Top 16 EdTech startups in China

Nov 27, 2025
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Yuanfudao
Funding: $4B
Yuanfudao provides live courses and tutoring through an online platform.
2
Zuoyebang
Funding: $2.9B
Zuoyebang is an online education platform that provides quality educational products and services to k12 students.
3
VIP Kid
Funding: $1.1B
VIPKid connects teachers in North America with children around the world for real-time English immersion learning online
4
Huohua Siwei
Funding: $593M
Spark Education Group is a global online education company specializing in interactive live-instruction with small-group classes for kids.
5
17zuoye
Funding: $585M
17zuoye is an online learning platform for K-12 students as well as teachers and parents.
6
Codemao
Funding: $360.4M
Codemao is an online education platform that teaches children about computer coding.
7
Hujiang
Funding: $187M
Hujiang is a professional e-learning platform, which provides users with products and services of convenience and excellence.
8
Liulishuo
Funding: $128.9M
Liulishuo is an AI-driven educational technology company that helps users to learn English more efficiently and communicate with the world.
9
Makeblock
Funding: $79.9M
Makeblock is the ultimate robotics construction platform for makers and STEM learners to turn ideas into reality.
10
51Talk
Funding: $67.1M
51Talk is an online english school providing one-to-one foreign language teaching services.
11
Snapask
Funding: $56.8M
Snapask is an education technology that connects tutors and students to make education more personalized and accessible.
12
XuetangX
Funding: $29.2M
XuetangX operates as a platform providing massive open online courses.
13
PPtutor
PPtutor is Chinese online learning platform for children (4-15 years) with live lessons with teachers. It employs certified teachers and utilize interactivity, gamification and multimedia content for independent learning. It has its own curriculum aimed at Chinese families living abroad and includes more pronounced cultural component. Courses are designed to develop all Chinese skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as preparation for the HSK exam. The service uses a 5-in-1 model: teacher, class teacher, course consultant, technical support, etc.
14
itakli
Funding: $3M
italki is an eLearning platform that connects its users with online language teachers around the world.
15
ChineseSkill
Funding: CN¥15M
ChineseSkill is an online platform offering Mandarin Chinese language learning service. It provides a mobile app that gamifies the process of learning for beginners. Each lesson lasts 15 minutes (you can take 1 lesson per day). Every sentence, word and dialogue you encounter in ChineseSkill is carefully structured, selected and reviewed by the development team, along with expert professors from leading universities in China and Singapore. All voice recordings are dubbed by native speakers. The app has a free basic version and a paid subscription starting at $12 per month.
16
LingoBus
Lingo Bus is an online service for learning authentic Chinese - for children aged 4–15. It offers two programs: Beginner and Advanced. Beginner focuses on vocabulary building, correct pronunciation and constructing common sentences. Lessons are aligned with YCT and ACTFL standards, allowing kids to develop speaking skills and listening comprehension. Advanced - is suitable for students with advanced speaking and listening skills and aligns with Chinese primary school standards. It incorporates deepening knowledge of Chinese culture and literacy. Lessons are aimed at improving reading, writing and even thinking in Chinese. The service employs over 10,000 experienced teachers with master's degrees or higher in linguistics. Lingo Bus uses research-based language learning curriculum and adopts lessons for children of different cultures.
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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