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SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Treering , the memory-as-a-service platform, has earned a spot on the prestigious 2025 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America and ranked #346 among software companies.. This recognition comes with a brand refresh as the company accelerates its growth with a powerful expansion into the travel industry, along with cutting-edge advancements in memory preservation technology.

"We're incredibly proud of this milestone", said Kevin Zerber, Co-Founder and CEO of Treering. "Being named to the Inc. 5000 is a testament to the impact we're having in transforming how memories are captured and shared. This recognition is a direct reflection of our innovative technology and user-centric experiences that are driving our growth."

The Inc. 5000 list ranks private companies by revenue growth over the last three years. Past honorees include top brands like Patagonia, Under Armour, and Intuit, underscoring the scale and speed of Treering's growth.

Alongside this recognition, Treering is unveiling a product expansion designed to offer even more value to its customers. The company has launched Treering Memories, a new line tailored for the travel industry, enabling travelers to effortlessly create personalized keepsakes from their vacation moments.

More than just a photobook, Treering Memories is a turnkey solution that helps travel brands elevate their guest experience while unlocking new revenue opportunities. With proprietary AI that auto-builds beautiful, personalized books in minutes, guests can relive their trip highlights without the hassle of sorting or designing. For partners, it's a seamless value-add that drives guest satisfaction, builds brand affinity, and opens a new monetization channel.

"Treering Memories is built on the same intuitive AI technology and smart design tools that have revolutionized the yearbook experience," added Zerber. "This expansion into the travel space is a major step in our mission to make memory creation smarter, more personalized, and easier for all. Whether it's a cruise line, tour operator, or travel brand, Treering Memories creates lasting, personalized keepsakes that turn unforgettable trips into lasting stories and casual customers into lifelong advocates."

The launch of Treering Memories and the refreshed brand is a direct response to growing demand for smart, personalized, and user-friendly memory solutions across industries. Powered by AI, Treering's technology continues to evolve with new features and capabilities.

"As we expand into new markets, we are excited to offer travelers the same seamless, intuitive experience that schools and families have already enjoyed," said Brady McCue, Co-founder and CRO at Treering. "Our mission is to help people capture and share their most cherished memories, with technology that ensures it's always easy, effortless, and tailored to each individual's needs."

Treering has launched a refreshed brand. The update includes a modernized logo, vibrant color palette, and refined visual identity that depicts modern nostalgia—better reflecting the company's innovation, energy, and memory-focused approach. It marks a bold next chapter for the company's growth.

"We're calling it our glow-up," said Kim Nguyen. Head of Marketing at Treering. "It's more than a new look—this brand refresh is a signal of what's ahead: smarter tools, stronger partnerships, and helping people capture life's best memories."

Treering is poised to scale even further with new technology and strategic partnerships, making it easier than ever for schools, families, and travelers to tell their stories beautifully and effortlessly.

Treering is a Memory-as-a-Service platform that transforms life's moments into personalized keepsakes. Powered by their proprietary AI-driven technology and just-in-time printing, Treering offers scalable and flexible memory creation solutions for schools, families, and brands. With Treering's innovative platform, users can preserve and share their most meaningful memories effortlessly and beautifully.

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Treering Empowers Parents to Create Personalized School Memories While Giving Back to Schools

San Mateo, CA – August 14, 2024 

Treering, the pioneer in customizable yearbooks and a trusted provider of school memory solutions since 2009, announced a platform expansion. Over 13,000 schools have already harnessed Treering's web-based technology to create unique yearbooks. Now, parents can leverage this same technology to design a wide array of personalized photo products while directly supporting their children's schools.

This innovative web-based solution, exclusive to Treering customers, revolutionizes how families capture and treasure school memories. With a vast selection of customizable products, including tees, hoodies, cards, mugs, notebooks, and more, parents can effortlessly craft personalized keepsakes that celebrate every milestone of their child's academic journey. From school-themed design templates and user-friendly interfaces to unique options like club tee shirts and stadium blankets, Treering empowers parents to create one-of-a-kind mementos.

What truly sets Treering apart is its unwavering commitment to giving back to schools. A portion of every purchase from the new product line goes directly to the customer's school, providing much-needed funds for educational resources and programs.

"We understand the challenges parents face in finding the time and resources to create lasting keepsakes of their child's school years," said Kevin Zerber, CEO of Treering. "Our expanded platform, designed with our valued customers in mind, not only addresses this need but also allows parents to contribute to their child's school community."

With this pioneering platform, Treering solidifies its position as a one-stop shop for unique school memories. By seamlessly merging technology, personalization, and philanthropy, Treering sets a new standard for how families capture and cherish their children's school experiences.

