ScholarshipOwl is an AI-powered edtech platform, founded in 2015, that matches students with scholarships, automates applications and lets brands run scholarship campaigns.
ScholarshipOwl is an education technology company founded in 2015 that operates a platform connecting students with scholarships and provides brands with tools to create and manage scholarship campaigns of their own. The company describes its purpose as enabling students to graduate debt-free, and its stated aim is to change how education is funded.
The ScholarshipOwl platform is designed to simplify the scholarship application process. It matches students with scholarships they have a realistic chance of winning, automates recurring applications, and consolidates application tracking in a single dashboard. The platform reports more than 12 million students using it. Alongside the consumer product, ScholarshipOwl builds tooling that lets brands run their own scholarship programmes.
Technical work at the company spans artificial intelligence, machine learning and intelligent matching systems, automation and web platform development - the machinery behind its matching and application automation. It operates in the education, EdTech, student finance, higher education and brand sponsorship verticals.
The company describes itself as mission-driven, holding that education should be affordable and accessible to all. Its stated focus is on helping students reach their potential, with a student-centric and outcome-oriented orientation.
