Wayfinder
Social educational programmes for schools
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Education
- Learning
- Mental health
- Social Impact
- Old Bend, Bend, OR
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Company mission
To help students and schools confidently navigate the transition between school and life with purpose, confidence, and the social emotional skills to succeed.
Our take
First born in Stanford Design School's lauded k12 Innovation Lab, Wayfinder was founded in response to growing youth mental health crises. It sets out to reimagine adolescent education with a focus on belonging, purpose and meaning.
The platform is now used by over tens of thousands of students around the world. Wayfinder's system is constantly evolving, following the most recent research to generate a social-emotional learning curriculum that can be integrated into schools' wellness programs.
As digital schooling becomes more common, Wayfinder has focussed on building digital versions of its curriculum - which is now the common form of its offering. It is a well-funded company that has invested in continued product development, and continues to broaden its reach to support more students.
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Benefits
- Learning: Learning & Development Opportunities to grow your skills and career
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing venture-backed company
- 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future
- Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families
- Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world
- Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision policies
- Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done
- Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations
- ...And much more! Lots of other perks make this company an incredible place to work
- Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference!
- Flexible culture: We are results-focused. We don’t work at the office every day
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$6.6m
SERIES A
Mar 2021
$1.5m
SEED
Total funding: $8.1m
Leadership
Patrick Cook-Deegan
(Founder & CEO)Studied Education at Brown and Stanford. Was a Fulbright Scholar with the US State Department, and worked as a mindfulness instructor with UWC ISAK Japan. Lectured at Stanford.