EDUCAUSE ReviewLong read
The first ITAM vendor that treats the institution, not the endpoint, as the unit of governance.
Newsroom · Public affairs
Press.
Announcements, press releases, and inquiries about Habeo— the institutional system of record for everything a university holds.
- Institutions
- 34 R1 · LAC · State systems
Press releases.
In the news.
The ChronicleFeature
A quiet, Workday-shaped revolt against the ITSM monoliths public universities have been told to buy.
Inside Higher EdProfile
Habeo's ledger reads less like a SaaS dashboard and more like the registrar's office made software.
TechCrunchFunding
The Series A is small by SaaS standards. The pipeline — every state-system CIO who has ever priced ServiceNow — is not.
CIO JournalOp-ed
They built the audit log first, then everything else. That is unusual, and in higher ed, exactly correct.
ForbesList
A vertical SaaS thesis with the longest customer tenure in software — the public university.
Brand assets · v2.4
The wordmark, the seal, and four permissible ways to use them.
Habeo is written with a capital H, italics only on the period. The seal is monoline; do not fill it. Use the oxblood accent only against the parchment off-white or the dark ink ground — never against pure white or pure black. Full guidelines included in the kit.
Oxblood#7A1F2B
Ink#0E1116
Parchment#FAFAF7
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Habeo
Habeo
Habeo
By the numbers.
FoundedSep 2023in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
HeadquartersPittsburgh, PAwith remote staff in 14 states
Funding to date$18.5MSeed (Nov 2025) + Series A (Mar 2026)
Lead investorRidgeline VCEDUCAUSE Ventures · founder angels
Institutions34R1, LAC, and two state systems
Assets under record1.4Macross 24 active customer tenants
Employees28engineering, customer, public affairs
Latin mottoHabēreto hold — gentler than tenēre
About HabeoStandard boilerplate · copy as-is
Habeo is the institutional system of record for everything a university holds — laptops, lab equipment, vehicles, library collections, and the relationships among them. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the company builds software for higher education.
The name comes from the Latin habēre— to hold, not to grasp. A fiduciary verb for a fiduciary problem.
Habeo is used by 34 colleges and universities, including two state systems, to retire legacy ITAM deployments, reconcile GASB-34 fixed assets, and pass HECVAT vendor reviews.
Available for comment.
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Michael Mitrakos
CEO
Writes the Habeo founder essays.
Speaks on —
Higher-ed strategy · GASB-34 · Decentralized governance
Higher-ed strategy · GASB-34 · Decentralized governance
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