Top 100 EdTech startups in USA

Oct 13, 2026
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1
Kollegio
Funding: $5.3M
Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications, offering personalised college-application guidance such as essay feedback.
2
Scholar Education
Funding: $2M
Scholar delivers differentiated learning through 1:1 student support, trusted by thousands of teachers and students across Florida and built with the highest privacy rating of any AI tool used in classrooms today. PAWfessor Bruce helps teachers plan lessons with built-in supports and act on real-time insights, while BaxterBot adapts to each student’s learning profile to provide grade-level, scaffolded practice that gives meaningful insight back to the teacher.
3
Bigtincan
Funding: $49.2M
Bigtincan is a sales enablement automation company that helps brands facilitate the future buying experience.
4
LearnVector
Funding: $100M
LearnVector aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors — adapting to each learner and practicing with them until they demonstrate they've mastered a concept. It's focused on education for workers and other adults
5
MagicSchool
Funding: $62.4M
MagicSchool is an AI platform for K-12 educators and students. It provides an AI co-pilot for educators to assist with instructional differentiation, language learning, and adaptive tutoring.
6
Stellic
Funding: $14.1M
Stellic is a platform for academic planning and student performance assessment used by over 90 higher education institutions worldwide and by over 1 million students. The company provides students, advisors and administrators with modern tools to optimize the learning process. Advisors (teachers) can analyze information about each student, generate reports, receive alerts, schedule meetings (with students) and provide students with personalized recommendations that will truly impact their success. Students can independently select, plan and modify their courses within the system. Administrators can create transfer rules so students can move forward without having to rewind.
7
Turing College
Funding: $6M
Turing College provides self-paced programs in AI, Data Analytics that are designed for working individuals, allowing you to study according to your schedule via our learning platform.
8
Yellowdig
Funding: $4.7M
Yellowdig is an online learning experience driven by peer collaboration, gamification, and data science.
9
PETE
Funding: $2.4M
PETE is designed to enhance training, optimize learning, and accelerate course creation, thereby enhancing learning effectiveness.
10
MemoryOS
Funding: $1.7M
memoryOS is the world’s #1 startup enabling people to retain needed knowledge
11
Handshake
Funding: $495.3M
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
12
Coursera
Funding: $470.3M
Coursera is an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform.
13
Pluralsight
Funding: $199.5M
Pluralsight is a technology learning platform for software developers, IT admins, and creative professionals.
14
General Assembly
Funding: $175M
General Assembly is a pioneer in education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills.
15
Noodle
Funding: $138.3M
Noodle is the leading tech-enabled strategy and services partner for higher education.
16
Snap! Mobile
Funding: $113M
Snap! Mobile provides digital banking and financial management solution for all youth programs and leaders.
17
HubSpot
Funding: $100.5M
HubSpot Digital Marketing Course will provide you with the skills you need to succeed in today's online world. From developing a human-centered and inbound-first digital marketing strategy to creating compelling content that appeals to both users and search engines, you'll learn everything you need to excel in your career.
18
Higher Ground Education
Funding: $70M
Higher Ground Education aims to bring the Montessori education methodology to the mainstream through modernization.
19
Siro
Funding: $68M
Siro builds an AI Coach that identifies opportunities to elevate any sales team.
20
Squint
Funding: $59M
Squint makes every operator an expert.
21
Niche
Funding: $44.3M
Niche.com is a platform that enables users to discover and research U.S. colleges, schools, neighborhoods, and companies.
22
Arist
Funding: $30.2M
Arist helps companies deliver learning, training, and nudges in the flow of work via Teams, Slack, and text message-based courses.
23
Khan Academy
Funding: $22.5M
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides a free world class education for anyone, anywhere.
24
OnRamp
Funding: $16.2M
The customer onboarding and implementation software that automates busywork and enables white-glove customer success at scale.
25
SigIQ.ai
Funding: $9.5M
SigIQ offers and builds reliable & trustworthy GenAI for lowering the cost of personalized learning to the cost of computation.
26
Enki
Funding: $5.5M
Enki optimizes workflows and maximizes employee potential through AI-powered skills training in productivity tools.
