, multicultural foundation—and we want to see it reflected across our employee landscape. It’s what helps us grow and support the peer-to-peer platform that serves one and all.
  • As we continue to grow our team of Buddies during this exciting time, we’ll experiment with hiring in communities all across the globe, taking our diversity and inclusion recruiting goals to new heights.
  • We're continuing to provide spaces for our Buddies to learn and have open conversations around a range of topics, with unconscious bias workshops, mental health first aid training and panel sessions on lived experiences of discrimination all born out of DEI initiatives this year.

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