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About
Halp started in 2019 selling coaching directly to international students, on the argument that the agents students normally use are paid by the schools they recommend. The product paired a web app with a one-to-one human coach covering program choice, applications, financing and study visas across Canada, the US, Australia and the UK. Lerer Hippeau and Serena Williams' Serena Ventures led a $5.5M CAD seed in October 2022, with N49P, Shed Capital, Gambit Partners and angels joining. That is the business Marc Fielding presented at TechTO Together in 2023, where he described losing weeks to the federal strike that shut down Canada's immigration system, and building a verification process once the team could not tell which of its applicants were serious. The company has since changed direction entirely. As of August 2026 halp.co carries no study-abroad product at all: it presents an AI report-drafting assistant for building engineers under the line "Modernizing Building assessments", marked "launching soon", and the same team ships an AEC report-writing tool as Applied Reports, whose customers log in at reportbolt.halp.co.
Backers
Lerer Hippeau and Serena Ventures led the October 2022 seed, with N49P, Shed Capital, Gambit Partners and angels
Quick answers
What does Halp do now?
As of August 2026 its own site sells an AI report-drafting assistant for building engineers, marked "launching soon", and the team ships an AEC report-writing tool as Applied Reports. The study-abroad coaching business it was founded on is no longer offered on halp.co.
What was Halp originally?
A study-abroad coaching platform for international students — a web app plus a one-to-one human coach handling program choice, applications, financing and study visas across Canada, the US, Australia and the UK. That is the business presented at TechTO in 2023.
Who founded Halp?
Matthew McLellan, Marc Fielding and Justin Mills, in 2019. McLellan is CEO; Fielding is COO.
How much did Halp raise?
$5.5M CAD ($4.1M USD) in a seed round that closed in September 2022, led by Lerer Hippeau and Serena Ventures, with N49P, Shed Capital, Gambit Partners and angel investors joining.