"Every child's school experience is a story worth telling," said Zerber. "Our platform empowers parents to become the storytellers while making a tangible impact on their child's school."

About Treering

Treering is redefining the yearbook experience. As a leading platform for creating personalized and engaging yearbooks and keepsakes, we empower schools, students, and families to capture and celebrate life’s special moments. Through cutting-edge technology, students can showcase their unique stories with custom pages, online signatures, and interactive features. Our new line of customizable photo products offers even more ways to cherish memories. Treering operates at zero cost to schools, making high-quality yearbooks accessible to all. By combining traditional print with digital innovation, we deliver a modern yearbook experience that resonates with today’s students.

For more information, please visit www.treering.com.

Since 2009, Treering has used technology to simplify the yearbook process.

[San Mateo, CA, January 31, 2024] – Treering, a trailblazer in customizable yearbooks, celebrates a decade and a half of capturing cherished memories. This milestone is a testament to the company's unwavering commitment to inclusivity, accessible design, and employee engagement.

Since its inception in 2009, Treering has set out to update the standard yearbook industry, celebrate each student’s unique school experience by including two free custom pages for each yearbook, and foster a sense of belonging among students, staff, and parents with inclusive software. Co-Founder Brady McCue, “When I was in school, my family could not buy a yearbook. Every school yearbook signing day, I had to sit out. It was awful, and I didn’t want any other kid to feel the same way.” In fifteen years, Treering has partnered with over 20,000 schools, printed over seven million yearbooks, helped schools raise over 11.9 million in fundraising dollars, and added a book donation option so people can further give back to their school community.

Employee engagement and retention rates also set Treering apart. With a remarkable 99% employee engagement rate (based on the most recent Culture Amp survey), the company has cultivated a work environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and a shared passion for preserving memories.

"Our journey over the past 15 years has been extraordinary. We have been privileged to capture all the memories that make each school year unique," said Kevin Zerber, Co-Founder and CEO of Treering. "Our success is deeply rooted in the commitment and enthusiasm of our talented nationwide team. The 99% employee engagement rate speaks volumes about the passion and dedication that each member brings to the table."

As Treering turns the next page, the company will continue to build technology to help simplify capturing meaningful memories.

For more information, visit www.treering.com

Treering specializes in designing, creating, and printing quality yearbooks. The traditional yearbook only includes a few photos of each student. In today's smartphone world, students have thousands of pictures of themselves and their friends. This makes the traditional yearbook a lot less relevant. Treering brings the yearbook into the internet generation with custom pages, online signatures, and more while operating at zero cost to schools, only printing books parents decide to purchase.

Revolutionary Move Aims to Enhance Accessibility and Inclusivity in Yearbook Design

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Treering, a leader in customizable yearbooks, proudly introduces a dyslexia-friendly font to its collection, marking a significant stride towards inclusivity in design. Recognizing the power of typography in storytelling, Treering unveils 44 new fonts that empower users to share their narratives with style and clarity.

Allison Vecchio, Treering's Director of Design, notes, "Typography evolves with design trends, impacting message perception. We value user input and have responded to requests for diverse fonts."Inspired by the Dyslexia Friendly Font Collection, Treering embarked on the journey to incorporate a dyslexia-friendly font, resulting in the integration of OpenDyslexic. Designed by Abelardo "Abbie" Gonzalez, OpenDyslexic addresses challenges faced by dyslexic readers with features like enhanced letter weight, distinct shapes, and consistent baseline.

OpenDyslexic's open-source nature enhances its accessibility. Treering recommends its use in headlines and captions, augmenting inclusivity through thoughtful design. For optimal readability, Treering advocates for adhering to the Dyslexia-Friendly Style Guides endorsed by the British Dyslexia Association and the UX Movement. These guides emphasize modular design, single-color backgrounds, contrast, left-aligned text, and font sizes between 12 and 14 point.

While dyslexia-friendly fonts benefit many, Treering acknowledges personalized needs. Stakeholder involvement during design ensures ongoing inclusivity. With dyslexic-friendly fonts, Treering sets a new industry standard, reaffirming its commitment to celebrating every student's story. For more information, visit www.treering.com.

Treering is a company that specializes in the design, creation, and printing of quality yearbooks. The traditional yearbook only includes a few photos of each student. In today's smartphone world, students have thousands of pictures of themselves and their friends. This makes the traditional yearbook a lot less relevant. Treering brings the yearbook into the internet generation with custom pages, online signatures, and more while operating at zero cost to schools, only printing books parents decide to purchase.

