Remi Sobomehin // Ambition Angels
Rewards-based app for teens to develop life skills.
About the Founder
Born and raised in Portland, OR, to parents committed to community activism and educating underprivileged youth, Remi Sobomehin has always known that education was the field in which his life would be committed. After Stanford, Remi spent his career devoted to the community of East Palo Alto, as a school leader and director at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, until launching Ambition. Remi has two kids, Jaiye (5) and Kemi (3) with his wife Kendra. They live in East Palo Alto.
About the Venture
Too many underserved teens are not learning the skills needed to thrive both now and in college, career, and adulthood. Ambition Angels leverages a mobile, life-readiness app called the Ambition app to teach teens foundational life skills like financial literacy, managing mental health, and communication. The Ambition app offers teens bite-sized development courses, like a Khan Academy for life skills, in hopes of preparing them for everyday thriving. Their model is unique: instead of paying adults to develop underserved teens, their Ambition App rewards teens for developing themselves‚ on their phones.
Redemptive Opportunity
At Ambition Angels, the goal is to act as an advocate for low-income communities of color to provide high quality, accessible educational opportunities for teens to engage in the redemptive action of learning the crucial life skills needed to succeed. Their role is to inspire their community of “Angel Investors” to develop a deep conviction about the value of investing in the oft forgotten, and provide donors a way to join them in the redemptive action of loving and serving through education.
