At Goalbook, we empower teachers to transform instruction so that ALL students succeed. We partner with 600 districts across the country, working closely with school and district leaders to improve instructional practice. Founded by former teachers and administrators, Goalbook was part of YC Edtech's inaugural class in 2011 and the first company funded through New Schools' Seed Fund, now Reach Capital.
Location: United States, California, San Mateo
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $950K
Founded date: 2011
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Praxis (ac... | praxislabs... |
| - | SustainVC | sustainvc.... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 18.10.2012 | - | $915K | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
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| 19.08.2014 | How NewSchools Picks Its Investments | Our Seed Fund supports high potential entrepreneurs developing technology solutions for the biggest challenges in K-12 education. We look for areas where the power of technology can improve our education system and its ability to maximize t... |
| 13.05.2014 | Ten Tips for Triumphing at Startup Weekend | Good for you for taking the entrepreneurial plunge! Startup WeekendEDU promises to be an exhilarating, mind-expanding, and yes, exhausting experience. Expect to learn about lean startups, about project management, and about working with te... |
| 10.04.2013 | Which Way for K12 Blended Learning? | Read the first part of Alex's series, Which Way for K12 Blended Learning? (Part 1 - Boarding the Mayflower) Just beyond the mountains, there is a land where unicorns run free, jumping from rainbow to rainbow. The children call the land “Edt... |
| 30.01.2013 | Rocketship Education's Preston Smith Becomes CEO; John Danner to Launch Edtech Company | Serial entrepreneur and Rocketship Education cofounder, John Danner, is on the move again. He officially announced today that he’s stepping aside as CEO as he is “currently in the early stages of starting up a new online company, and will p... |
| 24.01.2013 | FIELD REPORT: NYC's EdGrowth Conference | We asked Marisa Kaplan to attend NY's EdGrowth conference on behalf of EdSurge readers this week and share what she saw and heard. (It had been postponed because of the havoc caused by Hurricane Sandy.) Here's her report: "Pick a missi... |
| 21.10.2012 | Goalbook Raises $915K in Funding | Goalbook, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a platform for schools to manage and collaborate around student Individual Learning Plans (ILPs), has raised $915k in funding. The round was led by NewSchools Venture Fund, which injected $200k, w... |
| 18.10.2012 | Goalbook Nabs $915K From NewSchools & More To Help Teachers Transform Special Education | When it graduated from Imagine K12’s edtech accelerator last year, Goalbook was tapping into the excitement over technology’s ability to personalize learning by embarking on a mission to give every student a single, shared lesson plan. The ... |
| 06.08.2012 | Resetting Education: The special needs of Special Ed | Special Education comes with its own set of challenges, and technology is offering solutions Most would agree that you have to be a pretty selfless person to be a teacher. The days are long, the pay sucks, and when something goes wrong, you... |
| 02.07.2012 | Resetting Education: The rebounding edtech ecosystem | Edtech is finally seeing a revival after the burst of the Internet bubble The term “edtech” seems like an easy blanket term that covers all things “educational” and “technological.” But a peek beneath the surface reveals a rich, blooming ec... |
| 23.09.2011 | Imagine K12’s 2011 Startup Class Aims To Invigorate Education With Technology | [tc_speakertext_off]One of my favorite bits from Disrupt SF was the set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. We heard in June that some 200 applicants had been narrowed down to 10 compan... |
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