Ednition, an “infrastructure-as-a-service” platform designed for K-12 EdTech providers, has announced a $1.35 million investment round. This financing round was led by an outstanding group of angel investors, many of whom supported its previous venture, Mastery Connect. The round was also joined by institutional capital from GSV Ventures, Reach Capital, Avalanche VC, and Long Term Impact,” said Mick Hewitt and Doug Weber, Co-founders of Ednition.
Co-founded by Mick Hewitt and Doug Weber, Ednition aims to help EdTech developers build and scale EdTech applications. Its platform, RosterStream, is designed to solve “vendor infrastructure needs rather than focusing on school and district tools. This approach eliminates costly vendor-side work, like SSO and LTI setup, bypasses the tolls of dated data exchange services, and allows applications to integrate with any SIS or third-party data provider. This means RosterStream users can connect with and support the smallest schools to the largest districts,” according to co-founders, Weber and Hewitt. Most importantly, RosterStream saves EdTech teams thousands of hours of integration, support, and engineering time, significantly relieving the usual workload.
Before Ednition, Weber and Hewitt founded Mastery Connect in 2008, a K-12 assessment platform acquired by Instructure in 2019. “As serial entrepreneurs, we wanted to build quickly, but they soon faced the primary challenge of successfully developing, scaling, and maintaining ed-tech software for K-12: rostering and interoperability,” the co-founders added. “We talked with other EdTech developers and found they were diverting time and resources to build extensive internal infrastructure and middleware tools. This decade-long struggle led to the inception and launch of Ednition and our platform, RosterStream.”
Speaking about the company, Co-founders of Ednition, Doug Weber and Mick Hewitt, said:
Our unwavering commitment to delivering holistic data is clearly demonstrated in our recent releases, including our ”Extended Data Domains” feature, which goes beyond core rostering and includes data domains such as: attendance, discipline, assessment, school calendar, intervention, and more.
Regarding the future of EdTech, Weber and Hewitt noted, “Companies are grappling with how to integrate AI-powered solutions into their products meaningfully. Seamless data flow in the EdTech ecosystem is a precondition for AI to move from experimental and theoretical to genuinely transformational in the space! Unlocking data flows empowers EdTech to harness AI’s power and actualize whole-child, learner-centered education.
Ednition will exhibit its RosterStream platform at the ASU+GSV Summit from April 14 to 17 in San Diego.
