[/caption]Every morning before Cindy Price starts teaching her first graders in New Castle, Delaware, she fires up , a classroom management app. The company says ClassDojo reaches 7 million kids globally every day, or 1% of the 700 million children in grades K-8 or their equivalent. Six years later, ClassDojo has raised about $31 million from investors, earning a recent valuation of $100 million. Academic studies have found that ClassDojo helped to increase students' positivity, self-control and engagement and to reduce behavioral problems. ClassDojo faces a handful of startup competitors that are more narrowly focused on classroom communications or ways for students to upload homework.

Source: Forbes May 22, 2017 09:56 UTC