eKadence

What eKadence does

eKadence Learning Foundation is a California-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds and sells the Learning+AI Platform, an integrated learning management system for K-12 public school districts. The platform combines adaptive learning technology with AI-powered modules including Teacher AI CoPilot (lesson planning, grading, and feedback generation), Skrappy (a student-facing AI tutor), AI Career Center, AI Reading Coach, Counselor Tools, ePortfolio, Special Education Progress Monitoring for IEP/BIP tracking, and Survey Stream. It integrates with Student Information Systems, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, with 11-50 employees.

The platform is sold primarily through direct enterprise sales to school districts on a subscription basis with multi-year contracts, with pricing negotiated at the institutional level. Distribution is supplemented by channel partnerships, notably the Oklahoma State School Boards Association (OSSBA) for Oklahoma schools and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) for the Secondary School Redesign Pilot. eKadence maintains compliance with FERPA, COPPA, SOC 2 Type 2, 1EdTech Trusted Apps and Data Privacy, OWASP ASVS, CASA Tier 2, and WCAG 2 AA. Named customer districts include Anaheim Union High School District, Cajon Valley Union, Vista Unified, Union Public Schools (Tulsa), Santiam Canyon, Lynwood, Wheatland, Winters, and Riverbank. The business is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds, revenue figures, or external institutional investors.

Name

eKadence

Legal name

eKadence Learning Foundation

Website

https://ekadence.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

eKadence Learning Foundation is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides the Learning+AI Platform, an integrated K-12 learning management system with AI tutoring, lesson planning, IEP tracking, and career tools, sold via district subscriptions to public schools in California and Oklahoma.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Learning Management System (EdTech Software)

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Education & Learning Personalization (HDAAAGAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Learning Analytics & Dashboards (Student/Teacher/Admin Insights) (EDAFAFAA), Digital/Interactive Curriculum Content (Apps, Games, Multimedia Lessons) (EDACAJAK), Institutional & Program Analytics (Enrollment, Retention, Outcomes) (EDAFAFAK), Competency/Skills Analytics & Learning Progression Mapping (EDAFAFAF), Learning Data Infrastructure & Interoperability (LRS, xAPI/LTI/OneRoster, Data Pipelines) (EDAFAFAJ)

Keywords

• Learning management platform
• K-12 education technology
• AI tutoring software
• Adaptive learning systems
• Special education tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Irvine

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Institutional Subscriptions: School districts and institutions subscribe to the Learning+AI Platform, with platform access requiring subscription fees as outlined in service agreements. Pricing varies by district size and scope.
2. Special Pricing Programs: eKadence offers special reduced pricing to Oklahoma schools through the OSSBA partnership, indicating negotiated institutional pricing tiers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

eKadence provides a nonprofit Learning+AI Platform for K-12 school districts that integrates adaptive learning technology with human-centered AI. The platform combines a core learning management system with embedded AI modules — Teacher AI CoPilot, Skrappy Student AI Tutor, AI Career Center, AI Reading Coach, IEP/BIP Progress Monitoring, Counselor Tools, ePortfolio, and Survey Stream — to personalize instruction, automate grading and lesson planning, and unify communication, assessment, and reporting.

Product overview

eKadence is a Non-Profit Learning Platform with Integrated AI Tools for Student-Centered Learning. The portfolio consists of the core Learning+AI Platform which provides adaptive learning with real-time analytics and intelligent interventions, supported by specialized AI-powered modules including Teacher AI CoPilot (lesson planning and grading), Skrappy Student AI Tutor (personalized tutoring), AI Career Center (career exploration), and AI Reading Coach (language learning). Additional tools include Counselor Tools, ePortfolio, Special Ed Progress Monitoring for IEP/BIP tracking, and Survey Stream for AI-powered survey analysis. The platform serves K-12 students, teachers, parents, counselors, and administrators with features for classroom management, grading, assessments, and parental engagement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Skrappy: AI-powered student tutor and assistant that adapts to each student's learning style, providing instant feedback, personalized support, and engaging explanations. Also appears as an AI mascot character for the company.
• Teacher AI CoPilot
• AI Career Center
• ePortfolio
• Learning+AI Platform
• Special Education Progress Monitoring
• Survey Stream

Products and services

• Learning+AI Platform Core comprehensive learning platform that blends adaptive learning technology with human-centered AI to personalize K-12 education at scale. Delivers real-time analytics, tailored content recommendations, and intelligent interventions for students, teachers, and administrators.
• Teacher AI CoPilot AI-powered assistant designed for teachers that streamlines lesson planning, grading, exam generation, and personalized instruction by automating routine tasks and offering actionable insights.
• Skrappy Student AI Tutor & Assistant AI-powered student tutor and assistant that adapts to each student's learning style, provides instant feedback and personalized support, helps students master challenging concepts, manage priorities, and access mental well-being resources.
• AI Career Center Guides students in exploring future pathways by aligning interests, skills, and academic progress with career opportunities; includes tailored recommendations, resume-building tools, and interview prep resources.
• AI Reading Coach Interactive speaking and listening practice tool that helps students learn a new language, meeting learners where they are and building confidence in real time through speech and audio AI.
• IEP/BIP Special Education Progress Monitoring Special education tool that ensures compliance and tracks student growth by simplifying management of IEP goals, BIPs, service hours, and reporting; provides educators and support staff with insights for individualized support.
• Counselor Tools Tool for school counselors that streamlines case management, intervention tracking, and student goal setting, and enables collaboration with teachers and families to monitor academic and social-emotional progress.
• ePortfolio Student portfolio tool that allows learners to showcase their learning journeys through curated projects, reflections, and achievements, with multimedia uploads and customizable layouts.
• Survey Stream AI-driven survey tool that turns data into actionable insights, enabling school administrators to gauge community sentiment and teachers to quickly deploy exit cards or surveys to assess learning.

