EduMetrics

We transform K-12 schools by changing the way they gather, use, and think about data through real-time data capture and analysis on non-cognitive domains.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Boston, MA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2011
  • Employees 6
  • Website edumetrics.com

Company Summary

EduMetrics sells yearly SaaS subscription to schools for non-cognitive assessment + deep analytics. School Climate, in particular Anti-Bullying, is the most popular of the 12 products available, avg sale to school is $5500 annually. Selling now (limited) direct to schools, volume through LMS partners in 2016. Seen as strategic component to M&A prospects. Founders, PhDs from Harvard & Brown, are world experts working in this area for years.

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Team

  • Founder & Chairman

    Dan is a nationally-renowned educational psychologist specializing in the cognitive and emotional development of children and adolescents. He spent 20 years as a researcher and consulting psychologist to independent schools and was a member of the Harvard University faculty from 1985-2010. He is the author of four books, including the NY Times bestseller, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. (co-authored with Michael Thompson).

  • Stephen Buka Sc.D.
    Co-Founder, VP of Research

    Steve's work as an epidemiologist and developmental psychologist investigates the causes, development and prevention of major psychiatric and cognitive disorders. He received his doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health and Department of Psychology. He currently directs the New England Family Study, a 50-year longitudinal analysis of 17,000 infants born in 1960, and Brown’s Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology.

  • Senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, product planning, and engineering management experience in leading edge information technology company; high tech venture capital and start-up experience; long history in educational computing; graduate of Pomona College.

  • Part-time CTO

    Christian has over 15 years of experience managing startup and enterprise teams for private companies including SiriusXM, Scotiabank, CA Technologies, GE, NBC and VISA. Most recently he was the Chief of Technology for GigaSecond, a cloud technology company. He has also helped startups achieve funding and attain exits by creating profitable business plans and products. He holds a Masters degree in Information Technology from Harvard University.

  • Head of Client (Schools) Relations

    Ben is EduMetrics' first point of contact with school leaders and teachers with whom we have contracts and represents the company in all public presentations to school and education technology leaders.

    Prior to his work with EduMetrics, Ben spent eight years as a teacher and coach in independent schools and earned his Masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in adolescent psychology and development.

  • Part-time CFO

    Serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies, both in Boston area and Silicon Valley, some with notable exits; CEO three times for equity backed companies; served on a dozen corporate boards; been working as a CFO for firms since 2011; MBA and MA (Communication Technologies) from University of Texas, Austin.

Advisors

  • Venture Partner - Alerion Partners
    Robert Muller
    Associate Professor of Computer Science - Boston College
    Unconfirmed
    Steve Orzack, PhD
    President and Senior Research Scientist – Fresh Pond Research Institute
    Unconfirmed
  • Principal Research Scientist in Management Science – MIT Sloan School of Management
    John Hage
    Managing Director - Barclay's Wealth
    Unconfirmed
    Richard Weissbourd Ed.D.
    Senior Lecturer, Director of Human Development and Psychology Program - Harvard Graduate School of Education
    Unconfirmed

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