CapSource Education

What CapSource Education does

CapSource Education, LLC is a private Delaware LLC founded in 2017 and headquartered at 1 Bayport Lane North, Great Neck, NY, operating an Experiential Learning Management System that connects higher education institutions, students, and industry partners around real-world project-based, case-based, and mentoring engagements. The platform is built on a Ruby on Rails web architecture (capsource.io and capsource.app) and is modular across three delivery formats — synchronous Project-Based Learning, asynchronous Case-Based Learning, and structured Mentoring — supplemented by features such as AI-Assisted Scoping, Program Builder, Case Library, Custom Case Creation, Team Management, Deliverable Tracking, Analytics & Reporting, an RFP marketplace, and a Survey & Evaluation system. CapSource also sells professional services including Skills & Partnership Mapping (multi-year consultative engagements for provosts, deans, and career services) and Sponsored Research Sourcing (packaging faculty expertise for industry-funded research collaborations).

The company serves three primary user groups: academic institutions and individual educators (who pay subscription or per-program fees for platform access), students (who access the platform at no direct cost), and industry partner organizations (which engage on a project or competition basis). Go-to-market combines direct-to-consumer self-registration (students, some educators and organizations) with enterprise field sales — named representatives (Jordan, Ankush) run "Book a Demo" and "Schedule a Meeting" CTAs targeting university procurement — alongside a quasi-marketplace motion where schools publish RFPs and partners submit proposals. Per publicly stated scale metrics, CapSource has been implemented with more than 25,000 students, 200+ schools, 1,000+ educators, and 5,000+ industry partners, including marquee relationships with Notre Dame, Fordham, NYU, Lehigh, Stevens, BYU, SUNY Potsdam, and partners such as DoorDash, adidas, True Religion, Centric Brands, and HIOKI.

Name

CapSource Education

Legal name

CapSource Education, LLC

Website

https://capsource.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CapSource Education operates a web-based Experiential Learning Management System that connects 200+ higher education institutions, 25,000+ students, and 5,000+ industry partners around project-based, case-based, and mentoring engagements, monetizing via institutional SaaS subscriptions and consulting services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Experiential Learning Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Educational Support Services (611710), Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate Learning & Training Content Development (EDAGAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Learning, Training & Corporate Education Consulting (BPAHAGAE)

Keywords

• Experiential learning platform
• Project-based learning software
• Academic-industry partnerships
• Case-based learning tools
• Mentoring program management

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

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, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Platform/Subscription Fees (Educator & Institutional): CapSource charges fees to academic institutions and educators for access to its experiential learning management platform. Pricing is published at capsource.io/educators/pricing/ and is likely tiered by program volume, institution size, or feature access. Educators and institutions pay subscription or per-program fees to use the platform's project management, partner sourcing, case library, and mentoring tools.
2. Custom Service & Consulting Engagements: CapSource offers customized service engagements beyond standard platform access, including program design consulting, partner sourcing campaigns, and implementation support. The Terms of Service states: 'We may also enter into agreements with Users to provide customized Services for a fee.' Skills & Partnership Mapping engagements and Skills & Partnership Mapping engagements are examples of consultative paid services.
3. Skills & Partnership Mapping Engagements: A consultative paid service offering academic institutions strategic mapping of curriculum, industry needs, faculty expertise, and partnership opportunities, producing actionable roadmaps and activation plans. This is a distinct professional services revenue stream targeting academic leadership (provosts, deans, career teams).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CapSource Education operates an Experiential Learning Management System that connects academic institutions, students, and industry partner organizations around real-world projects, cases, and mentoring programs. Institutions subscribe to the SaaS platform to design, source, manage, and measure industry-integrated learning experiences, while industry partners access student talent and submit project proposals through a built-in marketplace and RFP directory. Revenue is generated through institutional platform subscriptions and paid professional services such as Skills & Partnership Mapping consulting and Sponsored Research Sourcing.

