Empowerly, a data-driven education technology startup for college admissions, announced that it has raised $1.6 million from TransLink Capital, Scrum Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, and Spero Ventures as well as angel investors Yun-Fang Juan, a founding engineer of Facebook Ads, and Russ Holdstein, the first investor in StubHub and Zillow. The funds will be used to expand service offerings and round out the team to drive growth and operational efficiencies.

Empowerly is an education technology company that provides personalized college and career guidance virtually. Founded by UC Berkeley, Princeton, and Stanford alumni, Empowerly provides a unique combination of software and a team-based human intelligence model to enable the most personalized college counseling experience possible. With experience from Teach For America and Facebook, the founders are delivering the tools, data, and proven programmatic human guidance to help students gain acceptance to their top-choice universities. Empowerly is also part of Stanford StartX and UC Berkeley SkyDeck.