BRIGHTPATH
Annual Report
Annual Report

A path,
lit.

Mentorship and outcomes for first-generation students.

94%
Graduation rate
94%
Headline metric
Donors
Prepared for
01 / 20
The problem

Talent is everywhere — but the on-ramp to opportunity is not.

education teams feel it every week: the status quo scales cost, not outcomes. There is no clean upgrade path — only rip-and-replace.

02 / 20
Market
01
94%
Graduation rate
02
3,100
Students
03
$4.2k
Cost per grad

Bottom-up, the reachable market clears a nine-figure ceiling before expansion.

03 / 20
[ FULL-BLEED · education hero image ]

First,
not last.

04 / 20
How it works
STEP 01
Connect
Map the whole education surface in under an hour. No migration.
→
STEP 02
BRIGHTPATH core
Golden paths become policy, enforced at runtime.
→
STEP 03
Deliver
Teams self-serve safely with audit and rollback for free.
05 / 20
The product

One surface your whole donors lives in.

01
Live graph
Every dependency, owner, and cost in real time.
02
Policy-as-code
Guardrails that block bad changes automatically.
03
Attribution
Every dollar tied to a team and a decision.
[ product UI screenshot ]
06 / 20
Traction

Graduation rate, last 8 quarters

94%
+225% YoY
25
50
75
100
71
85
98
121
151
181
223
266
Q3·24Q4·24Q1·25Q2·25Q3·25Q4·25Q1·26Q2·26
07 / 20
Why now

Three forces converging

01
01

Demand

education budgets are shifting from headcount to platform.

02
02

Technology

The primitives finally exist to do this at the edge.

03
03

Distribution

A bottom-up motion the incumbents can’t run.

08 / 20
Adoption

Active accounts

M1M3M6M9M12M15M18
actualguide
09 / 20
Landscape
BRIGHTPATH
Legacy A
Point tool B
DIY
Breadth → ↑ Depth
10 / 20
Two
Part Two

The outcomes.

Graduation, placement, and cost per student.

11 / 20
Detail

Unit economics

This yearLast yearYoY
Revenue266181+32%
Gross margin78%71%+7 pts
Net retention134%119%+15 pts
Payback11 mo17 mo−6 mo
12 / 20
Where it goes

Use of funds

01
Engineering & product59%
02
Go-to-market24%
03
Operations & reserve17%
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Cohorts

Retention by cohort

M0
M3
M6
M9
M12
Jan
100
88
79
72
68
Apr
100
90
82
76
—
Jul
100
91
85
—
—
Oct
100
93
—
—
—
LOWHIGH
14 / 20
Roadmap

The next 18 months

Now → Q2
Land
Own the education beachhead with a self-serve motion.
Q3 → Q4
Expand
Enterprise controls, SSO, and the partner program.
2027
Platform
Open the API and the marketplace.
15 / 20
“
In their words

“BrightPath believed in me before I did.”

A scholar
Class of 2026
16 / 20
Revenue mix

Where the money comes from

0100%
59%
24%
17%
Platform 59%
Services 24%
Marketplace 17%
17 / 20
Team

Built by operators

[ photo ]
A scholar
Co-founder & CEO
[ photo ]
A. Rivera
Co-founder & CTO
[ photo ]
M. Osei
VP Product
[ photo ]
L. Chen
VP Revenue
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In one number
94%

of BrightPath scholars graduate — triple the local baseline.

19 / 20
BRIGHTPATH

A path, lit.

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