M&A Deal Summary

PowerSchool Acquires Kickboard

On November 10, 2021, PowerSchool acquired software company Kickboard

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is PowerSchool’s 5th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is PowerSchool’s 10th transaction in the United States.
  • This is PowerSchool’s 1st transaction in Louisiana.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2021-11-10
Target Kickboard
Sector Software
Buyer(s) PowerSchool
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Kickboard

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Kickboard is a provider of K-12 education behavior management solutions that helps educators effectively manage social-emotional learning (SEL) and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to help improve student well-being, school culture and achieve more equitable outcomes. Kickboard was founded in 2009 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Buyer

PowerSchool

Folsom, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1997
Sector Education
Revenue 698M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

PowerSchool is a provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments, and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool was founded in 1997 and is based in Folsom, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 11 of 13
Sector (Software) 5 of 7
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 8
State (Louisiana) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 10 of 12
Year (2021) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-02-18 Hobsons - Naviance & Intersect Solutions

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Naviance is a college, career, and life readiness (CCLR) platform that helps middle and high school students discover their strengths, explore college and career interests, create actionable goals, and find their best-fit path after high school. Intersect is a best-fit recruitment platform offering a comprehensive set of solutions for colleges and universities to strategically reach best-fit students, those most likely to both apply and succeed. Intersect connects with Naviance, a widely-adopted college, career, and life readiness platform, used by over 10 million students nationwide.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-01-25 Kinvolved

New York, New York, United States

Kinvolved is a provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement software solutions through its KiNVO software suite, Kinvolved helps school systems build positive, two-way relationships between school and home via automated, translated text-messaging-based nudges and provides attendance and engagement data to school and district administrators to inform real-time interventions. Kinvolved is based in New York City.

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