UPchieve · Jun 2026
Reported nearly 25,000 students served in 2025 and over 100,000 tutoring sessions.
Connecting low-income HS students with free, 24/7 online tutoring
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
UPchieve is a Brooklyn-based, remote-first nonprofit edtech platform that provides free, 24/7 on-demand 1:1 tutoring and college counseling to low-income middle and high school students, with paid school partnerships and donor/grant support.
Primary product
Free 24/7 online 1:1 tutoring and college counseling
Founded
2016
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Team size
200-300
Work style
Remote
Industry
E-Learning Providers
Sub-industry
EdTech nonprofit for online tutoring and college counseling
Offices
150 Court St, Suite 2, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
228 Park Ave S PMB 45861, New York, NY 10003, United States
Business model
donation-funded nonprofit
paid school/district partnerships
corporate-sponsored partnerships
Funding
Stage
grant-funded nonprofit; prior seed/pre-seed history
Total raised
$350K
Latest round
Biz Plan Competition · Mar 2026
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & Executive Director
Head of Product
Head of Programs
Senior Director of Development
Work & culture
Mission-driven and autonomy-heavy; remote-first; volunteer-powered; emphasizes equity, students first, and bet-on-people values; team described as technologists, activists, former educators, and collaborative builders.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
A publicly posted Senior Software Engineer role listed $166,000-$184,000/year; the role was remote-possible and the company also advertises full-time product/engineering roles without a visible public salary band on the general careers page.
Benefits
3 weeks paid vacation
3 weeks paid holidays
birthday holiday
flexible hours
up to 100% health/dental/vision insurance
summer half-day Fridays
$1,000 annual professional development budget
$1,000 annual remote work stipend
6% 401(k) employer contribution
remote-first with 2x/year in-person gatherings
Product & market
Pricing
Free for students; schools and districts pay an annual partnership fee based on school size, and corporate or donor sponsors can cover that fee.
Differentiators
- —24/7 live human tutors
- —matches students in under 5 minutes
- —free forever for students
- —covers college counseling as well as tutoring
- —volunteer tutor model keeps costs low
- —teacher-facing product for school partners
- —supports 15+ subjects and college prep
Technology
TypeScript
Vue.js
Node.js
WebSockets
Redis
PostgreSQL
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Ionic Capacitor
React Native
Twilio
Anthropic Claude
Retool
Clever
Customers
low-income middle and high school students
Title I schools
school districts
educators
schools and nonprofits
corporate partners/sponsors
Competitors
Yup
Studypool
Class101
Studyhall
TutorOnline
LearnKo
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $2.7M-$4.1M in recent fiscal-year revenue
Estimated monthly visits
67.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Boston 25 News · Dec 2025
Profiled founder Aly Murray and UPchieve's student impact and school partnerships.
PR Newswire · Nov 2025
Announced NTHS, a student-led initiative to expand volunteer tutoring chapters nationwide; said more than 50 chapters launched in the first semester.
TechCrunch · Sep 2024
Launched UPchieve for Teachers; described the school partnership model and donor-supported revenue.
CTIA Wireless Foundation / PR Newswire · Sep 2024
Awarded UPchieve a $100,000 Catalyst grant.
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