EdTech Startups

Making Space is a talent acquisition and learning platform that helps disabled professionals build skills, find community, and secure meaningful employment, while providing employers with accessible hiring and retention support. The company also operates consulting and media divisions focused on disability inclusion and accessibility across organizations.

5 investors

Memrise is a language learning app that uses native-speaker videos, spaced repetition, and AI tools to help users learn practical, real-life language across 149 languages. The platform serves learners preparing for exams, work, or travel with interactive features including conversation practice, pronunciation tools, and AI-powered exam feedback.

5 investors

Mightier develops technology to help children build emotional regulation and resilience skills. The company serves children and families through digital tools designed to improve emotional health and wellbeing.

5 investors

Mimo offers an interactive mobile app for learning software development through guided coding lessons and hands-on projects, serving beginners who want to pursue careers as web, full-stack, Python, or front-end developers. The platform combines written explanations with real-world coding exercises, project building, AI-assisted tutoring, and certificate programs.

5 investors

MPOWER Financing is a public benefit corporation that provides fixed-rate private student loans (US$2,001 to US$100,000) without requiring a cosigner or collateral, aimed at international students attending eligible U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. It also offers scholarships, visa support letters, and career services, making loan decisions based on students' future potential.

5 investors

Nectir AI provides AI-powered tutoring assistants for schools and higher education institutions, built from course content and integrated into learning management systems with FERPA compliance. The platform serves students, faculty, and administrators with 24/7 personalized academic support and administrative assistance.

5 investors

Outschool operates a marketplace for live online classes taught by independent instructors to children ages 3–18, covering both core subjects and interest-based topics. The platform serves homeschooled and traditionally schooled students across 183 countries.

5 investors

Panorama Education provides a data platform for K-12 school districts to integrate and visualize student academic, behavioral, attendance, and engagement data. The platform uses AI to help educators identify student needs and coordinate multi-tiered support interventions across 2,000 districts and 25,000 schools serving 15 million students in the United States.

5 investors

Parallel provides evidence-based services and assessment tools for schools and education providers to support students with learning differences. The platform connects educators and specialists to help diagnose and address conditions like dyslexia and ADHD.

5 investors

ParentSquare provides a unified platform for K-12 schools to manage school-home engagement, communications, and administrative functions while integrating with student information systems. The system consolidates fragmented tools into a single platform designed to reduce IT burden, improve data security, and support compliance for school districts.

5 investors

Perlego operates a subscription digital library of more than 1.5 million academic and non-fiction ebooks, offering study tools such as an app, smart search, and citation features. It serves students, independent learners, and educational institutions, partnering with higher education publishers to provide course materials across 20+ disciplines.

5 investors

Platzi offers online courses on user research methods and techniques, including qualitative and quantitative approaches, for individuals seeking to master UX research practices.

5 investors

Play Shifu makes educational STEM toys and games for children, organized by age group (from 4 to 10+ years) and area of interest. The company sells its products directly to consumers through its online store.

5 investors

Pluralsight provides online technology training and workforce development solutions for enterprises and individuals across 180 countries. The platform serves as an end-to-end tech skill development solution trusted by 70% of Fortune 500 companies.

5 investors

Wayground (formerly Quizizz) is an education platform where teachers create and deliver activities, assessments, interactive slides, videos, and flashcards with built-in AI tools and learner accommodations. It serves K-12 teachers, schools, and districts, consolidating multiple classroom tools into one platform with features like formative assessments, accommodations (read-aloud, translation, dyslexia fonts), and academic integrity safeguards.

5 investors

Ready Education provides a campus experience platform for higher education institutions that integrates academic and co-curricular learning experiences to enhance student community and retention.

5 investors

Reforge offers online courses and learning programs for product teams, teaching product management, growth, and AI skills through expert-created content and live learning sessions.

5 investors

ROLI makes a piano learning system built around a four-octave, full-size keyboard with light-up keys and a hand-tracking device that uses AI to monitor a player's hands in 3D and give feedback on posture and finger positioning. Its accompanying platform offers 1,200+ songs, video lessons, and games for people learning to play piano.

5 investors

Schola provides live outreach tools to help schools recruit, enroll, and retain families. Assembly offers program management software for community organizations.

5 investors

Scribd is a digital platform that provides access to millions of user-uploaded documents across diverse categories, allowing users to explore, learn, and discover information on a wide range of topics.

5 investors

Secure Code Warrior offers interactive training challenges that help developers recognize and prevent vulnerabilities earlier in the software development lifecycle, enabling security teams to partner with engineering on securing both human-written and AI-generated code. It targets security and engineering teams within organizations.

5 investors

Showbie is an education platform that consolidates instruction, feedback, assessment, communication, and reporting into a single app for teachers, schools, and multi-school organizations such as trusts, municipalities, and districts. Optimized for iPad and also web-accessible, it supports primary and secondary teaching workflows and provides analytics on pedagogical practice at scale.

5 investors

Skill-Lync is an engineering education platform that offers post-graduate programs and training to help students gain skills and secure placement in automotive and embedded systems industries. The company works with learners globally and partners with leading companies to build talent pipelines.

5 investors

SOELU is an online yoga and fitness platform offering live and on-demand classes including yoga, pilates, training, and dance through video streaming. It serves consumers in Japan seeking accessible home-based fitness instruction.

5 investors