Top 12 Graphic Design Education startups

Jan 13, 2025 | By Nadia Neveu

These startups develop online design courses, interactive portfolio platforms, virtual design workshops, typography learning apps, etc.
1
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: $2.2B
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
CG Spectrum
Country: Australia
CG Spectrum is an online game design, VFX and animation school.
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