What is the name of your organization?
Sala
What is the name of your solution?
Sala Student Success Platform
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Helping underserved youth discover careers, gain skills, and connect to real opportunities through one seamless digital platform.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Cambodia
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
In Cambodia and across Southeast Asia, millions of youth face a critical gap between education and employment. Over 70% of high school students in Cambodia are unsure about their future career or major, leading to misaligned studies, skill gaps, and chronic underemployment. The issue is worsened by outdated school systems, limited access to career guidance, and the digital divide in low-resource settings.
Globally, UNESCO reports that over 244 million children and youth are out of school, and even among those who are enrolled, many lack access to personalized, future-ready learning experiences. This disconnect is most acute in rural and underserved areas, where schools lack the digital tools and infrastructure to support student success or track progress effectively.
Sala is addressing this by transforming how students explore, plan, and achieve their educational and career goals. We equip schools with digital management and career readiness systems, while offering students a personalized app to guide them from classroom to career. Our solution targets both the root causes by the poor guidance, lack of data, and institutional inefficiencies and the long-term effects of educational mismatch and job insecurity.
What is your solution?
Sala is an end-to-end digital platform that helps students discover the right career path and empowers schools to deliver modern, data-driven education.
For students, Sala offers a mobile and web app where they can take personality and interest assessments, explore majors, connect with universities, build portfolios, and access personalized job or internship recommendations all in one place.
For schools and institutions, Sala provides digital school operations, a learning platform, and a career center portal. These tools allow educators to track student performance, manage academic records, run outreach events, and facilitate job matching — helping bridge the gap between education and employment.
Technologically, Sala is built with scalable web and mobile frameworks (VueJS, Flutter, NodeJS) and deployed on AWS cloud infrastructure using services like EC2, EKS, and Lambda for high availability. We also use MongoDB and PostgreSQL for flexible, secure data storage.
We’ve already onboarded 120,000+ students, and partnered with more than 50+ career centers and universities across Cambodia. Sala makes it easier for young people to succeed from classroom to career.
Product demo: https://www.sala.co and https://www.sala.tech
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Sala serves students aged 16 to 24 in Cambodia and Southeast Asia, particularly those from low- and middle-income backgrounds who lack access to quality career guidance, digital learning tools, and job opportunities. Many live in rural or underserved areas, where schools often rely on paper-based systems and students graduate without a clear direction for their future.
We also serve schools, universities, and training institutions that need modern tools to manage student progress, improve learning outcomes, and support career readiness.
Our solution directly addresses these challenges. For students, Sala provides a personalized mobile and web platform to explore majors, assess their interests, build digital portfolios, and get matched with internships or jobs that fit their goals. For schools, Sala offers an all-in-one digital management and career center platform to improve student tracking, data collection, and career support services.
By giving students the clarity, confidence, and connections they need to succeed and empowering institutions to support them better, Sala closes the gap between education and employment. We’ve already helped over 120,000 students gain direction and access opportunities they never thought possible.
