Top 62 EdTech startups in San Francisco
Mar 19, 2026
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Funding: $1.4B
Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps people write more clearly and effectively.
Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps people write more clearly and effectively.
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Funding: $5.5M
Enki optimizes workflows and maximizes employee potential through AI-powered skills training in productivity tools.
Enki optimizes workflows and maximizes employee potential through AI-powered skills training in productivity tools.
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Funding: $39M
Empowerly is an Edtech company that offers tailored college and career guidance services for students and their families.
Empowerly is an Edtech company that offers tailored college and career guidance services for students and their families.
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Funding: $570M
BetterUp develops an AI-driven platform that helps people and businesses grow personally and professionally through coaching.
BetterUp develops an AI-driven platform that helps people and businesses grow personally and professionally through coaching.
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Funding: $511.4M
Udemy is an online learning platform that helps students, companies, and governments gain the skills they need to reach their goals. Acquired by Coursera
Udemy is an online learning platform that helps students, companies, and governments gain the skills they need to reach their goals. Acquired by Coursera
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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.
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.
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Funding: $434M
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
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Funding: $316.3M
Earnest is a technology-lender that brings low-interest loans to high-potential people.
Earnest is a technology-lender that brings low-interest loans to high-potential people.
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Funding: $307.5M
WalkMe provides a digital adoption platform to let organizations measure, drive, and act to maximize their digital transformation.
WalkMe provides a digital adoption platform to let organizations measure, drive, and act to maximize their digital transformation.
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Funding: $281.3M
MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
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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.
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.
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Funding: $191.1M
ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities.
ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities.
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Funding: $156.3M
Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
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Funding: $152M
Speak is a mobile app that helps people learn new languages through AI-powered conversation.
Speak is a mobile app that helps people learn new languages through AI-powered conversation.
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Funding: $102.1M
Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used.
Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used.
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Funding: $88.8M
Brightwheel is a software platform for preschools and childcare providers.
Brightwheel is a software platform for preschools and childcare providers.
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Funding: $76M
Simplilearn helps professionals around the world acquire the skills they need to succeed in today’s digital economy.
Simplilearn helps professionals around the world acquire the skills they need to succeed in today’s digital economy.
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Funding: $62M
Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
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Funding: $56.5M
Kiddom is an education platform offering a digital curriculum to engage students virtually or in the classroom.
Kiddom is an education platform offering a digital curriculum to engage students virtually or in the classroom.
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Funding: $55M
Forta parent training program prepares you to certify as a Behavior Technician (BT) so you can provide the ABA care your child needs.
Forta parent training program prepares you to certify as a Behavior Technician (BT) so you can provide the ABA care your child needs.
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Funding: $55M
Scribe lets users share how work is done, enabling anyone to automatically create step-by-step guides for any process.
Scribe lets users share how work is done, enabling anyone to automatically create step-by-step guides for any process.
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Funding: $51.8M
Pathstream is a web-based platform for teaching in-demand tech skills for work.
Pathstream is a web-based platform for teaching in-demand tech skills for work.
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Funding: $49.4M
Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler education programs and preschools out of their homes.
Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler education programs and preschools out of their homes.
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Funding: $40.1M
Mursion provides immersive simulated practice for essential skills in the workplace powered by humans and assisted by AI.
Mursion provides immersive simulated practice for essential skills in the workplace powered by humans and assisted by AI.
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Funding: $37M
Forage works with the world’s top employers to create job simulations for students to build career skills, visibility, and confidence.
Forage works with the world’s top employers to create job simulations for students to build career skills, visibility, and confidence.
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Funding: $31.7M
Modal.io is a Mastery Platform that gives every employee the skills they need to do better work by teaching them the technical skills.
Modal.io is a Mastery Platform that gives every employee the skills they need to do better work by teaching them the technical skills.
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Funding: $25M
SplashLearn is an EdTech startup company providing game-based math and reading courses to students in pre-kindergarten to grade five.
SplashLearn is an EdTech startup company providing game-based math and reading courses to students in pre-kindergarten to grade five.
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Funding: $25M
Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
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Funding: $20M
GetSetup is a social learning platform that offers classes and social opportunities to help older adults.
GetSetup is a social learning platform that offers classes and social opportunities to help older adults.
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Funding: $18.7M
Freeing up the next generation of kids to be more ambitious, more creative, and to think for themselves.
Freeing up the next generation of kids to be more ambitious, more creative, and to think for themselves.
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Funding: $16M
Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions and consulting.
Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions and consulting.
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Funding: $14.1M
ReUp Education leverages data, technology, and coaching to re-enroll students who have left college and support them through to graduation.
ReUp Education leverages data, technology, and coaching to re-enroll students who have left college and support them through to graduation.
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Funding: $9M
Roam Research is a tool that offers services for notetaking and graph databases.
Roam Research is a tool that offers services for notetaking and graph databases.
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Funding: $4.2M
CodeHS is a comprehensive platform for helping high schools teach computer science.
CodeHS is a comprehensive platform for helping high schools teach computer science.
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Funding: $1.6M
We're Edlyft- enterprises like Google, Dropbox, and LinkedIn use our software to offer job training programs to college CS students.
We're Edlyft- enterprises like Google, Dropbox, and LinkedIn use our software to offer job training programs to college CS students.
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Funding: $1.3M
UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through 'no coding needed' interactive user onboarding flows.
UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through 'no coding needed' interactive user onboarding flows.
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Funding: $1.2M
ExoDexa gamifies online learning and provides online activities that prepare learners for college and life.
ExoDexa gamifies online learning and provides online activities that prepare learners for college and life.
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Funding: $998K
Designlab empowers creators to do the work they love, through mentor-led, online design education with a focus on quality and outcomes.
Designlab empowers creators to do the work they love, through mentor-led, online design education with a focus on quality and outcomes.
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Globalyceum, a leading developer of active learning empowered content for college and high school.
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Magna Education develops AI-based EdTech platform to help teachers achieve their full potential. It focuses on one of the most stubborn problems in education: meaningful, timely feedback. Magna aggregates responses across an entire class, surfacing patterns teachers would normally need weeks to uncover.
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Straia unifies your institution’s complex data sources and delivers actionable insights to administrators — simply by asking questions.
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Dex offers purpose-built devices, software and content to help young children reach their full potentials.
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Playtime Engineering is a toy design company that designs and manufactures musical instruments and synthesizers for kids.
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EduBotics is committed to narrowing the educational divide by delivering immersive robotics workshops.
