Our Story
How we were founded
After founder Steven Khuong's son was diagnosed with Autism, a group of passionate parents and educators started a preschool program that offered a whole-child approach to educating children with special needs. As their special needs preschool program expanded, Khuong realized that the school’s educational goals were held back by the established, low-tech systems of payment, registration, and recordkeeping.
Despite years of innovation in business management tools, manual processes still hindered the productivity of a variety of educational providers. Steven teamed up with two of his friends and fellow parents, Brian Meckler and Ross Lugos, to create an automated and secure online payment, registration, and recordkeeping system designed just for schools. Their goal was to bridge the gap between quality education and mobile commerce.
Today, Curacubby is a complete online education and enrichment management system that handles enrollment, billing and payment processing, account management, reporting, and revenue growth – without the complexity found in other solutions.
At the end of 2023, Steven Khuong and Ross Lugos parted ways with the company. Brian Meckler remains as a Board Director.
Backed by leading investors
Steven Khuong
Steven Khuong
CEO
Steven brings over a decade of deep experience in launching and growing businesses and solving problems from idea conception to developing and bringing technology to market. Steven is the co-founder and CEO of Curacubby, the leading integrated payments and business platform for schools of all sizes. As a thought leader in operations and process management, Steven has been featured in national media including CNN, Forbes.com, and Inc. Magazine. He currently serves as a mentor at the Envestnet | Yodlee Fintech Launchpad, and as an advisor to the Arrowhead Center of Innovation at New Mexico State University and previously a parent co-founder of an early education program for children with special needs. Prior to co-founding Curacubby, Steven founded Ice Chamber Athletic Performance Training and was the inventor of KettleGuard, the best-selling patented protective wrist device for kettlebell lifting. He was a member of the 2016-2017 Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator, an awarding-winning accelerator for next-generation fintech disruptors. Steven earned his bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from the University of California at Berkeley.
In the Press
U.S. Department of Commerce Awards Curacubby, Minority e-Commerce Firm Of The Year
Authority Magazine: Steven Khuong
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Forbes: 15 Tech Leaders Share Metrics Every CIO And CTO Should Measure
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We’re always growing. Our teams are located in California, Texas and Utah.
Our team is bringing easy, fast, and safe solutions to educators by empowering them to focus on doing what they love and providing support in areas of the business that consume time and energy, such as managing student and family records, invoices and registration and enrollment.