Wes Moore's BridgeEdU raises $3.1 million

BridgeEdU, an education technology startup founded by author Wes Moore, has raised $3.1 million. The seed round comes from the Lumina Foundation, angel investors and other foundations. The money will go toward building out BridgeEdU’s first-year college program for low-income students. BridgeEdU aims to help students successfully transition from high school through the first year of college, a choke point for many students. About a third of college students don’t make it through their freshman…

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