EdTech Startups

STEM NOLA is a nonprofit organization that engages K-12 students in hands-on, project-based STEM activities and education programs. The organization focuses on serving low-income and underresourced communities in New Orleans and has engaged more than 125,000 students over nine years.

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Accelerate Learning provides PreK-12 STEM curriculum and professional development solutions, including science, math, coding, and engineering programs used by over 9 million students and 750,000 teachers. The company offers inquiry-based, hands-on learning resources designed by educators and experts to foster critical thinking and curiosity.

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STEP Charter is a small charter school that provides K-8 education in a safe, nurturing environment with small classrooms and close teacher-student relationships.

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StepEx is a UK-based education finance company that enables students to spread tuition payments over time while allowing education providers to expand enrollment without becoming lenders themselves. The company provides regulated financing, compliance infrastructure, and loan servicing specifically designed for UK universities and professional education providers.

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Sticitt provides a cashless payment platform for schools in South Africa, covering tuckshop payments, school fee and project collections, point-of-sale integrations, and online ordering through Sticitt cards and bands. It unifies campus payment points into one system with automated reconciliation, aimed at school bursars, principals, and parents.

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STIOKids is a software platform for kindergartens and preschools that digitizes daily operations including attendance tracking, parent notifications, child development monitoring, and administrative management. It provides a mobile app for parents and a web portal for facility management.

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STOPit Notify is an emergency management and mass notification system that allows schools and workplaces to send instant alerts and two-way communication during critical incidents, with integration to 911 dispatch services. The platform enables staff to request emergency assistance via a panic button and provides administrators with real-time monitoring and incident coordination tools.

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Stormwind Studios provides training and skill development platform for workforce teams, offering courses, learning paths, and skills assessments aligned with certifications and technology requirements. The platform helps organizations build structured training programs tailored to roles and track employee progress through a centralized dashboard.

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Story Spark is an AI-powered creative platform that enables anyone to write, illustrate, and print books, serving parents, writers, educators, and families across all genres. The platform combines AI story generation and illustration tools with creative control and print-on-demand services to democratize book creation.

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Storypod makes audio players and screen-free content for young children, including the Eddi all-in-one sleep, play, and learning system and Craftie/Token audio collections featuring licensed stories such as Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Its products combine sound machine and nightlight functions with expert-designed learning content aimed at early childhood development.

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Straia provides an AI-powered analytics layer that unifies data from institutional SIS, LMS, and CRM systems so higher-education staff can ask plain-English questions about enrollment, retention, course outcomes, and equity. It serves colleges and universities, giving roles from the president's office to advisors and institutional research teams real-time insights without reliance on technical BI tools.

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SIG is a consulting firm that works with colleges and universities to optimize their institutional systems and processes. The company provides strategic advisory, implementation, and technical services for higher education technology platforms.

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StrataTech Education Group acquires and operates specialized career education schools focused on skilled-trade programs, particularly in welding, to support infrastructure workforce development. The company manages schools including Tulsa Welding School with multiple campuses across the United States.

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Strategic Kids partners with schools and districts to provide student enrichment programs (such as LEGO, Chess, Magic, Origami, and Visual Arts), vetted staffing including enrichment instructors and substitute teachers, and turnkey Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELO-P) services covering curriculum, scheduling, and compliance. It serves K-12 school communities across the Western United States.

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Streamlyne provides research administration (eRA) software that manages the grant lifecycle—proposals, awards, compliance, and funding discovery—for universities and research institutions. Its products include an AI assistant called Lyn and a funding-matching tool, and it integrates with enterprise AI systems via the Model Context Protocol.

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StreetCode is a community-oriented nonprofit offering technology and coding classes, supported by mentors, donors, and students. It runs programs such as classes and "Level Up" and works through partnerships and volunteering.

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Stridist offers an online course builder platform that enables fitness and nutrition professionals to create and deliver educational content such as video lessons, written materials, quizzes, and resources to their clients. The platform provides automation features and integrates with workout tracking, messaging, and client progress monitoring tools designed specifically for fitness and nutrition coaching businesses.

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Strive School offers a six-month online coding program where students gain practical software engineering skills in exchange for a portion of their future salary, targeting European students in STEM fields who seek job-ready training beyond traditional university curricula.

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Skillino offers a mobile app that teaches Autogenic Training and anti-stress techniques to help students reduce exam-related stress, delivered as an eight-week multimedia course with films and audio exercises. The app is offered in cooperation with German health insurer BARMER and is aimed at students preparing for exams.

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Stronger Youth Brands is a franchise holding company that acquires and partners with youth enrichment franchisors across categories such as sports, music, STEM, tutoring, arts, and cooking. It operates brands including Soccer Shots and Little Kickers, delivering play-based programs that teach foundational skills to young children.

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Struggly offers visual, standards-aligned math tasks and challenges designed to build students' conceptual understanding, number sense, and persistence. It serves teachers and students, positioning itself as a math education tool that plugs into a school's core curriculum.

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StudentBridge provides higher education institutions with enrollment marketing services, combining video production, mobile communications, campus visit solutions, and data analytics to support student recruitment. It serves college and university enrollment teams and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Studia.app provides free physics educational resources to help students understand and work through physics problems. The platform was built by PhD students and remains freely accessible to general audiences.

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