Top 40 EdTech startups in Canada

Aug 05, 2025
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1
Applyboard
Funding: $554M
ApplyBoard is a Canada-based technology company that simplifies the study abroad journey.
2
Paper
Funding: $389.6M
Paper is an educational support system that provides personalized tutoring accessible to every student.
3
Top Hat
Funding: $234.4M
Top Hat’s interactive software helps college professors quickly activate classrooms by engaging students over their own devices.
4
Thinkific
Funding: $192.9M
Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses.
5
D2L
Funding: $168.5M
D2L is an integrated learning platform, providing cloud learning solutions for educational institutes.
6
Docebo
Funding: $165.2M
Docebo is a cloud 'e-learning as a service' product that enables companies to deliver, track and certify online training to their staff. Acquired by Klass Capital
7
Prodigy
Funding: CA$159M
Prodigy Education is a leader in game-based learning
8
Absorb
Funding: $59M
Absorb LMS is an software firm that provides eLearning software and support system for businesses.
9
10 Thousand Coffees
Funding: $56M
A talent experience platform for inclusive mentoring, employee connectivity and skills development designed for the new world of work.
10
Axonify
Funding: $35.2M
Axonify provides e-learning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning.
11
Shoelace Learning
Funding: $7M
Shoelace Learning is the create games that instil a love for reading.
12
Riipen
Funding: $5.8M
Riipen is an experiential learning platform that helps schools connect their students to industry & enables companies to pick top talent.
13
LumiQ
Funding: CA$6.1M
LumiQ is a native podcast app where engaging conversations with business leaders count as verified CPD/CPE for CPAs.
14
Edsby
Funding: CA$5.3M
Developer of an innovative digital learning and data software platform for K-12 school districts, states/provinces and countries.
15
Together
Funding: $1.5M
Together Software provides corporate mentor ship management platform.
16
Obsidian
Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
17
Socrative
Funding: $750K
Socrative, a student performance-tracking system, allows teachers to engage students in various activites on computers and mobile devices.
18
Mentorly
Funding: CA$1M
Mentorly is a platform that enables organizations to drive impact through mentorship and learning programs.
19
Wayble
Funding: $434.4K
International student’s way to endless possibilities beyond borders
20
QuestRead
Funding: CA$25K
An AI-powered reading app that improves a child's motivation and achievement through gameplay and adaptive learning.
21
Poorna Wellness
Poōrna is a wellbeing app that is focused on supporting you towards 'wholistic' wellbeing for better balance.
22
Noomii
Noomii is a place for friends to come together and lifecoach eachother.
23
AME Learning
Ame Learning is an e-learning education company located in Toronto.
24
Brain Sensei
Brain Sensei is an e-learning company that focuses on project management and preparing for the project management professional exam.
25
Summations
Summations is the next generation of academic knowledge base, making research papers more affordable and accessible for all.
26
Stekio
Stekio Labs is a software company that offers learner management platform for educational institutions, training companies, and corporates.
27
Surge9
Surge9 is a microlearning, training reinforcement, and gamification company.
28
Qeewee
QeeWee is a mobile app that aims to pair up with financial professionals to help provide financial literacy to young adults in bite-sized and jargon-free modules.
29
LABonWEB
LABonWEB is a virtual learning medium, distributed through a platform (B2B), to enable institutions to build impactful learning modules. LABonWEB’s modules are based on real-world simulations that can be used to enhance testing, assessments, and the student experience.
30
iTacit
iTacit fixates on productivity and management of employees across numerous industries with a cost-effective and adaptable mobile workforce.
31
Cognitive Class
Empower Your Future: Free Courses and Guided Projects in AI, Data Science, and Emerging Tech to Launch Your Career
32
Drawabox
We provide a structured, exercise-based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing, starting from the absolute basics - all for free.
33
Virtual High School
Virtual High School is an online school that provides credit courses to the students.
34
Schoolio
Schoolio aims to bridge teachers, parents and tutors into a single ecosystem, focusing on education transparency.
35
Trualta
Trualta is a skills-based training platform for family caregivers living at home.
36
VR-SIM Carers
VR-SIM Carers is a Collaborative Research and Development initiative that aims to co-design a virtual reality (VR) simulation training environment for dementia caregivers.
37
Kaleidoscope XR
KaleidoscopeXR is the creator of CareGiverVR - bringing the future of training in agecare to the present.
38
MarineLS
Marine Learning Systems is a rapidly growing eLearning software and services provider that caters to the unique needs of the maritime industry.
39
SmarterU
LMS with a superior learner experience that engages and empowers all people within your organization to achieve their goals.
40
BIS Safety Software
BIS Safety Software offers compliance and learning management software for the environment, health, and safety professionals.
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Editor: Nadia Neveu
Nadia Neveu is a senior editor for EdTechStartups. She is a writer covering early childhood education, K-12, higher education and edtech business, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice. Nadia holds a degree in mass communication from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Nadia is also a student in the Master of Science in Data Analytics program at the University of Houston-Downtown. Nadia seeks to uplift all teachers in the work that they do and support them as leaders and agents of change. You can contact Nadia at neveu(at)edtechstartups(dot)com