ParentSquare, a Santa Barbara, CA-based unified school-home engagement platform for K12 education, acquired Remind, a platform for communication and learning led by CEO Quenton Cook.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The acquisition will expand ParentSquare’s current offerings with additional communication tools that reach students and families where they are and support learning wherever it happens. The combined company will be known as ParentSquare, and its core business will continue to be school-home communications. ParentSquare will merge the two companies’ leadership, teams and communications platforms, preserving the best features from both sets of products and giving customers the option of adopting additional features.
Remind Chat, Remind’s two-way text messaging for the classroom, will continue to be available free of charge. The app allows teachers to easily connect with students and families in their preferred language, all while keeping their personal phone number private. In addition, Remind Hub, Remind’s paid communications platform for schools and districts, will remain available to existing customers. Remind Tutoring will be discontinued so that the newly-combined company can focus solely on family and community engagement through communication.
Founded by President Anupama Vaid, ParentSquare is a provider of family and community engagement solutions for K12 schools. Millions of educators and families in 49 states use the multipurpose unified platform that includes mass notifications, classroom communications, school websites, and other communication-based services, all supported by visual dashboards. Its technology platform features comprehensive integrations with school administrative systems, translation to more than 100 languages, and app, email, text, voice, and web portal access for equitable communication.
