QSTP-funded higher-ed tool empowers students on path to graduation – The Peninsula

QSTP-funded higher-ed tool empowers students on path to graduation – The Peninsula

Doha: Stellic is a unique story of entrepreneurial success. A student-founded platform that now supports the academic journey of hundreds of thousands of learners across the world.

Its founders — then Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) students, found inspiration in necessity when they came face to face with archaic higher education tools that did little to help visualise their own academic path. What they discovered was a gap in the system, and an opportunity to create better visibility and communication between students and academic advisors, so that students can easily map out their four-year academic journey during their time at university.

Stellic’s early years were closely tied to the Qatar Foundation (QF) ecosystem. Its founders took part in Qatar Science & Technology Park’s (QSTP) intensive pre-startup programme, XLR8, which helps promising young innovators determine if their tech-based ideas have commercial viability. Not long after, Stellic was incorporated at the QSTP Free Zone and began its lifecycle as a startup.

In fall 2019, as part of its pre–Series A financing, Stellic received an investment from QSTP’s Tech Venture Fund (TVF). This was the beginning of a journey which eventually saw the startup achieve significant growth over the next two years, including a six-fold