EdTech Startups

YouSchool is an online professional training provider offering distance learning courses and apprenticeships for career changers, with a focus on occupations in high-demand sectors in France. The company has trained over 55,000 learners since its founding and helps students secure professional certifications, including diplomas in trades such as pastry, beauty therapy, and nutrition.

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YouScience helps education leaders across the United States connect students to career pathways by assessing their natural aptitudes and linking them to educational and career opportunities. The company provides aptitude discovery, analytics, certifications, and work-based experience platforms used in over 7,000 schools across all 50 states.

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Yousician is a music education app that teaches guitar, bass, ukulele, piano, and singing through interactive lessons, exercises, and songs, using audio-recognition technology that listens to a player and gives instant feedback on accuracy and timing. It serves learners from beginners to advanced across Android, iOS, and PC, and offers family memberships.

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Youth Enrichment Brands operates a portfolio of youth activity brands designed to build children's confidence, resilience, and joy through enrichment programming. The company serves families and young people seeking to develop competence and well-being outside the traditional classroom environment.

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Youth Athletes United operates a multi-sport youth sports franchise portfolio, founded in 2018, offering programs for children from toddler to teen age in sports like golf, tennis, and soccer. The company aims to build the nation's largest youth sports platform by empowering kids through athletic fundamentals and development while providing entrepreneurial opportunities to franchise partners.

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Youthfully provides 1-on-1 virtual coaching to high school students and parents to help them navigate university admissions, career planning, and personal development. The company serves students facing complex educational and life decisions, with a focus on providing personalized guidance and support.

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Youthful Savings is a learning platform that delivers youth entrepreneurship and financial education programs, including live experiences, learning exercises, and a "My Own Business Challenge." Its programs are offered to schools, after-school programs, and community organizations to build business, technology, and economic skills among young people.

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YouVah runs short international internship programs for high school students, placing teenagers in offline programs abroad (Japan, Dubai, Paris) across fields like robotics, AI, business, tech, and fashion. Programs offer mentorship from professionals, hands-on projects, and certification, with participation from schools across India.

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YTeach is a peer tutoring platform that connects students within schools who need academic help with peers who can teach them, reducing reliance on expensive private tutors. The platform serves schools and students seeking supplemental learning resources at lower cost.

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Yuba River Charter School is a public charter school in the United States guided by the principles of Public Waldorf Education, offering programs such as Spanish, handwork, music, and movement. It provides K-12 education along with expanded learning and aftercare programs.

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Z Fellows runs a one-week mentorship program that connects ten technical builders with founders of billion-dollar companies, providing ongoing support afterward. It works with builders of all ages—from high school dropouts to college students to people with full-time jobs—across industries including consumer, enterprise, fintech, AI, and more.

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Z-waka runs an AI-enabled digital platform where healthcare professionals in developing countries can access clinical content, connect with peers, and share experience, and it produces training content and implements healthcare projects. Its clients are healthcare organizations, life sciences companies, and development partners.

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Zabanshenas is an English language learning application designed for Persian speakers that combines entertainment with practical language instruction. The platform has over 200,000 active users and ranks among the top 15 applications on Cafe Bazaar.

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Zaio runs online coding bootcamps for beginners in areas such as full stack AI engineering, web development, data science, cybersecurity, and digital marketing, offering nationally recognised certifications (MICT SETA, Microsoft, CompTIA) and job placement support. It also provides corporate tech training and alumni hiring for enterprises, with a focus on the South African market.

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ZCAS University is a higher education institution in Zambia offering undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and doctorate programmes across business, computing, technology, social sciences and law. It provides full-time, part-time and distance study modes and supports around 6,500 students.

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Zelo is a learning platform that distributes employee training courses across multiple communication channels, automates compliance tracking and renewal, and integrates with existing training content. It serves regulated industries and enterprises that need to streamline course distribution, manager oversight, and audit documentation.

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Zenarate provides an AI-powered simulation platform for training and upskilling customer experience (CX) associates through practice and coaching. It serves large enterprise brands, supporting millions of associates across global contact center and customer service teams.

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Zenimals creates screen-free, tactile meditation companions for children designed to help them manage anxiety and find calm before sleep. The company sells physical plush toys paired with guided meditations and operates a model where it donates companions to children in hospitals and other institutional settings for every purchase made.

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Zenith Education Studio is an MOE-registered tuition centre in Singapore offering classes in subjects such as Economics, General Paper, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology for primary, secondary, and junior college students. It uses discussion-based learning, structured drills, mock exams, and personalised feedback, operating 12 centres across Singapore.

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Zeno is a nonprofit focused on building early math skills in young children and families through play-based learning, family engagement, and racial equity, centered on the experiences of communities of color. It offers community math events such as MathFest, educational math games, and partner programs for families and community organizations.

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Zentry provides a platform for school districts to document student services, track student progress, and manage compliance so services can be matched to state requirements and submitted as Medicaid-style claims. It targets K-12 school districts and staff, offering features like scheduling, IEP integration, transportation tracking, and full claiming services to secure reimbursement.

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Zero Gravity runs a platform and community that helps students from low-opportunity backgrounds progress into university and careers, connecting them with employers who identify, up-skill and recruit this talent. It positions itself as a social mobility service for students and partner employers in the UK.

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Zerocoder (Университет Зерокодер) is an online education platform offering courses on no-code/low-code development, web design, and AI/neural network tools such as Glide, Integromat, Directual, Tilda, and MidJourney. It trains individuals to build software and digital products without traditional coding, primarily serving a Russian-speaking audience.

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Zeta operates a network of tuition-free schools offering pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade education in the United States, using a whole-child curriculum. The schools emphasize academic excellence alongside social and emotional development.

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