Quick answers
Did Suraj Srinivas co-found Chalk?
Yes. Waterloo News (University of Waterloo), April 15, 2015, names William Zhou, Ryan McKay-Fleming and Suraj Srinivas as the three who formed Chalk.com. A June 1, 2018 Waterloo News engineering-alumni story says Srinivas "cofounded Chalk" and places him in the inaugural management engineering class, BASc '12.
What is Chalk?
Software for K-12 teachers rather than administrators. Waterloo News (April 15, 2015) describes Chalk.com as online tools for lesson planning and student evaluation; its June 1, 2018 story says the free Planboard app was used by roughly 250,000 teachers globally, alongside Markboard and paid curriculum-management tools, with the company at about 40 staff.
What happened to Chalk?
It was acquired. Law firm Gowling WLG, which advised the company, published a client-work note dated May 5, 2022 stating that PowerSchool Holdings Inc. announced it had acquired Chalk.com Education Inc., and describing Chalk.com as headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario. chalk.com now redirects to powerschool.com/products/ (checked 2026-09-21).
What does Suraj Srinivas do now?
Unverified. The most recent page found that names him is the Waterloo News alumni story of June 1, 2018; no 2025 or 2026 source confirms a current role, and none was found describing what he did after the 2022 PowerSchool acquisition (checked 2026-09-21). The name is shared by several other people, including a machine-learning researcher, so unattributed matches were not used.