Product overview

CapSource Education offers an Experiential Learning Management System (LMS) as a unified platform with a modular architecture. The core product consists of three primary delivery formats: Project-Based Learning (synchronous collaborations with external stakeholders), Case-Based Learning (asynchronous real-world case challenges), and Mentoring (structured one-on-one or cohort-based programs). These are supported by platform modules including Program Builder, AI-Assisted Scoping, Case Library, Custom Case Creation, Team Management, Deliverable Tracking, Analytics & Reporting, Partner Network, and Branding & Settings. Additional services include Skills & Partnership Mapping (consulting) and Sponsored Research Sourcing. The platform also features an RFP system for project solicitation and Survey & Evaluation tools for outcome tracking.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CapSource Experiential Learning Management System A unified SaaS platform that enables academic institutions to design, source, manage, measure, and scale industry-integrated experiential learning experiences including projects, cases, and mentoring programs, built on a Ruby on Rails architecture and accessible via capsource.io and capsource.app.
• Project-Based Learning Module Module supporting direct synchronous collaboration where students work with external stakeholders through carefully defined projects including capstones, consulting projects, internships, co-ops, field work, and research collaborations.
• Case-Based Learning Module Module delivering asynchronous case-based learning experiences that help students apply course content to real-world scenarios without requiring live company meetings, making experiential learning scalable across disciplines.
• Mentoring Module Structured one-on-one or cohort-based mentoring programs with guided discussion topics, deliverables, reflection, and outcome tracking for students, alumni, employers, and community members.
• Skills & Partnership Mapping Consultative service helping academic institutions align curriculum, workforce needs, industry partnerships, experiential learning, faculty expertise, and student outcomes through discovery and mapping engagements targeting academic leadership including provosts, deans, and career teams.
• Sponsored Research Sourcing Service helping faculty, research centers, and institutions attract aligned industry partners for sponsored research, applied research, feasibility studies, technology validation, and graduate research collaborations.

Quantifiable outcome

• CapSource has facilitated experiential learning programs with 25,000+ students across 200+ schools and 5,000+ industry partners.
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

