ParentSquare is a unified school-to-home engagement platform for K-12 that centralizes communications across channels. Founded in 2011 by Anupama Vaid and Sohit Wadhwa and based in Santa Barbara, CA, the platform consolidates emergency communications, district announcements, attendance, forms, surveys, sign-ups and daily classroom communications into a single system. It supports translation to more than 100 languages and integrates with student information and other administrative systems, with access via app, email, text, voice, and web portal. ParentSquare serves thousands of schools and millions of parents, students and staff across 44 states. With a new growth investment from Serent Capital, the company plans to accelerate growth by introducing new products and services and expanding into additional geographic markets. Serent will also provide operational support through its Growth Team to scale customer acquisition, invest in customer success, and pursue strategic partnerships and acquisitions. ParentSquare offers a comprehensive communications platform for K-12 districts that connects district offices, school staff, teachers and parents. Its parent engagement tools operate from the district level to the individual classroom and include metrics and reporting. The platform features integrations with student information and other administrative systems, translation into more than 100 languages, and multi-channel access via app, email, text, voice and web portal for equitable communication. Co-founded by Anupama Vaid and Sohit Wadhwa, the company serves over 4 million users across 44 states and reaches over 40% of California districts. ParentSquare plans to invest the new funding in its technology platform and products and to further scale operations to serve K-12 schools and districts nationwide. The company has raised more than $12 million over five funding rounds since its debut.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Dec 2020