What Meadow does

Meadow (Meadow Technologies, Inc.) is a New York-based B2B SaaS fintech serving U.S. colleges and universities through a four-module integrated platform called the Meadow Suite. The modules span the full student financial lifecycle: Meadow Price (a mobile, SAI-compliant net price calculator delivering individualized cost estimates in under three minutes), Meadow Pay (student billing, accounts-receivable, and FERPA-aware communications with SIS integration), Meadow Pre (student-first pre-collections with personalized multi-channel outreach and self-service payment plans up to 24 months), and Meadow Checkout (campus-wide non-tuition payments with omni-channel in-person POS terminals as of 2026). The platform integrates natively with the major U.S. higher-education Student Information Systems — Ellucian Banner and Colleague, Jenzabar, Powercampus, PeopleSoft, Empower, and CAMS — and routes payments through a partnership with Finix, which underwrites Meadow's PCI DSS, NACHA, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.

Meadow makes money primarily through quote-based B2B SaaS subscriptions sold to U.S. higher-education institutions as multi-year enterprise contracts, supplemented by transaction-based economics on payments processed through Finix across tuition, pre-collections, and non-tuition flows. Implementation and integration services (~30 hours over 12 weeks) are bundled at no incremental cost and delivered by Meadow's product, engineering, and integration leads alongside the institution's IT and Student Financial Services teams. The go-to-market is enterprise sales-led, supported by content marketing (research reports, case studies, blog), industry partnerships (NACUBO), and hosted events (the Student Financial Experience Forum), with a public-facing Net Price Calculator and Learn portal serving as top-of-funnel demand capture from prospective students and families. The customer base has scaled from 170+ institutions at the time of the April 2025 Series A to 300+ U.S. higher-education institutions by 2026, including marquee R1 publics (Penn State, Arizona State, UT Austin, UC San Diego, Auburn, Wisconsin-Madison), private liberal-arts colleges, and community colleges.

Cumulatively Meadow has raised approximately $19.5 million in equity ($3.5M seed led by Susa Ventures in February 2023; $14M Series A led by Matrix Partners in April 2025), employs 11-50 people, and operates as a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered at 175 Varick Street, New York, NY. Meadow's stated differentiators are end-to-end coverage of the student financial lifecycle, deep SIS integration depth, mobile-first UX versus legacy ERP billing modules, and a proprietary benchmarking research asset (1,500+ audited financial statements; 147-practitioner AI survey) that the company uses both for content marketing and product positioning.

Name

Meadow

Legal name

Meadow Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://meadowfi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Meadow is a New York-based B2B SaaS fintech whose four-module platform — Meadow Price, Pay, Pre, and Checkout — modernizes the U.S. higher-education student financial experience from net-price calculation through billing, pre-collections, and campus payments, serving 300+ colleges and universities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Student Financial Services Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Educational Support Services (6117)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Billing, Invoicing & Account Statements (EDALAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Scholarship, Financial Aid & FAFSA Support Platforms (EDAFAMAF)

Keywords

• Student billing software
• Net price calculator
• Payment processing education
• Student accounts receivable
• Higher education fintech

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Institutional SaaS subscriptions: B2B SaaS contracts with U.S. colleges and universities for the Meadow suite (Price, Pay, Pre, Checkout). Sold as an integrated platform (Meadow Checkout is only available alongside Meadow Pay or Meadow Pre). Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; deal structures include multi-month implementations and multi-year contracts typical of enterprise SaaS.
2. Payment processing / transaction fees: Payments are processed through Finix, a third-party global payment processor, on a transactional basis across tuition, pre-collections, and non-tuition campus payments — implying transaction-based economics to Meadow on each payment processed.
3. Professional services / implementation and integration: Implementation, SIS integration, and configuration services (typically ~30 hours over 12 weeks for Pay, ~20 hours for communications library design) bundled with subscriptions, performed by Meadow's project managers and integration specialists at no incremental cost to the institution.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Meadow (Meadow Technologies, Inc.) sells a B2B SaaS suite that helps U.S. colleges and universities manage the student financial lifecycle across four integrated modules: Meadow Price (modern Net Price Calculator for prospective students), Meadow Pay (mobile billing, communications, and payments), Meadow Pre (student-first pre-collections for past-due balances), and Meadow Checkout (campus-wide non-tuition payments with omni-channel POS terminals). The platform integrates with major Student Information Systems (Banner, Colleague, Jenzabar, Powercampus, PeopleSoft, Empower, CAMS) and processes payments via Finix with PCI DSS, NACHA, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.

Product overview

Meadow (Meadow Technologies, Inc.) is a unified higher-education fintech platform called The Meadow Suite, designed to drive student enrollment, retention, and payment outcomes from application to graduation. The suite is a platform-plus-modules architecture comprising four core products that cover the full student financial lifecycle: Meadow Price (a modern, SAI-compliant Net Price Calculator for prospective students), Meadow Pay (mobile billing, payments, and accounts receivable with automated communications and SIS integration), Meadow Pre (student-first pre-collections with personalized outreach and flexible payment plans for past-due balances), and Meadow Checkout (campus-wide non-tuition payments via storefronts, direct links, and POS terminals). Together the four modules are used by over 300 higher-education institutions, supported by native integrations with major Student Information Systems (Banner, Colleague, Powercampus, Jenzabar, PeopleSoft, Empower, CAMS) and payment processing through Finix.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Meadow Price: Modern, mobile, SAI-compliant Net Price Calculator that helps prospective students estimate college costs in under 3 minutes.
• Meadow Pay
• Meadow Pre
• Meadow Checkout

Products and services

• Meadow Price

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered flagship regional event host, high-profile industry partner, core technology partner, core integration partner, supporting speaker institution and standard contractual counterparty.

