Dive Summary:
- Online portfolio startup Seelio, formerly known as TrueApp, has announced it has garnered $900,000 in seed funding and is refocusing itself to sell the platform directly to universities instead of students.
- Seelio has already begun working MIT, University of Texas Austin, University of Michigan Engineering and Georgetown University, among others.
- In a bid to solve the shortcomings of the paper resume, Seelio provides an online platform where students can display their body of work and improve their job prospects.
From the article:
"... To date, this outreach has come from a number of big-name schools, including a program at MIT, University of Texas Austin, University of Michigan Engineering, Georgetown University, and others. There was also interest from non-traditional education programs, such as one-year courses, online outlets, and even businesses holding internal company training classes.
The team decided to build out an enterprise product for educators to meet demand. With the new platform, institutions can now choose to roll out Seelio to their entire student body, beginning with incoming freshmen. Six schools are piloting this program today, and as of this morning, the service opens to all. ..."
