| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.02.2022 | Show them the money: Why and how to bring pay transparency to your workplace | So, you’re thinking about salary transparency.
Salary and compensation information has long been shrouded in mystery, especially in the private sector. Increasingly, there have been legislative efforts, most notably in Colorado and New York... |
| 07.05.2019 | Lifelong Lessons From Teachers That Edtech CEOs Still Live By | It can often take until adulthood before one finally understands the wisdom imparted by our classroom teachers. Sometimes, it’s not until we lead and guide others that we appreciate what educators do every day.
Starting and running an educa... |
| 17.03.2019 | Allovue Acquires Equiday to Make K-12 Budgeting More Transparent and Equitable | “You can’t talk about closing the student achievement gap without talking about the resource gap,” says Jess Gartner. In other words, how schools allocate funds for educational services play a major role in shaping student outcomes. Yet dec... |
| 10.02.2019 | Allovue Raises $4M Series A-2 | Allovue, an education finance technology company, has raised a $4 million Series A-2 round led by Macquarie Capital, to support the Baltimore-based startup’s continued growth.
Allovue supports school districts and state departments of educa... |
| 19.11.2018 | The Actual Dollars That Will Shape the New K-12 Investment Ecosystem | Investors take note: Business intelligence that relies on a district’s budget and fiscal data will become a fast-growing K-12 market in the next five years. Today, that may not be the case; just brandishing the title of Chief Financial Offi... |
| 31.08.2018 | 3 takeaways from the State of Black Women in Tech | Five black women playing leading roles in Baltimore startups and tech organizations gathered at Ida B’s Table this week to discuss their experiences, and how to create more access for a group that remains underrepresented in tech.
Organized... |
| 27.04.2018 | Finance Software Developer Allovue Raises $2M to Help Districts Navigate ESSA | Baltimore-based Allovue, a school budgeting and finance software company, has raised $2 million in an extension of its Series A round led by Rethink Education, Serious Change, Kapor Capital and other angel investors.
The company announced t... |
| 27.04.2018 | Finance Software Developer Allovue Raises $2M to Help Districts Navigate ESSA | Baltimore-based Allovue, a school budgeting and finance software company, has raised $2 million in an extension of its Series A round led by Rethink Education, Serious Change, Kapor Capital and other angel investors.
The company announced t... |
| 26.04.2018 | Allovue raises $2 million, looks to help more school districts with budgeting | Edfintech startup Allovue raised $2 million in funding to expand product offerings and add to its business development and support staff.
The funding for the Remington-based company is an extension of its $5.1 million Series A, and included... |
| 24.01.2018 | New year, new job? Check out these tech openings in Baltimore | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Sisu Global Health is hiring in its Baltimore headquarter... |
| 16.01.2018 | Gov. Hogan is ‘patently false’ on Baltimore city school funding, says edfintech founder | As headlines spread across the country showing Baltimore students in schools that lacked heat, the local policy debate turned to public school funding.
It’s an area that Jess Gartner knows well. She is the founder of Allovue, the Remington-... |
| 05.10.2017 | BIW check-in: The 10 realLIST startups in Baltimore | In a growing startup community, it’s important to keep track of how many companies are forming and where they congregate.
As they push ahead, those companies take many little steps in ways that impact individuals and Baltimore as a whole. W... |
| 23.08.2017 | Here are the nominees for the 5th annual Baltimore Innovation Awards | It’s time to choose who will win this year’s Baltimore Innovation Awards.
This is a chance to recognize the individuals and organizations growing Baltimore’s tech community. You nominated them. Now it’s time to vote. The deadline to vote is... |
| 08.03.2017 | Startup Showdown: Recruiting Startup 'The Whether' Takes Home Launch Competition Prize | Ten starry-eyed startups took to the stage this week for SXSWedu’s sixth annual Launch Competition, a two-part challenge where early-stage companies battle head-to-head for feedback, exposure and investment. From VR/AR anatomy learning tool... |
| 10.01.2017 | Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund | Venture capital for U.S. education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. Also missing were blockbuster exits, such as LinkedIn’s $1.5 billion purchase of Lynda.com and... |
| 27.12.2016 | Ribbon cuttings: No. 8 Baltimore tech trend of 2016 | The end of the year is a time to think about what’s next for 2017, but it’s also worth reflecting on how we got here. We’re looking back at some of the themes that kept coming up in our coverage of Baltimore’s tech community in 2016. See th... |
| 05.10.2016 | Schoolzilla Acquires Decision Science Labs to Help Districts Make Smarter Spending Choices | Schoolzilla is not a monster. But it boasts a voracious appetite when it comes to ingesting education data and, now, another company.
The Oakland, Calif.-based startup, which offers data warehousing and visualization tools for schools and d... |
| 16.02.2016 | Allovue is helping California school districts with their finances | Allovue is working on a pilot program to help California schools automate budgeting processes, and the Baltimore-based company is planning to build a new tool to help schools with their finances.
