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Wonde
Cloud-based school data management
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Education
- SaaS
- API
- Data Integration
- Automation
- 2 Kings Court, Furlong House, Newmarket CB8 7SG, UK
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Company mission
Wonde's mission is to deliver cutting-edge technologies to improve ways of working for the education sector.
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
A school’s student information system (SIS) works as a repository for crucial pupil data - but it doesn’t work particularly well. Traditionally, this data is tricky and costly to integrate with all the non-interoperable third-party apps required for teaching and pupil management. This leaves administrators and teachers updating systems manually, occupying valuable time and resources as well as opening up error and privacy vulnerabilities.
Wonde’s solution is a valuable one: schools upload and manage their school data onto a single platform, which is subsequently and automatically synched with third party apps of the school's choice. In this way, apps can be employed without developer delay, with less human error, and schools remain in command of their own data privacy.
Wonde has seen remarkable growth for its efforts too, bolstered by an impressively quick solution for free school’s meals that the company implemented in 2021. With nearly 25,000 schools using its technology in the UK and Australia (in the latter of which Wonde commands a 20% market share) it’s clear that Wonde has landed on a truly penetrative solution.
Benefits
- 4 day working week
- Flexible working schedule/work from home opportunities
- Onsite gym and well-being (quiet room) facilities
- Buying and selling holiday scheme (unlimited)
- Additional holiday for length of service
- Annual allowance for volunteering days
- Monthly lunch club (on us)
- Comprehensive wellness programmes (think meditation retreats and continuous access to wellbeing apps/initiatives)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Electric car scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Eye examination scheme
- Financial contribution to the set up of work from home environments
- Use of new and leading technology in the form of apple products
- Frequent company funded social events
- Office closure between Christmas & New Year
- Access to continuous learning and development opportunities
- Comprehensive employee referral scheme
- Casual Dress Code
- Private Health Care
- Enhanced Pension
- Monthly shopping vouchers
Company values
- We have passion: We are driven to change the way education technology is perceived, accessed & adopted by our customers. We believe schools deserve accessible, simple, quality solutions and we are dedicated to providing them
- We are innovative: We develop new and improved products and services to meet rapidly changing demands or needs, disrupting the market and adding value for our customers
- We are commited: Our customers are at the heart of all we do. We work tirelessly to meet their needs and exceed their expectations
- We are a team: We value, support and champion those we work with. We promote personal growth and happiness since our success is dependent upon the collective energy, intelligence and contributions of all our team members
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$2.6m
EARLY VC
Aug 2018
$1.3m
EARLY VC
$6m
Total funding
Founders
Peter Dabrowa
(CEO)Previously founded Bug Interactive, then educational platform eSchools.
Jonathan Coleman
(CCO)Previously in senior leadership at Mounts Bay Academy, then moved into a regional manager position at Sports Leaders UK. Just prior to Wonde, held a leadership role at eSchools.
Philip Clifton
(CTO)CTO of Wonde.
Diversity & Inclusion at Wonde
Maddie Triggs (Talent Manager)
- Non-bias recruitment training for line managers
- Recently increased benefit offering to support all backgrounds & lifestyles
- Flexible working schedule/work from home opportunities
- Minimised person specification requirements to encourage diverse applications
- Regular reviews & analysis of the tone & language used in job descriptions
- Anonymous hiring regularly ran
- Structured interview format(s) to support non-bias hires
- Salary and benefits offerings are detailed in all advertisements to allow candidates to make informed decisions
- Additional customisable benefit offering to allow employees to choose what is important to them