67 Best Education Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Education Startups

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There are 1,221 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $177.1m.

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Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

BrainStation offers full-time and part-time courses in data science, design, development, marketing, cyber security and product in New York City, Miami, London, Toronto, Vancouver, and through an Online Live platform.

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3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

8

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.

Zayo Group offers bandwidth infrastructure services across various markets, delivering lit services and dark fiber products. It supports wireline and wireless customers, data centers, and government agencies with a robust network infrastructure. The company also provides carrier-neutral colocation facilities to enhance connectivity options.

8

Funding Rounds

$431.5m

Money raised

Coursera is an online education technology company founded in 2012 by Daphne Koller.

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6

Funding Rounds

$168.0m

Money raised

Developer of fully interactive advanced lab simulations designed to create scalable science training software. The company's simulations offer a virtual laboratory based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations along with molecular three-dimension animations, quiz questions, and background theory.

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Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008.

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$2.5m

Money raised

Tanaza is a Milan-based software company developing a cloud platform for IT professionals to manage Wi-Fi networks.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

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5

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

Singularity University is a startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.2m

Money raised

Haptik is a company developing conversational AI for customer experience.

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4

Funding Rounds

$45.5m

Money raised

HireEZ, formerly Hiretual, is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform to help companies find employees.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Jumpcut creates online courses and is based in Los Angeles, California.

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5

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

Simplilearn is an educational technology company with a focus on courses for digital skills.

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5

Funding Rounds

$126.0m

Money raised

U.S-based e-learning platform teaching coding, UX, and data science.

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1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

Learn to Win is an interactive learning app that aims to break down complex material into bite-sized pieces for quicker and deeper learning.

3

Funding Rounds

$12.3m

Money raised

CodeCombat is a company providing a multiplayer programming game for learning how to to code. It teaches Python, JavaScript, and other languages directly in the browser. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

3

Funding Rounds

$168.5m

Money raised

D2L is a provider of elearning solutions founded by John Baker that uses the Brightspace learning management platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$8.3m

Money raised

Bloc was an online, mentor-led bootcamp for software developers and designers. It was acquired by Thinkful in 2018.

3

Funding Rounds

$30.5m

Money raised

Yewno is a company that has built AI technology for research and idea generation.

8

Funding Rounds

$117.5m

Money raised

Skillshare is a New York-based educational technology company offering an online learning community for creative entrepreneurs.

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4

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

Help Scout is a company developing a software platform for customer service.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

XPRIZE Foundation is an artificial intelligence company that manages public competitions for technological developments

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11

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform.

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5

Funding Rounds

$373.0m

Money raised

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$235.0m

Money raised

Udacity is an e-learning company that has a digital education platform. It was founded in 2011 and is located in Mountain View, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$66.2m

Money raised

LearnWorlds is a create and sell online courses, all-in-one founded in 2014 by Panos Siozos, Fanis Despotakis and George Palegeorgiou.

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5

Funding Rounds

$175.6m

Money raised

Preply is a fast-growing ed-tech company, backed by Europe's most prominent investors.

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4

Funding Rounds

$20.1m

Money raised

Call analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to transcribe and analyze sales calls, providing enterprises with actionable feedback to improve the performance of their sales teams.

4

Funding Rounds

$217.0m

Money raised

Top Hat is a company founded by Mike Silagadze. Top Hat produces software aimed at increasing engagement in students. The software allows users to integrate videos and graphics and customize interactive textbooks.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Brilliant is a San Francisco-based educational technology company.

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11

Funding Rounds

$598.0m

Money raised

Degreed is a San Francisco-based company founded by David Blake.

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3

Funding Rounds

$405.0m

Money raised

Course Hero is a Redwood City, CA based company that provides access to study resources, test prep, tutors, etc.

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2

Funding Rounds

$43.8m

Money raised

TaskHuman is a Palo Alto, California-based provider of employee coaching and guidance services.

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5

Funding Rounds

$15.6m

Money raised

NextStep is an information technology company providing training and job placement for workers through a mobile application platform.

1

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Bitnami is a library of installers or software packages for web applications and development stacks as well as virtual appliances.

4

Funding Rounds

$56.1m

Money raised

OpenPhone is a company designing and developing an application that provides phone numbers for businesses and professionals.

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2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Verbling is a company providing an e-learning platform for language over video chat. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

A company making a device capable of disinfecting mobile devices and tools for healthcare and food processing facilities.

7

Funding Rounds

$610.0m

Money raised

Newfront Insurance is a company that provides technologies that are designed to simplify brokerage processes

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16

Funding Rounds

$151.8m

Money raised

Lingokids is a Madrid-based company founded in 2015.

8

Funding Rounds

$267.4m

Money raised

Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries

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1

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Insight Data Science is a Palo Alto-based education startup providing post-doctoral training programs in the big data industry.

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Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

An educational technology company with a focus on STEAM lesson plans involving computers. It has offices around the world, the main one being in London, England. It was founded in 2014.

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Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

Le Wagon runs immersive coding bootcamps in 44 campuses worldwide.

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Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Imarticus Learning, a professional education firm, provides learning programs in Financial Services, Business Analytics and Change Management.

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2

Funding Rounds

$6.1m

Money raised

JigSpace is a 3D knowledge-sharing platform.

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6

Funding Rounds

$92.0m

Money raised

Platform that makes learning to play musical instruments accessible to everyone.

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4

Funding Rounds

$58.0m

Money raised

NoRedInk is a San Francisco-based e-learning and educational technology company founded in 2012 by Jeff Scheur to help students writing abilities.

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1

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Dataquest teaches data science using an interactive code editor that provides real-time feedback.

12

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

Unacademy is an education technology company offering an online learning platform and mobile learning application.

3

Funding Rounds

$51.5m

Money raised

SildeRule Labs, Inc. is a San Francisco-based software development company doing business as Springboard.

5

Funding Rounds

$426.1m

Money raised

upGrad is an Indian online higher education company, founded in 2015 by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Phalgun Kompalli, and, Ravijot Chugh.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

Artificial intelligence company specializing in big data analysis of scientific and technical literature.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Sizzle AI is a company using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to provide interactive learning experiences, described as a "Free AI tutor for everyone."

2

Funding Rounds

$12.8m

Money raised

Nodes is an education company in India founded by Prajakta Kulkarni.

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2

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

Tango is a software development company that has developed an extension for digital documentation purposes.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

JDoodle offers an ecosystem of integrated development environments (IDEs), online compilers, and editors.

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3

Funding Rounds

$62.0m

Money raised

An education technology company that has created a platform where students can create review games for the content which they are studying It was founded in 2007 and is located in San Francisco, California.

9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

A software company offering a platform for international students to find and apply to top universities.

Key people:

3

Funding Rounds

$28.5m

Money raised

Talview is a San Jose-based recruitment company.

25

Funding Rounds

$216.9m

Money raised

Sphero is an educational toy company founded in 2010 by Ian Bernstein.

9

Funding Rounds

$400.5m

Money raised

A digital behavioral medicine company dedicated to inspiring and empoTheyring people everywhere to live free of chronic illiness.

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4

Funding Rounds

$635.0m

Money raised

KnowBe4 is a Clearwater, Florida-based platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing attacks.

4

Funding Rounds

A company focusing on artificial intelligence applied to video search.

2

Funding Rounds

$290.0k

Money raised

Beagle Learning is a Boston, Massachusetts-based company that provides a learning and collaboration platform for higher education institutions, corporations, and the military.

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2

Funding Rounds

$14.3m

Money raised

General Assembly offers short and long courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science and more, online and in-person, across 15 campuses in 4 continents.

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