Seesaw

Seesaw

Interactive learning platform with family engagement

Overview

Seesaw is an educational platform for PreK-5 students that combines student-created multimodal work (drawing, video, and voice) with messaging to connect families and schools. Teachers use standards-aligned, ready-to-assign lessons that integrate with LMS and SIS systems. Students capture their learning processes across multiple formats, and progress dashboards help teachers monitor mastery to guide instruction. The platform offers free training and expert-led professional development for educators, funding the free tier through paid subscriptions, and sets itself apart with strong family engagement, seamless LMS/SIS integration, and a focus on multimodal work capture.

About Seesaw

Simplify's Rating
Why Seesaw is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Enterprise Software

Education

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$13M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Providence Equity invested, giving Seesaw capital and a growth sponsor in 2026.
  • Seesaw Writing with Wiley Blevins shipped 750-plus activities for K-5 instruction.
  • September 2026 AI features include transcripts, captions, fluency scoring, and credits-based monetization.

What critics are saying

  • District-only purchasing since 2024 killed teacher autonomy and slows adoption cycles.
  • Google Classroom and ClassDojo compress Seesaw's free tier into a niche add-on.
  • If U.S. districts shift budgets to Google, Seesaw becomes a feature, not a company.

What makes Seesaw unique

  • Seesaw owns K-5 portfolios, family messaging, and multimodal student evidence.
  • August 2026 AI grading turns drawings, voice, and video into rubric scores.
  • Little Thinking Minds adds Arabic literacy content and right-to-left workflows across MENA.

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Funding

Total Funding

$13M

Below

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

$15M
$8M
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$8.2M
Discord
$15M
Canva
$30M
Kalshi

Benefits

Full medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) matching

Paid family leave

Additional remote working benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 2%

1 year growth

↑ 1%

2 year growth

↑ 2%
Providence Equity
Sep 20th, 2026
Providence Invests in Seesaw

SAN FRANCISCO & PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Seesaw Learning Inc. (“Seesaw” or the “Company”) announced today a strategic investment from Providence Equity Partners (“Providence”), a premier private equity firm that specializes in growth-oriented investments in media, communications, education, software and services. Seesaw is a leading SaaS-based classroom technology platform bringing teachers, students, and families together to deepen student learning and engagement with a core focus on elementary grade levels. The Company will continue to be led by co-founders Adrian Graham and Carl Sjogreen.

Associated Press
Aug 13th, 2026
Seesaw launches AI-powered assessment tool to automatically grade student responses

Seesaw, an elementary learning platform serving over 25 million users globally, has launched Show What You Know, an AI-powered assessment tool that automatically grades open-ended student responses. The feature evaluates multimodal submissions — including drawings, voice recordings, and videos — against teacher-defined rubrics, generating scores and summaries to help educators identify where students need support. The tool aims to make formative assessment more efficient by reducing manual review time whilst capturing richer evidence of student thinking than traditional multiple-choice tests. It automatically evaluates responses and surfaces insights about student understanding and misconceptions. Show What You Know is integrated directly into Seesaw's existing platform and began rolling out to customers on 5 August 2026. The launch follows Seesaw AI receiving the CODiE Award for Best AI Solution for Education earlier in 2026.

Associated Press
Apr 13th, 2026
Seesaw launches K–5 writing curriculum with Dr. Wiley Blevins featuring over 750 activities

Seesaw, an elementary learning platform, has launched a new K–5 writing curriculum developed with literacy expert Dr Wiley Blevins. The programme, called Seesaw Writing with Wiley Blevins & Friends, includes over 750 standards-aligned activities, mentor author videos and scaffolded supports covering sentence writing, grammar, genre writing and functional writing skills. The research-based curriculum integrates writing craft, text structure, syntax and transcription. It leverages Seesaw's multimodal tools, allowing students to express themselves through voice, video, drawing and text. The programme is designed to supplement existing curricula whilst providing structured writing instruction. Seesaw and Blevins will host a two-part webinar series beginning 23 April to support educators in implementing the new curriculum. The first session takes place on 23 April, with a second scheduled for 6 May.

Associated Press
Feb 24th, 2026
Seesaw launches full Arabic platform with right-to-left functionality for MENA region

Seesaw, a leading learning experience platform for primary education, has launched a full Arabic version of its platform for students, teachers and families across the Middle East and North Africa. The platform features complete right-to-left functionality and integrated AI tools for classroom activities and literacy support. Through a strategic partnership with Little Thinking Minds, an Arabic literacy solutions provider, Seesaw now offers curriculum-aligned content including reading programmes for native and non-native speakers, plus benchmark assessments. The launch aligns with regional education transformation initiatives including Saudi Vision 2030 and Qatar National Vision 2030. The Arabic platform aims to save teachers time whilst enabling students to learn in their first language, supporting foundational literacy and early-years education across the MENA region.

EIN News
Apr 15th, 2025
Seesaw Acquires Little Thinking Minds Edtech

Seesaw has acquired MENA-based edtech startup Little Thinking Minds to enhance its global learning solutions. This acquisition will integrate Seesaw's interactive technology with Little Thinking Minds' Arabic literacy curricula, expanding Seesaw's reach in the MENA region. Little Thinking Minds, founded in 2004, previously raised a Series A investment led by Algebra Ventures, with participation from Mindshift Capital, Al Turki Ventures, and the ISSF Fund.

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