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A Lasting Memento of an Extraordinary Accomplishment

[SAN MATEO, CA, June 15, 2023] Treering Yearbooks – an innovative San Mateo-based company focused on making yearbooks accessible to all students – partnered with the San Mateo Union High School District Bridge program (SMUHSD Bridge) to build the program’s first-ever yearbook. Using Treering’s user-friendly software and donation feature, every student ended the school year with a book filled with cherished memories celebrating their unique journey. 

As a school dedicated to fostering inclusivity and embracing diversity,  San Mateo Union High School District Bridge program newcomer students face the challenges of adapting to a new educational system and a different language. Most are unaccompanied newcomers from Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. Many come to the U.S. to flee violence or to reunite with a family member. Students range in age from 16 to 18, and 95% also work full-time to support family in their home countries.  The students and staff worked together to build the first-ever program yearbook using Treering’s collaborative software. All yearbooks were purchased utilizing Treering’s donation feature; no student had to pay for a book.

Recognizing the importance of documenting experiences and achievements, Cristina Gutierrez, SMUHSD Bridge yearbook editor and Social Science teacher, embarked on an ambitious endeavor to create a physical reminder to honor the student’s remarkable journey. With Treering’s new donation option, Gutierrez encouraged parents, teachers, and community members to donate yearbooks from their smartphones or computers. The yearbook not only preserves cherished memories but also serves as a testament to the students' resilience, determination, and growth throughout their first year in a new country.

"Yearbooks are powerful. Designing our yearbook with Treering meant students could participate in the creation and take away valuable skills like graphic design, photography, and storytelling that can be used later in life. Now they have a physical reminder of their Bridge experience. Fiestas, home country Independence Days, soccer league championships, and awards ceremonies - all our memorable moments are included," explains Gutierrez. 

To learn more about Treering's accessible yearbook options, visit www.treering.com.
To learn more about the SMUHSD Bridge program, visit their website.

Treering is a company specializing in designing, creating, and printing quality yearbooks. The traditional yearbook only includes a few photos of each student. In today's smartphone world, students have thousands of pictures of themselves and their friends, making the traditional yearbook much less relevant. Treering brings the yearbook into the internet generation with custom pages, online signatures, crowdsourcing options, and more while operating at zero cost to schools, only printing books parents decide to purchase.

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Schools Can Now Invite Community Members to Donate Yearbooks to the School

SAN MATEO, CA — Treering Yearbooks – a company modernizing traditional yearbooks – enables schools across America to make yearbooks accessible to all students by integrating a new online donation option.

As the season of giving commences, it’s the perfect time for schools to rally together their communities and provide the gift of lifelong memories to students. When the donation feature is enabled, books can be purchased and donated directly to the school through Treering’s website. Yearbooks are a portal to the past; a book that captures the best moments from childhood and tells the story of the formative chapters of life.

Janet Yieh, Family Partnerships Coordinator at Presidio Middle School in San Francisco, CA, utilizes fundraisers as well as Treering’s early purchase incentive to ensure that every 8th grader graduates with a yearbook. With Treering’s new donation option, Yieh can encourage parents, teachers and community members to join the initiative and donate yearbooks directly from their smartphones or computers.

“The Treering donation feature allows me to create yearbook giveaway contests throughout the school year. It susses out students who might not be able to afford a book and don’t want to ask for a free one. I want every 8th grader who wants one to leave with a yearbook,” explains Yieh.

To learn how your school can take advantage of Treering’s donation option, visit the online Help Center.

Treering is a company that specializes in the design, creation, and printing of quality yearbooks. The traditional yearbook only includes a few photos of each student. In today’s smartphone world, students have thousands of photos of themselves and their friends. This makes the traditional yearbook a lot less relevant. Treering brings the yearbook into the internet generation with custom pages, online signatures, crowdsourcing options, and more while operating at zero cost to schools, only printing books parents decide to purchase.

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TREERING ANNOUNCES NEW PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSHIP WITH SANDY HOOK PROMISE 

The San Mateo-based yearbook company joins the movement toward cultivating inclusive and empathetic environments for children

[SAN MATEO, CA, September 8, 2022] Treering is pleased to announce a new philanthropic partnership with national non-profit organization, Sandy Hook Promise. The yearbook company signed a three-year pledge, which will support Sandy Hook Promise’s ability to bring the life-saving, evidence-informed “Know the Signs” prevention programs into more K-12 classrooms nationwide at no cost to schools. Treering’s crowdsourcing features and custom pages foster inclusivity, and the San Mateo-based yearbook company is honored to help advance Sandy Hook Promise’s work to foster inclusion and empathy in the effort to make schools safer and more supportive for students. “We founded Treering in 2009 with the goal of creating a more inclusive yearbook. We’re proud to partner with an organization that not only shares this focus but is driving an entire culture change within the schools of our customers from all across the country,” said Kevin Zerber, co-founder and CEO of Treering Yearbooks. 

