SkolaFund

What SkolaFund does

SkolaFund is a Malaysian online scholarship and education crowdfunding platform operated by SkolaGroup Sdn. Bhd., a privately held company founded in 2017. The platform addresses the inefficient matching between students seeking financial assistance for education and organizations or individuals offering scholarships. It serves two primary customer segments: students at various education levels seeking funding, and scholarship sponsors (organizations, companies, and individuals) seeking to create and manage scholarship programs.

The platform comprises two products. The core product, Skolafund.com, is a crowdfunding platform that enables students to raise funds for their education through scholarship campaigns and donations from supporters. The sub-product SkolaShip, accessible at skolaship.skolafund.com, is a dedicated platform allowing sponsors to create and manage their own scholarship programs. Distribution is primarily self-serve through the web, supplemented by organic social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and a content blog at blog.skolafund.com.

The company's revenue model is described as a marketplace/commission model, but specific pricing, fee structures, take rates, and revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. No headcount, funding rounds, leadership team, or institutional investors were identified in available source material. Operational status shows the main homepage is accessible while the /browse page is in maintenance mode (as of Jul 24), suggesting either limited active operations or infrastructure work in progress. There is no evidence of AI/ML capabilities, patents, regulatory licensing, or enterprise partnerships.

Name

SkolaFund

Legal name

SkolaGroup Sdn. Bhd.

Website

https://skolafund.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SkolaFund is a Malaysian education crowdfunding and scholarship marketplace that connects students seeking financial aid with organizations and individuals creating scholarship programs, operating via Skolafund.com and the SkolaShip sponsor platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Funding Platform

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Grantmaking Foundations (813211)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Scholarship, Financial Aid & FAFSA Support Platforms (EDAFAMAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scholarship, Financial Aid & FAFSA Support (EDAMAKAF), Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK)

Keywords

• Education crowdfunding
• Scholarship marketplace
• Student fundraising
• Scholarship management
• Education funding platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Kuala Lumpur

HQ country

Malaysia

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Platform/Marketplace Model: Platform connecting scholarship providers with students; revenue model not explicitly disclosed in available source data.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SkolaFund operates an online scholarship and crowdfunding platform connecting students seeking financial assistance for education with scholarship sponsors and donors. The platform consists of two products: Skolafund.com, which enables students to create fundraising campaigns for educational expenses, and Skolaship (skolaship.skolafund.com), which allows organizations and individuals to create and manage scholarship programs for students.

Product overview

SkolaFund is a crowdfunding and scholarship platform operated by SkolaGroup Sdn. Bhd. The platform consists of two main products: Skolafund.com, which enables students to create fundraising campaigns for their educational expenses, and Skolaship (skolaship.skolafund.com), a separate platform that allows sponsors to create and manage scholarship programs for students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Skolaship: Scholarship management platform allowing sponsors to create and manage scholarships

Products and services

• Skolafund.com A crowdfunding platform that enables students to raise funds for their education through scholarship campaigns and donations from supporters. Students can browse available scholarships through the platform.
• Skolaship A scholarship creation and sponsorship platform accessible at skolaship.skolafund.com that allows organizations and individuals to create and manage scholarship programs for students. Sponsors can build their own scholarships through the platform.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• ScholarshipPortal: International scholarship database connecting students worldwide with funded study opportunities; comparable to SkolaFund's marketplace approach but with broader international coverage rather than single-country focus.
• Raise.me: Micro-scholarship platform that lets students earn scholarship dollars for achievements and sponsors commit guaranteed awards; comparable to SkolaFund's education funding marketplace, with a stronger US college focus.
• Bold.org: Scholarship marketplace where sponsors create scholarships and students apply, with an emphasis on donor-led scholarship creation; closely aligned with Skolafund's Skolaship model of letting sponsors originate scholarships.
• Going Merry: Scholarship platform that helps students find and apply for scholarships while enabling organizations to run scholarship programs; mirrors SkolaFund's two-sided marketplace approach and the Skolaship sponsor tooling concept.
• Fastweb: One of the largest US scholarship search and matching platforms, connecting students with scholarship providers; directly comparable to SkolaFund in the student-sponsor matching model, though operating at much larger scale in the US.
• Scholly: Scholarship matching platform focused on helping students discover relevant scholarships based on their profile; directly comparable as a student-facing scholarship discovery layer adjacent to Skolafund.com.

Regional players

• Kitabisa: Leading Indonesian crowdfunding and donation platform widely used for education, medical, and social campaigns; a Southeast Asia peer with overlapping use cases for student educational fundraising in a neighboring market.
• StartSomeGood: Crowdfunding platform purpose-built for social enterprises and education initiatives in Asia-Pacific; comparable as an APAC-focused crowdfunding platform that supports education-related campaigns similar to Skolafund.

Emerging players

• DonorsChoose: Crowdfunding platform specifically for education projects and teacher requests; an education-specialized crowdfunding model with a donor-to-beneficiary matching layer analogous to SkolaFund's student funding focus.

Broad incumbents

• GoFundMe: Largest consumer crowdfunding platform globally, frequently used for education fundraising campaigns similar to Skolafund.com; competes on the demand side but lacks structured scholarship creation/management tooling like Skolaship.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/skolafund
• Facebookfacebook.com/SkolaFund
• Instagraminstagram.com/skolafund

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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