Non-profit Children’s Institute, Inc., in cooperation with software developer SophiTEC, Inc., create a new company serving children through schools and community-based organizations
Rochester, N.Y., December 20, 2011 – Two Rochester, New York, organizations formed a new company named COMET Informatics LLC. These two organizations are the non-profit Children’s Institute, Inc., and the for-profit software company, SophiTEC, Inc.

COMET Informatics LLC continues the development of, and markets, a web-based data application named “COMET®”. COMET aids people who care about and are responsible for children’s success in school and life. COMET supports children's learning progress and outcomes with powerful real-time data and assessment evaluation tools.

In schools, COMET enables evidence-based interventions, matching a child with a specific need to a proven form of therapy or corrective action. For community-based organizations serving children, and for funders of these organizations, COMET enables and simplifies the process of evaluating their programs.

On December 7, 2011, the date the company’s founders signed its operating agreement, COMET was in use at 85 customers, including schools and community-based organizations. From COMET’s inception, over 160,000 children, and the organizations serving them, have benefited from COMET.

In the school segment, COMET customers...