Riipen

Riipen, the world’s leading online work-based learning platform, bridges education and training to strategic workforce development with an emphasis on equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. We connect learners to employers via customized work-integrated learning projects, including curriculum-embedded, co-curricular, virtual internships, and pre-apprenticeships. Our mission: eliminating underemployment by fostering authentic workforce connections for learners from all backgrounds with employers from all sectors. Riipen has worked with accredited colleges, bootcamps, continuing education and specialty education providers to enable more than 8.9 million work-integrated learning hours at over 420 educational institutions with our ecosystem of 17,000 employers from businesses and non-profits. Riipen is committed to leveling the playing field by enhancing skills acquisition, career clarity, and employability for diverse learners from all backgrounds, while providing employers with a high quality, cost-effective platform for authentically engaging with and efficiently vetting emerging talent to meet their diverse workforce needs.

Keywords: Ed-Tech, Educational Technology, Saas, Education, WIL, Experiential Learning, Work Integrated Learning, Underemployment