Renaissance Acquires Freckle Education
Posted on May 20, 2019 by Jeffrey Koons
Vista Point Advisors is pleased to announce the acquisition of Freckle Education by Renaissance, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners. Vista Point Advisors acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Freckle Education.
About Freckle Education:
Freckle Education provides an innovative differentiation platform that allows teachers to provide every student with instruction and practice at the level that’s best for them, especially in the three-quarters of classrooms with students whose reading levels span across more than four grade levels. With instructional resources and practice activities for all four core subject areas—math, social studies, science and English language arts—Freckle helps educators provide students with rich, engaging learning experiences that accelerate growth. Originally founded as Front Row Education in 2013, Freckle currently serves more than 700,000 teachers and 10 million students across 75,000 schools.
About Renaissance:
Renaissance is a global leader in pre-K–12 educational technology, enabling teachers, curriculum creators and educators to drive phenomenal student growth. Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters: creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Founded by parents, upheld by educators and enriched by data scientists, Renaissance knows learning is a continual journey—from year to year and for a lifetime. Our data-driven, personalized solutions are currently used in over one-third of U.S. schools and more than 90 countries around the world.
About Vista Point Advisors:
Vista Point Advisors is a boutique investment bank that focuses on advising middle-market companies in the Software, Internet, Mobile, Digital Media, and Healthcare industries. Our strategy is to partner with growing and profitable businesses that are interested in understanding their options in the marketplace. We focus exclusively on sell-side M&A and capital raising transactions. Vista Point Advisors is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Jeffrey Koons
About Jeffrey Koons
Jeffrey Koons is a Founding Member and Managing Director at Vista Point Advisors. Jeffrey helped found Vista Point in 2011 to serve founders and management teams of private, software/internet companies seeking investment or full/partial liquidity events. Jeff has eleven years of investment banking experience focused exclusively on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising projects in software and internet verticals. Over his career, Jeffrey has executed over $1.5 billion of M&A and capital markets transactions for private, technology businesses. Prior to Vista Point, Jeffrey worked at a Silicon Valley-based…
