What Madisoft does

Madisoft S.p.A. is an Italian software company that develops and operates Nuvola, a cloud-based school management platform purpose-built for Italian K-12 schools. Founded in 2013 as a side project to digitize school administrative workflows, the company now serves 1,200+ Italian schools with 600,000+ daily active users, managing 500M+ attachments and processing over one billion queries per day. It operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary under the direction and coordination of Gruppo Buffetti S.p.A., an Italian conglomerate, and runs a 100% remote engineering organization of approximately 33 people distributed across Italy. The CTO is Matteo Moretti.

Nuvola is a multi-tenant SaaS platform built on PHP with the Symfony framework, ES6/React.js on the front-end, and AWS infrastructure (including Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS, and ECS Fargate, with AWS CDK used for infrastructure-as-code). To handle scale, Madisoft engineered a custom Doctrine-based database sharding architecture that distributes per-school tenant data across multiple database instances, enabling horizontal scaling and data isolation. The platform delivers comprehensive school digitalization covering didattica (teaching management), digital secretariat, student areas, school-family communication, protocol management, staff areas, and document dematerialization — features tightly aligned with Italian school administrative and regulatory requirements.

Madisoft generates revenue through recurring SaaS subscriptions sold directly to Italian schools on a sales-led basis. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company has no disclosed external venture funding and its GTM is concentrated entirely in Italy. Marketing is executed primarily through engineering content on the Labs Madisoft blog, Italian developer conference participation (Symfony Day/Sfday, AWS Summit Milan, DevMarche), and community/open-source contributions. Performance engineering work — including Symfony bootstrap optimization that yielded a 30% production CPU reduction and roughly doubled requests-per-second — illustrates an operations-led approach to scaling the SaaS workload.

Name

Madisoft

Legal name

Madisoft S.p.A.

Website

https://labs.madisoft.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Madisoft is an Italian SaaS company that builds Nuvola, a cloud-based school management platform serving 1,200+ Italian K-12 schools with 600,000+ daily active users. Operating as a 100% remote subsidiary of Gruppo Buffetti, the company sells SaaS subscriptions directly to schools for digitalization of teaching, administration, and family communication.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pollenza (MC)

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription for Schools: Madisoft generates revenue through SaaS subscriptions for its Nuvola platform, providing Italian schools with comprehensive digital management tools on a recurring subscription basis

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Madisoft develops and operates Nuvola, a comprehensive cloud-based school management platform purpose-built for Italian schools. The platform manages teaching (didattica), digital secretariat (segreteria digitale), student areas, school-family communication, protocol area, staff area, and the dematerialization of school processes, serving 1,200+ Italian schools with 600,000+ daily active users.

Product overview

Madisoft offers a single unified product called Nuvola — a comprehensive cloud-based school management platform designed specifically for Italian schools. The product enables complete digitalization of school operations, managing teaching, administrative tasks, student records, parent-school communication, protocol management, and staff administration. The platform serves over 1,200 schools with 600,000+ daily active users, processing over 1,000 million queries per day.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nuvola Nuvola is a comprehensive cloud-based school management platform that enables Italian schools to manage teaching (didattica), digital secretariat (segreteria digitale), student areas, school-family communication, protocol area, staff area, and the dematerialization of school processes, serving 1,200+ schools and 600,000+ daily active users.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% CPU reduction in production after Symfony bootstrap optimization
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Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS partner using AWS cloud infrastructure to host and scale Nuvola platform. Utilizes AWS services including Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS, ECS Fargate for managing 600,000+ daily active users across 1,200+ Italian schools. AWS CDK and CloudFormation used for infrastructure-as-code deployment.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Alma: Modern K-12 SIS targeting independent and charter schools with an integrated student information, learning, and enrollment platform. Directly comparable in product scope (SIS + family communication) and positioning as a cloud-native replacement for legacy school administration tools.
• PowerSchool: Largest global K-12 Student Information System vendor, serving tens of thousands of schools across North America and increasingly in Europe. Directly comparable product category (cloud SIS) and customer base (K-12 schools), with active European expansion that brings competitive overlap with Nuvola in Italy and adjacent markets.
• Veracross: Unified K-12 school management platform combining SIS, learning management, enrollment, and development. Comparable SaaS architecture and K-12 vertical focus, with similar mission of being a single platform replacing fragmented school administrative tools.
• Gradelink: Cloud-based SIS for K-12 schools covering admissions, grading, attendance, and parent communication. Comparable SaaS model and target customer (small-to-mid private and independent schools), making it a relevant functional comparison even though US-centric.
• FACTS (PowerSchool): K-12 SIS and school management suite (now part of PowerSchool) covering admissions, enrollment, gradebook, and family communication. Closely comparable product surface and customer segment to Nuvola, particularly for faith-based and independent K-12 schools.
• ManageBac: Cloud-based K-12 SIS originally built for IB schools, now serving a broader international K-12 base. Comparable platform positioning: comprehensive academic, administrative, and parent-communication workflows delivered as multi-tenant SaaS to schools.
• Argo Software (Gruppo Spaggiari Parma): Italian school management software provider serving K-12 institutions with administrative, teaching, and communication modules. Most direct Italian competitor to Nuvola, operating in the same vertical with overlapping SIS, secretariat, and family-communication functionality.

Regional players

• MySchool (Australia): Australian-headquartered K-12 SIS serving schools with student records, timetabling, reporting, and parent communication. Similar product scope to Nuvola but operates in a different geography, illustrating both the localization challenge and the international pattern Nuvola could follow if it expands.

Broad incumbents

• Blackbaud: Large established provider of education and nonprofit management software, including SIS, tuition management, and learning management for K-12 and higher ed. Broader portfolio than Nuvola but overlapping functionality in school administration, billing, and parent communication.
• Google for Education: Broad incumbent offering free/low-cost classroom, identity, and productivity tools adopted by many K-12 institutions globally, including Italy. While not a full SIS, it increasingly overlaps with Nuvola on communication, content sharing, and workflow tools, and shapes buyer expectations on price.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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