About Us

About Us

Gradesmatch is an educational technology company that primarily provides career guidance, college preparation, and student success services to students in Africa. We are passionate about providing good quality career guidance to students in Africa, enabling them to easily navigate through the complexity of finding a career pathway and the steps required to ultimately access economic opportunities post graduation.

Our Mission

We support students and parents in making better decisions that improve their lives.

Our main goal

Through our products, our primary goal is to give families a peace of mind while securing the tudent’s future. Enabling students to focus on the high demands of schooling and post-schooling without worrying about the demands of the next steps of career planning.

Our Story

Gradesmatch is Founded
January 2014
October 2015
Runners-up SAB Social Innovation Awards & Seed capital funding
Closed Michael & Susan Dell Funding
September 2017
June 2018

Piloted BridgeApp as a Matric service

Winners Google Impact Challenge Africa
October 2018
June 2019
Gradesmatch reaches 100K learners

Moved to the Sandton Office

March 2019

January 2021

Launched the Bridge Marketplce

Launched BridgeOne

January 2022