ConnectYard

Founded in 2007 by co-founders Donald Doane and Doctor Grant Warner, ConnectYard is a Wayne, New Jersey-based business providing a multimodal messaging platform that allows educational institutions to enhance communication and engagement through text, social media, email, and mobile channels. The enterprise software helps colleges, universities, and K-12 schools measure student performance, track daily attendance, and monitor overall retention metrics while ensuring complete FERPA compliance. By bridging the digital divide, the communication system focuses on facilitating social learning, streamlining student recruitment processes, and increasing academic participation specifically for underserved student groups. Furthermore, the technology is utilized by academic administrators to drive alumni re-engagement initiatives across various digital communication networks. Today, the educational technology company operates with a dedicated workforce of fewer than 25 employees and generates approximately 6.2 million dollars in total annual revenue.