Technology start-up Classlist continues its mission to revolutionise the way parents and teachers can communicate, edging closer to the £550,000 target in their crowdfunding campaign.

With only 22 days left, 75 investors have already seen high potential in the site and the campaign has raised £492,920. Classlist, who aim to use the funds to develop infrastructure and build its international platform, have been gaining support from schools around the UK; having already been approved and accepted in over 70 schools, the company continues to be highly rated and approved by parents, headteachers and advertisers.

Founders Susan Barton and Claire Wright started with a simple aim: to discover a new way to find contact details for other school parents. The pair argue that mainstream social media platforms are not designed efficiently for finding such information, ‘needlessly wasting time for busy families’. They therefore devised a ‘designed-for-purpose’ third generation platform accessible for parents with authentication – security and privacy being Classlist’s core values.

After 18 months of large scale piloting and feedback from parents, Classlist now includes tools to support group and private messaging, discussion forums, parent listings, PTA and private event planning, photo sharing, and lift-share maps. The company hopes that funds amounted through its crowdfunding campaign, which closes on the 19th of June, can help improve and add more tools to their site.

Following the massive interest generated by the funding campaign, Classlist said it was “delighted to see Classlist’s loyal parent users – who have helped us grow so quickly – becoming owners in the business”.

For more information on Classlists campaign, visit their website Crowdcube page here.

27/05/2016

By Aaron Kidd