69 Best Higher Education Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Higher Education Startups

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There are 149 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $7.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $106.5m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$431.5m

Money raised

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

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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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7

Funding Rounds

$420.0m

Money raised

Handshake is a Caliornia-based college career recruiting network for college students, career centers, and employers.

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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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11

Funding Rounds

$598.0m

Money raised

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

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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.

4

Funding Rounds

$146.0m

Money raised

Rescale is a company developing and providing software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation.

9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

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

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8

Funding Rounds

$853.5m

Money raised

Guild developed a tool for companies to offer tuition reimbursement and education as a benefit.

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4

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

EverTrue is a Boston-based company founded in 2010 by Eric Carlstrom, Brent Grinna and Jesse Bardo.

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4

Funding Rounds

$37.2m

Money raised

Microverse is a company that provides online education for software developers. It was founded in 2017 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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3

Funding Rounds

$14.8m

Money raised

NationBuilder sells software designed to power organizations, movements, and campaigns.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

A company offering a digital credential platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$9.2m

Money raised

BridgeU is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2015 by Lucy Stonehill.

5

Funding Rounds

$33.8m

Money raised

Academia.edu is a social networking website founded in 2008.

7

Funding Rounds

$43.4m

Money raised

RedShelf is a company. It provides an HTML5 cloud reader and marketplace to buy, sell and read eBooks, textbooks, academic materials, magazines, documents and other digital content.

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3

Funding Rounds

$79.3m

Money raised

Glints is a Singapore-based company founded in 2013 by Looi Qin En, Oswald Yeo and Seah Ying Cong.

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7

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

Civitas Learning is an education technology company.

5

Funding Rounds

$228.4m

Money raised

OpenClassrooms is a massive open online course platform founded in 2013 by Pierre Dubuc.

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7

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

Uversity is an Oakland, California-based company founded in 2007 by George Deglin, Michael Staton, Joseph Sofaer and Mike Sofaer.

1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

foreignadmits is an India-based company founded by Nikhil Jain.

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3

Funding Rounds

$42.0m

Money raised

RaiseMe is a San Francisco-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

Doxel leverages artificial intelligence and autonomous robots to monitor construction productivity, progress, and quality. Doxel's robots navigate jobsites every day to capture images and perform laser scans so users can understand exactly what kind and how much work has been done.

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8

Funding Rounds

$226.0m

Money raised

Kustomer is a customer service software founded in 2015 by Jeremy Suriel.

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4

Funding Rounds

$15.8m

Money raised

OpenLearning is a MOOC platform that allows users to create, run, teach and enroll in a course (free or private).

6

Funding Rounds

$44.7m

Money raised

Grockit is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2006 by Farbood Nivi.

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3

Funding Rounds

$27.8m

Money raised

BenchPrep is a Chicago-based company founded in 2010 by Ashish Rangnekar.

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1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

An online education company. It was founded in 2018 and is located in Hyderabad, India.

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2

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Piazza is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2009 by Pooja Sankar.

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2

Funding Rounds

$88.3m

Money raised

SchooLinks is a career readiness platform that engages students in career education and college planning and application.

2

Funding Rounds

$55.0m

Money raised

Cialfo is an AI driven solution that brings together people, software, and data to simplify college and career counseling workflows.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

uConnect is a company founded in 2013 by David Kozhuk.

5

Funding Rounds

$225.0m

Money raised

MPower Financing provides international student loans.

2

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

Testive is a company founded in 2011 by Tom Rose.

2

Funding Rounds

$44.0m

Money raised

NewtonX is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Germain Chastel, Sascha Eder and Anuja Ketan.

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4

Funding Rounds

$42.9m

Money raised

StudyTube is an online learning platform founded in 2010.

6

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

VIROHAN is a Gurgaon-based company founded in 2018.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

Koru is a Seattle-based company founded in 2013.

4

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Smart Sparrow is a Sydney-based operator of an e-learning platform for higher education organizations to create an online program and learning environment.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

StraighterLine is a Baltimore-based company founded in 2008.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

UpSwing is an Austin, Texas-based company.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

SocialToaster is a Baltimore-based company founded in 2010 by Brian Razzaque.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0k

Money raised

A company providing network performance data from the user layer to detect and solve issues on wired and WiFi network

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1

Funding Rounds

$57.0m

Money raised

Minerva Project is a company founded in 2011 by Ben Nelson.

1

Funding Rounds

Flinja is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013.

2

Funding Rounds

$66.3m

Money raised

Odilo is a company founded in 2011 by Rodrigo Rodriguez.

4

Funding Rounds

$103.1m

Money raised

Cerego is a San Francisco-based company founded by Andrew Smith Lewis.

3

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

Cirrus Identity is a company founded in 2013 by Dedra Chamberlin.

4

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Admissions and Marketing Automation CRM Software for the education industry.

1

Funding Rounds

$56.5m

Money raised

Platform that trains software developers and data scientists for free and helps them find jobs in exchange for a share of their future income.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

Element451 is an admissions marketing technology and CRM platform that brings students and colleges together.

2

Funding Rounds

$528.0k

Money raised

Querium is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2013 by Kent Fuka.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

TargetX is a company that provides higher education CRM solutions in recruitment and retention.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

Fidelis Education is a San Francisco-based company founded by Erik Counselman.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

EduKart is an India-based company founded in 2011.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

Student loans company.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Roam & Wander is a company founded in 2012 by Jason Warren.

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1

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

A platform that online course providers use for proctoring services to authenticate the identity of students and ensure they don't cheat.

1

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Swoup is a company founded in 2015 by Philip Parrotta.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Woolf is a marketplace, Market Network, EdTech, Higher Education founded in 2008 by Joshua Broggi.

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AfterCollege is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1999 by Brian Heifferon, Michael Dawes and Roberto Angulo.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

Quipper is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2010 by Mariko Tokioka.

2

Funding Rounds

$605.8k

Money raised

Collegedunia is a unique platform for all information pertaining to colleges and competitive exams. It has an enormous database of over 25,000+ colleges with 1,50,000+ authentic College Reviews for students to make the right decision.

4

Funding Rounds

$29.7m

Money raised

Jolt is a Tel Aviv-based education technology company offering courses for consumers and professionals in micro-campuses across the world.

3

Funding Rounds

$185.0m

Money raised

CampusLogic is a Chandler, Arizona-based company founded in 2011 by Gregg Scoresby.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

StudySmarter is a Germany-based company founded in 2018 by Christian Felgenhauer.

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5

Funding Rounds

$26.4m

Money raised

Optimum Energy is a Seattle-based company founded in 2005 by Ben Erpelding.

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2

Funding Rounds

$690.0k

Money raised

Scrimba is an online coding school founded in 2017 by Per Harald Borgen, Frode Jensen and Sindre Aarsaether.

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3

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

Cirkled in is a company founded in 2018 by Reetu Gupta.

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