Clever is an American

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company. It was founded in 2012 by Tyler Bosmeny, Dan Carroll, and Rafael Garcia. It was acquired by Kahoot! in 2021.

History

Clever was founded in 2012 by three

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graduates— Tyler Bosmeny, Dan Carroll, and Rafael Garcia—in San Francisco. It was intended as a centralized platform for school systems to transfer student data and provide services to students. Carroll, a former teacher at

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, had the idea for a platform that streamlined educational technology in classrooms. Bosmeny was its chief executive officer, Garcia was its chief technology officer, and Carroll was its chief product officer. By 2016, the company had raised approximately $60 million in total fundraising. By 2017, ''The Washington Post'' reported that the platform was used by approximately half of the public schools in the United States. By then, the company was valued at over $250 million. That year, it was ranked number four in ''The Wall Street Journal'''s Tech Companies to Watch. As of 2021, Clever ran on a

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neutral basis. The platform was being used in 65% of K-12 school districts, with approximately 20 million monthly users. In May 2021, the

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-based education technology company Kahoot! acquired Clever. Under the agreement, Clever would remain its own independent company while integrating Kahoot! apps onto its digital platform and also expanding Clever outside of the United States to other countries where Kahoot! is used. In 2022, former

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middle school teacher Trish Sparks became the chief executive officer of Clever. She had worked in Clever's San Francisco Bay Area office as a vice president of customer success for a year before moving back to

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to work in the company's new Durham office in 2020, during the

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