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Meadow

Founded 2021 · 57 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors

Meadow provides a financial management platform for students and higher education institutions, simplifying enrollment, financial aid, and payment processes to reduce barriers to degree completion.

Also known as Meadow · MeadowFi

Founders & leadership

Meadow was founded in 2021 by Alfredo Brillembourg, Pietro Rea, and Amy Jenkins.

ABAlfredo Brillembourg
Alfredo BrillembourginCo-founder & CEO
PRPietro Rea
Pietro Reain𝕏Co-founder & Chief Technology OfficerPietro Rea is co-founder and CTO of Meadow, which offers a financial management platform for students and higher education institutions. He previously held technical leadership roles at Amazon, Upside Business Travel, and the Huffington Post, and has authored several software development books, including "iOS App Distribution & Best Practices" and "Core Data by Tutorials."
AJAmy Jenkins
Amy JenkinsCo-founder
NSNathan Stanton
Nathan StantoninChief Product Officer

Investors · 9

Also in the syndicate · 2

Giant VenturesGoGlobal Ventures

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$9M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025–2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Meadow is a New York-based software company serving higher education institutions with tools that cover the student financial journey from application through graduation. Its product suite includes Meadow Price, a mobile net price calculator that produces personalized post-aid cost estimates and is described as SAI-compliant; Meadow Pay, a mobile-first student billing and payments product combining automated personalized communications, digital statements, self-service payment plans and a payments dashboard; Meadow Pre, a pre-collections/accounts receivable product for recovering past-due balances without punitive action; and Meadow Checkout, which lets campus departments collect non-tuition payments such as parking passes, lab fees, event costs and ID replacements.

The platform integrates with major student information systems including Banner, Colleague, PowerCampus, Jenzabar, PeopleSoft, Empower and CAMS, with implementation described as roughly 30 hours of institutional effort over about 12 weeks. Payments are processed through a partnership with Finix, and the company states it holds PCI DSS, NACHA and SOC 2 Type 2 accreditations. Payment plans run up to 12 monthly installments on Meadow Pay and up to 24 months on Meadow Pre. Institution-facing sites are branded to the school's own domain (for example pay.yourschool.edu) and require no app download by students.

Leadership includes CEO and co-founder Alfredo Brillembourg (previously Bowery Capital, Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates, and the founding team at Coursedog), CTO and co-founder Pietro Rea (previously Amazon, an engineering consultancy, and lead engineer at Upside Business Travel), co-founder Amy (Yamner) Jenkins, who leads sales, success, marketing and operations and was previously Head of Schools and Businesses at Outschool and COO of Education Elements, Chief Product Officer Nathan Stanton (previously VP of Product at Share Local Media), and Melissa Kircher, who leads Partner Success. An advisory group includes financial aid directors from Southwestern College, Gonzaga University, Wayland Baptist University and Columbia University (emeritus).

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Average estimated cost versus sticker priceApr 2025Average cost 40%+ less than sticker price
HeadcountAug 202657
Higher education institutions using MeadowJan 2026300 institutions
Increase in on-time payments (reported school results)Jan 202633%
Net price calculator accuracyApr 202599%
Net price estimates delivered by Meadow PriceApr 20251,000,000 estimates
Student engagement rate (reported school results)Jan 202687%
Total funding raised to dateApr 2025$20M
U.S. higher education payments market size cited by companyApr 2025$500B
Weekly staff time savings (reported school results)Jan 202620 hours per week

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 3

by search overlap

Companies competing with Meadow for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Jul 2026
Meadow partners with the California State University to modernize student financial services across 22 campuses

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Apr 2025
Meadow raises $14M Series A led by Matrix Partners

Series A led by Matrix Partners with participation from existing backers Susa Ventures, Giant Ventures, Treble Capital and GoGlobal Ventures; proceeds earmarked for expanding the student financial services platform for colleges and universities. The round brought total funding to over $20M.

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Apr 2025
Payment processing partnership with Finix

Meadow processes payments through a partnership with payment processor Finix; the company cites PCI DSS, NACHA and SOC 2 Type 2 accreditations tied to this arrangement.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Meadow do?
Meadow sells vertical SaaS and payments software that manages the student billing, net price and receivables experience for colleges.
Who founded Meadow?
Meadow was founded by Alfredo Brillembourg, Pietro Rea, Amy Jenkins in 2021.
Who are Meadow's investors?
Meadow's investors include AlleyCorp, Giant Ventures Global Llp, Matrix, Alley Robotics Ventures, Haystack, Susa Ventures, Treble Capital.
How much funding has Meadow raised?
Meadow has disclosed $9M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.