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Securly, Inc., the student safety and wellness pioneer and a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital, this week announced that it has acquired Fort Worth-based Rhithm Inc.
Officials say the transaction will unite Rhithm’s “best-in-class social, emotional, and mental wellness assessments, content, and insights with Securly’s whole-student success platform to provide K-12 schools with the first comprehensive student wellness solution.”
Founded in February 2019 by childhood friends Josh Knutson and Jake Gannon and headquartered in Fort Worth, Rhithm serves more than 1.25 million students across 27 states. Rhithm’s platform uses a simple evidence-based check-in assessment that proactively delivers an optimal 1 to 3-minute SEL activity or lesson video promoting well-being, providing educators with innovative curriculum and life-saving visibility into students’ wellness and empowering schools to leverage their critical resources to best support their students.
The combination of Rhithm’s capabilities with Securly’s end-to-end platform will provide educational institutions with an ability to meet their students’ needs, along with tools designed to proactively enhance student wellness.
“We are excited to partner with Rhithm to provide our customers with the first comprehensive student wellness solution of its kind,” says Bharath Madhusudan, CEO of Securly, in a statement. “Rhithm’s SEL check-in platform is a natural complement to Securly’s product insights and will strengthen our ability to proactively and holistically support students’ well-being in an increasingly complex digital learning environment.”
“Joining forces with Securly gives us a unique opportunity to accelerate our mission of empowering educators to more effectively elevate the next generation of humanity,” says Knutson, Rhithm CEO. “Rhithm’s assessments and directed content combined with Securly’s powerful and life-saving solutions will allow us to deliver unprecedented value to schools in supporting their mental health, social emotional, and well-being initiatives.”