Company overview

Brightwheel is the leading platform for early education that combines SaaS, Payments, and a consumer-like daily experience. With brightwheel, teachers save valuable time through easy tools for assessment, communication, and photo sharing; administrators can manage their business with enrollment, reporting, and online bill pay; parents get a beautiful, real-time view of their child’s day that helps them participate in the learning + continue it at home. Brightwheel is the fastest growing and top reviewed product in early education - a $100B US market. Investors include Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, and Mark Cuban. We're hiring!Open Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/brightwheelShark Tank Pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iKitGJeAZ4
Founded in 2014
San Francisco, California, USA
498 employees (24 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
67% positive business outlook

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People

Hiring activity

Open marketing jobs over time

12 open now

Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount +0.8% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$88.8M

Last raise

$55M

Series C, 5 years ago

Funding history

Feb 2021

Series C Brightwheel · $55M

Dec 2020

Venture Round Brightwheel

Oct 2018

Series B Brightwheel · $21M

Nov 2017

Grant Brightwheel

Feb 2017

Series A Brightwheel · $10M

May 2016

Seed Round Brightwheel · $600K

Audience

Monthly website visitors
2M
Month over month-18.4%
Quarter over quarter-27.4%
Top sourceDirect (69.2%)
Ad budget per month$30.6K
Average search rank41.6
Traffic source mix
Direct
69.2%
Search
26.5%
Referral
3.6%
Paid referral
0.4%
Social
0.3%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

49.3K

12-mo growth

+26%

Monthly growth

+4.2%

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