The pouches are now used daily by three million students across all 50 states, according to Yondr, at a cost of $20 to $25 per student. The company declined to disclose sales figures, but according to GovSpend, a database that tracks local contracts, it secured $19 million in sales to K-12 schools around the country in 2025.
The company began presenting to legislators and school boards: “Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent,” reads the title of one slide in a 2022 presentation from Yondr to the board of education for Torrington Public Schools in Connecticut. And in 2024, as New York legislators considered a cellphone ban, Yondr paid two lobbyists in the state more than $100,000, according to public disclosures. The next year, Yondr received at least $4 million from districts and schools in New York, according to GovSpend.