Top 67 EdTech startups in UK

May 20, 2026
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Ocean Technologies Group
Ocean Technologies Group develops the Ocean Learning platform, which integrates maritime staff training, assessment and competency management. The system enables to create certified courses, manageme competency assessment, progress tracking and provide audit-ready records to ensure employee compliance. This facilitates compliance with regulatory and charterer requirements. Using the platform, maritime companies can provide their employees with access to a library of over 750 expert-developed, ready-to-use courses, short training materials available online or offline, on mobile and desktop devices. The courses cover compliance, operational efficiency, decarbonization, new fuels, new safety regulations and technologies. Personalized reports for internal audits help identify risks at an early stage. Acquired by Lloyd's Register
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Assemble You
Funding: £1M
Assemble You creates progressive, unconventional training podcasts
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Synthesia
Funding: $736.6M
Synthesia allows to generate professional-looking training videos from text in minutes.
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Multiverse
Funding: $484M
Multiverse is on a mission to democratize access to the best learning and career opportunities. Its focus is on providing professional learning programs through apprenticeships, as they believe that learning on the job offers a more equitable and successful path to careers.
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Gravyty
Funding: $75.8M
Graduway provides alumni networking platforms for colleges and universities to stay connected with their former students and alumni.
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Zen Educate
Funding: $71.5M
Zen Educate is an online platform to connect supply teachers with openings in schools.
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FutureLearn
Funding: £50M
Enjoy learning for life with free, online courses from top UK and international universities.
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Unibuddy
Funding: $32M
Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
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Fuse
Funding: $30M
The Fuse learning platform connects people with the knowledge and expertise they need to improve their skills and perform.
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eduMe
Funding: $27.2M
eduMe is a mobile-based training platform for the deskless workforce. Companies see increased productivity, retention and workforce safety.
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Century Tech
Funding: $25.8M
CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.
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Seesaw
Funding: £17.5M
Seesaw offers a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum with interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features that provide continuous visibility into the student’s learning journey to support and celebrate their learning.
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Memrise
Funding: $21.8M
Memrise develops language-learning app that employs machine learning to adapt to users’ needs as they progress through their lessons
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SAM Labs
Funding: $20.3M
SAM Labs is an edtech company that empowers teachers with the most engaging STEAM solution.
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Busuu
Funding: €14M
busuu is a mobile app for language learning with the goal of breaking down language barriers.
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MyEdSpace
Funding: $15M
MyEdSpace is an educational technology company that offers live online lessons for students aged 10-18.
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5Mins
Funding: £5M
5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills.
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Movia Robotics
Funding: $5M
MOVIA Robotics provides an innovative approach in educating children with autism to form connections inside the world we live in today.
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Mindstone
Funding: $4.2M
Turn daily learning, into quantifiable skills employers recognise
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MOONHUB
Funding: £3.1M
Moonhub provides training for companies by immersing their staff in interactive virtual reality role-play scenarios.
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Kallidus
Funding: £3M
Kallidus is a provider of integrated learning and talent solutions.
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Medly AI
Funding: £2.9M
Medly AI is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, theory of mind, and reinforcement learning technology to supercharge students' abilities.
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Edumentors
Funding: $2.7M
Edumentors is an online tutoring platform connecting students with best online tutors from UK's top universities
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BBC Maestro
Funding: €2.1M
BBC Maestro is a brand new e-learning service, where courses are taught by the most experienced creators in the world.
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Chatterbox
Funding: £1.7M
Chatterbox is a smart online language learning for professionals, powered by refugees.
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Mendeley
Funding: $2.1M
Mendeley is an academic social network and program that enables users to collaborate online, and discover, manage and share research papers.
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Syntho
Electronic music learning platform for beginners to advanced. Changing the way you learn to make music.
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PuchFar
Funding: £405K
PushFar is a world-leading mentoring and career progression platform, for both individuals and organisations to streamline mentoring.
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Orbiri
Funding: £365K
Orbiri provides a community-powered platform with preset, considered screen-time boundaries for children.
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Sparx Maths
Sparx Maths is a socially focused learning technology company that offers e-learning platform for school students.
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ClassVR
Introducing ClassVR, a groundbreaking technology designed to help raise engagement & increase knowledge retention for students of all ages.
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Pearson
Pearson operates as a media and education company that offers a wide range of services to its customers.
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Exercism
Exercism is a not-for-profit organisation that provides an online platform for learning and improving software development skills
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Startup School for Seniors
We deliver Startup School for Seniors, the only eLearning programme specifically aimed at supporting those aged 50+ to take the first steps towards starting their own business.
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More Happi
More Happi is democratising and redefining the coaching industry, making it accessible to all, not just the privileged few.
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Meto.app
Ucademy (Meto.app) provides high quality tuition service to clients in a range of subjects and topics.
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UJJI
The gamified career development platform for the new generation of work
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Fluento
Fluento is an AI-powered online English learning application to improve spoken fluency and confidence.
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VITTA Education
VITTA Education is the new home for scientific supplies direct to schools, colleges and universities.
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Book Creator
Developer of Book Creator: the simplest, most inclusive way to create content in the classroom.
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ProWritingAid
ProWritingAid is your personal writing coach. It's an online grammar checking, style improvement, and terminology management system in one.
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The School Of Photography
At TSOP we deliver high-quality photography courses online, in person, in books and are a leading provider of photography education to schools and colleges in the UK.
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LangAI
LangAI is ChatGPT language learning app that allows to practice +20 languages. Speak or chat to an AI, and benefit from live corrections and adaptive, personalized conversations to rapidly enhance your language skills.
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Knowledge Train
Knowledge Train provides professional training and online classes about project management.
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Reed
Reed is a recruiting platform that offers job opportunities, careers advice, short film competition, courses and all things reed.
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PRINCE2
PRINCE2 offers project management training, information, hints, tips, and guide services.
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Leiths Online
Leiths is an industry-leading cookery school offering professional chef diplomas, enthusiast courses and online cooking courses.
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Ultimate Driving Course
The home of the UK’s No.1 Driving Course that helps you pass your Driving Test
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CGA Simulations
Software Development - Machine Learning - Simulation - Robotics We are experts in digital
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Emile
Emile is an online resource developed with Manchester Met University with funding from Innovate UK. .
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