• University of New Hampshireflagship regional event hostStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 June 2026Hosting venue for Meadow's Student Financial Experience Forum on June 12, 2026 in Durham, NH — a regional gathering for Student Accounts and Financial Aid leaders across New England and the Northeast. Speakers include UNH leadership alongside Mount Holyoke, University of Vermont, and American University of Antigua College of Medicine.
• NACUBO (National Association of College and University Business Officers)high-profile industry partnerGTM or Marketing Partner · 30 April 2026Co-hosted a live webinar with Meadow on April 30, 2026 presenting findings from Meadow's State of AI in Student Accounts report, with complimentary report copies distributed to attending practitioners. Provides NACUBO-validated distribution to higher-ed business officers.
• Finixcore technology partnerTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024Underlying global payment processor for Meadow Pay, Meadow Pre, and Meadow Checkout. Provides the PCI DSS, NACHA, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance foundation, plus machine-learning–based payment verification and fraud detection for Meadow's payment flows.
• Ellucian (Banner / Colleague)core integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationDeep integration with Ellucian Banner and Ellucian Colleague Student Information Systems. William Jewell College case study describes joint work between Meadow and Ellucian Colleague experts (including Jason Pyle) on real-time balance access and account reconciliation.
• Jenzabarcore integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationNamed as one of the major Student Information Systems that Meadow Pay integrates with alongside Banner, Colleague, Powercampus, PeopleSoft, Empower, and CAMS.
• Oracle PeopleSoftcore integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationNamed integration partner — Meadow Pay and Meadow Pre integrate with PeopleSoft SIS for real-time billing data flow.
• Anthology (Campus Management Empower / CAMS)core integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationNamed as supported SIS platforms — Meadow Pay integrates with Empower and CAMS environments.
• Powercampus (Anthology)core integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationNamed as a supported Student Information System integrated with Meadow Pay.
• Mount Holyoke Collegesupporting speaker institutionGTM or Marketing PartnerSpeaker institution at the Student Financial Experience Forum (June 12, 2026 at UNH), contributing peer perspective to attendees from across New England and the Northeast.
• University of Vermontsupporting speaker institutionGTM or Marketing PartnerSpeaker institution at Meadow's Student Financial Experience Forum at UNH (June 12, 2026).
• American University of Antigua College of Medicinesupporting speaker institutionGTM or Marketing PartnerSpeaker institution at Meadow's Student Financial Experience Forum at UNH (June 12, 2026).
• American Arbitration Association (AAA)standard contractual counterpartyOthersNamed administrator of arbitration under Meadow's Terms of Service (Consumer Arbitration Rules), per Section 16 of the Meadow Terms of Service.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ellucian: Largest U.S. higher-ed SIS vendor (Banner, Colleague, Powercampus) and the system of record Meadow integrates against. A broad incumbent that could choose to bundle native billing/pre-collections capabilities, making it both a critical partner and a latent competitive threat.
• Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions: Legacy higher-ed ERP with embedded student billing and financial-aid modules. Represents the type of incumbent whose modernization gaps created the opportunity Meadow is capturing, but whose installed base could be redirected toward competing native solutions.
• Anthology: Higher-ed software platform spanning SIS (Campus Management / CAMS / Empower / Powercampus), CRM, and student-success products. Bundles workflow capabilities that overlap with Meadow's suite and competes for the same institutional budget pool.
• Workday Student: Modern cloud ERP for higher education including student financials, financial aid, and student records. Competes for the same institutional modernization budget as Meadow and could encroach on Meadow's billing and pre-collections use cases over time.

Direct peers

• Tuition Management Systems (TMS): Specialist in tuition payment plans and student-account communications for U.S. colleges and universities. Overlaps directly with Meadow Pre's payment-plan and outreach capabilities and addresses the same Bursar/Student Accounts buyer.
• Nelnet Business Solutions: Parent of TouchNet and a major provider of tuition payment plans, campus commerce, and student-account servicing to U.S. higher-education institutions. Closest scaled incumbent to Meadow Pay/Pre with comparable customer base and product breadth.
• Flywire: Vertical payments platform with deep roots in education (tuition and international student payments), serving universities and edtech partners. Comparable GTM into higher-ed business offices, though stronger cross-border and international-student orientation than Meadow.
• TouchNet: Higher-education-focused payment processing and commerce platform serving colleges and universities. Directly comparable to Meadow Pay and Meadow Checkout, with an overlapping buyer persona (Bursars, Student Accounts) and similar SIS-integration approach.

Emerging players

• PayMyTuition: Specialist tuition-payment platform with a strong international-student focus. Partial overlap with Meadow Pay's cross-institution payment processing, particularly for non-U.S. students — a segment Meadow's U.S.-only ToS currently does not address.
• PayIt: Digital government and education payments platform serving institutions and agencies. Comparable in modernizing legacy bill payment and engagement, with adjacent rather than direct overlap to Meadow's higher-ed-focused stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/meadowfi
• Facebookfacebook.com/meadowfi

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors7 records

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M&A

Investments

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