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Skoodat plans to change the game in education software 26 Jan 2010 Election night in 2008 meant more than the historic presidential election me. We were attending a conference in San Francisco and met our initial angel investor there. It was a wild 24-hour period. We had our incorporation documents signed, received our first $1 million investment, went to a celebration party with the Saleforce.com Foundation folks, watched Obama's acceptance speach, and went out in the streets of San Francsico which were full of shouting, happy people. That day was the result of a convoluted, twelve-year gestation period. First, a West Coast entrepreneur going after the education software space developed a program in DOS. Then Window’s launched. Then, when a Windows version was developed, he realized he needed a Mac version. And so on. Finally, however, the company found the solution it wanted when salesforce.com released its platform (Force.com) for developers to use and Marc Benioff challenged, “We want you to use this to change education.” We heard that challenge. After 12 months of due diligence, we realized this was going to be a revolutionary technology platform for education. Skoodat’s goal is to reduce the total cost of ownership of educational software by 50 percent. Skoodat now offers a suite of applications for educators, ranging from course scheduling to communications, student enrollment and registration, grading, performance tracking and more. The idea is to dramatically change the game in education by giving people the data they need in real time in format so useful they can’t ignore it. |
Meet Skoodat At Skoodat, we want to help education leaders fulfill the promise of learning for all. How? We deliver cloud education applications and agile development components to help IT leaders innovate more quickly and flexibly. We use cloud technologies to dramatically reduce environmental impact and costs. We help improve learning for all by making education data useful, in real time, for everyone in the learning community. Previous Posts Certifiably advanced. New Skoodat social-mobile app reaches AppQuest Top 16 Simplify student management in the cloud. Working in a smart city Skoodat and CAS-Carrera making a difference in New York City schools and beyond. Tornado clouds, fear, and disaster recovery. Beware the false cloud The opportunity to redefine, rethink, and refocus education Skoodat launches cloud apps for education Technology Council names Skoodat as Early Innovator Award finalist Why school data matters Transforming American education with technology Charter school weighs cloud computing IDC confirms huge savings of using PaaS Skoodat plans to change the game in education software Skoodat to Demonstrate at Largest Capitol Hill Tech Policy Exhibition Skoodat Selected as Finalist in the Force.com Forty Innovation Showcase AlwaysOn and KPMG pick Skoodat for OnDC Top 100 list of private companies Skoodat Receives B Corporation Certification |
