Sawyer Raises $11M to Connect Parents and Providers for Educational Playtime - News
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Sawyer’s marketplace currently features activities aimed at children as young as 3 months up to high school students and subjects that range from science experiments to arts and crafts. Come June, the company will open its platform to providers nationwide, allowing users to search for activities by ZIP code. Sawyer has grown its footprint deliberately, Alden adds, to ensure that each of the metro areas it serves offers an abundance of activities to choose from. But the way in which Sawyer marries a plethora of administrative operations—scheduling, payment processing, discount management—for providers into a single service wooed her interest. This team always hits their numbers.” Alden credits the company’s growth to millennial parents who grew up with the internet and are used to organizing their lives and making payments digitally.