Education Startups

Buildspace operates a community and platform where people work on self-directed creative or entrepreneurial projects during a six-week program, with options for full-time residency and physical gatherings. The platform serves anyone with any idea—from music to software to content—and aims to connect creators with an audience and help them launch their projects.

1 investor

CodeCrafters builds educational products for engineers to learn programming skills through hands-on, project-based challenges. The company focuses on developer productivity and learning through craftsmanship-oriented instruction.

1 investor

Crowdery is an online platform where users vote on their favorite product designs and receive a personalized marketplace of their top picks, with leading products made available for pre-order at a discount. It serves consumers interested in product design and early-access purchasing.

1 investor

Demand Curve offers growth education and services for startups, including a membership-based growth program with content, expert guidance, and an AI co-pilot, plus a full-service agency for scaling companies. It also runs a weekly growth newsletter for founders and marketers.

1 investor

dev/color is a non-profit organization that supports Black software engineers through mentorship, goal setting, and community events to help them enter the tech industry and advance into leadership roles. It works with members across their careers, from college through professional practice.

1 investor

Dost Education is an ed-tech nonprofit that delivers early childhood development resources to under-resourced parents and caregivers through parent education, helping them prepare children for school. It operates in India, reaching families through partnerships with state governments.

1 investor

Edyst is a peer-to-peer online learning platform focused on education and employability outcomes, helping students learn and get placed. It targets the learning and job-readiness market in India.

1 investor

Extern offers remote "Externships" — short, online, project-based work experiences that companies can run for large numbers of college students using less time than an internship. Its software and industry experts make running these programs turnkey, serving employers from Fortune 500s to startups and students seeking career experience.

1 investor

A platform connecting instructors and professionals through live online workshops offered as a marketplace service.

1 investor

Frizzle builds an AI-powered grading system that provides step-by-step feedback to students, freeing teacher time for instruction. It serves classroom teachers and private tutors in K-12 education.

1 investor

Golpo Video is an AI-powered tool for creating whiteboard explainer videos from prompts or documents. The platform targets content creators and professionals who need to produce video content efficiently.

1 investor

Hellosaurus provides software and a distribution platform that enables children's content creators to produce interactive video shows where kids participate actively rather than passively watch. The platform connects creators with families and is designed to support cognitive and social development through play-based engagement.

1 investor

Hunter2 provides interactive application-security training for engineering teams, with labs where developers practice exploiting and patching real web apps in their own tech stack. It serves software developers in the appsec education space.

1 investor

Hyperpad offers a no-code tool for iPad that lets non-technical users build media-rich interactive apps and mobile games and publish them to the App Store as native apps. It targets creators without programming experience.

1 investor

ISSEN is a real-time voice AI tutor for language learning that engages users in conversational practice across 50+ languages, available 24/7 on desktop and mobile. The app personalizes lessons based on learner goals, style, and proficiency level, offering features like flashcards, grammar lessons, and translation drills.

1 investor

Launchpad Toys makes iPad applications, including Toontastic, that let children create and share animated stories and creative projects. The platform targets young children ages 4-10 and aims to support imaginative expression through digital play.

1 investor

Lingt offers a web-based platform for language learning that lets teachers create and manage online speaking assignments for classroom use.

1 investor

Mathos AI is an AI-powered math solver and tutoring platform that helps students solve math problems across algebra, calculus, geometry, and physics through photo capture, voice input, or text. The platform provides step-by-step explanations, homework assistance, and interactive learning games for students.

1 investor

Miyagi provides an AI-powered test prep platform for standardized exams like the SAT, offering personalized study paths, diagnostic assessments, and adaptive tutoring. The platform targets high school students preparing for college entrance exams.

1 investor

Mystery.org creates video-based explanations answering common questions children ask about the world, starting with its Mystery Science collection of elementary science lessons. It serves U.S. elementary schools and children, with a product likened to a visual Wikipedia for kids.

1 investor

Nightingale is a clinical decision support application for providers who deliver evidence-based interventions to individuals with autism and related disorders, such as applied behavior analysis, speech-language pathology, and occupational therapy. It offers HIPAA-compliant tools for data collection, reporting, and analytics that can be customized to any curriculum and setting, serving autism service practitioners in the U.S.

1 investor

OpenCurriculum is a technology nonprofit that runs a free, community-curated library of teaching and learning materials for K-12 teachers and school administrators. It aims to bring open educational resources and innovation to primary and secondary education worldwide.

1 investor

Outtalent helps top software engineers from emerging markets secure jobs at leading technology companies abroad. It focuses on engineers from regions such as Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, placing them at companies in the US, Canada, and Europe.

1 investor

Pantheon is an online competitive community where high school and middle school students are matched by skill level and compete head-to-head in real time to answer questions fastest, similar to offline contests like Science Bowl.

1 investor