Our Mission
We’re on a mission to teach everyone to build the professional relationships they need to explore and launch their careers. We do that by teaching high school and college students how to network their way into internships, and by teaching job seekers how to use networking to find meaningful work through their connections.
“We believe our students have the potential to find the opportunities they seek. They just haven’t learned how. ”
Our Co-Founders
Rebecca Agostino
Co-founder
Rebecca began her career in the classroom as a special educator, and then founded and led a high school in Camden, NJ. She later served as VP of Learning at Multiverse, where she helped scale apprenticeship programs across the US and UK, partnering with Fortune 500 businesses to equip young adults with the core technical and durable skills to succeed on the job. She develops the student-initiation curriculum for Curiously.
Dr. Yipu (Alison) Zheng
Co-founder
Alison was a engineer by training and then earned her doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University, where her award-winning research focused on building AI to support collective knowledge building. After graduation, she founded Curiously, aiming to build trustworthy multimodal AI infrastructure for education. The platform won the Learning Engineering Tools Competition, and is backed by an innovation grant from the U.S. Department of Education.