Clever

San Francisco, California, United States Education Acquired

Clever is a single sign-on platform and learning technology infrastructure provider for K-12 schools. The platform provides students, teachers, and staff secure access to digital learning resources with personalized portals and usage analytics. Clever serves more than 90,000 U.S. K-12 schools including 96 of the top 100 U.S. school districts, reaching over 20 million active students monthly at its peak.

Acquired

Clever has been acquired

Acquired by Kahoot! May 6, 2021 $435-500M

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2012

Employees

175–210

Total Funding

$543.3M

5 rounds

Latest Valuation

$0.5B

May 6, 2021

Funding

Total raised $543.3M across 5 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Acquisition by Kahoot!

Date

May 6, 2021

Amount

$500M

Valuation

$0.5B

Lead Investors

Kahoot!
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
May 6, 2021 Acquisition by Kahoot! $500M $0.5B Kahoot!
2017 Later equity round Not disclosed $0.25B Not disclosed
December 16, 2014 Series B $30M Lightspeed Venture Partners

Funding by Round

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Valuation Trajectory

Valuation indexed to 1.0× at the selected entry round. Valuation marks are estimates and may contain errors. Hover each dot to compare.

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Entry · Later equity round

$0.3B

Jan 2017

Clever today

$0.5B

May 2021 · latest mark

Clever multiple

2.0x

valuation uplift since first round

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Leadership

  • Tyler Bosmeny

    Co-Founder & CEO (until 2022)

  • Dan Carroll

    Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

  • Rafael Garcia

    Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

  • Trish Sparks

    CEO (from 2022)

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • ClassLink

    K-12 SSO platform offering single sign-on access to over 6,000 applications with analytics and reporting tools

  • Google Workspace for Education

    Google's suite of productivity and collaboration tools for K-12 education with integrated SSO capabilities

  • Microsoft Teams for Education

    Microsoft's collaborative platform for K-12 with SSO and integration with educational applications

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