First, there was a problem. The schools had not done their homework when it came to digitalisation.
Teachers and parents liked the app so much that it spread by word of mouth alone – including in Germany. The first trade fair appearance in Germany followed in 2017. After a lot of positive and constructive feedback from teachers, another area with a lot of digitalisation potential was discovered: kindergartens and daycare centres. Until then, the company had only been known as SchoolFox – with “KidsFox” for daycare centres, it needed a presence with a neutral name: That was the birth of FoxEducation.
2021 marks an important milestone for FoxEducation. A lot of progress in the apps, many new Foxies, but above all one thing – the collaboration with GoStudent! Both companies are pursuing the goal of providing children with a better education – but are starting from different points and complement each other. It was therefore decided to go down the path of the No. 1 global school together. As a result, Philipp Fendt joined the management team and is now (2023) Co-CEO and Managing Director.
Since 2022, FoxEducation has been on an expansion course for schools and daycare centres throughout the German-speaking world. With over 8,000 educational institutions now using FoxApps, it is also very successful.
2024 starts with the biggest product innovation of the past few months: in February, we released FoxPay, our digital payment management tool for educational institutions. Over the course of the year, we will make many improvements to SchoolFox, KidsFox and our other apps and services to continue to simplify life in education.
Because we have already made history and will continue to make our mark on education in the future!
David Schalkhammer, MSc
David has been active as an entrepreneur in the technology sector for 10 years. He studied international business administration and user experience management in Austria, France and the USA. As a creative tinkerer, he is fascinated by how analogue processes can be digitised through the careful use of software, making life easier for users. The education sector has turned out to be the perfect field of activity. In 2015, he and his co-founders Stefan and Julian invented the “SchoolFox” app and have been making the everyday lives of millions of teachers, parents and pupils easier ever since.
Philipp Fendt, BSc, MFP
Philipp entered the financial sector at the beginning of 2014 and remained there until the end of 2021, where he most recently worked at Schoellerbank as Head of Strategy and Sales Management. For this reason, he is a perfect fit for FoxEducation, where he is now using his experience to help take FoxEducation to the next level. Since autumn 2022, he has been Business Director for Sales, Marketing, Customer Support and Data.
Before entering the business world, he was a professional golfer. He prepared intensively for this career for four years in the USA, where as a college golfer at the University of Louisiana he made it to 26th position in the amateur world rankings (no. 5 in Europe). He has a Master’s degree in Financial Planning and a Bachelor’s degree in Sports Management.