Interview readiness for the college-to-career transition

A degree opens the door. Readiness wins the offer.

Intervanta turns interview preparation into a measurable skill: realistic AI practice, video and audio feedback, coaching from people who have sat on the hiring side, and a readiness score that moves.

Career centers Universities Workforce programs
Intervanta
Live PracticeReadiness Analytics
AI MOCK INTERVIEWA recent graduate answering a question during an AI mock interview
“Tell me about a time you solved a difficult problem with a team.”

Interview Readiness Score

82
Interview ready+14 points from baseline
Communication86
Professional presence78
Confidence81
42%Of recent U.S. graduates are underemployed
5.6%Recent-graduate unemployment, Q2 2026
70%Of employers now hire for demonstrated skills
86%Of career centers already use AI with students
The problem

Graduates are prepared for the work. Not for the moments that decide it.

Finding a role is only half the challenge. Most graduates were never taught how to articulate their value, show professional judgment, or hold their own in the conversation that determines whether they get hired.

~3M

Enter the market each year

Associate and bachelor’s graduates joining the U.S. labor market annually.

43%

Held an offer at graduation

Fewer than half of graduating bachelor’s students had even one offer in hand.

0.79

Offers per graduating student

Less than one offer per student — a market where performance in the interview decides the outcome.

What employers actually reward
💬Communication
◈Professionalism
✦Critical thinking
◎Teamwork
Buyer readiness

Institutions are already invested. They lack the instrument.

No one needs convincing that career readiness matters. What’s missing is a credible way to measure it, train it, and prove improvement across an entire cohort.

Adoption is nearly universal. Measurement is rare.

83.3%Institutions implementing career-readiness competencies
24.4%Have a formal assessment plan
14%Use a vendor tool to assess/articulate readiness
86%Career centers now use AI as an assistive tool with students
THE MARKET GAP

“A recognized problem with incomplete tooling.”

Universities fund career readiness. Employers evaluate demonstrated skill. Career centers need coaching that scales. Intervanta is built to sit where those three pressures meet.

Market opportunity

A narrow entry point with meaningful ARR potential.

We start deliberately small: U.S. higher education and workforce organizations. Employers, international universities, bootcamps, and professional training follow once the wedge is proven.

Bottom-up U.S. opportunity

U.S. degree-granting institutions3,542
Local workforce development boards550+
Core U.S. institutional TAM$64M–$128M ARR
Initial SAM~$54M ARR
Illustrative SOM$5M–$10M+ ARR
TAM, SAM and SOM are modeled bottom-up from annual contract value assumptions for higher education and workforce organizations.
Why now
5 forces

AI adoption in career services is accelerating. Skills-based hiring is expanding. Universities are held to employment outcomes. Career centers are stretched thin. And professional readiness has finally become measurable.

AI in educationEmployabilityWorkforce developmentProfessional skills
The product

Not another mock interview. A readiness system.

The value lives in the improvement loop: observe real behavior, teach the specific weakness, let the student retry immediately, and quantify what changed.

1

Practice

Role-specific AI interviews that follow up, probe, and respond like a real conversation.

2

Measure

Answer quality, communication, delivery and professional presence, scored on video and audio.

3

Coach

Targeted lessons and a clear next action — never generic feedback.

4

Prove progress

Students see their score rise. Institutions see readiness improve across the cohort.

Readiness Analytics
Cohort view

Cohort readiness

68Baseline score
79Current score
+11Avg. improvement
The human element

Human wisdom. AI-powered practice.

The best career advice has never come from an algorithm. Intervanta is shaped by recruiters, hiring managers, HR leaders, communication specialists and executives who know exactly what happens on the other side of the interview table. Their standards and methods become the way Intervanta teaches, coaches and evaluates.

A student learns the principle from a human expert, practices it with AI, hears what to fix, and tries again — until the skill is theirs to use in the real world.

Human expertise
Recruiters
Hiring Managers
HR & Talent Leaders
Communication Experts
Interview & Storytelling Experts
Business Leaders

Experts set the principles and standards employers reward — so students know what good looks like before they practice it.

AI practice
Expert principle

“Lead with the result before explaining the details.”

AI interviewer

“Tell me about a time you took initiative.”

Student response

“In my final semester I noticed our club’s outreach was inconsistent, so I built a simple weekly schedule and recruited two volunteers… and event attendance went up.”

Intervanta coaching

Strong example — but the result arrived last. Open with the impact, then explain how you got there.

The expert’s methodology becomes the way the AI coaches.

01Learn from experts→02Practice with AI→03Get coached→04Try again→05Use it in the real world→06Measure improvement
Taught by humans. Practiced with AI. Proven in the real world.
Building the skills technology can’t replace
The people behind Intervanta

Founded on one belief: potential should become opportunity.

Talent should never be overlooked because no one taught someone how to communicate it.

Too many graduates leave school able to do the work, yet unprepared for the moments that create opportunity — the introduction, the conversation, the interview, the follow-up.

Renée Marino and Pola Ariel founded Intervanta to close that gap, pairing human expertise with AI-powered practice so the next generation gets the preparation and confidence that change a career’s trajectory.

“Your degree qualifies you for the opportunity. We help you become ready to win it.”
Intervanta co-founders Renée Marino and Pola Ariel
Renée MarinoCo-Founder
Pola ArielCo-Founder
Investor overview

Validated category. Clear wedge. Potential data moat.

Demand for AI interview practice is already proven. The opening is to own measurable readiness for the college-to-career transition — and to build the proprietary benchmarks that show what predicts improvement and employment outcomes.

Urgent painUnderemployment, low offer rates and visible skill gaps pressure students and institutions alike.
Ready buyerCareer centers have already adopted AI and readiness competencies — budget and intent exist.
Clear wedgeRecent graduates, interview readiness, professional skills, measurable outcomes.
Efficient MVPMature voice, vision and multimodal APIs keep the build cost and timeline low.
Compounding dataReadiness benchmarks and longitudinal improvement data grow more valuable with every cohort.
Expansion pathsEmployers, international universities, workforce programs, bootcamps and first-90-day readiness.
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