Pearl is an EdTech startup offering an all-in-one platform designed to provide technical scaffolding for tutor operations at any scale. The company's ecosystem includes a configurable tech platform and a community of partners, bringing together the largest, most progressive, and respected education organizations.
The features of Pearl's platform encompass scheduling, smart-matching, document sharing, integrated 1:1 and small group virtual classrooms, post-session reporting, research, content, assessment, and training. The platform allows for data collection across in-person and online instruction, enabling high-impact tutoring organizations to prove efficacy and ensure sustainability.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in the United States, Pearl recently secured a $4.00M Seed Round investment on 26 July 2022, with backing from Blu Venture Investors and FiDi Ventures.
Pearl's services include a digital campus experience, white-labeled with the organization's branding, as well as unique logins for admins, students, instructors, and parents, streamlining the tutoring business and ensuring all stakeholders have access to essential resources.
The platform's availability management tool simplifies scheduling, and its purpose-built online classrooms with multiple whiteboards cater to tutors' and students' needs. With a robust pulse-check system and post-session surveys, Pearl allows educators to track critical metrics, including attendance, behavioral insights, SEL insights, and academic sentiment, enabling them to demonstrate program effectiveness to stakeholders and grant requirements.
Pearl aims to remove the barriers to making relationship-based high-impact tutoring a standard pillar of all education, emphasizing the importance of pairing students with good tutors to improve outcomes.