
Edtech · San Francisco, United States
Ultra
Ultra is a life-planning platform that helps students navigate college admissions and life decisions. Founded by Oliver Zou, it serves the US and China and is backed by Y Combinator and General Catalyst, with Uber and Lyft angel investors.
Work at Ultra?
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total raised
- $11M
- Series A · last round Jan '26
About Ultra
Ultra helps people navigate complex life decisions, starting with college admissions. Its mission is to build a life planning utility to help people make complex decisions about their lives. Founded by Oliver Zou, Ultra operates in the college admissions vertical and serves students in the US and China. The company is backed by Y Combinator and General Catalyst, with angel investors from Uber and Lyft.
Funding
$11Mtotal raised
- Jan 2026 · Series A$11M
Company at a glance
The team at Ultra
1-10 peopleSee everyone on LinkedIn
Location
Life at Ultra
Frequently asked questions
Ultra is based in San Francisco, United States.
Ask your AI about Ultra
Connect Clera once, then ask what they're hiring for.
Ask about this company
Tell me about Ultra (https://www.getclera.com/companies/ultra). Then find open roles at similar startups on Clera that fit my profile.
Not connected yet? Takes a minute
https://mcp.getclera.comSign in with your Clera account. MCP docs
Companies similar to Ultra
Knowunity GmbH is an educational platform used by more than 30 million students. In Europe, the company built one of the biggest creator programs in the world, amassing over 1 billion views across more than 25 countries. Now expanding into the United States, Knowunity has launched a $50M-backed company there.
We’re building the first autonomous insurance group, starting with Morrow, our AI-native commercial insurance brokerage. We help businesses find, compare, and buy insurance across 100+ carriers. Every placement deepens our understanding of businesses, risk, and underwriting. We’re turning that knowledge into an insurance ontology that gives our AI agents the context to reason, apply judgment, and execute insurance workflows autonomously across calls, emails, and carrier portals. Our ambition is to build the most comprehensive intelligence layer in the industry. Over time, we’ll use this foundation to develop and underwrite our own insurance products. Insurance spending represents 12% of U.S. GDP, and we want to go after all of it. We’re backed by C-suite executives at some of the world’s largest insurers, first-check investors in Rippling and Twilio, and a Cloudflare board member.
Aranya builds ClusterdOS, a GitOps-native distributed operating system that makes production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure accessible to solo developers and small teams. ClusterdOS removes operational barriers to Kubernetes adoption, and no platform team is required when using it. Aranya also offers managed Kubernetes services for bare metal deployments.


