69 Best Educational Technology Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Educational Technology Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 1,302 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $12.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $178.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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ShapeShift logo

ShapeShift

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

3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Unsplash

Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license.

2

Funding Rounds

$31.3m

Money raised

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Exabeam

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

8

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

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Kajeet

Kajeet, the industry leader for safe, mobile student Internet connectivity outside the classroom, helps students succeed in school.

5

Funding Rounds

$83.0m

Money raised

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Quora

Quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.

5

Funding Rounds

$286.0m

Money raised

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Coursera

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

8

Funding Rounds

$431.5m

Money raised

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Labster

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.

6

Funding Rounds

$168.0m

Money raised

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Khan Academy

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

5

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

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Replit

Replit is a San Francisco-based IDE and software development environment company making a browser application platform for coding in over fifty programming languages.

7

Funding Rounds

$207.3m

Money raised

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Soapbox Labs

Speech recognition software that provides voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects while prioritizing privacy.

5

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

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Tanaza

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

2

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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HackerNoon

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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BenchSci

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

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Simplilearn

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

5

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

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Lambda School

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

5

Funding Rounds

$126.0m

Money raised

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Univerbal

Univerbal provides a language-learning app with a chatbot AI that simulates the experience of conversing with a foreign speaker.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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Grammarly

Grammarly is a web application for checking spelling, grammar, and plagiarism.

5

Funding Rounds

$490.0m

Money raised

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Learn to Win

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

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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CodeCombat

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

$12.3m

Money raised

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D2L

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

3

Funding Rounds

$168.5m

Money raised

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Yewno

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

3

Funding Rounds

$30.5m

Money raised

Evernote logo

Evernote

Evernote is a company offering notetaking software and online service founded in 2008 by Stepan Pachikov.

6

Funding Rounds

$159.5m

Money raised

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Skillshare

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

8

Funding Rounds

$117.5m

Money raised

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BetterUp (company)

BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform.

11

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Caper AI

Caper offers contactless and automated checkout, powered by AI and computer vision.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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RoboKind

RoboKind is a Dallas, Texas-based robotics and educational technology company developing social-emotional learning curriculums developed to be delivered by their facially-expressive robots.

6

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

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Knewton

A New York City-based educational technology and artificial intelligence company founded in 2008 by Jose Ferreira.

7

Funding Rounds

$152.3m

Money raised

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Udacity

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

5

Funding Rounds

$235.0m

Money raised

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LearnWorlds

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

4

Funding Rounds

$66.2m

Money raised

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Preply

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

5

Funding Rounds

$175.6m

Money raised

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Concordium

Concordium aims to build the world's leading open-source, permissionless, and decentralized blockchain with built-in user identity at the protocol level.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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NovoEd

NovoEd is a program delivery platform, founded by Stanford University professor Amin Saberi and PhD student Farnaz Ronaghi, that partners with training firms, corporations, educational institutes and foundations to provide blended learning solutions.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.8m

Money raised

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Top Hat (company)

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$217.0m

Money raised

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Brilliant

Brilliant is a San Francisco-based educational technology company.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Degreed

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

11

Funding Rounds

$598.0m

Money raised

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Course Hero

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

3

Funding Rounds

$405.0m

Money raised

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TaskHuman

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

2

Funding Rounds

$43.8m

Money raised

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Verbling

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

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Mendel.ai

Mendel.ai is a life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

7

Funding Rounds

$65.4m

Money raised

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Teachable

Teachable is a company that allows users to create and sell online courses.

4

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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Synthesia

Synthesia is an AI-powered video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Niessner and Steffen Tjerrild.

9

Funding Rounds

$582.7m

Money raised

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Statespace

Statespace is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Jay Fuller and Wayne Mackey.

6

Funding Rounds

$49.5m

Money raised

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Lingokids

Lingokids is a Madrid-based company founded in 2015.

16

Funding Rounds

$151.8m

Money raised

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Wonder (company)

Wonder is a research service company offering research work for consultants, agencies, and financial institutions.

3

Funding Rounds

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PI-TOP

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

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Le Wagon

Le Wagon runs immersive coding bootcamps in 44 campuses worldwide.

1

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

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Imarticus Learning

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

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Holos

Holos is a company developing a content management system (CMS) for virtual reality applications in education, training and development, and command centers. The company is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

5

Funding Rounds

$530.0k

Money raised

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JoyTunes

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

6

Funding Rounds

$92.0m

Money raised

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VEED.IO

VEED.IO is a British company developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered online video editing platform to simplify creating videos for creators and businesses.

1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

NoRedInk logo

NoRedInk

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

4

Funding Rounds

$58.0m

Money raised

Unacademy logo

Unacademy

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

12

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

UpGrad logo

UpGrad

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

5

Funding Rounds

$426.1m

Money raised

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Meta (academic company)

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

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Slite (company)

Slite is an information organizing platform for corporate teams, for the purpose of collaborative productivity.

3

Funding Rounds

$26.4m

Money raised

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Diffbot

Diffbot is a developer of machine learning and computer vision algorithms and public APIs for extracting data from web pages.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Tango logo

Tango

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

2

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

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Quizlet

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$62.0m

Money raised

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ApplyBoard

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

9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Acrossio logo

Acrossio

Acrossio is a knowledge management company founded in 2012 by Harry Thomos.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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Sphero

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

25

Funding Rounds

$216.9m

Money raised

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Voiceflow

A company that has created a platform where voice speakers, like Alexa or Siri, can be designed and launched without the user needing knowledge of coding. It was founded in 2018 and is located in San Francisco, California.

3

Funding Rounds

$28.2m

Money raised

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KnowBe4

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

4

Funding Rounds

$635.0m

Money raised

Beagle Learning logo

Beagle Learning

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

2

Funding Rounds

$290.0k

Money raised

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General Assembly (company)

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.3m

Money raised

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Remind (company)

Remind is a company founded in 2011 by Brett Kopf.

3

Funding Rounds

$19.5m

Money raised

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Wonderschool

An educational technology company with a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes.

4

Funding Rounds

$49.1m

Money raised

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CSPA

CSPA (Computer Science Proficiency Assessment) is a company providing standardized assessment for software engineers. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2017.The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment (CSPA™) is a comprehensive standardized exam for software engineers.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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Thinkful

An e-learning company that has created a bootcamp for adults to gain skills necessary for careers in technology. It was acquired by Chegg in 2019. It was founded in 2012 and is located in Brooklyn, New York.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised