EdTech Startups

Quitch is a mobile learning platform that gamifies educational content to increase learner engagement, offering both a content development platform for instructors and an app for students. It serves universities, professional bodies, and enterprises, with customers including the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and CPA Ireland.

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QuiverVision develops augmented reality coloring apps that turn printed coloring pages into animated 3D experiences, marketed as an edutainment tool for schools, libraries, museums, and brands. Its education subscription is aimed at teachers and students to support engagement and learning outcomes.

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Quizlyse was a tool that turned online content into real-time social quiz games to engage, retain, and monetize website audiences using Big Data technology. The company was acquired by PushtoLearn, which offers free lessons, exercises, and tests for learning and teaching English online.

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Quizrr operates a platform for workforce training and human rights due diligence (HRDD) compliance reporting across supply chains, offering learning programs, supply chain insights, and benchmarking. It serves companies managing value chains and suppliers across more than 50 markets.

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Qwasar Silicon Valley provides software engineering and AI training programs delivered through its proprietary learning management system, and licenses its curriculum, content, and resources to universities, non-profits, governments, and companies to launch and run their own training programs. It works with partners across 16 countries on four continents to build local tech talent.

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Qweebi is a browser-based online makerspace where students in grades 3–8 design, build, test, and refine STEM projects, with teacher slides, guides, rubrics, and project libraries included. It serves K–8 schools and teachers in the United States and is built to comply with COPPA, FERPA, NGSS, and CSTA standards.

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Rabbit is an AI-assisted game maker and creative platform for children, letting them build games, illustrated stories, characters, and interactive worlds without coding experience. Projects are shareable via a browser link and a moderated gallery, with safety controls for guardians.

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RaceRocks is a woman-led, Indigenous-owned company that modernizes training programs for the defence, aerospace, and marine sectors through immersive technologies including VR, AR, and simulation. The company develops 3D digital assets, interactive content, and curriculum solutions to improve workforce readiness and reduce training costs.

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Rainbow Chefs Academy is a WASC-accredited supplementary education program that provides standards-aligned health, wellness, and nutrition courses with hands-on cooking experiences for students. It partners with TK-12 schools, districts, after-school networks, camps, and youth organizations to address childhood obesity and diabetes.

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Rain Sales Training offers a management training program called "Managing High-Performing Teams" that teaches managers to set expectations, provide coaching and feedback, and drive team accountability and execution.

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Raising Superstars offers a screen-free early learning program for children aged 0-6, delivering science-guided home activity boxes and app-based video plans that parents complete in about five minutes a day. The company serves families worldwide with DIY and coach-guided (Mumbai-only) programs built on its Prodigy Framework.

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Raptor provides school safety software that helps K-12 schools, childcare programs, and youth centers manage emergencies, monitor campus visitors, run behavioral threat and wellbeing assessments, and handle staff compliance training. The platform serves public school districts, small and private schools, early childhood providers, and community youth programs.

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RCMA is a nonprofit organization serving farmworker families in Florida's rural agricultural regions through early childhood education and support services. The organization operates Head Start programs, pre-kindergarten classes, and primary education initiatives in underserved areas while advocating for migrant and seasonal farmworker rights and family welfare.

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Reach Out and Read Washington is the regional affiliate of National Reach Out and Read that partners with pediatric clinicians to promote early childhood literacy through parent-child shared reading during well-child visits. It provides training, technical assistance, and books to clinics across Washington and Oregon, serving tens of thousands of young children and their families.

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reacHIRE provides talent development programs focused on building employees' personal agency and adaptability, helping organizations turn new behaviors into lasting change. The company serves employers seeking to develop their workforce.

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Read Bean is a mobile app for learning Chinese through graded readings adapted from real news and authentic content, personalized to the learner's proficiency level from HSK 1 to 6. The app serves language learners of all levels with daily curated readings, vocabulary tools, and AI-refined content created by native speakers.

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Reading Futures provides literacy intervention and reading instruction services for K-12 students, particularly those struggling with reading or dyslexia. The company works with students across the country through a team of experienced educators and specialists focused on evidence-based reading interventions.

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Reconstruction provides supplemental, culturally-relevant curriculum centered on the Black experience for K-12 schools and organizations. Its courses align with state college and career readiness standards and give teachers materials to teach culturally-responsive content.

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Re:course develops natural language processing technology to enable machines to understand and communicate with humans in healthcare settings. The company combines clinicians and AI engineers to create solutions centered on patient and clinician needs.

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The Recurse Center is a self-directed learning community for programmers, founded in 2011, that helps people direct their own technical education and growth. It operates as a privately held, for-profit business focused on transforming lives through hands-on programming experiences.

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Red House is a K-12-focused knowledge brokerage and social impact venture capital firm that works pro-bono with school and district leaders to identify high-need problems and then invests in and curates emerging education technology companies. It serves both school systems and early-stage edtech companies in the institutional K-12 market.

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Rede Decisão is a network of private schools in Brazil offering early childhood, elementary, and secondary (high school) education. It focuses on academic preparation for university admissions alongside student support and personal development.

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