Joan Manuel S. Barbera

Co-Founder @ Educatly | Entrepreneur & Investor | Alumni: LinkedIn, AIESEC Intl.

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2023
VC🌍 United Arab Emirates
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May 2023
aurorajobs is everything we would have liked to have when we began our working life. A place where you can search for your first job that doesnt require 5 years of experience, a quantum physics master, Excel from 1975 and a unicorn. A place where you can demonstrate corporations that eventhough you dont have much experience, you do have a lot of talent. A place where they talk to you about employability and carreer paths, in your own language. And a place where workplaces can find in yourgsters the ideal candidates, full of talent, personality and passion. Its a place made for a whole generation of young people who dream of a much better professional future than what they have now. We didnt find this place in our time. So we decided to create it ourselves.
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2023
Investor
May 2023
aurorajobs is everything we would have liked to have when we began our working life. A place where you can search for your first job that doesnt require 5 years of experience, a quantum physics master, Excel from 1975 and a unicorn. A place where you can demonstrate corporations that eventhough you dont have much experience, you do have a lot of talent. A place where they talk to you about employability and carreer paths, in your own language. And a place where workplaces can find in yourgsters the ideal candidates, full of talent, personality and passion. Its a place made for a whole generation of young people who dream of a much better professional future than what they have now. We didnt find this place in our time. So we decided to create it ourselves.
2022
Co-Founder (Acquired)
Nov 2022
Study your Masters degree in the United States, pay later in 10 years.
2021
Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Jan 2021
Founded in 2020, Educatly is an innovative software platform that helps higher education students study abroad at international universities and provides universities with access to a global student market to recruit students more efficiently. Educatly is building the worlds’ premier higher education network, providing students with opportunities to study abroad in over 3,000 universities from 90 countries, offering over 130,000 degrees, with international offices in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Ireland. For students, Educatly will help find the right degree in leading international universities across global destinations such as the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Ireland, UAE, GCC countries and many more. For higher education institutions such as universities, colleges and language schools, Educatly is a student recruitment platform that helps generate interest from international students, to grow transnational student numbers more efficiently and effectively. Educatly provides a digital education ecosystem that can be accessed anywhere in the world while providing qualified leads, real-time analytics, measurements and reports. Educatly’s innovative software platform centralises the lead generation, applications and enrolments for universities while providing students with a user-friendly, digital interface to explore studying at leading universities around the world.
early stageHigher Education