Seattle-based day care enrollment startup LegUp has been acquired by Kinside, a child care benefits company based in San Francisco.
A Kinside spokesperson said LegUp's three-person team, including its two founders, will be joining Kinside, and nobody has to relocate. The companies are not disclosing the financial terms of the deal.
"Kinside and LegUp have always shared a mission to ensure families have access to the care they need to stay in the workforce,” LegUp co-founder and CEO Jessica Eggert said in a release. “By bringing our two companies together, we accelerate the speed of this mission and take what has historically been a fragmented, complex search and enrollment process and simplify it so families and child care providers can thrive."
The spokesperson said the LegUp brand will remain for the near term, but all services will be brought under one brand eventually. For now, the company's website reads, "LegUp, powered by Kinside."
LegUp, founded in 2019, offers scheduling software for child care providers, allowing them to organize wait lists and share availability online. Providers can also process payments and receive enrollment packets online.
On LegUp's website, the company lists Garrett Vargas as co-founder and chief technology officer. According to their LinkedIn pages, Eggert is also an adviser and limited partner at the networking organization and venture firm Graham & Walker, while Vargas spent more than seven years at Expedia earlier in his career.
Kinside, meanwhile, was founded in 2018. The company partners with employers and providers to offer child care benefits to employees, who can find open spots and savings through an app. According to the company, "thousands of employers offer Kinside."
“We have been following LegUp’s progress for the last two years and are incredibly impressed with the founders' product and the deep empathy for child care providers and the families they serve,” Kinside co-founder and CEO Shadiah Sigala said in a release. “By bringing LegUp into the family, we’re fast-tracking Kinside’s vision to reimagine and uplift every part of the child care ecosystem."
