brightwheel

We founded Brightwheel in 2015 to offer an all-in-one platform for early education. Our platform combines SaaS, payments, and a daily experience for childcare, preschool, and daycare. It provides tools that help teachers with assessment, communication, and photo sharing. Administrators use features for enrollment management, reporting, online bill payment, and payroll automation, which can save them up to 20 hours per month on administrative tasks. Parents receive real-time updates on their child’s day, which helps them participate in their child’s learning.

Our software includes features like automated billing and online payment processing, centralized communication tools for staff and families, curriculum creation and distribution, child development tracking, and digital check-in/out for compliance. We also offer payroll automation, integrating staff hours with pay. We operate in the education administration programs industry, serving a US market estimated at $175 billion. Our platform is rated highly in app stores and by review platforms like Capterra and Software Advice for daycare software. We maintain 99.9% uptime and provide dedicated customer support, including live chat, onboarding, and free resources. We prioritize customer data security and adhere to privacy laws.

Our vision is to enable high-quality early education for every child. We aim to achieve this by giving teachers more time for students, engaging parents in their children’s development, and supporting small businesses in the early education market.

Our Leadership Principles guide our operations and decision-making:

• Focus on understanding customer needs and solving challenges, earning trust through integrity and service.
• Act as owners, seeing tasks through completely.
• Apply a growth mindset, seeking continuous improvement and learning from experiences.
• Be pragmatic problem-solvers who root decisions in data, logic, and intuition, while valuing speed and action.
• Operate at all levels, staying connected to details, asking questions, and auditing frequently.
• Lean into collaboration, supporting and challenging each other, welcoming differing opinions, and using “disagree & commit”.
• Show persistence, break down barriers, and demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness to achieve goals.
• Embrace ambitious goals, maintain high standards, and hold ourselves and others accountable.

We employ 201-500 individuals and operate as a highly distributed team, supporting fully remote employees across all US time zones. We are passionate about impacting educators and families, fostering a culture that encourages tackling complex problems, continuous learning, and celebrating achievements. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, believing that everyone—including our employees, students, teachers, and administrators—should have the opportunity to learn and thrive. We actively listen to our employees, creating a supportive and open culture with employee-led initiatives like an anti-racist book club and affinity groups that celebrate diverse identities. Our investors include Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, and Mark Cuban.

We offer a range of benefits and perks to our employees:

• Equity and ownership opportunities, providing a long-term financial upside tied to our achievements.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage for employees and their families.
• Generous paid parental leave to support growing families.
• Flexible paid time off (PTO) to encourage rest and rejuvenation.
• 401(k) enrollment to assist with future financial planning.
• A monthly remote productivity stipend.
• Competitive compensation, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies.
• Remote work options across US time zones as part of our distributed team structure.