Nectir Raises $12.5M to Scale AI Infrastructure for Schools

The secure AI platform aims to improve student outcomes and support faculty without compromising academic integrity.

Published on Mar. 10, 2026

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Nectir, a company providing AI infrastructure purpose-built for higher education, has raised $12.5 million in funding led by Rethink Impact. The platform deploys customizable, secure AI assistants across students, faculty, and administrators to provide personalized learning support, teaching aid, and administrative efficiencies. Nectir is already trusted by 80,000 students across 100+ campuses, including a landmark deal with the California Community Colleges system.

Why it matters

As AI becomes more pervasive in higher education, there are growing concerns about the risks of unstructured, unsecured, and unprincipled AI use. Nectir's compliant platform aims to address these issues by driving better learning experiences, improved student motivation, and ultimately, better academic outcomes, while maintaining trust, privacy, and integrity.

The details

Nectir's AI infrastructure is customizable, secure, and designed for academic integrity. The platform deploys AI assistants across students, faculty, and administrators, providing teaching support to professors, personalized guidance for students, and efficiency gains for admin teams. Nectir's AI assistants are built on institutional knowledge, grounded in course content, and integrated into Learning Management Systems. Importantly, the platform does not use student data to train models and is fully FERPA- and SOC 2-compliant.

  • Nectir raised $12.5 million in funding on March 10, 2026.

The players

Nectir

A company providing secure AI infrastructure purpose-built for higher education.

Kavitta Ghai

CEO and Co-Founder of Nectir.

Jordan Long

Co-Founder of Nectir.

Rethink Impact

The largest venture firm in the country dedicated to investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.

Adam Hathaway

A representative from Chabot College, a Nectir customer.

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What they’re saying

“With this new chapter of funding, we are scaling our vision to meet the needs of the modern educational landscape. At Nectir, we are not looking at the 30,000-student problems; we are architecting solutions for the 30-million-student reality. We believe educational accessibility is paramount, and our infrastructure provides a personalized learning partner for every single student, ensuring that high-quality, AI-driven support is a universal standard, not a luxury.”

— Kavitta Ghai, CEO and Co-Founder of Nectir (PRNewswire)

“This is a 24/7 program, so even in the middle of the night, students can get accurate feedback. It's also very customizable. If you sent this over to ChatGPT, you'd get very different answers. Nectir AI locks them into a system that I get to control.”

— Adam Hathaway, Representative from Chabot College (PRNewswire)

“AI use is pervasive in higher education and is here to stay. Yet it carries massive risk when used in an unstructured, unsecured, and unprincipled way. Nectir's compliant platform is driving better learning experiences, better student motivation, and, ultimately, better outcomes in both secondary and higher education. This is edtech innovation at its best, and we couldn't be more excited to back the team in this next phase of growth!”

— Jenny Abramson and Jill Ni, Rethink Impact (PRNewswire)

What’s next

Nectir plans to use the $12.5 million in funding to scale its AI infrastructure and expand its reach to more campuses across the United States.

The takeaway

Nectir's secure, purpose-built AI platform for education aims to address the growing concerns around the risks of unstructured AI use in higher ed, while driving improved student outcomes, faculty support, and administrative efficiencies across a wide range of institutions.