27
Find Your Grind
Funding: $5M
Find Your Grind is developing an online platform for alternative careers such as pop-music, content creation, social media management or eSports athlete. It focuses on self-awareness, career insight, social awareness and action awareness. It also includes a lifestyle assessment that helps students identify three career paths based on their preferences. For example, they might discover that they prefer roles as an artist, content creator, or humanitarian. Students then receive a personalized plan for their future after graduation. Additionally, students can access videos and interactive lessons and a group of mentors provides practical advice on starting their careers and the steps they took to achieve success. Notable mentors include Tony Hawk, Tony Hoffman, and will.i.am, among others.
28
Alpaca
Funding: $3.1M
Alpaca gives parents easy ways to support their teachers.
29
Bookelicious
Funding: $1.8M
Bookelicious promotes literacy by helping children find great books on topics they are passionate about.
30
Prepia
Funding: €1.5M
Prepia platform helps students study smarter with personalized quizzes, expert-designed content, and intuitive tools.
31
Beanstack
Funding: $1.5M
Beanstack helps educators and librarians run reading challenges that engage more people and provide better data.
32
Ellucian
Funding: $1.6B
Ellucian delivers the software, services, and insights that help your institution thrive.
33
Articulate
Funding: $1.5B
Articulate develops e-learning software, content, and community that’s changing the way the world learns.
34
Guild Education
Funding: $643.2M
Guild is a learning platform that offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults.
35
BetterUp
Funding: $570M
BetterUp develops an AI-driven platform that helps people and businesses grow personally and professionally through coaching.
36
Skillsoft
Funding: $555M
Skillsoft provides online learning and e-learning solutions for global enterprises, SMEs, governments and educational institutions.
37
Kajabi
Funding: $550M
Kajabi operates as an all-in-one knowledge commerce platform designed to help businesses achieve success online.
38
Age of Learning
Funding: $531.5M
Age of Learning provides a comprehensive and engaging online curriculum for pre-k, kindergarten, elementary, and middle school programs.
39
Course Hero
Funding: $477.4M
Course Hero is a digital learning platform helping students and educators master their classes.
40
MasterClass
Funding: $461.4M
MasterClass is a digital platform that allows users to take online classes and learn from world-leading experts in areas like sports, writing, music, cooking and filmmaking. With Stephen Curry, Gordon Ramsey and Annie Leibovitz among the teaching ranks, students can soak up unique insights from some of the most accomplished individuals in their professions.
41
Seismic
Funding: $446.5M
Seismic’s learning and coaching software allows to create interactive sales courses and simulate real-life scenarios with role-plays and video recordings.
42
Preply
Funding: $320.1M
Preply is an online tutoring platform, aiming to help students achieve their learning goals and prepare them to speak confidently.
43
Earnest
Funding: $316.3M
Earnest is a technology-lender that brings low-interest loans to high-potential people.
44
WalkMe
Funding: $307.5M
WalkMe provides a digital adoption platform to let organizations measure, drive, and act to maximize their digital transformation.
45
Mindtickle
Funding: $281.3M
MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
46
Curiosity Stream
Funding: $279.7M
CuriosityStream is a factual entertainment media company with a global streaming service and pay TV channels around the world.
47
Whatfix
Funding: $264.8M
Whatfix is a data-driven digital adoption platform (DAP) that enables organizations and users to maximize the benefits of software.
48
Outschool
Funding: $240.2M
Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for k12 kids. It offers live online small-group classes (like 5 to 1) and 1:1 tutoring lessons led by real teachers, that create courses themselves or help with homework and generally understanding school material. There are thousands of topics, including school subjects as well as hobby-occupations, like art, music, cooking, pet-training, robotics, etc. Kids can learn on custom schedule via desktop or mobile app. Any person with academic experience can create own course or work as a private tutor on the platform. Also Outschool provides core academics courses, that include full school curriculum courses, so it can replace real school by home-schooling. The platform also provides classes for neurodiverse learners with ADHD, autism, etc.
49
Udacity
Funding: $240M
Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector.
50
Chegg
Funding: $227.3M
Chegg is a student media learning platform offering services to universities and community colleges.
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