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Empowerly: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Empowerly is a data-driven education technology company providing a platform for personalized college and career guidance. Empowerly provides college application counseling that ensures college admission success through trained counselors who tailor services to students' specific needs. Empowerly enables students to be their best selves in college admissions and beyond.

www.empowerly.com LinkedIn San Francisco, United States 101-250 employees
Education Higher Education Information Technology Internet Universities B2B B2C
Total raised
$16.6M
Rounds
2
Latest
Undisclosed round
Feb 2024

Empowerly has raised $16.6M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent an undisclosed round of $15.0M announced in Feb 2024.

That round is above the $1.5M median round size for Education companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Empowerly Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$16.6M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Undisclosed round
$15.0M in Feb 2024
Employees
101-250
reported band
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States

Latest funding round on record: Feb 2024.

Empowerly Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Undisclosed round
$15.0M
Undisclosed round
$1.6M

Empowerly raised $1.6M in an undisclosed round announced in Oct 2020.

3.3 years later, an undisclosed round of $15.0M was announced in Feb 2024.

Empowerly Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Changxiao Xie
Founder
Locked
Hanmei Wu
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Empowerly team: 2 of 2 have an email address on file.

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Empowerly Funding Compared to Other Education Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
1,474
$1.5M
30,148
$7.5M

Empowerly's latest round of $15.0M is above the median round in Education. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Empowerly Funding FAQs

What does Empowerly do?

Empowerly is a data-driven education technology company providing a platform for personalized college and career guidance. Empowerly provides college application counseling that ensures college admission success through trained counselors who tailor services to students' specific needs. Empowerly enables students to be their best selves in college admissions and beyond.

How much funding has Empowerly raised?

Empowerly has raised $16.6M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $15.0M announced in Feb 2024.

When did Empowerly last raise funding?

Empowerly's most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $15.0M, announced in Feb 2024.

Who founded Empowerly?

FundedIQ lists Changxiao Xie (Founder) at Empowerly.

Who is the CEO of Empowerly?

Hanmei Wu is listed as CEO at Empowerly.

Where is Empowerly headquartered?

Empowerly is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

How many employees does Empowerly have?

Empowerly is in the 101-250 employee band.

How does Empowerly's funding compare to other Education startups?

Empowerly's latest round of $15.0M is above the $1.5M median round size for Education companies on FundedIQ across 1,474 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Empowerly Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Empowerly is left off this page rather than filled in.

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