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Jim King’s $4,500 lesson in staying power
A programmer in Stevens Point priced one school contract with the next fifty customers in mind. With Jean King, he built Skyward into a family business whose next chapter includes scholarships for future programmers.
Bin Wang and the surprisingly human business of school automation
A request at an NUS robotics lab drew Bin Wang into the daily work of preschools. At Taidii, the engineer and co-founder has spent the years since connecting school routines, software and the people who use them.
Merlyn Mind gives teachers the room back
An AI assistant that changes slides, finds answers and lets teachers keep moving. Merlyn Mind’s wager is that classroom technology should follow the teacher around.
Graphy sells the machinery behind the masterclass
A good teacher can fill a room. Graphy wants to handle everything that happens before and after the lesson: the website, the payment, the app and the next sale.
Goodnotes made handwriting searchable. Now it wants a say in what comes next.
A maths student’s battle with loose pages became a note-taking business used by more than 25 million people each month. Its next test: adding AI without crowding out the person holding the pen.
Wonde wants school apps to stop asking for the same data
More than 30,000 schools use Wonde to connect their records with education software. Its business rests on a deceptively ordinary promise: change the class list once, and let the right apps catch up.
Education Software Solutions wants to move the school office into the cloud
The company behind SIMS helped make school administration digital. Now, inside ParentPay Group, it must modernise a familiar system while giving schools fresh reasons to stay.
ParentPay started with dinner money. Now it wants the whole school day.
The payments business has grown into a collection of tools for registers, kitchens, libraries and sports-hall bookings. Its next test is making that collection feel simpler to the schools paying for it.
The $47 Billion Back Office You Use Without Knowing It
Xplor Technologies stitched together the software behind gyms, golf clubs, parks, preschools and plumbers. Now it is betting an eight-figure sum that AI can turn a sprawling portfolio into one quietly useful machine.