Teacher's Buddy
Teacher's Buddy is the AI platform built around schools — across every classroom, every teacher, every stakeholder. Their three-layer platform serves teachers, professional learning teams, and school leaders with connected products that compound institutional knowledge and capability year over year.
Fund: Te Pae ki te Rangi
Transaction Summary
Fund: Te Pae ki te Rangi
Date Invested: November 2025 (Seed)
Instrument: Equity Investment
IRIS+ Category: Education | Quality Education | EdTech Learning Innovation
Why We Invested
Teacher's Buddy is building the institutional AI platform for schools - spanning teacher productivity (Workspace), professional development (PD Hub), and school leadership intelligence (Kitenga). Each layer is built around the school's own curriculum, community, and strategy, not generic AI tooling.
We backed Teacher's Buddy because their team knows how to build and scale EdTech that works. With proven traction and a platform designed to serve whole schools - from classroom teachers to principals - they're shaping a future where every learner gets the attention they deserve.
Measuring What Matters
Problem:
Teachers are increasingly overworked and under-supported, spending large portions of their time on administration instead of teaching.
What:
Teacher's Buddy is a three-layer AI platform built around each school's own frameworks, data, and community. The Teacher layer (Workspace) reduces admin and supports curriculum-aligned teaching and differentiation. The Growth layer (PD Hub) delivers professional development at the cadence teacher growth requires and in line with school priorities. The Leadership layer (Kitenga) gives principals live intelligence across strategy, community, and enrolments.
Who:
Teacher's Buddy serves teachers, professional learning teams, and school leaders across Aotearoa and Australia, with active expansion into the UK. It's designed for independent schools that want curriculum-aligned AI for teachers, structured professional development, and leadership-level visibility across the whole institution.
How Much:
Scale: Teacher's Buddy has achieved strong traction in New Zealand and Australia and is scaling rapidly through a SaaS model. Scaling through a conference-led enterprise SaaS model with a B2C funnel that converts individual teacher sign-ups into school contracts.
Depth: Teachers using the platform report significant time savings and improved engagement with students.
Duration: The impact is ongoing and cumulative - and expands as schools adopt additional platform layers, from teacher tools through to leadership intelligence.
Contribution:
Soul Capital's investment enables Teacher's Buddy to scale its platform, strengthen its impact framework, and reach more classrooms. Our capital helps embed equitable, evidence-based practices into the company's growth and ensures impact is measured and improved as they expand into new markets.
Impact Risk:
Execution risk: Scaling quickly while maintaining user support and quality could be challenging, but the experienced founding team mitigates this.
Impact Measures:
Number of teachers and students using the platform. Time savings reported by teachers. Student learning outcome improvements.
