Storypark acquires childcare management solution Kinder M8 

Early childhood education app Storypark has acquired leading childcare management platform Kinder M8, best known for its commitment to customer experience and product excellence.

As a result of the acquisition Kinder M8 Founder and CEO Niroj Sri will now join Storypark in the position of Chief Operating Officer.

Kinder M8 has spent nearly a decade providing customers with a comprehensive solution for managing their service; from waitlists, enrolments and CRM to billing, payments, subsidy management, and a number of other tools. 

With first-class customer support, solutions built in response to customers’ needs, and a focus on improving the lives of educators, children, and families, Kinder M8 has built a strong reputation resulting in organic growth based on word-of-mouth, making its alignment with the vision, mission and quality focus of Storypark clear.

The acquisition enables Storypark, which is used by over 6,000 services across Australia, to offer early childhood education and care (ECEC) organisations a comprehensive solution by integrating Australia’s leading family engagement and learning documentation platform with feature rich childcare management software.

Storypark co-founder and CEO Jamie MacDonald began exploring opportunities to expand Storypark’s platform, while maintaining a commitment to its core purpose in response to a growing preference for ECEC organisations to consolidate their tooling.

“We’re expanding our platform to provide a centralised tool for managing ECEC organisations, all in one place,” Mr MacDonald said. 

“With this acquisition, we’re simply building on our mission to help every child reach their unique potential by empowering the community around them. By providing an end-to-end solution, organisations can streamline their operational and administrative management, giving them more freedom to focus on the moments that matter.”

The shared commitment of both Storypark and Kinder M8 to making a positive impact on the lives of educators, families and children made the acquisition a natural choice, he continued.

“With extremely high customer satisfaction, continuous investment in product innovation, and a comprehensive platform that offers the tools a service needs to run their organisation, this acquisition enables Storypark to offer our partners a childcare management solution with children at the heart,” Mr MacDonald added. 

Commenting on the acquisition from the perspective of Kinder M8 Mr Sri said “Storypark is an incredible purpose-driven organisation trusted by services and families across Australia. We feel proud to be the platform on which Storypark can build, to provide even more to the ECEC sector.” 

“Working in partnership with our customers, we’ve built a platform that has always focused on three things: fast onboarding, simplifying operations, and delivering customer satisfaction. We’re one of the only childcare management platforms in Australia that, in addition to all the features you expect, also provides CRM, staff rostering, and dedicated maintenance tracking,” he continued.

“We look forward to joining the Storypark family and expanding the Storypark platform, powered by the technology solutions we’ve spent the last decade perfecting alongside our loyal customers.”

Existing customers of both Storypark and Kinder M8 will continue to have access to their current tools, support, and service, all of which will remain unchanged. 

“What is changing,” Storypark said “is the opportunity to experience the best of both worlds—Australia’s most loved family engagement and learning documentation platform, combined with a powerful childcare management tool.” 

Customers of either platform who have questions are encouraged to get in touch with their existing point of contact. 

Learn more about the acquisition here.