# Edsby

> Edsby is an educational technology company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It is the developer and publisher of the Edsby platform, a web-based K-12 learning management system (LMS) and analytics platform, and Unison, an educational data aggregation product. Edsby aims to provide school districts, state governments, and central governments with stronger student, teacher, and parent engagement, […]

**Edsby** is an educational technology company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It is the developer and publisher of the Edsby platform, a web-based K-12 learning management system (LMS) and analytics platform, and Unison, an educational data aggregation product. Edsby aims to provide school districts, state governments, and central governments with stronger student, teacher, and parent engagement, along with better outcomes and clearer insights into learning.

Edsby is partnered with Microsoft and provides its services on the Microsoft Azure cloud service worldwide. The company was named Microsoft’s Education Partner of the Year in 2019.

## History

Edsby was founded in April 2010 by Steve Asbury, Jon Asbury, and Scott Welch, the three founders and architects of the software application FirstClass, and co-worker John Myers. After it gained popularity in the 1990s, millions of students and teachers used this software tool with messaging and collaboration features, and it is recognized as one of the earliest learning management systems.

Edsby is privately held, and in 2014, the company acknowledged a funding round of around two

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*Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsby)*

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