An earlier OpenCurriculum product was shut down a few months after launch before the company rebuilt its platform, indicating an early product reset rather than a company shutdown.
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OpenCurriculum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit K-12 edtech company that provides curriculum planning, mapping, and alignment software for teachers, schools, and districts; it positions itself as a collaborative, teacher-friendly alternative to traditional OER repositories.
Primary product
K-12 curriculum planning, mapping, and standards-alignment software
Founded
2011
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Education Software / K-12 EdTech
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$160K
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2014
Latest amount
$120K
Leadership
CEO
Joseph Mertz
Board Member
Board Member
Advisor
Advisor
Advisor
Advisor
Investors
Mission-driven and community-centered, emphasizing openness, freedom, collaboration, teacher contribution, and making curriculum creation a shared effort.
Compensation
No public employee salary bands or compensation policy were found. Public evidence shows a transparent freemium pricing model for customers, while volunteer roles emphasize experience, collaboration, and mission impact rather than pay.
Benefits
Pricing
Freemium SaaS with free teacher/small-school tiers, paid school and district subscriptions, custom enterprise pricing, and add-on implementation/training services.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $2.5M ARR (estimated by GetLatka, 2025)
Estimated monthly visits
14.4K
An earlier OpenCurriculum product was shut down a few months after launch before the company rebuilt its platform, indicating an early product reset rather than a company shutdown.
SourceTechCrunch · Jul 2014
TechCrunch covered OpenCurriculum’s launch of a free online math library, noting its focus on open-source K-12 education, a 5,000-document library, and investors including Y Combinator, Points of Light Civic Accelerator, ITU, Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute of Social Innovation, and Thrill Mill.
OpenCurriculum blog
Company launch post describing OpenCurriculum as an online platform to create, access, and share K-12 learning content, with collaborative projects, user profiles, and early institutional partner workspaces.
OpenCurriculum blog
Early company update describing a new platform built on a different technology stack, a move to East Liberty in Pittsburgh at the time, and plans for release/testing of the next product iteration.
OpenCurriculum blog
Explains a teacher-centric lesson-planning product reset after the company shut down an earlier attempt a few months after launch, and outlines a curriculum-and-instruction planning approach.
OpenCurriculum blog
Describes OpenCurriculum’s positioning against OER repositories: more curriculum planning than search, stronger search and analytics, standards alignment, and a tiered pricing model.