Quantifiable outcome

• Helped students from underserved communities develop critical college and career readiness skills through AUHSD and GEAR UP programs
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability11 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

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

• InflexioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2026eKadence and Inflexion were selected by CCEE to support California's Secondary School Redesign Pilot. Together they bring AI-enabled infrastructure, decades of technology and system design expertise, and statewide implementation experience to districts leading meaningful secondary redesign. The partnership supports coherence across leadership, instruction, assessment, and student supports.
• California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2026Selected by CCEE to support California's Secondary School Redesign Pilot, a flagship effort focused on advancing equitable, student-centered secondary education across California.
• Get LitcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 12 November 2025eKadence partnered with Get Lit to support literacy and creative expression among Southern California high school students. The platform allows students who submitted poetry via Get Lit's Uni(verse) platform to share and vote on entries via eKadence, making the nation's largest youth poetry contest accessible and engaging.
• Oklahoma State School Boards Association (OSSBA)flagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 28 August 2025Strategic partnership to provide Oklahoma schools with low-cost access to the eKadence Learning+AI Platform. The partnership offers personalized learning, AI insights, IEP/BIP tools, and seamless SIS, Google, and Microsoft integrations at special reduced pricing for Oklahoma schools.
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 February 2025CZI head of education visited Dale Junior High in AUHSD to discuss AI impact on teaching and learning. District leaders shared how Anaheim teachers use AI to create asset-based learning experiences tailored to each student.
• UC Irvine School of EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with UC Irvine and AUHSD to use AI to redefine student success by capturing reflections on creativity, collaboration, and compassion—offering a more equitable approach to college admissions.
• GEAR UPminorStrategic or Co-development PartnereKadence has helped students from underserved communities develop critical college and career readiness skills through GEAR UP programs.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Khan Academy (Khanmigo): Khan Academy's Khanmigo is an AI tutor for students and teachers, mirroring Skrappy and Teacher AI CoPilot's adaptive-tutoring and lesson-planning capabilities. Both are mission-driven (Khan is nonprofit) and target K-12 personalized learning with AI.
• Canvas (Instructure): Canvas by Instructure is one of the leading K-12 and higher-ed LMS platforms, directly competing with eKadence for district-wide learning management contracts. Both serve K-12 with integrated curriculum, assessment, and communication tools, though Canvas lacks eKadence's integrated AI tutoring and nonprofit positioning.
• Schoology (PowerSchool): Schoology, now part of PowerSchool, is a direct K-12 LMS competitor offering gradebook, SIS integration, and learning management. Both platforms target district deployments with similar workflow features, but PowerSchool has larger scale and a deeper SIS data moat.
• Kiddom: Kiddom is a K-12 standards-based learning platform with curriculum, assessment, and analytics — directly comparable to eKadence's Learning+AI Platform for district adoption. Both target per-student licensing with SIS-gradebook integrations.

Broad incumbents

• Google Classroom: Google Classroom is the most widely deployed free K-12 LMS, often the incumbent that districts replace. eKadence integrates with Google Workspace but also competes for full district-wide platform spend as a more integrated alternative.
• Imagine Learning (Edgenuity): Imagine Learning (including Edgenuity) provides K-12 personalized and credit-recovery learning solutions, intersecting eKadence's adaptive learning and AI tutoring offering. It is a much larger incumbent with broader curriculum depth.
• Microsoft 365 Education (Teams for Education): Microsoft Teams for Education is a major K-12 LMS and communication incumbent often pre-bundled into district enterprise agreements. Like Google Classroom, it is both an integration partner and a free/cheap competitor for full district platform contracts.

Emerging players

• Newsela: Newsela provides K-12 instructional content with AI-driven differentiation, overlapping eKadence's AI personalization and content recommendations. Both target district-level ELA/social studies content and reading-support workflows.
• MagicSchool AI: MagicSchool AI is an AI workspace for teachers with lesson planning, differentiation, and assessment generation — a feature set overlapping eKadence's Teacher AI CoPilot. Both compete for K-12 teacher productivity spend, though MagicSchool focuses on a teacher-first AI tool layer rather than a full LMS.
• SchoolAI: SchoolAI builds AI tools for K-12 schools, including student chatbots and teacher tools, overlapping Skrappy and CoPilot. It is venture-backed and targeting district-level adoption with a similar AI-for-classrooms value proposition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/eKadenceLearning
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ekadence

Compliance10 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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

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