I’m thrilled to share and rejoice that our unimaginable York IE Labs shopper, SchoolBI, has been acquired by Blackbaud. An enormous congratulations is because of Travis Warren, Ryan Bowse, and the complete SchoolBI workforce. They’ve constructed a very progressive product that can carry super worth to the Ok-12 schooling market.
What makes this information so particular for me personally, and for our workforce at York IE, is the unimaginable sense of déjà vu.
A few years in the past, my first main entrepreneurial expertise, WhippleHill, was additionally acquired by Blackbaud. It was at WhippleHill the place I really honed my craft as a Go-to-Market chief, studying firsthand what it takes to scale an concept right into a profitable, mission-critical answer for faculties.
To see an organization now we have mentored by means of York IE Labs comply with the same, profitable path, touchdown at a company I do know and respect deeply, is a strong validation of the working expertise we intention to share with founders.
SchoolBI completely embodies York IE’s long-standing obsession with vertical SaaS — software program constructed with deep empathy for the distinctive workflows, pains, and missions of a selected trade. We’ve at all times believed that probably the most enduring firms don’t attempt to serve everybody; they serve somebody higher than anybody else can.
SchoolBI is a textbook instance: a purpose-built platform created particularly for Ok–12 faculties, fixing actual operational challenges that generic BI instruments merely overlook. Their success reinforces our perception that vertical SaaS founders, when paired with the precise working steerage and trade focus, can construct merchandise that grow to be actually indispensable.
This isn’t only a win for SchoolBI; it’s a testomony to the expertise of their workforce and the facility of centered, strategic development.
Blackbaud is a powerhouse within the social impression area, and I’ve little question they are going to be an impressive residence for the SchoolBI expertise and workforce.
It is a full-circle second, a uncommon, particular type of success that ties my previous GTM expertise on to the way forward for York IE.
Effectively carried out, SchoolBI. The long run is shiny!