Founded after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy on December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Promise’s mission is to educate and empower youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes, and communities. Sandy Hook Promise teaches the warning signs of someone who may be in crisis, socially isolated, or at-risk of hurting themselves or others and how to get help. 

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Treering, and believe that, together, we can empower students to better support and look out for one another to prevent violence, suicide, and self-harm. Collaborating with Treering will allow us to ensure cost is never a barrier to school safety,” said Nicole Hockley, co-founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, and mother of Dylan who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. 

By choosing Treering Yearbooks, schools are contributing to the Sandy Hook Promise vision of a future where all children are free from school shootings and other acts of violence. Learn more about this partnership and how you can get involved here. 

Treering is a company that specializes in the design, creation, and printing of quality yearbooks. The traditional yearbook only includes a few photos of each student. In today's smartphone, world students have thousands of photos of themselves and their friends. This makes the traditional yearbook a lot less relevant. Treering brings the yearbook into the internet generation with custom pages, online signatures, and more while operating at zero cost to schools, only printing books parents decide to purchase.

Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) envisions a future where all children are free from school shootings and other acts of violence. As a national nonprofit organization, SHP’s mission is to educate and empower youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes, and communities. Creators of the life-saving, evidence-informed “Know the Signs” prevention programs, SHP teaches the warning signs of someone who may be in crisis, socially isolated, or at-risk of hurting themselves or others and how to get help. SHP also advances school safety, youth mental health, and responsible gun ownership at the state and federal levels through nonpartisan policy and partnerships. SHP is led by several family members whose loved ones were killed in the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. 

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The DAR yearbook crew has a mentoring program where seniors show the ropes of yearbook work, particularly photography, to the sophomores and juniors coming up in the program. It gives the program a sense of continuity and it paid off in a big way earlier this fall when DAR held its annual Dedication Day.

Dedication Day is one of the biggest events of the year at the school, when DAR members from all over the United States come to the campus to dedicate gifts and pledge funds for various school projects. So
it gets strong coverage in the yearbook.

Seniors are eligible to serve as pages or personal assistants to the visiting DAR and being selected as a page is considered a huge honor. Every senior on the yearbook staff was selected as a page. So it was up to the younger members of the yearbook crew to handle most of the coverage of Dedication Day. They were up to the task thanks to the mentoring program.

Taylan Franks and Elizabeth Hammett are the editors. They said they’d been training the younger members since last year.

“We’d talked about how to make the pictures, select the best pictures and set it up in the yearbook,” Taylan said. “We had done a lot of brainstorming.”

The young ladies said they are pretty much the main editors, watching over everyone else, but everyone in the program under teacher Dr. John Finley can take on any task.

DAR changed to a new yearbook company last year, Treering, and Taylan and Elizabeth said it makes things easier than it used to be.

“Everything is new, so we have been watching a lot of tutorials and teaching ourselves,” Elizabeth said.

They got rave reviews on last year’s yearbook, but this one might end up being even better.

“Treering offers personal pages,” Dr. Finley said. “The student purchasing the yearbook gets to personalize those pages themselves. It makes for a one-of-a-kind yearbook."

It's two pages in the yearbook that the student purchasing gets to customize for their book. And, he said, it will be about $20 cheaper than the yearbooks provided by the school's old company.

The yearbook class is also something of an entrepreneurial class. They started doing all the photography packages for the school. They were finishing that up lately. They will try to have much of that work done by the Christmas break.

"Taylan and Elizabeth have done a good job of getting everyone trained," Dr. Finley said. "The value of that really showed up on Dedication Day."

It's not just school events like Dedication Day that they're photographing. They also photograph sporting events and they film them and narrate the action as a part of the program's audio-visual component.

"The juniors and sophomores have been watching and learning from the seniors," Dr. Finley said. "They stepped in on Dedication Day and got all the photographs. You have to remember that there's no room for error."

Yearbooks go on sale after Christmas break.

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By LaShunda Nugent, Yearbook Adviser at Gwynn Park High School

I’m fortunate to wear many hats at Gwynn Park High School, some of which include: 10th and 11th grade English teacher, English Department Chair, social media manager and yearbook sponsor. Since high school, I’ve been passionate about yearbook creation and now that I have my own class of students interested in yearbook, it’s an opportunity to show them all that the book can represent. Further, I’ve always been interested in graphic design, so getting involved in the yearbook was an easy decision for me!

