SchoolAI, an AI platform for teaching and learning, announced it has closed $25 million in Series A funding to address education’s fundamental challenge: helping teachers provide personalized attention to every student.
The $25 million funding round was led by Insight Partners, a global venture capital firm known for investing in high-growth technology and software companies. Existing investors like NextView Ventures, The General Partnership, and Peterson Ventures also participated. This brings SchoolAI’s total funding to date to $32 million.
SchoolAI’s Classroom Experience platform combines AI assistants for teachers that help with classroom preparation and other administrative work with Spaces–personalized AI tutors, games, and lessons that can adapt to each student’s unique learning style and interests. These tools give teachers actionable insights into how students are doing and how the teacher can deliver targeted support when it matters most.
Launched for classrooms in August 2023, SchoolAI is utilized by teachers and students in more than 1 million classrooms across all 50 U.S. States and over 80 countries worldwide. The platform is embedded in more than 400 school districts through strategic partnerships that train teachers and students to use AI safely and responsibly.
With this new funding round, SchoolAI will continue scaling to more schools across the globe, developing new products for students, parents, and school administrators. It will also expand its implementation team to provide comprehensive onboarding and professional development. The company remains committed to equipping stakeholders with powerful tools that can personalize learning and deliver the best school and learning experiences.
Teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders have created over 150,000 AI tools on SchoolAI, serving thousands of use cases from kindergarten through higher education.
1.) Personalized Learning Companions – Teacher-designed AI ‘Spaces’ that adapt to each student’s interests, learning pace, and style. These 1:1 AI tutors can provide immediate support, dramatically increasing student engagement and learning.
2.) Simple Teacher Workflows – Easy-to-use AI assistants that help teachers prepare for class, including lesson planning, targeted assessments, personalized feedback, and other administrative tasks, free teachers to focus on meaningful student connections while staying aligned to district and state standards.
3.) Deep Accessibility and Support Features – SchoolAI supports more than 99 languages for supporting multilingual students, has real-time text-to-speech and speech-to-text for younger students, custom instructions for targeted student accommodations, and additional accessibility features for easy reading and writing.
4.) Data-Driven Support Systems – Real-time dashboards can surface actionable data and insights, revealing which students need academic or other support, help students stay on track, flag concerns, and raise opportunities to improve future lessons.
5.) Seamless Integration With Existing Tools – SchoolAI integrates directly with established platforms like Canvas, PowerSchool, and Google Classroom, so teachers can use AI with the tools they and their students already use.
6.) Enterprise-Grade Security & School-Ready Safety – A safe, managed, and secure learning environment fully compliant with FERPA and COPPA regulations, with SOC 2 certification providing the highest standards of data protection for students and schools.
KEY QUOTES:
“Teachers and schools are navigating hard challenges with shrinking budgets, teacher shortages, growing class sizes, and ongoing recovery from pandemic-related learning gaps. It’s harder than ever to understand how every student is really doing. Teachers deserve powerful tools to help extend their impact, not add to their workload. This funding helps us double down on connecting the dots for teachers and students, and later this year, bringing school administrators and parents at home onto the platform as well.”
- Caleb Hicks, founder and CEO of SchoolAI
“Partnering with SchoolAI has allowed us to introduce a tool in the classroom that provides teachers with valuable insights into their students’ progress in every class. SchoolAI makes it easy to help students in a way that wasn’t possible before, in a scalable way that makes sure our teachers can do more amazing work without being overburdened or burnt out.”
- Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Jordan School District, which was recognized by ISTE as a Distinguished District for their work bringing AI to students
“We believe AI presents a transformative opportunity for education, and SchoolAI is accelerating the way AI gets adopted by teachers and administrators. Their district-ready platform can support both teaching and learning without compromising critical thinking skills or instructional quality. SchoolAI’s relentless focus on student outcomes aligns with the trajectory of the market that we envision. We are thrilled to be onboard.”
- Nikitas Koutoupes, Managing Director at Insight Partners
These are some of the highlights from the students:
“Education shapes our collective future, so when new technologies enter the classroom, the bar must be exceptionally high. SchoolAI stands out because they take the serious things seriously–they’ve built a team of educators and technologists who respect the profound responsibility of bringing AI into learning environments where things like safety and privacy can’t be compromised. This authentic ‘by educators, for educators’ approach is why we were compelled to lead SchoolAI’s seed round and continue to invest today.”
- Stephanie Palmeri, board member and Partner at NextView Ventures
“I got my teacher back from burnout after she discovered how Spaces allowed her to deeply engage her students. She has the spark back in her teaching.”
- Leroy Dixon, Principal at White Plains Middle School, New York
“With the tutor Space, I’m able to pinpoint exactly what my students know, identify learning gaps, and provide personalized instruction tailored to each student’s needs. Approximately 94% of my students showed remarkable growth in content mastery.”
- Sue Cluck, Gravette High School, Arkansas
“SchoolAI revolutionized our student intake process, turning data points into stories. It helps staff connect personally with new students from day one, making our onboarding more engaging and human centered. SchoolAI brings each new student to life in ways raw data never could.”
- Chris Fore, Mojave High School, California
“SchoolAI has been an absolute game changer on our campus by optimizing teachers’ lesson design and students’ writing with ongoing feedback from AI in a secure tech environment. Daily our teachers are finding new approaches to utilize SchoolAI and we are only scratching the surface of what this powerful tool can do to increase productivity and effectiveness.”
- Mario Layne, Principal, North Crowley High School, Texas
“As a language immersion teacher, I need tools that both challenge and support my students. SchoolAI adapts to my students’ levels, provides actionable feedback, and helps me connect with them in ways I couldn’t before. Their grammar scores are improving, and their confidence is soaring.”
- Priscila Prestes, Oak Canyon Junior High, Utah
