About Kinderpedia

We built the software we needed when schools kept calling us with a clipboard.

Our Story

Why We Built Kinderpedia

The idea started in 2016 when Daniel Rogoz's daughter enrolled in a Bucharest kindergarten. The school had 180 children, four classrooms, and a paper register that the director carried everywhere. Attendance went into a notebook. Fees were tracked in a spreadsheet on a shared USB drive. Parent updates went out by SMS from the director's personal phone.

When the school asked Daniel — who had a background in enterprise software — to help them "put it on the computer," he expected to find software designed for this. He didn't. Everything was either a generic CRM awkwardly stretched to fit, or a consumer app built for individual teachers with no school-level admin functions.

He spent two months building a basic version for that one kindergarten. Within six months, three other schools in the same district asked to use it. By 2018, Kinderpedia was a real product with a real team. Today we serve over 1,200 schools across 14 countries, from small private kindergartens to international secondary schools with 1,000+ students.

School classroom with engaged students and teacher using a tablet
Investment

Backed by Early Game Ventures

€1.8M Seed Round

Early Game Ventures focuses on CEE founders building category-defining companies, investing up to €6M from pre-seed through Series A. Their investment in Kinderpedia's seed round put us in a strong position to build the engineering team needed to scale the platform into new markets — and gave us access to a portfolio of operators who understand the complexity of growing a SaaS business from Eastern Europe.

The round closed in 2022 and was used to grow the product and customer success teams, expand to four new markets, and launch the mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Principles

How we make decisions

Visibility over assumption

Schools should be able to see exactly what is happening — which students are absent, which fees are overdue, which teachers are behind on grade entry. We design every dashboard to surface problems before they become crises, not after.

Parents are customers too

The paying customer is the school, but parents use the platform every day. If parents find the app confusing or unhelpful, they stop using it — and then teachers stop using it for communication. We treat parent experience as a product requirement, not a nice-to-have.

Software should disappear

A teacher marking attendance should not think about software. A parent checking their child's grades should not need a tutorial. We measure success by how quickly new users can do their first core task without reading documentation.

Built for real schools, not ideal ones

Real schools have spotty internet, staff who resist change, and directors who set up their timetable three days before term starts. We build for that reality — offline-capable apps, bulk import tools, and a customer success team that speaks Romanian, Bulgarian, and Arabic.

Milestones

From one kindergarten to 14 countries

2016

First school goes live

A single kindergarten in Bucharest uses Kinderpedia to manage attendance and parent communication. Three more schools join within six months.

2018

Company incorporated

Kinderpedia becomes a registered company. First full-time engineering hire. Launch of the iOS parent app and the gradebook module.

2020

100 schools

Platform crosses 100 active schools during the first year of COVID-driven digital adoption. Remote learning communication tools added to the platform.

2022

€1.8M Seed Round

Early Game Ventures leads the seed round. Expansion into Bulgaria, Hungary, and UAE. Launch of the billing and fee collection module.

2025

1,200+ schools, 14 countries

Platform serves over 850,000 student profiles. Full timetabling module released. Enterprise tier launched for school groups and chains.

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