Qoria

What Qoria does

Qoria is a global digital safety and wellbeing company headquartered in Perth, Australia, founded in 2012 under the name Family Zone and rebranded to Qoria in 2022. The company provides K-12 schools and parents with a cloud-based suite for web filtering, content monitoring, classroom management, and student wellbeing check-ins, serving approximately 32,000 schools across four continents and protecting an estimated 30 million children. Its product portfolio is delivered through a family of regional sub-brands — Linewize (North America, Australia, New Zealand), Smoothwall (UK, market leader for over two decades), Qustodio (consumer parental controls used by over 9 million parents globally), and ySafe (Australian cyber safety education) — backed by a modular platform consisting of Filter, Classwize, Monitor, Pulse, School Manager, Record Manager, and Online Safety Hub.

The underlying technology combines network-level web filtering, mobile device management (MDM), session recording, and AI-driven content classification and anomaly detection applied to text and structured behavioral data. Qoria's revenue model is primarily subscription-based: annual recurring contracts with school districts and individual consumer subscriptions (typically monthly for family plans, annually for school deployments with auto-renewal). H1 FY2026 results reported A$69 million in revenue (+25% year-over-year), A$10.3 million in EBITDA (+68% year-over-year), and ARR of A$149 million (+20% year-over-year). The company maintains comprehensive compliance with COPPA, FERPA, GDPR, and the California Student Privacy Certification (CSPC), alongside iKeepSafe Safe Harbor certifications and ISO 27001 across its operating stack.

In February 2026, Boston-based Aura announced a binding agreement to acquire Qoria via Australian scheme of arrangement at an implied pre-money equity value of approximately US$2.1 billion (A$0.72 per share). The acquisition was completed in April 2026, supported by a US$100 million equity placement; the combined entity reports ARR exceeding US$300 million as of December 2025 and will list on the ASX under the ticker AXQ.

Name

Qoria

Legal name

Qoria Limited

Website

https://qoria.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Qoria is a Perth-based digital safety and wellbeing company that delivers K-12 school filtering, monitoring, and classroom management tools alongside consumer parental controls, serving approximately 32,000 schools and 30 million children across four continents through its Linewize, Smoothwall, Qustodio, and ySafe brands; it was acquired by Aura in April 2026.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Digital Safety & Wellbeing Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Content Moderation, Safe Messaging & Classroom Communication Safety (EDAFALAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Parental Controls, Content Filtering & Family Digital Safety for Smart Homes (HSAHAJAG), Child Safety & Exploitation Prevention Operations (CSAM detection workflows, escalation) (BPAAALAK)

Keywords

• Child safety software
• Web filtering
• Classroom management
• Parental controls
• Student wellbeing

Headquarters

HQ city

Perth

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. School/Subscription Revenue: Annual recurring subscription revenue from K-12 schools and school districts for digital safety and monitoring solutions. Contracts are typically annual with auto-renewal provisions. Revenue of $69 million in H1 FY2026 representing 25% YoY growth.
2. Consumer/Family Subscriptions: Subscription revenue from parents and families purchasing parental control tools (Qustodio, Linewize). Individual household subscriptions with varying plan tiers.
3. Combined ARR with Aura: Combined ARR exceeding $300 million as of December 2025 following Aura acquisition announcement, targeting over 20% growth in calendar year 2026.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Qoria develops and sells SaaS software for digital child safety and wellbeing. Through its sub-brands Linewize and Smoothwall it delivers web filtering, classroom management, and student monitoring to schools, and through Qustodio and ySafe it delivers parental controls and family device management to households. The company serves approximately 32,000 schools and 30 million children globally.

Product overview

Qoria is a global technology company dedicated to child digital safety and wellbeing, operating a platform-plus-modules architecture under multiple regional sub-brands. The core product family includes Filter (web filtering), Classwize (classroom management), Monitor (student activity monitoring), Pulse (wellbeing check-ins), School Manager (administrative console), Record Manager (session recording), and Online Safety Hub (resource center). These are delivered primarily under the Linewize brand (Australia, NZ, North America), Smoothwall (UK), Qustodio (parental control consumer app), and ySafe (Australian cyber safety education) sub-brands. The company serves 32,000 schools across four continents, protecting 30 million children, with particular market penetration in the US (20% of students) and UK (40% of students). Qoria was acquired by Aura in 2026 in a ~$2.1 billion deal, combining with Aura's US consumer digital safety platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Linewize: Comprehensive digital safety and wellbeing solutions for schools, students and families, operating in North America, New Zealand, and Australia.
• Smoothwall
• Qustodio
• ySafe

