What Intellispark does

Intellispark is a private EdTech SaaS company founded in 2017 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, that provides a cloud-based student success management platform for PreK-12 schools, school districts, and community-based organizations. The platform is purpose-built to coordinate student support services across teachers, administrators, counselors, clinicians, families, and students, addressing fragmentation in how schools execute Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), manage attendance and behavior interventions, and run family communication. The company was created by the co-founders of Naviance and reports member schools in 43 U.S. states and 13 countries.

The core platform is anchored by Student Hub, a centralized interface for tracking student progress and coordinating interventions, and is delivered through tiered core products (Intellispark Pro and Intellispark Plus) supplemented by modular add-ons: Attendance Manager (SIS-integrated chronic absenteeism tracking and intervention management), Messaging (multi-stakeholder communication), and Automation (configurable threshold-based alerts and workflows). The platform also includes ScholarCentric, a research-based resiliency assessment program acquired in April 2021 that measures six resiliency skills and was developed by Boston University Professor V. Scott Solberg. Integrations span student information systems, Google Workspace, and SSO providers Clever and ClassLink, with compliance postures aligned to FERPA, COPPA, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

Intellispark operates an enterprise SaaS revenue model with annual subscription billing executed through Order Forms with schools and districts, with pricing determined via a quote-based, demo-first consultative sales motion. The go-to-market is multi-stakeholder, engaging administrators, counselors, teachers, and district leadership through demo bookings and design-partner engagements. The company has raised approximately $4.5 million in disclosed venture funding across rounds led by GSV Ventures and including PHX Ventures, Hillside Ventures, K Street Capital, and Difference Partners, and in July 2025 entered a strategic partnership and investment with FullBloom's CharacterStrong division to deliver an integrated MTSS platform combining SEL curriculum with Intellispark's coordination tools.

Name

Intellispark

Legal name

Intellispark Inc.

Website

https://intellispark.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Intellispark is a private EdTech SaaS platform that helps PreK-12 schools, districts, and community organizations coordinate student support, attendance, behavior interventions, and family communication through MTSS-aligned workflows, automation, and the ScholarCentric resiliency program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Technology (Student Success & MTSS)

NAICS

Educational Support Services (6117), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Early Alert, Intervention, Attendance & Engagement Analytics (EDAFAMAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Behavior, Discipline, PBIS/MTSS & Intervention Tracking (EDAFAEAJ), RTI/MTSS Framework Implementation & Tiered Supports (EDAJAGAD)

Keywords

• Student success platform
• K-12 student support
• Attendance management software
• MTSS coordination platform
• School intervention software

Headquarters

HQ city

Mclean

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, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (Implied): The company provides products and services to schools, school districts, and community-based organizations under terms of service agreements with order forms. The Terms of Service references fees, billing, and payment terms, indicating a subscription-based revenue model with annual or multi-year contract billing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Intellispark is a cloud-based SaaS platform for PreK-12 schools and districts that coordinates student support services by integrating attendance tracking, behavior management, communication, intervention workflows, and resiliency programming in a single system. The platform connects teachers, administrators, counselors, clinicians, families, and students to operationalize Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) with configurable, threshold-based automations. Core offerings include the Intellispark platform (with Student Hub), the Attendance Manager module, and the ScholarCentric resiliency program.

Product overview

Intellispark is an education technology platform that offers a tiered architecture centered around Intellispark Pro and Intellispark Plus as the core platforms, supplemented by modular add-on products. The core is anchored by Student Hub, which serves as the central interface for tracking and coordinating student support. Key add-on modules include Attendance Manager (for attendance tracking and intervention management), ScholarCentric (a research-based resiliency assessment program acquired in 2021), Messaging (for multi-stakeholder communication), and Automation (for threshold-based workflow triggers and alerts). The platform is designed to connect teachers, administrators, counselors, families, and community resources to make student success a collaborative effort.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Attendance Manager: Comprehensive attendance data integration, tracking, alerting, and intervention management to help schools maximize attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism.
• Student Hub
• ScholarCentric
• Success Highways

Products and services

• Intellispark Platform (Student Hub)
• Attendance Manager
• ScholarCentric

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced lunch detentions by 57% (from 1,776 to 756) while enrollment increased from 313 to 338 students
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers22 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

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CharacterStrongcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 July 2025FullBloom announced a partnership and strategic investment between its CharacterStrong division and Intellispark. The partnership aims to deliver an integrated MTSS platform combining CharacterStrong's SEL curriculum with Intellispark's student support coordination tools. The companies share co-founders from Naviance.
• ClevercoreTechnology or IntegrationClever provides data integration, rostering, and single sign-on capabilities for Intellispark. Available through Clever's education app marketplace.
• ClassLinkcoreTechnology or IntegrationClassLink provides single sign-on and identity management integration for Intellispark. Available through ClassLink's launchpad.
• XellominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerXello and Intellispark partnered to help schools and districts align college and career readiness and well-being to improve outcomes for students.
• Le Moyne College (LPP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerColleagues from Le Moyne College's LPP (Ladder to the Professions) join Intellispark to share practices using Intellispark Pro with ScholarCentric that are helping students thrive.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Panorama Education: Panorama Education is a leading K-12 student success platform covering SEL, MTSS, attendance, behavior, and family engagement for schools and districts. It is the closest direct competitor to Intellispark in the PreK-12 student support/MTSS category.
• LiveSchool: LiveSchool provides PBIS, behavior tracking, and student incentive tools for K-12 schools, with features such as house points, behavior referrals, and parent communication. It is a direct comparator for Intellispark's behavior and attendance intervention functionality.
• Kickboard: Kickboard is a K-12 behavior tracking and PBIS platform that helps schools document behavior incidents, build character, and run intervention workflows. It competes head-to-head with Intellispark's Flags, behavior, and MTSS automation features.
• Branching Minds: Branching Minds provides an MTSS-focused platform that supports intervention planning, progress monitoring, and student support workflows in K-12. It overlaps directly with Intellispark's MTSS, intervention tracking, and student support coordination use cases.
• SchoolMint: SchoolMint offers K-12 student success products spanning attendance, behavior, social-emotional learning, and family communication. Its Hero and Hero Behavioral Health products compete directly with Intellispark's attendance and intervention management modules.
• Otus: Otus is an all-in-one K-12 platform combining LMS, SIS, assessment, and data/MTSS workflows for schools and districts. It overlaps with Intellispark on student data, progress monitoring, and multi-stakeholder reporting in PreK-12 settings.

Broad incumbents

• Infinite Campus: Infinite Campus is a widely deployed K-12 SIS used by many U.S. districts and is expanding into adjacent student success and behavior features. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same K-12 administrative and intervention management spend.
• Frontline Education: Frontline Education provides a wide suite of K-12 administrative software, including student management, behavior, MTSS, and human capital tools. As an established incumbent in district operations, it competes for the same MTSS and student support budget that Intellispark targets.
• PowerSchool: PowerSchool is the dominant U.S. K-12 SIS and now owns Naviance (the company co-founded by Intellispark's leadership). It offers a broad portfolio that touches attendance, behavior, MTSS, and intervention workflows and can bundle competing features into district-wide contracts.
• Illuminate Education: Illuminate Education provides K-12 data, assessment, and student information systems, including behavior and intervention tracking. It is a broader incumbent whose analytics and SIS footprint overlap with Intellispark's intervention and student success analytics use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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