While everyone obsesses over AI disruptors, Shorelight has built a $143M revenue machine by solving a fundamentally human problem: getting international students into US universities. They're not a university—they're the infrastructure.

"Shorelight isn't selling education—they're selling access. Their moat isn't content; it's relationships with 60+ top US universities."

With 639 employees and $143.8M in revenue, that's ~$225K revenue per employee—healthy for an ed-tech services company. But the $12.5M funding raise tells a story: this isn't a VC-backed rocket ship. It's a bootstrapped-style operation that grew through partnerships, not blitzscaling.

• Their tech stack (Swiper, Bootstrap, Vite) is pragmatic, not flashy—built for reliability over innovation
• The 44% organic traffic suggests strong SEO for university-specific queries, not brand searches
• Contact emails point to university domains (virginia.edu, jhu.edu)—proof they're embedded in institutional workflows