Nectir, a company giving every student a personalized AI learning partner, announced a $6.3 million seed round led by Long Journey Ventures and Entrada Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Behind Genius Ventures.
This platform is the easiest way for schools to deploy AI across their organizations while maintaining safety and privacy. The funding will advance Nectir’s ambitious product roadmap and team expansion. The company is actively hiring sales, operations, and engineering professionals to support its rapidly accelerating growth.
The US education system is facing a major crisis, with an estimated 300,000 teacher deficit and a $150 billion annual shortfall in funding. These shortcomings have caused student test scores to plummet to their lowest levels in decades. Although efforts have been made to solve many of these issues with technology, most have failed to significantly improve academic outcomes or support teachers. While past EdTech solutions have focused on digitizing content or simplifying administrative tasks, they often lack the personalized support students need to thrive.
Nectir is a one-stop solution for schools looking to deploy AI safely. And the company’s platform integrates seamlessly with all major learning management systems (LMS), allowing schools to quickly create custom AI assistants for students, teachers, administrators, and more.
Nectir’s most popular use case is an AI-based course assistant trained on class materials, giving every student access to personalized learning support and feedback at any time. And the platform is also completely FERPA-compliant, maintaining the highest data safety and student privacy standards.
Nectir was created by Kavitta Ghai and Jordan Long during their undergraduate study at UC Santa Barbara to address the shortcomings of traditional education systems. Early results have been promising. After just one term of implementing Nectir AI course assistants, Los Angeles Pacific University reported a 20% increase in GPAs, a 13% rise in average final scores and a 36% boost in student motivation.
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“I’ve seen dozens of edtech solutions that don’t move the needle on student performance and are both a burden on students and teachers to use. Nectir has blown me away by naturally integrating into our classroom setting while driving an incredible increase in student engagement and performance.”
– Mike Wilday, Manager of Learning Technology Solutions at Los Angeles Pacific University
“Our goal is to make 24/7 personalized support the norm for every student throughout their educational journey. With AI technology, we can now provide each student with their own learning partner that understands all of their textbooks, assignments, and deadlines, guiding them through each class in a way that is tailored to their individual needs.”
– Kavitta Ghai, CEO of Nectir
“The American education system is at its breaking point – our teachers are overwhelmed, our students are falling behind, and traditional solutions aren’t making a dent in these challenges. What excites me about Nectir is that they’ve cracked the code on making AI work in real classrooms. We’re seeing up to 20% GPA increases across major universities because they’ve built something teachers actually want to use. Kavitta and Jordan aren’t just talking about the future of education – they’re building it, and that’s exactly why we had to invest.”
– Cyan Banister, Partner at Long Journey Ventures
“We built Nectir AI to let teachers focus on what they do best – inspiring students, building meaningful connections, and fostering critical thinking skills. By having AI handle repetitive tasks like answering common questions and providing basic explanations, we’re giving teachers back their time to do the deeply human work that really matters.”
– Jordan Long, co-founder and CTO of Nectir
