Following a shift to digital operations, education tech startup Fulphil recently placed in an international pitch competition for businesses aiming to solve education-related problems with innovative solutions.

University of Pennsylvania alum Tiffany Yau, a native Californian, started the company in 2018 after seeing that many of her classmates were leaving the Philly area after college to find the perfect venture for them to work at. She’d started to feel like Philly was her home and wondered: What if we could get them to stay here and work on something that was their own, and impact oriented?

So she launched Fulphil, a platform with a curriculum on social entrepreneurship — the idea that a business could operate by solving a problem within a community. By early 2019, though, she realized the product fit better with a younger crowd. She learned that high schoolers often had ideas for improving their neighborhoods or communities, but three-fifths of high schoolers weren’t introduced to the idea of entrepreneurship.

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