25 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HIOKI E.E. CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHIOKI E.E. Corporation collaborated with SUNY Potsdam graduate students through CapSource's Live Case project format. Maki Murakami, Global Initiative Sustainability Manager at HIOKI, worked directly with CapSource's Janine Bower (Director of Instructional Design & Partnership Success) to create sustainability-focused project opportunities for students.
• Centric Brands (Herve Leger)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCentric Brands partnered with Long Island University's Fashion Merchandising program via CapSource for the HERVE brand launch project. Students developed influencer strategies and go-to-market plans that were implemented by the Centric Brands team.
• Remote IntelligenceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRemote Intelligence served as industry mentors for Juniata College students conducting an invasive species survey project. Mentors conducted in-person visits and flew drone surveys over project property.
• Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) JacksonvillecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRMHC Jacksonville partnered with multiple academic institutions (Notre Dame MBA, Excelsior College) via CapSource for strategic consulting projects. Student teams delivered viable software and operational recommendations that RMHC is implementing.
• CoinsourceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoinsource ran a Spring 2020 Live Case competition via CapSource with students from Oregon Tech. The competition exceeded Coinsource's expectations, providing valuable feedback on business model and strategy from student teams.
• DoorDashcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDoorDash engaged students via CapSource on strategic market research and growth projects. Chasen White (Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations, DoorDash) praised students' 'impressive creativity and thoroughness' in final reports that will provide 'valuable insights for DoorDash.'
• True Religion JeanscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTrue Religion Jeans worked with CapSource student teams on an ecommerce growth strategy project. CEO Michael Buckley noted students 'gave us many great ideas to achieve our goal of doubling our ecommerce business.'
• CommonLitcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommonLit, a nonprofit education technology organization, engaged CapSource student teams on research and operations projects. Founder & CEO Michelle Brown stated students 'added capacity to our team and brought a new and fresh perspective to a critical research project.'
• adidascoreStrategic or Co-development Partneradidas participated in a CapSource live case project with Montclair State University students, exploring strategic pillars, product innovations, digital strategies, influencer partnerships, and grassroots marketing.
• LS Electric America Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLS Electric America participated in a graduate student project with Adelphi University focused on Electric Solutions, Equipment, and Systems challenges.
• CrayonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCrayon engaged CapSource student teams who provided business inferences used to create global marketing outcomes. VP Marketing Lesly Kenney praised students for 'not only completing the prescribed tasks, but also in providing inferences that I use to create desired business outcomes for Crayon at a global level.'
• Lehigh UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLehigh University's Computer Science Capstone 2026 program uses CapSource to source industry projects in AI/ML, Cybersecurity, Data Management, and IT. Students work on semester-long projects sourced through the CapSource platform.
• Montclair State UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMontclair State University's Accelerated MBA Consulting Co-Op (Summer 2026) uses CapSource to match graduate students with industry partners for consulting projects across finance, consulting, technology, healthcare, and marketing.
• Stevens Institute of Technology — School of Business Industry Capstone ProgramcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStevens Institute of Technology's Industry Capstone Program (both Summer and Fall 2026 cohorts) uses CapSource to connect graduate business students with corporations on semester-long real-world consulting projects.
• University of Notre Dame — ESTEEM Graduate ProgramcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Engineering, Science, and Technology Entrepreneurship Excellence Master's Program (ESTEEM) at Notre Dame (#12th ranked graduate entrepreneurship program per Princeton Review 2026) uses CapSource for capstone collaborations with industry partners.
• Fordham UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFordham University's Gabelli School of Business uses CapSource for its Graduate Consulting Experience (Summer 2026) and the Global Energy & Government Finance Capstone in partnership with SageFusion.
• The City College of New York (CUNY) — Colin Powell SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Colin Powell School for Civic & Global Leadership at CCNY runs an ESG & Sustainability Consulting Fellowship and HR Consulting Experience through CapSource, engaging students with industry partners on real-world consulting challenges.
• NYU Wagner School of Public PolicycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNYU Wagner runs multiple capstone programs (Public Policy, Advocacy & Political Action, Social Impact, Health Management & Policy, Finance, International Development, Urban Planning, Management & Leadership) through the CapSource platform, engaging graduate students with public, nonprofit, and private sector organizations.
• Brigham Young University (BYU)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBYU's Engineering Capstone Program (2026–2027) uses CapSource to engage engineering students (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Electrical/Computer, Cybersecurity) in industry projects with external partners.
• University of MontanacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Montana's BMIS476 Integrated Project Management Capstone Course (Fall 2026) uses CapSource for real-world information systems and technology projects with industry partners, with students spending 240–300 hours per project.
• Ferris State UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFerris State University's MBA Capstone (both Summer and Fall 2026) uses CapSource to connect graduate business students with industry partners for consulting projects.
• Bowie State UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBowie State University's Computer Science Capstone (Fall 2026) uses CapSource to engage senior computer science majors in software consulting projects with industry partners.
• University of Houston Clear LakecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUHCL's Systems Analysis & Design Industry Project (Fall 2026) uses CapSource to connect upper-level Information Systems students with industry professionals on real-world business challenges.
• Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCFMA's Summer Internship Program (2026) partners with Fordham University via CapSource, with senior leadership from CFMA working with students to create a strategic pricing strategy for bundling programs and volume discounts.
• SageFusionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSageFusion partners with Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business via CapSource on the Global Energy & Government Finance Capstone, with graduate students working as embedded research analysts supporting government contracting and international energy finance.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Coursera: Coursera partners with universities and companies to deliver online credentials, degrees, and workforce skilling. Its enterprise and campus offerings increasingly include project-based and employer-sponsored capstone experiences that overlap with CapSource's value proposition at scale.
• Handshake: Handshake is the dominant career-services and campus recruiting platform in U.S. higher education, used by thousands of institutions and millions of students. While broader than CapSource, it increasingly layers on experiential-learning and employer-project features, making it a strategic adjacent incumbent.
• 12twenty: 12twenty is a higher-education career-outcomes and experiential-learning platform serving business schools and universities. It overlaps with CapSource on the school-side buyer, particularly for MBA and graduate programs, while offering a broader career-services suite.
• Symplicity: Symplicity provides career-services, experiential-learning, and accommodations-management software to universities. Its experiential-learning module competes for the same institutional buyer as CapSource but as part of a wider career-services portfolio.
• Instructure (Canvas): Instructure, the maker of Canvas, is the largest LMS in U.S. higher education and increasingly embeds project-based and experiential-learning features into its platform. As a deeply embedded incumbent, it represents the most important adjacent substitute for CapSource's educator buyer.
• Anthology (Blackboard): Anthology, the company formed from the Blackboard and several higher-ed software acquisitions, sells LMS, student-success, and enrollment software to universities. Its broad footprint and bundled offerings make it a key incumbent competitor for institutional experiential-learning budgets.

Direct peers

• Forage: Forage (formerly InsideSherpa) provides virtual work-experience 'job simulations' built from real employer challenges, distributed through university partnerships. It competes with CapSource's case-based learning library for the same institutional and student audience.
• Riipen: Riipen operates a marketplace connecting post-secondary educators and students with companies for work-integrated learning projects. It is the closest direct peer to CapSource, sharing the same three-sided model (schools ↔ students ↔ employers) and project-based experiential learning focus.
• Parker Dewey: Parker Dewey runs a micro-internship platform that connects college students with paid, project-based work at companies. It overlaps directly with CapSource's project-based and case-based modules and targets the same educator and employer buyer.

Emerging players

• Podium Education: Podium Education embeds career-connected, project-based learning directly into college curricula in partnership with universities. It targets the same educator buyer as CapSource with a content-and-services-led model rather than a marketplace, representing an emerging alternative path for the same institutional pain point.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CapstoneSource
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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