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VenturEd Solutions and the art of getting families through the door
A school can win a family’s heart and still lose them in the forms. VenturEd Solutions connects admissions, financial aid and tuition billing to make the journey from first inquiry to first day less of an obstacle course.
LINQ and the hidden cost of a school lunch
A tray of food has a surprisingly long paper trail. LINQ sells school districts the software to shorten it - and keep payroll, payments and the business office moving too.
Vanco and the Art of Passing the Plate
A donation takes seconds. Accounting for it can take the afternoon. Vanco has built a business around the distance between those two things.
ParentPay turned dinner money into a software business
The school office had a cash problem. ParentPay built a business around solving it - and now faces rivals promising to put the whole school in one app.
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.
Schoolable
Schoolable is a Lagos-based fintech (Y Combinator W'19) building financial infrastructure for African education. Through a web platform for schools and a mobile app for parents, it helps private K-12 schools collect fees on time, reconcile payments, run payroll and manage expenses, while letting families plan, save, borrow and pay school fees in installments. Founded by Henry Chibuzo and Angela Essien, it operates on the premise that access to affordable finance is the biggest barrier to quality education in Africa.