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StudentFinance
Edtech · Madrid, Spain · Founded 2019
An ed-tech company focused on helping partner schools and universities financing students’ education through Income-Share -Agreements MoreLess
StudentFinance was founded in 2019 by Mariano Kostelec, Marta Palmeiro, Sergio Pereira, and Miguel Santo Amaro. The founding team brought with them a wealth of experience in the student market, having previously founded Uniplaces, the largest student accommodation platform in Europe. Their journey with Uniplaces provided them with insights into the challenges students face, which directly informed the creation of StudentFinance.
Operating in Spain, Portugal, and the UK, StudentFinance is a career mobility platform that addresses the skills gap by financing education for students looking to upskill in high-demand sectors such as technology, engineering, and artificial intelligence. The company partners with schools and universities to offer an alternative to traditional student loans.
The core of their business model is the Income Share Agreement (ISA). Through an ISA, the company covers the tuition fees for students. In return, graduates pay a fixed percentage of their income back to StudentFinance for a set period of time, but only once they have secured a job with an income above a certain threshold. This model aligns the incentives of the student, the educational institution, and StudentFinance, as all parties are invested in the student's successful employment outcome. The company utilizes an AI-powered platform to assess the future employability of applicants, moving beyond traditional credit scores.
Keywords: Income Share Agreements, EdTech, Fintech, Career Mobility, Upskilling, Student Financing, AI-powered lending, Education Finance, Skills Gap, Workforce Development
Company overview
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- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Madrid, Spain
- Employees
- 31
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 67.3
Valuation & funding
StudentFinance funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EARLY VC✓Equity / VC | May 2025 | $0 | — | Armilar Venture Partners | ↗ |
| DEBT✓Debt | Mar 2023 | $8.2M | — | Smart Lenders Asset Management | ↗ |
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Mar 2023 | $41M | $164M | Armilar Venture Partners · Giant Ventures · Iberis Capital · Seedcamp | ↗ |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | May 2021 | $5.3M | $21M | Firestartr · Giant Ventures · Seedcamp · Martin Villig | — |
| SUPPORT PROGRAM✓Other financing | Dec 2019 | $0 | — | Google for Startups Accelerator | — |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Nov 2019 | Felipe Navio · Mustard Seed MAZE · Jose Neves · Seedcamp | ↗ |
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Latest recorded traffic for StudentFinance is 1.4K monthly website visits, down 64.1% over the last three months. StudentFinance's team declined 6.1% over the past year.
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