Paragon One collaborates with the best in business to provide flexible remote externships that help students gain hands-on work experience in different industries before they graduate.
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 888-527-6888
Total raised: $1.9M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Right Side... | rightsidec... |
| - | AltaIR Cap... | altair.vc |
| - | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | The LAUNCH... | launchacce... |
| - | Learn Capi... | learn.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 25.05.2017 | Seed | $1.9M | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.10.2021 | How College Students Who Build Employability Can Win The Race To Land Internships | Landing a coveted internship with a globally-branded company is almost as important for college kids and recent grads as getting a job. According to the National Association of College Employers, 70 percent of employers say they hire their ... |
| 14.01.2021 | Can Edtech Close the Talent and Workforce Gap in Cybersecurity? | How we protect our data is more important than ever. Attacks on high-value entities, including big businesses and federal government agencies, regularly make headlines. Schools are increasingly targeted as well. Just last month, the FBI, CI... |
| 28.06.2017 | The Cost of Cutting in Line: Students Can Now Buy Their Way to a Job Interview | How much would you pay to score a job interview? $10? $950? In desperate times, that's apparently the price range in the market for these services, which involve commodifying age-old job seeking practices: networking and mentoring. “Nearly ... |
| 28.06.2017 | The Cost of Cutting in Line: Students Can Now Buy Their Way to a Job Interview | How much would you pay to score a job interview? $10? $950? In desperate times, that's apparently the price range in the market for these services, which involve commodifying age-old job seeking practices: networking and mentoring. “Nearly ... |
| 29.05.2017 | Paragon One Raises $1.9M in Seed Funding | Paragon One, a NYC-based online career coaching service and mentor marketplace, raised $1.9m in seed funding. Backers included Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Learn Capital, University Ventures, Li Yuan Ventures, Altair Ventures, Jimmy La... |
| 25.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, May 25 | FIGHTS, CRYPTO-CORNS Investor fight: Blink Health, a New York-based prescription drug startup, is embroiled in another lawsuit. This week Michael Karsch, an early investor, sued the company and its founders for $30 million for violating sec... |
| 25.05.2017 | Career coaching service Paragon One gets $1.9 million seed funding from investors including Y Combinator | College is supposed to be a life-defining experience–but that doesn’t mean students always graduate with all the skills they need to build their lives. Paragon One, an online career coaching service and mentor marketplace, wants to fill in ... |
| 21.03.2017 | All 51 startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2 | More than 15,000 founders from 7,200 startups applied to this batch of Y Combinator . It chose just over 100, with founders from 22 countries, to go through its accelerator program. Today, the second half of those companies launched onstage... |