Top 13 Graphic Design Education startups

Updated: Mar 24, 2026
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These startups develop online design courses, interactive portfolio platforms, virtual design workshops, typography learning apps, etc.
1
GOMYCODE
Country: Tunisia | Funding: $9.7M
GoMyCode is an educational platform that trains talents on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world.
2
Canva
Country: Australia | Funding: $2.5B
Canva’s Graphic Design School is covering a foundational element of graphic design along with an activity that puts your new knowledge into practice.
3
Skillshare
Country: USA | Funding: $136.8M
Skillshare is an ed-tech platform offering online learning for creative fields.
4
Domestika
Country: USA | Funding: $130M
Domestika is a creative community where creative experts share their knowledge and skills through professionally produced online courses.
5
CreativeLive
Country: USA | Funding: $58.3M
CreativeLive is the world’s leading live, online classroom for creative entrepreneurs.
6
Maven
Country: USA | Funding: $25.1M
Maven empowers the world’s experts to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audience.
7
Kadenze
Country: USA | Funding: $4.3M
Kadenze provides online courses from the world's leading universities, brands, and institutions in creative education.
8
BBC Maestro
Country: UK | Funding: €2.1M
BBC Maestro is a brand new e-learning service, where courses are taught by the most experienced creators in the world.
9
CommonTime
Country: USA | Funding: $200K
An arts education focused platform that connects teaching artists and arts organizations to educators and learners globally.
10
CASES
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $50K
CASES is a social network and EdTech platform for the creative and IT industries
11
CG Spectrum
Country: Australia
CG Spectrum is an online game design, VFX and animation school.
12
Uxcel
Country: USA
Uxcel is an interactive learning platform that helps designers to learn and improve design skills with interactive UX courses.
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Ninja School
Country: Ukraine
Ninja School is an edtech platform for creative professions (brand and advertising, design, digital marketing, creative management). Provides unlimited access to a stream of creative and marketing educational content for a monthly fee. Ninja School constantly invites different lecturers, changes formats and adds new topics, conducts weekly online classes with the best specialists in the industry in different formats: workshops, lectures, Q&A sessions and case studies. Listeners have the opportunity to ask questions, discuss cases and share own experience, get access to the archive with all the classes held on the platform, books, podcasts, articles, videos and other recommendations from lecturers to better learn the topic
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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