I’m thrilled to share and have fun that our unbelievable York IE Labs consumer, SchoolBI, has been acquired by Blackbaud. An enormous congratulations is because of Travis Warren, Ryan Bowse, and your complete SchoolBI staff. They’ve constructed a really modern product that can carry great worth to the Okay-12 training market.
What makes this information so particular for me personally, and for our staff at York IE, is the unbelievable sense of déjà vu.
A few years in the past, my first main entrepreneurial expertise, WhippleHill, was additionally acquired by Blackbaud. It was at WhippleHill the place I really honed my craft as a Go-to-Market chief, studying firsthand what it takes to scale an concept right into a profitable, mission-critical resolution for faculties.
To see an organization we’ve mentored by means of York IE Labs comply with an identical, profitable path, touchdown at a corporation I do know and respect deeply, is a strong validation of the working expertise we goal to share with founders.
SchoolBI completely embodies York IE’s long-standing obsession with vertical SaaS — software program constructed with deep empathy for the distinctive workflows, pains, and missions of a selected business. We’ve at all times believed that probably the most enduring corporations don’t attempt to serve everybody; they serve somebody higher than anybody else can.
SchoolBI is a textbook instance: a purpose-built platform created particularly for Okay–12 faculties, fixing actual operational challenges that generic BI instruments merely overlook. Their success reinforces our perception that vertical SaaS founders, when paired with the fitting working steering and business focus, can construct merchandise that change into really indispensable.
This isn’t only a win for SchoolBI; it’s a testomony to the expertise of their staff and the ability of targeted, strategic progress.
Blackbaud is a powerhouse within the social impression house, and I’ve little question they are going to be an excellent house for the SchoolBI know-how and staff.
This can be a full-circle second, a uncommon, particular sort of success that ties my previous GTM expertise on to the way forward for York IE.
Nicely performed, SchoolBI. The longer term is shiny!