69 Best Training Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Training 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 395 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $10.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $157.7m.

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

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BrainStation

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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Charles River Analytics

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

9

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

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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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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Kofax

Kofax is a robotic process automation company that digitizes complex and information-intensive workflows.

2

Funding Rounds

$18.2m

Money raised

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Strivr

Strivr is a Menlo Park, California-based developer of a virtual reality platform for learning and training employees.

5

Funding Rounds

$86.0m

Money raised

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Kite.Com

Kite.Com is a San Francisco-based company that builds AI-powered auto-complete features for developers.

3

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

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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BrightTALK

BrightTALK is a platform developer for B2B companies to host webinars and virtual events.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.5m

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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Jumpcut (YC S16)

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

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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Webflow

Webflow is a company providing a design and hosting platform for users to create websites.

9

Funding Rounds

$781.9m

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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Bloc (code school)

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

3

Funding Rounds

$8.3m

Money raised

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Labelbox

Labelbox is a training data platform with labeling tools, human workforce, data management, API, and automation features for computer vision.

4

Funding Rounds

$188.9m

Money raised

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Beekeeper (company)

An information technology company offering an operational communications platform.

13

Funding Rounds

$277.5m

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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MindTickle

MindTickle is a company that has developed software tools for business sales

7

Funding Rounds

$281.3m

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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Skilljar

Skilljar is a Seattle-based cloud-based learning management system to help business increase customer and partner training programs.

5

Funding Rounds

$53.2m

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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VoiceOps

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

$20.1m

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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StatusToday

StatusToday is an artificial Intelligence company for Employee Behavioral Analytics founded in 2015 by Ankur Modi.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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NextStep

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

5

Funding Rounds

$15.6m

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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The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is a Natick, Massachusetts-based company founded in 1981 by John Katzman.

1

Funding Rounds

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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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FightCamp

Company that develops a smart fitness system designed for boxing at-home that uses motion sensors to record data about punches and provide feedback through an app.

7

Funding Rounds

$98.5m

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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Insight Data Science

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

1

Funding Rounds

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Andela

Andela is a cloud computing company creating distributed software engineering teams in Africa.

6

Funding Rounds

$378.0m

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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Unacademy

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

12

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Springboard

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

3

Funding Rounds

$51.5m

Money raised

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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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Sphero

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

25

Funding Rounds

$216.9m

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

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Loris.ai

Loris.ai is a platform that assists companies with difficult conversations, founded by Nancy Lublin.

3

Funding Rounds

$19.1m

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

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Livestorm

A software company offering a video conferencing platform for webinars and video meetings.

4

Funding Rounds

$70.2m

Money raised

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MasterClass

MasterClass offers online educational classes.

7

Funding Rounds

$461.4m

Money raised

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Interplay Learning

A company offering online trade education through mobile, desktop, and virtual reality applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$49.6m

Money raised

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Career Karma

Career Karma offers a platform to discover peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate an individual's career. Career Karma helps people find career advice and job training to navigate their careers. Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. We help over 2.5 million workers navigate their careers.

3

Funding Rounds

$51.5m

Money raised

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ROYBI

Roybi Robot is an AI-powered companion robot for young children in language learning & early childhood education.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

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Brainly

Brainly is an educational technology company based in Krakow, Poland founded in 2009 by Michał Borkowski, Łukasz Haluch and Tomasz Kraus.

6

Funding Rounds

$234.5m

Money raised

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WorkRamp

A company building training software for workforce for companies

6

Funding Rounds

$84.6m

Money raised

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OpenSesame

OpenSesame is a Portland-based company focusing on e-learning courses for workforce development.

4

Funding Rounds

$95.0m

Money raised

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CybSafe

CybSafe is a cloud-based platform focussed on addressing the human component of cyber security - an intelligent approach to awareness training.

5

Funding Rounds

$99.6m

Money raised

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Alma

Alma's integrated Student Information System empowers learning communities with future-ready software created for today ... and tomorrow.

4

Funding Rounds

$216.0m

Money raised

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Microverse

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

4

Funding Rounds

$37.2m

Money raised

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Treehouse (company)

Treehouse is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2011 by Daniel Ramamoorthy.

4

Funding Rounds

$30.4m

Money raised

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Immersive Labs

Immersive Labs is a company founded in 2017 by James Hadley.

5

Funding Rounds

$131.0m

Money raised

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Design Interactive

Design Interactive is a human factors engineering firm that specializies in developing XR, BioSignature Analytics and Performance Augmentation solutions.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Codecademy

Codecademy is a company providing a platform based on web and mobile that teaches digital skills to users. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

5

Funding Rounds

$112.5m

Money raised

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Pathstream

Pathstream is a company founded in 2018 by Eleanor Cooper.

2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

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Code Kingdoms

A company that has an online platform on which children can learn to code. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2013.

1

Funding Rounds

$750.0k

Money raised

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Grovo

Grovo is a microlearning solution for businesses.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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Coachhub

Coachhub is an AI-powered digital coaching platform founded in 2018 by Yannis Niebelschuetz.

9

Funding Rounds

$434.6m

Money raised

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ExecOnline

ExecOnline is a company founded in 2012 by Stephen Bailey.

7

Funding Rounds

$158.8m

Money raised

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Hudl

Hudl is a platform and software that provides video analysis and coaching tools for sports teams.

3

Funding Rounds

$104.1m

Money raised

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Brazen (company)

Brazen is a virtual events and virtual career fair platform provider.

7

Funding Rounds

$13.4m

Money raised

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CareAcademy

An education platform for senior care training CareAcademy offers an online training empowering senior care professionals to deliver the highest caliber of services.

1

Funding Rounds

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360Learning

Collaborative learning platform that helps companies unlock knowledge based on shared expertise.

4

Funding Rounds

$283.5m

Money raised