Teacher's Buddy seeks to empower educators and schools to lead the way and become the trusted authorities and leaders for the use of AI in education in their communities, guiding students, parents, and colleagues with confidence and insight.
Why we invested
Teacher’s Buddy helps teachers focus on teaching, not admin. Their smart, scalable platform supports educators to deliver better learning outcomes for diverse learners, both here in Aotearoa and globally.
We backed Teacher’s Buddy because their team knows how to build and scale EdTech that works. With proven traction and a thoughtful approach to supporting teachers, they’re shaping a future where every learner gets the attention they deserve.
Transaction Summary
IRIS+ is a set of generally-accepted system created by the Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN) to standardise impact metrics and themes.
Measuring What Matters
Teachers are increasingly overworked and under-supported, spending large portions of their time on administration instead of teaching.
Teacher’s Buddy is a digital platform that supports educators to plan, teach, and assess more efficiently. It reduces administrative work, improves teaching quality, and helps teachers provide more inclusive learning environments.
Teacher’s Buddy serves teachers and students across Aotearoa and is expanding internationally. It is designed for schools looking to improve teaching quality, support neurodiverse learners, and enhance inclusion.
Scale: Teacher’s Buddy has achieved strong traction in New Zealand and Australia and is scaling rapidly through a SaaS model that allows easy adoption by schools and teachers across multiple geographies.
Depth: Teachers using the platform report significant time savings and improved engagement with students. The platform provides targeted tools for inclusive education, helping teachers better support neurodiverse and differently-abled learners.
Duration: The impact is ongoing and cumulative. Each school year builds on prior results as teachers integrate the platform into daily practice.
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.
Execution risk: Scaling quickly while maintaining user support and quality could be challenging, but the experienced founding team mitigates this.
Impacts of enterprises on people and the planet can be understood across five dimensions, as defined by the Impact Management Project.
