Top 13 EdTech startups in Melbourne

Mar 01, 2026
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1
Compass Education
Funding: $60M
Compass Education is a schools management platform that enables schools to deliver high-quality learning experiences.
2
JigSpace
Funding: $24.3M
JigSpace enables anyone to create and share 3D and augmented reality presentations.
3
Tutero
Funding: A$5.1M
Tutero is the future of personalised online education.
4
Frntlne
Funding: A$4.6M
frntlne is an e-learning company that provides a mobile application with microlearning courses for employees.
5
Teachers Buddy
Funding: A$1.9M
Teacher's Buddy offers a suite of AI-powered tools for teachers. The startup eases administrative burdens and enables continuous professional development for teachers. The AI ​​assistant allows to create engaging course topics, lesson plans, labs, presentations (directly in Google Slides), teaching aids, workshops, images and much more. It helps with brainstorming sessions, finding resources online, assessing student work, emailing parents and even offering conflict resolution recommendations. Teacher's Buddy uses ChatGPT as its AI engine, but any data input by users is not used to train ChatGPT's model. The platform has already been implemented by over 12,000 teachers in 130 countries and has signed 15 partnership agreements with schools in Australia and New Zealand.
6
Mentorloop
Funding: $1M
Mentorloop connects mentors with mentees via a simple, interactive and affordable online platform.
7
Dystech
Funding: A$290K
Dystech is changing the way we assess reading difficulties. Combining 2-hours of traditional assessment in 10-minute using AI
8
Bookbot
Funding: A$200K
Bookbot is an app that helps child to improve reading skills.
9
CG Spectrum
CG Spectrum is an online game design, VFX and animation school.
10
Need a Tutor
Enrise is an Australian registered charity delivering supported educational services through Need a Tutor. Working exclusively with Indigenous, at-risk, vulnerable or disadvantaged.
11
WeTeachMe
WeTeachMe is the go-to place for people to discover and book the best and most popular classes in Australia.
12
Cadmus
Cadmus is an online written assessment platform for university, improving the assessment experience for teachers and students.
13
AIonSpectrum
AIonSpectrum is building a platform and safe space for children with ASD or other developmental disabilities to understand the context
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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