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BeAKid
Techstars '21Boca Raton, US · Founded 2022 · 8 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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BeAKid is a two-sided marketplace connecting parents and children with activity service providers, allowing parents to find, book, and manage kids' activities while enabling businesses to engage customers and streamline operations. The platform serves approximately 73 million kids and parents nationwide alongside 400,000+ service providers.
Also known as Collective Learning Inc.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026BeAKid, operated by Collective Learning Inc., is an educational technology company running a marketplace and software platform that connects parents, children's activity and enrichment providers, and schools. The consumer side lets parents discover and book educational service providers, enrichment programs, tutors and learning resources, and stay connected to their children's activities. The provider side is a registration and management SaaS platform handling enrollments, schedules, payments, communications and administrative operations.
The company positions itself as a single platform spanning both sides of the market, in contrast to what it describes as siloed tools serving either businesses or parents. It states that its marketplace addresses more than 73 million kids and parents and over 400,000 service providers nationwide. Additional products include BeAKid School Access, used by school districts to coordinate educational programs, resources and communications for students and families, and BeAKid-Brain, an iOS application that converts screen time into learning moments by requiring children to answer age-appropriate educational questions before continuing to use selected apps.
The public site is organized as a location- and category-based directory, with pages covering activity categories such as robotics, reading, STEM/STEAM, music, dance and sports across U.S. states and individual towns, listing provider profiles with descriptions, activity tags and user reviews.
Founding story
The company was founded by Daniel Barenboym, who serves as CEO. He is described as a lifelong entrepreneur, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union and a father of three who previously ran a STEM education company serving multiple schools and thousands of children.
Business model
BeAKid operates a two-sided model: a consumer-facing marketplace where parents discover, book and manage children's activities, and paid software for the supply side. Service providers subscribe to a SaaS registration and management platform, school districts use a separate School Access product, and the BeAKid-Brain mobile app is offered on a subscription basis. Providers set their own prices and are responsible for honoring bookings, listing accuracy, compliance, and taxes; BeAKid receives a non-exclusive license to display provider content on the marketplace.
Revenue comes from marketplace service or transaction fees disclosed before checkout, automatically renewing subscriptions for the provider SaaS platform, and subscriptions for the BeAKid-Brain app. Marketplace payments are handled through third-party payment partners.
Traction
The platform lists provider profiles with ratings and reviews across many U.S. states and towns. Third-party directory data places headcount in the 1-10 range and characterizes the company as pre-seed.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
A small, early-stage company; third-party listings place it at 1-10 to 11-50 employees and pre-seed stage. It describes a broad nationwide opportunity covering children's enrichment programs, camps, franchises and edtech.
BeAKid describes itself as the only marketplace offering a single, two-sided solution that lets parents find, book and stay connected to all of their children's activities and communicate with other parents, while giving businesses tools to engage parents, grow their community and simplify back-office operations.
Technology
The web platform is a JavaScript application built with React and Next.js, using GraphQL and Apollo, MUI and Emotion for UI, Webpack, Nginx, Sentry, reCAPTCHA and Google Workspace. BeAKid-Brain is a native iOS application that interrupts selected apps with educational questions.
Go-to-market
Acquisition is driven by search-oriented, location- and category-specific directory pages (for example robotics programs in Boca Raton, Florida, or reading programs in Yorklyn, Delaware) that list local providers with descriptions and ratings, including promoted placements for providers. The company also markets directly to service providers and school districts for its subscription software, and solicits partnership and investment inquiries through its CEO.
Parents and guardians of school-age children; educational service providers running enrichment programs, tutoring, camps, classes and franchises; and school districts.
Geography
Operations are described as nationwide across the United States. Public listing pages cover states including Florida, Delaware and Vermont, down to individual towns such as Boca Raton, Yorklyn, Burlington and South Burlington. Company locations are given as Boca Raton, Florida and Wayland (Cochituate), Massachusetts.
History
The company was founded in 2022 and is associated with locations in Boca Raton, Florida and Wayland/Cochituate, Massachusetts. It has been listed on the Techstars job board at a pre-seed stage. Its product scope has broadened over time from the core marketplace and provider back-office software to include a school district platform and an iOS app, BeAKid-Brain.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 4
by search overlap
Companies competing with BeAKid for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsBeAKid's terms of service list BeAKid-Brain, an iOS application that periodically presents age-appropriate educational questions children must answer before continuing to use selected apps on their device, alongside the marketplace, SaaS platform and School Access products.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- About us | Tools that inspire parentingbeakid.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does BeAKid do?
- BeAKid is a two-sided marketplace and SaaS platform connecting parents with children's enrichment providers and schools.
- Who are BeAKid's investors?
- BeAKid's investors include Techstars.
- Where is BeAKid headquartered?
- BeAKid is headquartered in Boca Raton, US.