Top 12 EdTech startups in Palo Alto

Nov 20, 2025
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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.
2
Kira
Funding: $22.5M
Kira is an AI company that creates innovative tools and solutions to support educators, students, and administrators.
3
Brightchamps
Funding: $102M
BrightChamps is a learning education service provider company.
4
Strivr
Funding: $86M
STRIVR is an enterprise VR learning platform for the world’s best brands
5
Mighty Networks
Funding: $66M
The most popular all-in-one community platform for creators and entrepreneurs. $370M in creator earnings in 2023
6
Osmo
Funding: $32.5M
Osmo is a gaming company built around its proprietary Reflective Artificial Intelligence. It aims to create a new play movement to unleash the boundaries of the screen with the launch of its inaugural product, Osmo. Osmo expands the playing field and engages creative thinking and social interaction, allowing any object - pen and paper, you name it - to interact with the digital device.
7
Writable
Funding: $3.2M
Writable offers instruction & assessment tools for writing in K12 education.
8
Smartschool
Funding: $1.5M
AI-guided learning system for K-12 students
9
Prisma
We are a stealth mode education startup on a mission to reimagine the way children are educated.
10
QuestBridge
QuestBridge is a non-profit program for low-income students.
11
Bookelicious
Bookelicious promotes literacy by helping children find great books on topics they are passionate about.
12
Rally Reader
Rally Reader is an AI-powered e-reading platform for K-12 that distributes, supports, and tracks independent reading.
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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