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Arbiter and the art of getting everyone to the same game
A referee assignment tool became a platform for the paperwork, payments and people behind school activities. Its real business is making sure a change in one office reaches everyone who needs to know.
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.
Arbor Education wants to give schools their time back
The school register was only the beginning. Arbor is bringing attendance, staffing, finance and timetabling together - and asking schools to rethink the work between the lessons.
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.
Priority Software Spent 40 Years Making ERP Boring - and Built an $800 Million Company
Founded in the mainframe era, the Israeli company sells one promise to roughly 75,000 businesses in 70 countries: enterprise software people can actually change themselves. In 2024, Blackstone paid about $800 million for the pitch.
Toddle - Your Teaching Partner
Toddle is an AI-powered, teacher-built teaching and learning platform for K-12 schools that unifies curriculum planning, assessments, gradebook, student portfolios, progress reports, family communication and class operations in one system. Founded in 2019 by educators, it is officially licensed by the International Baccalaureate and is used by 2,000+ schools across 100+ countries, with a mission to save teachers time and amplify their impact.
LiveSchool
LiveSchool is a K-12 behavior tracking and rewards platform built to make Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) simple to run at scale. Teachers award or deduct points in seconds from a phone or browser, students redeem points in a paperless school rewards store, and administrators watch school culture data update in real time. Founded in Nashville in 2011 by former middle-school teacher Matt Rubinstein, the company helps roughly 1,200+ schools shift the focus from punishment to recognition, sending families a weekly behavior recap so students, teachers, and parents stay on the same team.