Engineers from Stanford, Berkeley, and Caltech — rebuilding how the world finds talent.
A top-tier Silicon Valley VC led the company's multi-million dollar seed round.
Resumes find credentials. Growth trajectories find talent.
85 million jobs will go unfilled by 2030 — an $8.5 trillion drag on the global economy. Yet 75% of employers can't find the right people. The bottleneck isn't hiring. It's that no system sees how talent actually grows.
A decade across Singapore, the US, and Europe showed founder ZC the same broken pattern everywhere: resumes reward credentials, not capability. The entire arc from 15 to 45 — the decisions that define a person — is invisible.
A team that doesn't need to explain why they're doing this
Stanford dropout. PKU + Caltech PhD. Berkeley. MIT. The founding engineers came from the exact system they set out to fix — starting at its sharpest pain point: admissions, where 80 million people a year face a system with one counselor for every 400 students.
500K real records. GPA 3.4 gets into NYU.
Over 500,000 real outcomes — admitted, rejected, waitlisted, and crucially, why. Ask "what are my real chances at UC Berkeley?" and Astra answers from evidence, not vibes: of 83 applicants with a profile like yours, 29 got in — and 24 of those had a leadership role in community impact. That, precisely, is what gets built next.
Astra: not a tool. Someone who knows you.
RightWay's AI is called Astra — Latin for "stars." It knows you. It feels like a person. It makes things happen.
40 days, $1M ARR
Now $2M — with 10,000+ users across 30+ countries and 20+ partner institutions on three continents. Enterprise HR leaders are already calling too, because a resume says nothing about how someone learns under pressure. A growth trajectory does.
Talent growth infrastructure for the AI era
Admissions was the wedge. The real target is the $8.5 trillion talent gap — nearly 200 million people make a critical education or career decision every year.
Microsoft paid $26 billion for LinkedIn, a network that only begins to know you at 25 — a one-page snapshot of where you ended up. RightWay starts at 15, a decade earlier: admissions through career, one unbroken path, the complete record of how you grew.
Bring RightWay to your institution.
For principals, counselors, and district leaders — we respond within 24 hours.
Astra personal edition (consumer) is in closed beta; product screenshots are from the beta. RightWay provides the full B2B2C platform, which students access directly.
About RightWay: AI-powered talent growth infrastructure, ages 15–45 — academic planning through career development, one entry point. Team from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Caltech, Peking University, NUS. Backed by a top-tier Silicon Valley VC.
