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Unified Track
Techstars '25Knoxville, US · Founded 2023 · 4 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Unified Track helps school districts recover attendance-based funding by automating intervention workflows tied to student absences. The platform integrates with student information systems to identify recoverable ADA (Average Daily Attendance) revenue while supporting counselors with research-aligned intervention plans.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Unified Track is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based education technology company selling a student intervention and attendance-funding platform to school districts, with a stated market focus on California and Texas. The platform connects to a district's student information system (SIS) — supported systems listed include PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Aeries, Skyward and Aspen — via a nightly, encrypted, read-only SFTP pull, leaving the SIS as the system of record. Attendance, grade, credit, behavior and demographic signals are scored and tiered overnight so that prioritized student worklists are available to staff by the start of the school day.
The product has two linked outputs from the same trigger. On the student side, a flagged risk generates a research-aligned intervention plan through a guided wizard that walks a counselor through a student summary, root-cause tagging, selection of an MTSS tier (universal, targeted or intensive), a plan template, duration and touch points, stakeholders, and review and activation. A template library described as CASCP-aligned includes pre-built plays for attendance re-engagement, graduation recovery, A–G eligibility recovery, D/F grade recovery, credit deficiency, and FAFSA/CADAA completion. Each plan carries a measurable goal and a review date every two to four weeks, and an intervention board tracks students through Identified, Plan Needed, Active, Follow-Up and Escalated states. On the funding side, a rules engine applies more than 500 validation checks against current California LCFF and Texas FSP funding codes on each sync to determine which absences are recoverable, converting documented interventions into allowable absences and packaging the supporting evidence for board reporting and audit.
The company also markets real-time dashboards for tracking funding at risk with drill-down by school, grade and attendance code, audit-ready documentation, and an accumulating record of which interventions worked for which students over time. Named CASCP alignment partners are The Family Institute, Sophia Consultants and Student Well-Being Support.
Founding story
Unified Track was founded by Dustin Bainbridge, who was the company's representative at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center's Raising + Rising showcase in 2024 and at the 2025 WORKS Accelerator Demo Day.
Business model
Unified Track sells software to K-12 school districts, positioning itself as a layer on top of the district's existing student information system rather than a replacement for it. The product is sold to multiple stakeholder groups inside a district — student support and MTSS leaders, directors and assistant superintendents, counselors, attendance clerks and wellness staff, and chief business officers and CFOs — each of whom is offered a role-specific view of the same underlying data. The stated value proposition pairs student outcome improvement with recovery of attendance-linked state revenue, with the company citing $500,000 to $1,000,000 in average ADA recovered per district per year.
The sources do not state pricing terms; the platform is presented as a district-level subscription product layered on a district's existing SIS.
Traction
Coverage of the 2025 WORKS Accelerator cohort stated that all seven participating companies, Unified Track among them, had at least one paying customer, with several holding additional contracts, clients or pilots. The company publishes testimonials from a Counselor on Special Assignment at Bellflower Unified School District and from a district administrator, and states that state-level data privacy agreements are already signed with California and Texas districts.
Latest developments
Regional tech press reported in the week of October 20-24, 2025 that Unified Track received $250,000 in funding from ECMC Group. Earlier in 2025 the company completed the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center's WORKS Accelerator, presenting at its August 20, 2025 Demo Day. The company's site promoted a free attendance recovery webinar on October 14.
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Market position
Unified Track is an early-stage education technology company operating in the student early-warning, MTSS intervention and attendance-funding recovery segment, with a stated focus on California and Texas districts. It has been characterized in regional coverage as a predictive analytics platform that plugs into a district's existing student information system, and it participated in accelerator and investor-showcase programming in the Knoxville ecosystem in 2024 and 2025.
Unified Track's stated positioning is that competing dashboards identify which students are falling behind but do not prescribe the next action, owner or follow-up. Its claimed differentiators are the pairing of a documented student intervention with a recoverable ADA claim from the same trigger, a rules engine encoding state funding code (500+ checks against California LCFF and Texas FSP), a guided plan wizard and CASCP-aligned template library instead of a blank intervention record, and a deployment model that requires no new data entry or retraining because it sits on top of existing SIS workflows.
Technology
The system establishes a secure, read-only nightly SFTP connection to student information systems including PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Aeries, Skyward and Aspen, pulling attendance, grades, credits, behavior and demographic data one way so the SIS remains the system of record. A rules engine runs more than 500 validation checks against current California LCFF and Texas FSP funding codes on each sync to determine allowable and recoverable absences. AI-based prioritization scores and tiers students into a daily worklist, and an intervention engine manages MTSS-tiered plans, templates, touch point logging, and progress monitoring against measurable goals. The company states it holds SOC 2 Type II certification, CITE Privacy Services recognition, and is a signatory to the California and Texas NDPA, with compliance stated for FERPA, CCPA and California AB 1584.
Go-to-market
Unified Track markets directly to district roles through its website with role-specific landing paths, a self-guided interactive product demo hosted via Storylane, a funding recovery calculator, and a booked "Exposure Review" consultation as the primary conversion step. It has also run free webinars on attendance recovery. The company has used regional startup programming for visibility, including the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center's Raising + Rising investor showcase and the WORKS Accelerator Demo Day.
Public school districts, with marketing aimed at California and Texas districts. Named buyer and user roles include student support and MTSS leaders, directors and assistant superintendents, counselors, attendance clerks and wellness staff, and chief business officers and CFOs.
Geography
The company is based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and participates in the local startup ecosystem through the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center. Its product marketing targets California and Texas school districts, with state data privacy agreements signed in both states and a funding rules engine built around California LCFF and Texas FSP codes. A testimonial is attributed to a counselor at Bellflower Unified School District in California.
History
The founder, Dustin Bainbridge, presented Unified Track at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center's Raising + Rising showcase during Innov865 Week in October 2024, an event for companies actively raising capital, where the company was described as using AI-driven predictive analytics for goal setting and an early warning system. In 2025 Unified Track was part of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center's eight-week WORKS Accelerator cohort, which concluded with a Demo Day on August 20, 2025; coverage of the cohort noted that every participating company had at least one paying customer. Bainbridge was also linked to the 2025 PYA Ballard Innovation Award and was expected to appear at 865 Fest in September 2025. In October 2025, regional tech press reported $250,000 in funding for the company from ECMC Group.
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launches, deals, and filingsHypepotamus's Southeast tech news roundup for the week of October 20-24, 2025 listed $250,000 in funding for Knoxville-based Unified Track from ECMC Group.
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Founder Dustin Bainbridge took part in the eight-week WORKS Accelerator run by the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, which concluded with a Demo Day on August 20, 2025 at the Square Room in downtown Knoxville.
Teknovation noted that Unified Track founder Dustin Bainbridge was associated with the 2025 PYA Ballard Innovation Award.
Unified Track was one of seven companies presenting to investors and industry leaders at the Raising + Rising showcase held during Innov865 Week in Knoxville on October 3, 2024, an event for companies in early or late stages of raising capital.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Unified Track do?
- K-12 software that turns student information system data into tiered intervention plans and recoverable attendance-based state funding.
- Who are Unified Track's investors?
- Unified Track's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Unified Track headquartered?
- Unified Track is headquartered in Knoxville, US.