LiveKid, the leading platform for managing pre-schools and nurseries and parent-kindergarten communication, has acquired Aldea, a Monterrey-based platform serving early childhood education centers in Mexico, Colombia, and Chile. It is LiveKid’s second acquisition this year and the next step in the company’s consolidation strategy across Europe and Latin America.
Strengthening the Early Education Platform
Founded in 2017 in Poland by Jakub Pawelski, LiveKid runs the operating system of a modern pre-school. Billing, admissions, staff management, meal planning, e-journals, bulletin boards, galleries, reports — all in one place. For parents, it is a single app: pay tuition, report absences, message teachers, follow the day. The platform replaces the patchwork of paper forms, spreadsheets, group chats, and bank transfers that still defines daily operations in most early childhood education centers.
Aldea, founded by Luis Garza Sada and Jorge Dzul, has built a similar product for the Mexican market, with additional operations in Colombia and Chile. Its strength lies in northern Mexico, particularly Monterrey, where it has become the platform of choice for hundreds of centers and the families they serve.
After the acquisition, LiveKid serves over 5,000 centers and over 600,000 parents across Poland, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Argentina. The platform processes more than USD 400 million in payments annually for tuition fees and other early childhood education services.
"Aldea has built a leading position in Mexico, in the segment we care most about — parent payments and center operations. They know their market, they have a product families and centers trust, and they have done it with capital efficiency we recognize from our own playbook. Scaling a team and localizing a product across cultures is one of the hardest parts of building a company like ours, and we are especially glad that Jorge, who has already done it in this market, is staying on to lead our Mexican operations," says Jakub Pawelski, CEO & Founder of LiveKid.
“Mexico is one of the largest and most fragmented early childhood education markets in the world, and it is also the most strategic for understanding Latin America: what works here scales to Colombia, Chile, Peru, and beyond. LiveKid is the perfect match for that next step: they bring the experience, the product, and a vision for the category that few teams have. Jakub has built something extraordinary from Poland, and when I met him, I quickly understood that we were looking at the same opportunity from two different continents, and that it made sense for us to build the category leader for Latin America together,” says Jorge Dzul, general manager of LiveKid in Mexico and LATAM, and co-founder of Aldea.
Growth Strategy
LiveKid's platform will be offered under the Aldea name in Latin America. The combined Mexican team will operate from Monterrey, led by Jorge Dzul, alongside LiveKid’s teams in Barcelona and Kraków. Luis Garza Sada, Aldea's co-founder, will join the company's board to support the company's Latin American expansion.
LiveKid has been acquiring smaller players in the early childhood education space since its early years, including Dinantia in Barcelona and deals in Canada and Poland. The pace has accelerated in 2026 – in Q1, LiveKid acquired Spain's Schooltivity, and Aldea is the second deal of the year.
“Early childhood education is one of the most fragmented verticals in B2B software, and it is a country-by-country business. Each market has its own regulations, payment habits, and trusted local brands – there is no shortcut. Our bet is that the winner will be whoever can win enough of these markets locally and build regional scale on top. After Schooltivity and Aldea, we are not slowing down — more transactions are in the pipeline, in both Europe and Latin America," adds Jakub Pawelski.