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Goodkind

Student communications platform for higher education

Y CombinatorSummer 2021AcquiredB2BSalesEducationSaaSB2BVideo

What they do

Problem

Higher-education institutions struggle to communicate effectively with students across multiple channels.

Solution

Goodkind is a multi-channel student communications platform that enables universities to build and manage messaging via SMS, video, chat, mail, and more.

Who it's for

Universities and colleges (higher-education administrators and student services teams) use it to communicate with students.

Founders

Justin Rotman
Founder

justin@goodkind.com

Michael Warshafsky
Founder

Michael Warshafsky is the co-founder & CTO of Goodkind. Michael is an alumni of Next Canada and Venture for Canada. Before Goodkind, Michael was an early employee at Toronto based medical devices firm, eSight. Michael played a key role in building eSight's video based crowdfunding platform resulting in 10s of millions of views online driving the company's revenue. eSight was named one of the Best 25 Inventions in 2017 by Time Magazine.

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