Santa Barbara, CA — ParentSquare, the award-winning unified school-home engagement platform for K12 schooling, has acquired Remind, a well-liked platform for communication and studying.
The merger will broaden ParentSquare’s present choices with extra communication instruments that attain college students and households the place they’re and assist studying wherever it occurs. Tens of millions of educators, college students, dad and mom and caregivers make the most of the Remind platform to attach with the folks and assets that assist them train and be taught. The Remind platform is utilized in over 80% of public faculties and by 60% of academics in the USA.
The mixed firm will probably be often called ParentSquare, and its core enterprise will proceed to be school-home communications. ParentSquare will merge the 2 corporations’ management, groups and communications platforms, preserving the perfect options from each units of merchandise and giving clients the choice of adopting extra options. Remind merchandise will preserve their names.
“Remind has a really sturdy following with academics, and ParentSquare has a powerful unified platform for districts and the complete college neighborhood,” ParentSquare President and Founder Anupama Vaid mentioned. “Collectively, we will advance each corporations’ mission of accelerating scholar success by improved communications and obtain extra collectively than we may have individually.”
Remind Chat, Remind’s two-way textual content messaging for the classroom, will proceed to be accessible freed from cost. The app permits academics to simply join with college students and households of their most popular language, all whereas holding their private cellphone quantity personal.
As well as, Remind Hub, Remind’s paid communications platform for faculties and districts, will stay accessible to current clients. Remind Tutoring will probably be discontinued in order that the newly-combined firm can focus solely on household and neighborhood engagement by communication.
“Sturdy relationships are on the coronary heart of scholar success — and communication is an important a part of that,” Remind CEO Quenton Cook dinner mentioned. “By specializing in communication and our mixed strengths, we will probably be much more efficient champions for academics, dad and mom and the broader college neighborhood.”
The acquisition closed in November. ParentSquare obtained authorized recommendation from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Remind obtained authorized recommendation from Gunderson Dettmer LLP and monetary recommendation from Macquarie Capital. Monetary particulars of the merger weren’t launched.
About ParentSquare™
ParentSquare is the main supplier of recent household and neighborhood engagement options for K12 faculties. Tens of millions of educators and households in 49 states depend on the multipurpose unified platform that features mass notifications, classroom communications, college web sites, and different communication-based providers, all supported by visible dashboards. ParentSquare’s expertise platform options complete integrations with college administrative programs, translation to greater than 100 languages, and app, electronic mail, textual content, voice, and net portal entry for equitable communication. Based in 2011, the corporate is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA. Study extra at https://www.parentsquare.com.