In my role as an educator, placing a focus on diversity is so important, and there are myriad opportunities within a school system to make that happen. Teaching diversity opens students’ eyes to a variety of cultural and social groups, right in their own community. In the past, our school’s yearbook has put an emphasis on mainly highlighting seniors and their achievements. Showcasing seniors’ memories before they graduate is a common practice for many schools, but in my role as yearbook adviser, I want to help redefine the yearbook and remind our students no matter their grade, involvement in extracurricular activities, etc., there is still room for them to shine within the pages!

Using the yearbook-making tool Treering has allowed the yearbook class to further showcase all students at Gwynn Park High School—not just seniors. In previous years, there wasn’t a lot of excitement around yearbook creation or how inclusive it could actually be. It’s been exciting to shift the culture at the school to remind everyone that the book is for every student and every staff member. Instilling the importance of diversity is so important, and the yearbook is one way to make inclusion a reality. For this year’s yearbook class in particular, we’ve instilled the mindset of “everyone is going to be in the book.”

This year’s design will represent the school’s unity and highlight how we’re all experiencing a new normal—everything new and different—due to the impact of the pandemic. The book will include our newer students’ experiences (freshman and sophomores) as well as the changes from the junior and seniors’ and even staff members' perspectives on returning to the in-person classroom setting after the sudden departure from the school building. The hope is that the inclusion of everyone’s common experiences in the book will bring forth a sense of togetherness within the school’s community.

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SAN MATEO, Calif. —Treering, a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks at affordable prices, today announced it will match $37,500 in donations to Trees for the Future as part of its matching gift campaign for Giving Tuesday on Nov. 30, 2021. This match will contribute a total of $75,000 to Trees for the Future to help further its mission to end hunger and poverty by training farmers to regenerate their land. 

​​“This partnership is one more way our team can help make student experiences be even more impactful,” said Kevin Zerber, CEO and co-founder at Treering. “Through our one book printed, one tree planted model with Trees for the Future, we can help lay a sustainable foundation for future generations while preserving students’ memories in a yearbook that they will keep for a lifetime. With donations such as this, we're collectively supporting farming families, while also providing more meals to children and more access to education and healthcare.”

Treering is the only matching gift campaign partner for Trees for the Future for this year’s event. Trees for the Future works with farmers to restore degraded landscapes through regenerative agriculture practices. Through farmer training, Trees for the Future is fighting hunger, poverty, and climate change. Zerber said his company chose to team up with this organization because they share a common goal of protecting our environment and providing sustainable solutions for future generations. 

“With the holiday season right around the corner and industries of all sizes looking to participate in this year’s Giving Tuesday, we’re honored that Treering has committed  to a matching gift campaign,” said John Leary, Executive Director at Trees for the Future. ”Not only does this type of gift mean hundreds of thousands of trees planted and many lives changed, a matching gift helps encourage others to give, making Treering’s support that much more impactful.” 

Treering’s model is set up with sustainability in mind because it operates at zero cost to schools and only prints books parents/guardians decide to purchase. Schools often accumulate debt with traditional yearbook companies because they commonly insist on minimum order quantities and impose extra fees, leaving schools with extra yearbooks that are never purchased. The affordability, fundraising options and sustainability initiatives - for every yearbook sold, a tree is planted - Treering is an option for schools that not only want to preserve memories, but also include all students in an eco-friendly yearbook.
For more information about Treering, visit https://www.treering.com/. For more information about Trees for the Future and to make a donation, visit https://trees.org/.

About Treering

Established in 2009, Treering is a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks at affordable and transparent prices by updating the outdated yearbook industry to allow for inclusivity, flexibility, and sustainability. For more information about Treering, please visit: treering.com. 

About Trees for the Future

Trees for the Future is a regenerative agriculture training organization. Local staff work with smallholder farmers in the developing world to restore landscapes and livelihoods through an agroforestry technique called the Forest Garden Approach. With more than three decades of experience, Trees for the Future has planted more than 225 million trees and helped more than 300,000 people.

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Treering, a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks at affordable prices, today announced the winners of their nationwide fall 2021 Yearbook Hero Contest. This exciting announcement comes in light of National Yearbook Week (Oct. 3-9).

This contest set out to honor yearbook creators at all levels: high school, middle school and elementary. Three elementary schools won this recognition and were part of eight honored schools all of which will be receiving nearly 50 free yearbooks collectively and will be given Amazon gift cards that can be used toward needed school supplies.

The elementary school winners are as follows:

1st place: Cedar Creek Elementary - Olathe, Kansas
2nd place: Grandview Elementary School - Austin, Texas
3rd place: Coastline Christian Academy - Gulf Breeze, Florida

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