Kira helps you identify applicants who are a great fit for your program. Kira is an applicant assessment platform that combines video and written assessments with traditional admissions requirements such as test scores, essays, and reference letters. Each Kira assessment is customized to evaluate key traits tied to success in your program, such as leadership, motivation, and overall communication skills.
Kira enhances the existing application by integrating effective, efficient, and fair digital assessments into your school’s existing CRM to create a more streamlined admissions process and provide deeper insights on each applicant.
Assess applicants efficiently without sacrificing insight
Kira’s assessment tools make it easy to gather a deep level of insight on your applicants without overburdening your team. Integrating your traditional supplemental admissions package with asynchronous assessments allows a more thorough and comprehensive assessment. Plus, Kira can integrate with your CRM or ATS to give you a one-stop admissions experience.
Evaluate key traits to identify your best-fit applicants
Evaluate applicants on the key traits tied to success in your program, such as leadership, motivation, and overall communication skills. Using Kira’s consultative approach and research-backed methodology, our team helps you identify the traits applicants need to succeed in your program and develop unique questions and evaluation rubrics to use in the platform when reviewing applicants.
Prevent admissions bias and standardize reviewing
Kira helps to standardize holistic applicant reviewing by creating a consistent and fair evaluation to ensure all reviewers are assessing applicants on the same criteria. Kira blends your team’s notes and scores to provide an objective overall summary of each applicant’s combined application materials to help schools make smarter, more consistent admissions decisions.
Kira enhances the existing application by integrating effective, efficient, and fair digital assessments into your school’s existing CRM to create a more streamlined admissions process and provide deeper insights on each applicant.
Assess applicants efficiently without sacrificing insight
Kira’s assessment tools make it easy to gather a deep level of insight on your applicants without overburdening your team. Integrating your traditional supplemental admissions package with asynchronous assessments allows a more thorough and comprehensive assessment. Plus, Kira can integrate with your CRM or ATS to give you a one-stop admissions experience.
Evaluate key traits to identify your best-fit applicants
Evaluate applicants on the key traits tied to success in your program, such as leadership, motivation, and overall communication skills. Using Kira’s consultative approach and research-backed methodology, our team helps you identify the traits applicants need to succeed in your program and develop unique questions and evaluation rubrics to use in the platform when reviewing applicants.
Prevent admissions bias and standardize reviewing
Kira helps to standardize holistic applicant reviewing by creating a consistent and fair evaluation to ensure all reviewers are assessing applicants on the same criteria. Kira blends your team’s notes and scores to provide an objective overall summary of each applicant’s combined application materials to help schools make smarter, more consistent admissions decisions.
Location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 877-589-5668
Total raised: $6.2M
Founded date: 2012
Founders name: Edward Sun
Founders Related Locations: Canada, Ontario, Toronto; United States, California, Mountain View; United States, California, San Francisco; United States, California, Alameda; United States, California, Palo Alto
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Velocity | velocityin... |
| 01.06.2021 | Creative D... | creativede... |
| - | DMZ | dmz.toront... |
| - | NEXT Canad... | directory.... |
| - | BDC | bdc.ca/ |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 10.08.2016 | Series A | $5M | - |
| 11.03.2015 | Seed | $1.2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 4
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.06.2018 | Rethinking the Metrics of College Admissions | When we consider college access for low-income, first-generation and other underrepresented populations, little attention is put on rethinking the metrics considered in the admissions process. Sure, “holistic admissions” gives admissions of... |
| 10.08.2016 | Kira Talent Raises $5M in Series A Financing | Kira Talent, a Toronto, ON-based creator of a video admissions and talent assessment platform for higher education, closed a $5m Series A financing round. Backers included Relay Ventures, BDC Capital IT Venture Fund, Globalive and Roger Mar... |
| 13.03.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/13/15 | Do, Zuroa, Lingua.ly, Greenhouse, Memebox, Elastica, Looker, Bento, VaporChat, ClassKick, mySugr Seed stage Meeting management startup Do raised a $2 million seed round from NEA, Dave Morin, Kevin Colleran, Mark Pincus, Aayush Phumbhra, Jim... |
| 11.03.2015 | Kira Talent Closes $1.2M Seed Financing Round | Kira Talent, a Toronto, CA-based provider of a talent assessment platform, closed a $1.2m seed financing round. The round, which was a planned second tranche to the company’s first seed round in August 2013, was led by Relay Ventures, and w... |