69 Best Tutor Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Tutor Startups

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There are 181 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $94.8m.

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

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$2.0m

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

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5

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$76.0m

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

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3

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$168.5m

Money raised

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

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$117.5m

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

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5

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$175.6m

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

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4

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$217.0m

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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.

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$1.0m

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

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$1.2b

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

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$51.5m

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

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$216.9m

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

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$33.8m

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

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$201.0m

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Aceable is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2012 by Blake Garrett.

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$35.0m

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BibliU is an educational content platform that provide eTextbooks that work for academic libraries.

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$22.5m

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Nearpod is a company founded in 2012 by Guido Kovalskys, Felipe Sommer and Emiliano Abramzon.

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$361.6m

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Vedantu is a Bangalore-based provider of online tutoring and one-on-one courses.

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$7.7m

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Chromatik is a company founded in 2010 by Matt Sandler.

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$14.3m

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Apex Learning is a Seattle-based company founded in 1998 by Paul Allen.

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$43.4m

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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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$8.2m

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Packback is a company founded in 2014 by Nick Currier, Kasey Gandham, Jessica Tenuta and Mike Shannon.

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$140.0m

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Formative is a company founded in 2013 by Dino Vendetti.

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$150.0k

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EduRev is an educational technology company providing platform and resources for students, teachers, and institutes for online education.

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$43.3m

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Perlego is an AI-powered subscription-based digital online library founded in 2017 by Gauthier Van Malderen.

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$15.8m

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

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$8.9m

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TakeLessons was a San Diego-based company and platform for students to connect with individual tutors in a variety of subjects. The company was acquired by Microsoft in September 2021.

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$35.0m

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Snapask is a private tutoring service. Its enterprise product connects schools, parents and other educators into an online classroom platform.

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$2.5b

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Yuanfudao provides online live courses and tutoring.

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$25.0m

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Edmentum is a provider of online, mobile, and software-based education products, including interactive instructional and testing platforms with curriculum, instructional management, and assessment tools for instructors.

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$1.7m

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StudySoup is a company founded by Sieva Kozinsky.

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$585.2k

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Crowdmark is a Toronto-based company founded in 2012 by James Colliander.

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$1.8m

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TutorSpree is a company providing an online platform for web based tutoring services.

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$118.0k

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Appsembler is a company founded in 2011 by Nate Aune.

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$5.7m

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eSpark Learning is a company founded in 2010.

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$975.0k

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LearnBoost is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 by Guillermo Rauch, Thianh Lu and Rafael Corrales.

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$7.5m

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

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$5.9m

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Showbie is a Edmonton-based company founded in 2012 by Colin Bramm.

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$30.5m

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EdisonLearning is a company that performs targeted activities to enhance public education in America.

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$940.0k

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WordDive is an application using artificial intelligence for learning languages founded in 2009.

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$15.4m

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ABA English is a digital academy for learning English.

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$200.0m

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GoGuardian is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2014 by Advait Shinde.

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Teach 'n Go is a company founded in 2013.

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$4.2m

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Aula is an online program management company offering a learning experience platform with student engagement and communication services.

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$2.1m

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Popexpert is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012.

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$10.0m

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MasteryConnect is a Salt Lake City-based company founded in 2008.

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$2.0m

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UpSwing is an Austin, Texas-based company.

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$6.3m

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A marketplace for parents to discover and book activities for their children

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$12.7m

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Entri is an India-based company founded in 2015 by Mohammed Hisamuddin.

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$2.0m

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Kami is an interactive digital classroom app for PDF & other types of documents.

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$2.9m

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Pariksha.co is a Pune-based company founded in 2015 by Karanvir Singh Shekhawat.

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$274.3m

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KnowBox is a China-based educational technology company offering artificial intelligence-assisted mobile applications for schools and consumers to help children with their homework.

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$15.6m

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LittleBits is a company founded in 2011 by Ayah Bdeir.

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$2.2m

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Educreations is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2010 by Chris Streeter.

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$15.0m

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Swing Education is a United States-based company founded in 2015 by Mike Teng.

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4

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$31.2m

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Riiid is a Seoul-based artificial intelligence company offering tutoring services through it's mobile application.

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$16.0m

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Amira Learning is a San Francisco-based company.

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StudyEdge is a company offering services to help students from the University of Florida to achieve academic success. It provides a marketplace for private tutoring in person tutoring and online tutoring. Online exam review sessions, chapter review sessions and study hours are also offered.

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$16.0m

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Camp K12 is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2020 by Anshul Bhagi.

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Sofatutor is a Berlin-based company founded in 2008.

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$4.0m

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Student loans company.

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$625.2k

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Actively Learn is a Seattle-based company founded in 2012.

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$7.0m

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Glean is a company that allows users to search instructional videos posted by teachers.

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$7.0m

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GradeUp is a formerly GradeStack Learning founded in 2013.

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$13.3m

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Pedago is a Washington, D.C.-based company founded in 2013 by Tom Adams, Ori Ratner and Alexie Harper.

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$4.3m

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

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$5.8m

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Onlinetyari is a company founded in 2014.

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$5.5m

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SmartUp.io is a company founded in 2015 by Brent Hoberman, Frank Meehan and Henry Lane Fox.

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$36.0m

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Noodle Partners is a New York-based developer of online and hybrid education programs and provides tools and services for classroom and program models.

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$15.0m

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

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$2.0m

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HeyTutor is a Los Angeles-based company founded by Ryan Neman.

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