Products and services

• Linewize
• Smoothwall
• Qustodio
• ySafe

Quantifiable outcome

• A child at potential serious risk is identified every 3 minutes through Qoria's monitoring platform
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration28 records

AI capability5 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• AuraflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 February 2026Aura, an AI-powered online safety platform based in Boston, announced binding agreement to acquire Qoria through Australian scheme of arrangement. Combined entity will list on ASX under ticker AXQ with implied pre-money equity value of approximately US$2.1 billion. Combined ARR exceeding US$300 million as of December 2025. Qoria founder Tim Levy becomes Global CEO; Aura founder Hari Ravichandran becomes Chairman.
• OctopusBIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 October 2024Data analytics company OctopusBI acquired by Qoria to enhance K-12 data analytics and decision support services. Qoria raised A$30 million through share issuance to fund the acquisition. Integration aims to accelerate growth in the K-12 data analytics market.
• Thomson GeerminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 7 October 2024Thomson Geer acted as legal advisor to Qoria on the acquisition of OctopusBI, providing legal counsel for the transaction.
• Google LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle provides cloud infrastructure (GCP), storage, processing, data visualization (Looker, Charts), and push notifications (Firebase) for Qoria's Classwize, Pulse, Monitor, Record Manager, and Filter products. Data subjects include students, teachers, parents, and school administrators.
• Microsoft CorporationcoreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft Azure provides cloud infrastructure, storage, and processing for Qoria's Monitor, Record Manager, and Filter products. Also provides content classification capabilities.
• Amazon Web Services, Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS provides cloud infrastructure, compute, and data storage for Qoria's Qustodio product, supporting parental control application hosting.

Scale indicators18 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• GoGuardian: GoGuardian is a leading K-12 student safety and classroom management platform serving US schools with filtering, monitoring and teacher tools. It is one of the most direct US-market substitutes for Linewize/Monitor/Classwize.
• Gaggle: Gaggle provides K-12 student safety monitoring, early-warning analytics and content detection for US school districts. Its focus on self-harm and threat detection overlaps directly with Qoria's Pulse/Monitor/Record Manager capabilities.
• ContentKeeper Technologies: ContentKeeper provides web filtering, SSL inspection and student safety reporting for K-12 schools. Its school-side filtering feature set and cybersecurity heritage overlap with Qoria's Filter product for education networks.
• Lightspeed Systems: Lightspeed Systems delivers K-12 web filtering, mobile device management and classroom management software. It is a direct competitor in network-level filtering and device management, mirroring Qoria's Filter and Classwize modules.
• Securly: Securly provides K-12 web filtering, student activity monitoring and wellbeing tools for US school districts. It competes head-on with Qoria's Linewize brand in the US student-safety category with overlapping filter/monitor/wellness functionality.
• Impero Software: Impero provides classroom management, online safety and network monitoring for K-12 schools, primarily in the UK and Europe. It overlaps with Smoothwall's UK safeguarding and Linewize's classroom management offerings.
• Bark Technologies: Bark offers AI-powered content monitoring for children's devices and is offered both to schools and directly to parents. It is a direct cross-market peer spanning school-side monitoring (overlapping Pulse/Monitor) and parental controls (overlapping Qustodio).

Broad incumbents

• Aura: Aura is now Qoria's parent company after the 2026 acquisition; it operates a consumer digital safety platform spanning identity protection, device security and family safety. The combination creates overlap on the family/parental control side (Qustodio) and Aura's home/consumer suite.
• Microsoft Family Safety: Microsoft Family Safety is a free, OS-level parental control and screen-time tool bundled with Windows and Xbox. It is a default free alternative in Qustodio's consumer market and increasingly a baseline competitor in school device ecosystems.
• Norton Family (Gen Digital): Norton Family is a parental control product from a major consumer security incumbent. It competes with Qustodio in the household subscription segment and benefits from being bundled with broader Norton security suites.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/qoria

Compliance12 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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