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.
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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.
Brian Meckler
Brian Meckler
CTO
Brian co-founded Curacubby to create an easy-to-use technology tool for childcare and K-8 program directors who need a simple, less cumbersome, time-intensive approach to account management, including online registration and enrollment, billing and payment processing, email communications and more. He leads the team that developed the company’s flagship unified system and ensures schools using Curacubby get maximum value from the platform. Brian has deep experience managing product development from inception to support for large and small companies in the areas of payments, mobility, media applications and internet advertising. He was previously a co-founder of Matchmaker.com (bought by Lycos), and has led product management at Orange Silicon Valley, mobile payments provider BOKU, and Sling Media, among others. Brian has a BA degree in economics and a BS degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Ross Lugos
Ross Lugos
CBO
Joining his former U.C. Berkeley classmate Steven Khuong, Ross played a key role in creating Curacubby and bringing its solution to market, having experienced the headaches of writing checks to pay school tuition each month as a parent. With deep experience in solving complex issues in "Big Data" and financial risk management industries, Ross brings his tenacity to ensure success for every customer. Prior to helping in the creation of Curacubby, where he now leads the company’s operations, he was a Strategic Account Director at GoodData, and was also Director of Professional Services for Moody’s Analytics.
In the Press

U.S. Department of Commerce Awards Curacubby, Minority e-Commerce Firm Of The Year

Authority Magazine: Steven Khuong
Authority Magazine sat down with Steven Khuong to talk all things finance and fintech. Today's technology climate demandswe discern the difference...

Forbes: 15 Tech Leaders Share Metrics Every CIO And CTO Should Measure
Forbes.com asked their expert panel to share business metrics every CIO and CTO should be measuring. As a member of Forbes' Tech Council, Curacubby...
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.


