INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two years ago, dormmates Justin Wenig and Nicholas Diao struggled to get into a popular computer science class at Columbia University
universities to better schedule classes, professors and sections based on demand and interest
The company did not disclose any other investors, and there were no board seats taken on during the financing round
Investors in the company include FoundersX Venture, EFund and Jinal Jhaveri, the former CEO of SchoolMint, a school enrollment startup.The
But instead of adopting any technology, universities are careful about sharing protected data, he continued.Competition-wise, Wenig said
top of the other software tool: the student information system, used by administrators that need to plan student schedules.After Wenig and
Diao cold-called hundreds of colleges, Columbia Law School was the first contract signed
The smallest client, per Wenig, is the Laguna School of Art and Design, which has roughly 600 students
just building apps on top of the Student Information System to help schools with scheduling, curriculum planning and catalog publishing and
