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Helps enterprises train college CS students on essential job skills
Edlyft, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Kapor Capital, and YC, builds software that blue-chip enterprises like Google and Dropbox use to train college computer science students on essential skills required for the workforce, so they can be productive day one. It takes new grad engineers 6-12 months to ramp up and add value to their company. Instead of relying on experienced engineers and wasting salary costs, Tinder and LinkedIn use Edlyft to train college CS students before they’re hired on skills to succeed in their role. Co-founders, Erika and Arnelle, are CS grads from Yale and Stanford, who have been featured by Forbes, TechCrunch and Business Insider for Edlyft. They're former engineers at Facebook and Google, and an ex-LinkedIn product manager and Bain consultant.
Edlyft provides an all-in-one platform to engage and onboard emerging tech talent, focusing on pre-onboarding and professional development for interns. The product centers on streamlining communication, onboarding, and personalized training derived from intern manager insights. Their goal is to accelerate intern ramp-up and prepare CS students for industry roles.
Edlyft offers pre-onboarding modules and an onboarding workflow that communicates with interns throughout their onboarding journey. It transforms insights from intern managers into personalized, interactive training modules, enabling a one-stop platform for managing interns, onboarding, and professional development. The platform aims to increase intern ramp speed and productivity by delivering team-specific technology context and company working practices before start dates, and supports community engagement and mentorship within the platform.
Who it’s for: Enterprises and large organizations with internship programs or early-career pipelines seeking to onboard and develop CS students into productive interns.
hiring/traction mentions (testimonials and alumni updates) and ongoing product/Onramp integration signals
Erika Hairston is the co-founder & CEO of Edlyft which helps enterprises up-skill college computer science students. Edlyft recently announced acquisition to Onramp and Google leveraging their AI tutor. She graduated from Yale with a BS in Computer Science and African American Studies. Prior to Edlyft, she served as a Product Manager at LinkedIn Learning and interned as an engineer at Facebook.
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