Civitas Learning, an Austin education technology company, on Tuesday announced it has acquired ClearScholar, an Indianapolis-based student engagement startup. No financial details were shared.
The acquisition comes a little less than four months after Civitas Learning announced it had formed a partnership to integrate ClearScholar's student engagement app into Civitas Learning's platform to give college students additional tools to help ensure they graduate.
ClearScholar was founded in 2016, and it has raised at least $1.25 million in seed funding. Its investors include High Alpha Capital, Elevate Ventures, Butler University and several angel investors. Its mobile app, which provides personalized events, news and activities to students, has been deployed at six universities, including Butler.
“At Civitas, we are obsessed with helping our institutional partners use intelligence to effectively personalize support for their students, and that obsession manifests across the tools we provide today for students, advisors, faculty, and administrators,” said Civitas Learning Founder and CEO, Charles Thornburgh. “In ClearScholar, we have found a mobile product—and team—that shares our passion for personalizing student support and uses that focus to drive the highest student engagement rates in higher education.”
This is the latest of several acquisitions for Austin's Citivas Learning. It acquired BlikBook, a U.K.-based student engagement platform, in 2015, and it acquired College Scheduler in 2016.
Civitas Learning is backed by more than $70 million in venture capital, including $60 million from Warburg Pincus, in addition to undisclosed impact investments from Lumina Foundation and Valhalla Charitable Foundation.
