BloomBoard is a Palo Alto, California education-technology company that connects teachers with resources to achieve their professional learning goals. It provides an on-demand marketplace where educators can access videos, webinars, courses and e-books from trusted providers, and a procurement process that lets administrators track and measure teacher growth. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Jason Lange. BloomBoard works with over 7,000 schools across more than 700 districts in 22 states. It raised $7.2M in Series B financing and has raised $16M in total to date. The company plans to use the funds to scale its team, accelerate customer growth, expand school and district offerings, and launch new professional development opportunities for K12 educators. BloomBoard offers a platform for teachers and administrators to record, collect, and track professional development data, set learning goals, and create action plans. The platform recommends resources from over 50 third-party PD providers and BloomBoard takes a cut of sales, creating a marketplace tied to observation and outcome data. Administrators can upload observation notes and monitor teachers’ progress toward goals; the company primarily markets to district-level administrators. BloomBoard plans to expand its PD provider marketplace to well over 100 providers and develop social tools that let teachers form cross-school communities to share resources and feedback. It currently has five state-level contracts (Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, and North Carolina), including a Connecticut contract worth over $1 million. The company projects use by over 250,000 teachers across 18 states by the start of the 2014–2015 school year.

Total raised

$12M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jun 2015