Over the past three years, the Ednition team has partnered with leading edtech companies, making it easier and more profitable for them to build and scale edtech applications. We've seen how eliminating rostering and interoperability headaches frees product and engineering teams to focus on what truly matters: creating innovative solutions that enhance teaching and learning. That’s why we’re so excited to announce the closing of our $3.5 million seed round led by GSV Ventures. This investment, just six months after our pre-seed round, will fuel our continued growth and drive our mission to make edtech better connected and more impactful.

We are proud to help our partners overcome their trickiest edtech stack challenges. As founders of MasteryConnect, acquired by Instructure in 2019, we experienced the pain of building and maintaining costly infrastructure for rostering and school/district integrations—time better spent building awesome tools for educators and students.

This is why we built Ednition. While others focus on the district side of the house, we solve edtech vendor infrastructure challenges. This means less time and money worrying about rostering and data syncing, SSO, LTI setup, LMS integrations, and those expensive and outdated rostering data services. Our platform, RosterStream, delivers integration with any SIS or third-party data provider, giving vendors the ability to connect with and support the smallest schools to the largest districts.

Not only does Ednition eliminate this costly vendor-side work, we provide the enterprise rostering feature set that gives support and implementation teams the observability and monitoring tools they need to avoid escalating issues to expensive engineering teams. The ability to fan data to multiple applications in the product stack means robust support for the edtech enterprise, and our change detection algorithms mean bad data never reaches vendor systems.

After a busy back-to-school season, Ednition has now processed billions of rostering records for edtech companies. More importantly, as passionate advocates for education, knowing that millions of learners and educators had a more seamless tech experience this fall is what drives us.

This year we’ve significantly improved the RosterStream platform and invested in RosterCare, our private-labeled support. We’ve released many new features, including additional Extended Data Domains, better tools for migrating one data source to another, a mappings and data validation template library, enhanced SSO services, and more advanced private-label tools.

In early 2025, we will add features that allow our users to customize circuit break logic and give them additional controls during data source migrations. Our much anticipated upcoming advanced LMS-integration tools will offer a one-and-done solution for edtech vendors: integrate with RosterStream once to achieve deep API integration with the largest LMS names out there.

As we plan ahead, we see the great transformations being made by AI in education technology. With Ednition, vendors looking to implement AI in their solutions can achieve a more complete picture of student learning by unlocking once-siloed data flows. We look forward to partnering with vendors on AI-driven innovations in the pursuit of true student-centered education.

The Ednition team is deeply grateful for our investors who believe in our vision (and we’re lucky to have familiar faces from our pre-seed round). The seed round, led by GSV Ventures, includes Reach Capital, Avalanche, Array Ventures, and our dedicated angel investors. It’s rare to have the support of such a committed and mission-driven group who share our passion for advancing learning through technology.

If you want to learn about how Ednition rostering and integration solutions can support your teams, we would love to connect. Until then, here’s to a bright future, better edtech, and improving the learning experience everywhere.

Cheers,

Mick and Doug