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Unified school-home communication platform for K-12 districts replacing fragmented parent apps. Santa Barbara CA, raised $200M+.
ParentSquare is a unified school-home communications platform designed to replace the fragmented combination of email, robocalls, apps, and paper notices that districts use to communicate with families. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, ParentSquare has raised more than $200 million from investors including Owl Ventures and General Atlantic, and has grown to serve more than 20 million parents across thousands of school districts in the United States. The company's platform consolidates district-to-family communication — including emergency notifications, classroom updates, permission slips, event signups, and two-way messaging — into a single app that families can use in their preferred language.\n\nParentSquare's multilingual capabilities are a key differentiator, with automatic translation supporting more than 100 languages that allows teachers and administrators to send communications that are automatically translated for non-English-speaking families, dramatically improving equity of access for the diverse communities that many districts serve. The platform supports communication at every level — from the superintendent communicating district-wide to the individual classroom teacher sending a note about a homework assignment — with consistent branding and a single app experience for families regardless of which school their children attend.\n\nParentSquare competes with Bloomz, Remind (acquired by ParentSquare), and ClassDojo in the parent communication space, and with broader district communication platforms like SchoolMessenger. Its acquisitions of Remind and other tools have strengthened its position as the most comprehensive K-12 family engagement platform. The company differentiates through its depth of features, multilingual support, integration with student information systems, and the breadth of district deployment from small rural schools to large urban districts.
Indoor vertical farming company using AI-optimized growing systems. San Francisco, CA. Raised $940M+ including $400M from SoftBank. Partners with Walmart for US farms.
Plenty is a San Francisco-based indoor vertical farming company that uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to grow leafy greens and other produce in controlled indoor environments. The company has raised over $940 million from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, which invested $200 million in 2017, and has positioned itself as the technology leader in data-driven indoor agriculture.\n\nPlenty's farms use precisely controlled light, temperature, humidity, and nutrient conditions to grow crops that are free from pesticides, use 99% less land, and consume significantly less water than conventional field agriculture. The company's AI systems continuously optimize growing conditions based on sensor data, learning to improve yields and quality across crops and growing cycles.\n\nIn 2022, Plenty announced a landmark partnership with Walmart to supply leafy greens from a new large-scale facility in Compton, California. This partnership provided both a major commercial anchor and significant additional funding from Walmart, validating Plenty's technology and business model at scale. The company also operates a dedicated strawberry R&D partnership with Driscoll's, the world's largest berry company, demonstrating the platform's potential beyond leafy greens.
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