Numeric competes with two accounting software companies: Publicly-traded Blackline, and FloQast, an 11-year-old startup that was valued at $1.6 billion when it raised its Series E this April.

New Balance Numeric has been slowly building its apparel program, but with dudes like Tiago rocking the gear, consider us intrigued.

In fact, fewer than 1 in 6 educators—13 percent—surveyed by the EdWeek Research Center earlier this year say that A through F or numeric grades are a “very effective way” to give feedback ...