Who We Are
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OUR VISION
A future where your career is shaped by the network you build, not the one you were born into.
OUR MISSION
We partner with educational institutions to help learners build the human connections that unlock career opportunities.
OUR VISION
A future where your career is shaped by the network you build, not the one you were born into.
OUR MISSION
We partner with educational institutions to help learners build the human connections that unlock career opportunities.
Leadership
Nitzan Pelman
Founder & CEO
Dominique Levin
Chief Operating Officer
Shuvi Santo
Chief Partnership Officer
David Steuer
Chief Product Officer
Stephanie Chang
Head of Research and Design
Jasmin Torres
Head of Partner Operations
David Oluyale
Lead Engineer
Christine Mikhail
Lead Content Designer
Joanna June
Content Program Manager
Akshay Kalapgar
Full-stack AI Developer
Loraine Calderon
Special Assistant to the CEO
Company Timeline
2026
With the help of JPMC Foundation, the Susan & Michael Dell Foundation, the RK Mellon Foundation, College Futures, The Livelihood Impact Fund, LinkedIn, and Christensen, Climb Together expanded to 15 schools and also launched Goldi for high school.
2025
Climb Together launches the Socratic social capital AI experience, Goldi, with help from Yield Giving, and completes pilots at LaGuardia Community College, Sinclair, Merit America, COOP, and National Louis University supported by Walmart.org and Google.org.
2024
Nitzan launched Climb Together to help all education and workforce providers implement social capital strategies for economic mobility.
2019
Nitzan Pelman founded Climb Hire, a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds build skills and networks to secure jobs through referrals and social capital. Climb Hire empowered hundreds of learners to secure jobs, doubling or tripling their income by leveraging social capital.
2018
Nitzan Pelman, as Entrepreneur in Residence at LinkedIn, learned that the vast majority of jobs on the platform were secured through referrals.
