EdTech Startups

Ultimate Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in portfolio companies across three verticals—EdTech, Smart Retail, and Mobility—providing capital, operational expertise, and market knowledge to help them achieve long-term growth. The fund actively partners with founders and management teams to build technology-driven businesses in Russia and abroad.

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Umi is a language-learning app that teaches Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, and English using short TV and movie clips, combining video, audio, and text to build vocabulary and train listening comprehension of native speakers. It uses spaced repetition and speaking practice to help learners develop real listening and conversation skills.

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Unbound Stockton is a community school serving grades 4-8 in Stockton, California, designed to be intentionally racially and socioeconomically diverse. The school combines rigorous academics aligned with Common Core standards with community partnerships and social-emotional learning to support student identity development and civic engagement.

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Unboxers runs a combined online-offline private tutoring model, building technology-driven cram schools (academies) that automate instruction and student management to cut labor costs and raise operating margins. It operates its own high school math academy in Cheonan, South Korea, as a testbed and aims to expand via direct-run branches, franchises, and program supply across the country's private education market.

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Uncommon Schools operates 52 public charter schools serving 20,000 students across five cities, with a focus on college preparation for students from economically disadvantaged communities. The organization also provides professional development and coaching resources to public school teachers and leaders to improve classroom instruction.

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Underline provides a conference platform and digital video library for scientific, academic, and medical events. The platform combines event management and production tools (Underline Events) with a searchable scholarly video repository (Underline Digital Video Library) to help organizations organize conferences and preserve research presentations with metadata, transcripts, and citation support.

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The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public university offering academic programs that combine classroom learning with field and real-world experience.

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The University of Bayreuth is a German public university focused on research, teaching, and the transfer of knowledge, skills, and technologies. It positions itself as an entrepreneurial university supporting the movement of expertise into and out of the institution.

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The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, Germany, offering bachelor's and master's degree programs and conducting research across fields including ecology, climate science, political science, and microbiology.

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Bocconi is a university based in Milan, Italy, offering higher education and publishing academic content such as its viaSarfatti25 magazine.

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Unicorn VR World builds a virtual reality platform used in therapy, rehabilitation, and treatment of neurodevelopmental conditions, including support for children on the autism spectrum. It serves therapists and specialists and has built a community of over 400 VR therapists.

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Uniex is an educational platform that helps students discover and enroll in academic programs globally. The platform provides comprehensive information, content, and guidance to assist students in making informed decisions about their educational futures.

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Unified Track helps school districts recover attendance-based funding by automating intervention workflows tied to student absences. The platform integrates with student information systems to identify recoverable ADA (Average Daily Attendance) revenue while supporting counselors with research-aligned intervention plans.

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Unifyed offers StudentX, an AI-powered platform for higher education that provides a mobile-first campus engagement app, student lifecycle management (admissions through alumni, including records, advising, financials, and financial aid), and an education-focused integration/iPaaS tool with no-code connectors and workflow automation. It serves colleges and universities, integrating with their SIS, LMS, and SSO systems.

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Unihelper provides a questionnaire-and-algorithm system that automatically forms balanced study groups for university students, aiming to improve student well-being and reduce dropout rates. It serves higher-education institutions and their students, and has been used to create groups for over 25,000 students across three continents.

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UniKidz is a Dutch childcare provider running daycare (KDV), out-of-school care (BSO) and early-childhood education (VVE) locations, staffed by pedagogical professionals and specialists such as sports/dance instructors, Lego educators and STEAM teachers. It offers themed activity programs ("labels" like FitKidz, SkillsKidz, MindKidz and SoulKidz) for children across multiple locations.

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University of Lusaka is a private higher education institution in Zambia offering undergraduate and postgraduate academic programmes across five schools, with a focus on quality education, research, and community-based problem-solving initiatives.

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A provider of modular digital solutions for universities, including digital ID cards and course booking systems designed to support campus operations.

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The University of St.Gallen (HSG) is a Swiss public university offering programs across management, economics, law, social sciences, international affairs, and computer science. It conducts research and produces podcasts and events on topics such as sustainable finance, AI, and entrepreneurship.

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UniStudents is a mobile application that provides Greek university students with direct access to their academic grades, course performance tracking, and professional/academic opportunities through a partner network. The platform covers all public higher education institutions in Greece.

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UNITAR is a United Nations agency that delivers training and research programs to build capacity in individuals, organizations, and institutions for informed decision-making and sustainable development.

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Unito is the University of Turin, a public university offering study programs across 27 departments and 6 schools with 22 libraries. It is a historic academic institution located in Turin, Italy.

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Units provides an alternative education model aimed at reimagining how students learn, positioning itself in opposition to traditional schooling structures. The company focuses on accelerating student learning and potential outside conventional educational systems.

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Unive is an AI-powered college application platform that helps students plan deadlines, write and get feedback on essays, build a college list, find matching scholarships, and see how their profile might appear to admissions officers. It offers essay grading, personalized application plans, and scholarship matching in a single workspace for prospective college applicants.

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