NextLadder Ventures employed Maya Welch and Ankita Ghoshal as fellows in the AI for Social Impact Summer Fellowship program created alongside The Bike Shop and Anthropic to build an evaluation system for the ACE AI mock interview coach.

NextLadder Ventures is a fund investing in personalized, AI-powered solutions designed to help Americans reclaim their path to progress. Today, more than 90 million Americans live in households where it is a daily struggle to meet basic needs, and only 50% of children born in the U.S. will grow up to earn more than their parents. We’re partnering with innovators across sectors to deliver support services that help families across the country climb the economic ladder on their own terms. Backed by more than $1 billion in capital, NextLadder Ventures accelerates the design, development, and deployment of “Navigation Technology” (NavTech) tools that help families navigate the benefits, legal, and financial systems that have a decisive impact on their economic futures. This growing category of digital services includes tools that help families apply for available benefits and programs, access personalized financial advice and legal aid, and manage setbacks like job loss or facing an eviction notice, while freeing social workers to spend more time on people and less time on paperwork. We provide flexible, risk-tolerant capital and grants to entrepreneurs building these transformative tools today, while creating a pipeline of tech, talent, and capital for the long run. We have a generational opportunity to put Americans back in control of their economic futures. NextLadder Ventures has a distributed team across the United States. Join us at nextladder.com.