About Edanchor

Built for schools first, everyone else second.

We started as an LMS built specifically for primary and secondary schools — and grew into a full technology partner because schools kept asking us to solve the problem next to the one we’d just fixed.

250+

Schools & institutions

10 yrs

In K-12 EdTech

99%

Client retention

"Edanchor is the only vendor we've used who actually understood how a primary school day is structured — not just how a corporate LMS works."
Director of IT, Multi-Academy Trust
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Why we exist

Most learning platforms are built for universities and corporate training, then awkwardly adapted for children. We built the opposite: a learning management system designed around how a five-year-old and a seventeen-year-old actually use a school day differently, how teachers grade between lessons rather than at a desk, and how parents need one clear window into their child’s progress — not a portal buried three logins deep.

That focus on primary and secondary education is still our anchor point. Everything else we do — IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud hosting, and consultancy — exists to support that same core need: giving schools technology that works quietly in the background so staff can spend their time teaching, not troubleshooting.

What guides how we build

Four commitments that shape every product decision, not just marketing language.

01

Safeguarding by default

Every feature involving student data is designed with child safeguarding obligations built in, not bolted on afterward.

02

Term-time reliability

We plan updates, maintenance, and support capacity around the school calendar — not our release schedule.

03

Give teachers time back

If a feature adds admin work for teaching staff without a clear return, we don’t ship it.

04

Security as a foundation

Cloud and data infrastructure are built to protect minors’ data first, with performance and cost optimised around that constraint.

How we got here

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2016

Founded to serve primary schools

Started building a lightweight learning platform for a small group of primary schools frustrated with adapted corporate LMS tools.

2019

Expanded into secondary education

Extended the platform to secondary schools, adding assessment tracking, timetabling integration, and exam-board reporting.

2021

Added IT & infrastructure services

Schools using our LMS began asking us to manage their broader IT estate, so we built out student information systems, portals, and device management.

2023

Launched cybersecurity & cloud division

Formalised a dedicated security and cloud practice after several trusts asked us to lead their compliance and cyber-resilience programmes.

2026

250+ institutions, four service lines

Today we support schools, trusts, and training providers across LMS, IT solutions, cybersecurity & cloud, and strategic consultancy.

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Founder & CEO

Former secondary school IT lead

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Head of Product

LMS & curriculum design

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Head of Security

Cybersecurity & compliance

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Head of Consultancy

Digital transformation

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