In a partnership with Pivot Learning, Allovu... |
| 20.12.2015 | Allovue Raises $5.1M in Series A Financing | Allovue, a Baltimore, MD-based provider of financial analysis platform for K-12 public school districts, raised $5.1m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Rethink Education with participation from Red House Education, Serious Change ... |
| 16.12.2015 | ‘Edfintech’ startup Allovue closes $5.1 million Series A | Allovue raised $5.1 million in new financing, and is looking to hire about 35 more people in 2016.
The Baltimore-based “edfintech” company’s Series A was led by New York-based Rethink Education, and follows a $1 million seed round that clos... |
| 16.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 16, 2015 | Slack revealed $80M fund; Digital Guardian bagged $66M; Springboard raised $1.7M
Education technology company Springboard (formerly known as SlideRule) today announced that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from a long list of inve... |
| 11.06.2015 | Allovue raises $1M in seed funding | Allovue closed a $1 million seed round, according to a news release.
Participants in the round of debt financing included Baltimore Angels, Serious Change II, Red House Education and the Baltimore Boost Fund. The money will help the “edfint... |
| 09.06.2015 | Allovue Raises $1M, Gives Birth to the 'EdFinTech' Industry | Is there such a thing as the “edfintech” industry? Allovue CEO and founder Jess Gartner believes so--and she's raised a $1 million seed round to prove it.
Investors supporting the Baltimore, MD-based startup and developer of Balance, a scho... |
| 08.05.2015 | These 7 startups got money from Baltimore County’s Boost Fund | Baltimore County announced the latest recipients of its Boost Fund loans on Thursday. The loans are awarded to minority- and women-owned small businesses.
The latest batch of recipients are distinctly technology-focused, with edtech, cybers... |
| 10.09.2014 | Startup offers bare-bones office space [Startup Roundup] | Who’s making moves?
McKeever Conwell started last week at a Philadelphia accelerator with his new venture, the social shopping app RedBerrry.
ZeniMax Online Studios, with offices in Hunt Valley, laid off an unspecified number of employees o... |
| 04.06.2014 | Edtech startup Allovue raises $800K [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting funded?
Allovue raised $800,000, according to SEC filings. The Hollins Market edtech startup, an AccelerateBaltimore graduate, was recently part of the second class of startups at Socratic Labs in New York.
The Maryland Ventur... |
| 05.03.2014 | SameGrain closes $800K seed funding round [Startup Roundup] | Have news for the Startup Roundup? Get in touch. who’s getting funded?
SameGrain, based out of the Emerging Technology Center in Highlandtown, has completed raising a seed round of $800,000, according to CityBizList. In February, as Technic... |
| 05.03.2014 | SameGrain closes $800K seed funding round [Startup Roundup] | Have news for the Startup Roundup? Get in touch.who’s getting funded?
SameGrain, based out of the Emerging Technology Center in Highlandtown, has completed raising a seed round of $800,000, according to CityBizList. In February, as Technica... |
| 06.02.2014 | Allovue Closes $800K Seed Funding | Allovue LLC, a Baltimore, Maryland-based education technology company, closed an $800k seed funding.
Backers included the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), Baltimore Angels, and Shulman Ventures.
The company intends to us... |
| 23.10.2013 | Edtech startup 2U raises $31M in equity [Startup Roundup] | Have news for the Startup Roundup? Get in touch.who’s getting funded?
Allovue, based in both Baltimore and soon the Socratic Labs edtech accelerator in New York City, received $100,000 from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation. T... |
| 08.10.2013 | Bonsal To Run Maryland Biz Incubator | Throughout the US, more than a dozen “incubators” are helping jump start fledgling education technology companies. That means that getting companies started has become the easy part. Now the road less travelled involves helping companies wo... |
| 01.10.2013 | AccelerateBaltimore grad Allovue to join NYC-based edtech incubator | Edtech advocate and entrepreneur Jess Gartner is heading to New York City. But she says we won’t lose the new entrepreneur.
Allovue LLC, the edtech startup she founded that participated in the 2013 cohort of AccelerateBaltimore, has been ac... |
| 29.07.2013 | Edtech Women 'Lean In' and On Each Other | Where do edtech entrepreneurs--many of whom are former educators-- find support as they navigate the ups and downs of building a company?
I posed this question to my panel at ETIS 2013, “Building an Edtech Ecosystem.” It really could have b... |
| 23.07.2013 | Jess Gartner: founder of edtech startup Allovue named a ‘Woman to Watch’ in Baltimore | Jess Gartner is one of 50 “Women to Watch,” according to the Baltimore Sun.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur recently left her job as the director of education at Federal Hill incubator Betamore to manage her own edtech startup, Allovue, full-t... |
