Neverware

Although the company began with an exclusive focus on the US K-12 education sector, it announced in October 2017 its intention to use its Series B funding from Google to further expand into the enterprise market.

[7] The product primarily targeted the K-12 school market, as a means of refurbishing older computers in preparation for wider rollouts of electronic standardized tests.

[9] While early reception to PCReady was positive, it faced competition in the education market from Google's ChromeOS ecosystem (including Chromebooks), which leveraged cloud services and lightweight hardware.

[13][14] Neverware's first product, PCReady, was a multiseat desktop virtualization platform, seeking to convert older computers to Windows 7–based thin clients using its remotely-managed "Juicebox" server appliance.

[20] Neverware had appeared in the Wall Street Journal,[21] the Boston Globe,[22] the Guardian,[23] Forbes.com,[24] The New York Times,[25] TechCrunch,[7] The Verge,[2] Engadget,[26] and The MIT Technology Review.

Jonathan Hefter, founder of Neverware