Brightwheel
Online platform for early education management
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To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Employees
201-500
HQ Location
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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63% employee growth in 12 months
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.
As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Its platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.
Brightwheel are carving out a name for themselves as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. They were quick to adapt to school closures by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. They also cater to childcare in lower-income areas with their freemium model. If they remain on this course of steady, popular development and wide uptake, they will likely achieve their goal of going public in a few years time.
Last 2 fundraises
Oct 2018
$21m
SERIES B
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES C
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Founders
Dave Vasen
(CEO)Dave started his career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. He worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles he founded Brightwheel in 2014.
Brightwheel is hiring for 11 jobs on Otta!
Operations & Strategy
Finance, Legal & Compliance