Founded in 2015 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Swing Education operates an online staffing marketplace that connects qualified substitute teachers with K–12 schools and districts. The company streamlines substitute hiring and placement through technology and support services to keep student learning on track during absences. Swing serves thousands of school districts across California, Arizona, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C., and reports millions of absence days filled to date. Management says it is expanding nationwide to address acute substitute-teacher shortages and increase district coverage. To support that expansion and provide liquidity for seasonally driven demand, Swing secured a non-dilutive $20 million growth loan commitment from Runway Growth Capital. The financing is structured to support scaling while preserving equity, according to the company and lender statements. Swing Education operates an online staffing marketplace that matches K-12 schools with substitute teachers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company pairs a technology platform with dedicated success teams to improve the substitute-teacher experience and simplify school staffing. Swing serves over 2,800 partner schools across California, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., and in the 2022–23 school year supported filling over one million instructional hours with substitute teachers. To date the company reports more than 300,000 absence days filled. Swing emphasizes treating substitutes better to attract more individuals to the profession and offers upskilling and pathways into teaching. It plans to use new funding to grow its substitute pool and school partnerships in existing regions and to expand into new regions in 2024. Swing Education is an on-demand marketplace that connects schools with qualified substitute teachers. The platform allows registered substitutes to access daily requests from hundreds of schools and serves a pool of both veteran educators and newcomers. Swing has growing communities of substitutes in California, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Nearly 50% of its teachers come from under-represented communities. The company plans to use the funds to raise the prominence of substitute teaching, offer resources to promote excellence in substitute instruction and expand into new regions. Founded in 2015 and led by CEO Mike Teng, Swing is based in San Mateo, California and recently raised $15m in a Series B round.

Total raised

$73M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Debt Financing

Latest activity

Aug 2025