While billions of dollars in education funding exist, a simple way to manage and apply to awards has not. Scholarship and grant providers need a better way to navigate financial and operational complexity to help individuals access support for their education. With Kaleidoscope, sponsors can benchmark the effectiveness of their financial support, gain relevant, current information about the applicants they are selecting, disburse funds directly to recipients – all while fostering meaningful, long-lasting relationships with those they support.
Location: United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $15.3M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | gener8tor | gener8tor.... |
| 09.01.2025 | Groove Cap... | groovecap.... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.04.2022 | Series A | $10M | - |
| 11.03.2020 | Series A | $3M | - |
| 08.02.2018 | - | $2.3M | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.01.2026 | Kaleidoscope Launches Scholarship Fund to Unlock $1 Billion in Educational Opportunity, Names Travis Smith CEO | Former CEO, Jason Von Bank to Chair New Public Charity, Expanding Access to Scholarships for All MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Kaleidoscope, the leading Full-Cycle Scholarship Platform (FSP), today announced the appointme... |
| 22.02.2024 | Kaleidoscope Partners with Vertical Insure to Provide a Tuition Insurance Option for Safeguarding Educational Investment | Kaleidoscope and Vertical Insure Announce New Partnership MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, USA, February 22, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Kaleidoscope, a leading Full-Cycle Scholarship Platform (FSP), has announced a new partnership with Vertical Insu... |
| 05.04.2022 | Kaleidoscope Raises $10M in Series A Funding | Kaleidoscope, a Minneapolis, MN-based provider of a fintech platform driving education-based philanthropy, raised $10M in Series A funding. The round was led by 3×5 Partners and Rally Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to scale ... |
| 05.10.2021 | Kaleidoscope, The Cloud-Based Awards Manager, Announces Millions In New College Scholarships | Kaleidoscope is a cloud-based awards management platform that hosts millions in private scholarships ... [+] for college students. It's just announced the availability of more than $24 million in new scholarship opportunities. getty |
| 15.03.2020 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за прошедшую неделю | Paper 0 Обсудить 95 просмотров Что стало известно об инвестировании в стартапы EdTech на прошедшей неделе. В порядке возрастания привлеченных инвестиций: CollegeKhabri Платформу для колледжей и профориентации студентов из небольших городов... |
| 12.03.2020 | Kaleidoscope Raises $3 Million Series A to Match Students to Scholarships | Giving away money is more complicated than it looks. Just ask Marchela Iahdjian, education program manager at the Taco Bell Foundation, in Irvine, Calif. Now in its fifth year, the foundation has given “Live Más Scholarship” to about 1,000 ... |
| 11.03.2020 | Scholarship Development Startup Kaleidoscope Closes on $3M Series A | Kaleidoscope Group, a company developing a software platform to manage private scholarships and grants, announced Wednesday that it had closed its Series A funding round at $3 million. The funds come from Rally Ventures, a venture capital f... |
| 11.03.2020 | Kaleidoscope Group Closes $3M Series A Funding Round | Kaleidoscope Group, a Minneapolis-based company that has developed a software platform for the management of private scholarships and grants, secured $3m in as part of its series A financing round. Rally Ventures made the investment. In con... |
| - | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за последнюю неделю | Основатели Labster — Майкл Бодекер Йенсен и Мадс Твиллинггард Бонде 0 Обсудить 76 просмотров Что стало известно об инвестировании в стартапы EdTech за прошедшую неделю В порядке возрастания привлеченных инвестиций. Kibo Онлайн-университет д... |
| - | The 8-page pitch deck that scholarship startup Kaleidoscope used to raise $10 million, which lays out its vision to be a one-stop solution for students looking for funding | Kaleidoscope founder and CEO Greg Dehn is changing the scholarship marketplace. Kaleidoscope This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Kaleidoscope is a platform that matches studen... |
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