EdTech Startups

TING offers an audio pen (Hörstift) that reads aloud, explains, and adds sounds and interactive tasks when children tap on compatible books. The product is aimed at children and parents for interactive reading and playful learning, and works with a range of TING-compatible books.

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Tiny Totos builds a network of trained childcare entrepreneurs across Africa by upgrading informal babysitters with training, peer support, and investment to deliver quality care. The company enables women to work and pursue economic opportunities by expanding access to reliable childcare in rural and urban communities.

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Tiny Docs is a subscription platform that teaches health and medical topics to children ages 5–11 through animated videos, interactive games, quizzes, coloring activities, and expert-reviewed articles. It helps kids prepare for doctor visits and understand their bodies, surgeries, chronic conditions, and general wellness in age-appropriate language.

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TMSA is a network of public charter schools across North Carolina focused on STEAM education. The central office provides academic, administrative, and operational support to ensure high-quality science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics instruction across all campuses.

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True North Classical Academy is a network of classical education schools in Florida, including campuses in the Miami area. The schools are Cognia-accredited and one was named a 2024 National Blue Ribbon School.

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Toca Boca creates digital play experiences and worlds designed for children to explore imagination, creativity, and self-expression without competitive pressure or addiction mechanics. The company serves children aged 8-11 and operates in the gaming and edtech industry.

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Togetherhood operates a platform that helps schools source, schedule, and manage enrichment programming taught by vetted independent teaching artists and coaches, while handling scheduling, payments, and marketing for those providers. It serves schools and enrichment providers offering activities such as theater, dance, yoga, and coaching for children.

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Tokidos offers a monthly subscription for educational PlayCards designed to support children's learning, shipped to subscribers with a companion app to track progress, badges, and milestones. It also sells related products such as PlayCubes and serves parents of young children.

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Tom&Josette operates an intergenerational childcare facility that pairs children with elderly residents through structured activities and shared daily experiences. The model focuses on early childhood education and social development in a mixed-age community environment.

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TomoClub is a K-12 implementation partner that delivers AI literacy and human-skills programs through game-based curriculum, teacher professional development, and ongoing coaching. It works with schools and districts to train teachers, run student programs for grades 3-12, and track learning outcomes, operating across the US and internationally.

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Tonic offers an online platform for practicing music together in community, connecting musicians who share similar goals and interests. It partners with concert musicians, conservatories, and industry experts to build its practice experience.

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tootoot provides a safeguarding platform and app that lets children and young people report bullying, safety, or wellbeing concerns to trusted adults when they can't speak up in person. It is used by schools and youth organisations, primarily in the UK, to manage pupil disclosures and safeguarding cases.

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Lingawa is a language learning platform that connects learners with native-speaking tutors for one-on-one instruction in African languages, particularly Yoruba and Igbo. The service combines personalized tutoring with app-based practice tools and cultural immersion for diaspora learners and heritage language students.

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Torana operates Toysub!, a subscription and rental service that periodically delivers and swaps educational toys matched to a child's development stage. The Japan-based company focuses on the toy industry and serves parents and young children.

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Totara provides a customizable enterprise learning management and performance management platform for large organizations to train their workforce, track employee performance, and manage compliance at scale.

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ToucanTech provides an all-in-one community management platform combining a database, CRM/AMS, website and app, email communications, payments, events, and mentoring tools. It serves schools, alumni organizations, and other member-based communities, with a focus on engagement and fundraising.

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TouchMath develops a multisensory mathematics curriculum for elementary school students, using tactile counting points on numbers to help students transition from concrete to abstract mathematical understanding. The approach serves teachers and students across all 50 U.S. states and internationally.

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Blue Marble creates STEAM-focused activity kits and educational toys, partnering with Mattel's Barbie brand to teach chemistry, geology, and biology through hands-on experiments and creative play. The company designs toy collections that blend science learning with self-expression for children.

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Toyz Electronics operates Dah-Varsity AI, an AI-enhanced learning platform and video game that upskills diverse and disadvantaged Gen Z students toward college or careers in STEAM, hardware, software, manufacturing, and entrepreneurship. Its offerings include a culturally relevant STEAM and maker curriculum infused with hip-hop culture, gamified "trading card" resumes tied to credentials and badges, a student marketplace, mentor matching, and workforce simulations.

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TPT is an online marketplace for PreK-12 educational resources such as worksheets, lesson plans, activities, and classroom materials created and sold by teachers. It serves educators worldwide, offering resources across subjects and grade levels, and is part of the IXL family of brands.

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Trace (Traceyourpast.com) connects individuals and families with a vetted global network of professional genealogists, historians, and DNA experts to conduct customized family history research, break through research "brick walls," and write ancestral narratives. It also offers self-paced genealogy courses such as DNA Academy and Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors for people who want to build their own research skills.

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Trackosaurus develops assessment games for early-grade teachers that measure children's developmental skills through a hybrid approach combining observation and direct measurement. The platform focuses on low-resource settings, incorporating voice AI to assess foundational literacy skills in children's verbal gameplay responses.

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Traderion provides a simulation-based training and assessment platform that uses gamified mechanics, real-life scenarios, and AI to let users learn and test skills in the same environment they work in. It offers personalized feedback for users and predictive analytics for learning and development managers, aimed at reducing training time and costs and improving candidate assessment.

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