Hear from Shawntia Lee, founder of College Thriver, a cloud-based platform that offers a personalized college guidance system for minorities.
Watch now to find out who lives up to the task, who walks away with big dollars and who gets sent down empty-handed. The stakes and the drama are always high on Elevator Pitch!
Watch now to find out who lives up to the task, who walks away with big dollars and who gets sent down empty-handed. The stakes and the drama are always high on Elevator Pitch!
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00:00Welcome to the elevator.
00:03I'm Shantia Lee, a first-generation college student.
00:07Over the last 10 years as a college admissions expert,
00:09I realized what was missing on the market, so I built it.
00:12College Diver is going to be an AI-guided platform
00:15that aligns students to the best-fit college
00:18based on their academic readiness.
00:20We can also match students to actual scholarships
00:23to help eliminate the student loan debt.
00:25I successfully raised $130,000 in funding,
00:28and I'm asking you to join my team as we
00:30close the economic wealth gap.
00:34That was a great pitch.
00:35No, yes, there was a few things missing.
00:37In other words, I don't know, but revenue, valuation.
00:40That's what she's going to come in here and tell us all about.
00:42It's a cold elevator pitch.
00:43We want to hear how much revenue you're making
00:46and what's the ask.
00:47Yeah, but sometimes it's the story, too.
00:49That might be the case here, actually.
00:51You guys ready?
00:52I'm ready.
00:52Let's do it.
00:54Approved.
00:55I love your tenacity.
00:56I love your story.
00:57I love where you're going.
00:58But I think you need support and mentorship
01:00more than you need money at this point,
01:01because that's going to help you get to all of that scale.
01:05OK, I appreciate your feedback.
01:09Kim, Kim, Kim.
01:12This is not something I'm going to make millions of dollars on,
01:15so I'm not prepared to do the whole round.
01:17But I'll tell you what.
01:18I would love to help, and so I'll put in something.
01:22I'll do $25,000 for 2% of the company.
01:26I know a lot of people in the education world.
01:28I know a lot of education tools that are out there.
01:30I know a lot of schools.
01:31I know a lot of colleges.
01:32So I'll give you $50,000 for 5%.
01:37I feel like the honey has way more connection,
01:39so I would love to go with that one.
01:41That's what I'm talking about.
01:42That is what I'm talking about.
01:44Congratulations.
01:46Thank you so much.
01:46Oh, give me this.
01:47Yes.
01:49Alas, we have both graduated.
01:51Thank you so much.