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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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Overview
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
3740 Cedargate Way, Sacramento, CA 95834, USA (mailing address)
Business model
freemium SaaS
subscription software
custom district licensing
implementation and training services
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$160K
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2014
Latest amount
$120K
People & investors
Leadership
CEO
Joseph Mertz
Board Member
Board Member
Advisor
Advisor
Advisor
Advisor
Work & culture
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
Virtual volunteer opportunities from anywhere
3-month volunteer onboarding program
Work directly with users
Gain professional work experience
Build a public/open-source portfolio
Collaborate with virtual teams
Learn about curriculum and teaching
No micro-managing for volunteer roles
Opportunity to advance from volunteer to fellow
Fellowships can be renewed
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium SaaS with free teacher/small-school tiers, paid school and district subscriptions, custom enterprise pricing, and add-on implementation/training services.
Differentiators
- —Curriculum planning and alignment, not a pure OER search engine
- —Google Docs-like collaborative editing for curriculum
- —Standards alignment and curriculum mapping workflows
- —Analytics dashboards to surface curriculum gaps and progress
- —Transparent pricing with a free tier for teachers and small schools
- —Community-curated educational content
- —Interoperability efforts such as the Open Instruction Schema
- —Designed to let schools/districts control their own shared spaces
Technology
TypeScript
Next.js
React
GraphQL
Python
Django
Backbone.js
Draft.js
Drupal 7
jQuery
Firebase / Firestore / Storage / Functions
Docker
Azure
expert systems
NLP
Customers
K-12 teachers
small schools and departments
school districts
curriculum and instruction leaders
school administrators
Competitors
OER Commons
Curriki
Gooru
Atlas
Chalk
TeachersConnect
Boom Learning
Vurilo
ReadWorks
TeacherTube
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $2.5M ARR (estimated by GetLatka, 2025)
Estimated monthly visits
14.4K
Signals & risks
Latest news
TechCrunch · 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.
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