AfterCollege

What AfterCollege does

AfterCollege is a US-based career network founded at Stanford University that connects college students and recent graduates with employers offering entry-level jobs and internships. The company's core product is a curated job board — operated at aftercollege.com — that aggregates hundreds of thousands of entry-level and internship postings and is freely accessible to job seekers. Supporting the board is a Job Alerts notification system that pushes matching postings into candidate email workflows, and an SEO-driven career-advice content layer that drives inbound discovery of the platform. AfterCollege holds US Patent 7,213,019 covering elements of its matching technology, providing limited IP protection around its core matching logic.

The company operates as a portfolio company within the Jobcase ecosystem — described as the largest worker community — which provides cross-platform reach beyond its standalone brand. The business model is a two-sided marketplace: job seekers access the platform free of charge while employers monetize the supply side through paid job postings and recruitment services, acquired through a combination of a self-serve portal at hiring.aftercollege.com and direct enterprise sales. Historical expansion has been executed primarily through acquisitions — including collegefeed in 2015 and Cross-Post Classified Networks in 2016 — and via limited equity financing rounds in 2011 (with Flywheel Ventures) and 2014. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, employs 51–100 people, and operates exclusively in the US.

The current operating posture is that of a mature, lean private subsidiary: no recent funding round, no disclosed AI/ML investment, and no recent product expansion beyond its core job board. Senior leadership includes Tim Weaver (SVP of Product and Operations) and Stephanie Peterson (VP of Marketing).

Name

AfterCollege

Legal name

AfterCollege, Inc.

Website

https://aftercollege.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

AfterCollege is a US-based career network and curated job board that connects college students and recent graduates with employers offering entry-level jobs and internships, operating as a portfolio company within the Jobcase worker community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment / Job Board Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Job Placement, Matching & Career Navigation Services (EDAAAOAL), Internships, Externships & Work-Based Learning Placement (EDAMAKAB), Job Search Strategy & Application Skills (EDAAAKAC)

Keywords

• Entry-level job board
• College recruitment platform
• Internship job listings
• Online career network
• Graduate employment marketplace

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Employer job postings: Employers pay to post job listings and internships on the platform to reach college students and recent graduates
2. Recruitment services: Hiring platform services for employers (hiring.aftercollege.com) to purchase job posting packages

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

AfterCollege operates a two-sided online career marketplace that connects college students and recent graduates with employers recruiting for entry-level jobs and internships. Job seekers use the platform for free to browse listings, build profiles, and subscribe to email Job Alerts, while employers pay subscription and service fees to post openings and access the candidate pool.

Product overview

AfterCollege operates as a unified job board platform designed specifically for college students and recent graduates seeking entry-level positions and internships. The core product is the AfterCollege Job Board, which serves as the primary search and discovery interface. Supporting modules include Job Alerts for proactive notifications and Employer Job Posting Services for businesses seeking to recruit entry-level talent. The platform is part of the Jobcase ecosystem, the largest worker community, and curates hundreds of thousands of job opportunities accessible through the main job board interface.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AfterCollege Job Board Online job board where college students and recent graduates can browse entry-level jobs and internships, and where employers can post openings to reach an early-career candidate pool.
• Job Alerts Add-on service that delivers targeted job and internship openings to registered students and recent graduates via email alerts.
• Employer Job Posting Services Paid service for employers and recruiters to post entry-level and internship openings on AfterCollege and access the platform's pool of students and recent graduates.

Quantifiable outcome

• Students find jobs and employers hire students

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• JobcasecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAfterCollege is part of Jobcase, the largest community of its kind dedicated to empowering the world's workers. This partnership provides network effects and access to Jobcase's broader worker community ecosystem.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Handshake: Handshake is a direct competitor offering a job platform exclusively focused on college students and recent graduates, including deep integrations with university career services — directly overlapping AfterCollege's core entry-level recruiting thesis.
• College Recruiter: College Recruiter is a direct peer focused specifically on entry-level jobs for college students and recent graduates, targeting the same employer base with a similar niche-monetization model.
• WayUp: WayUp is a direct competitor platform connecting college students and recent graduates with employers for internships and entry-level roles, matching AfterCollege's persona targeting and employer pay-to-post model.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: LinkedIn is the broad incumbent professional network whose job board includes entry-level and intern filters, reaching an overlapping student and recent-graduate audience with much broader reach but less specialization than AfterCollege.
• Indeed: Indeed is a broad incumbent job search engine that includes entry-level and internship listings, competing for the same employer paid-posting budget as AfterCollege across generalist and student audiences.
• ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is a broader incumbent job marketplace that includes entry-level postings and competes for the same SMB employer paid-posting revenue that AfterCollege monetizes.

Emerging players

• RippleMatch: RippleMatch is an emerging player using automation and matching to help employers recruit college students and new grads into entry-level roles, addressing the same candidate pool with a more tech-forward approach than AfterCollege's job board.

Others

• Jobcase: Jobcase is AfterCollege's parent company and operates a worker-focused community platform — directly comparable in mission and audience, and the partnership/syndication partner extending AfterCollege's reach into the broader workforce.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/aftercollege
• Facebookfacebook.com/AfterCollegeInc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aftercollege

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A2 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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