Top 20 Higher Education startups

Updated: Dec 05, 2025
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These startups help college or university students study successfully by providing additional tutoring, materials and engaging techniques.
1
Bethink
Country: Poland | Funding: €5.9M
Bethink is a SaaS e-learning platform that provides a wide range of prep-med and medical learning courses for students.
2
Campus
Country: USA | Funding: $101.6M
Campus.edu offers online associate degrees and skills-focused programs with live classes from professors nationwide.
3
Alice.tech
Country: Denmark | Funding: $5.3M
Alice tech is the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered study platform designed to personalize the learning experience.
4
upGrad
Country: India | Funding: $782.7M
UpGrad is an online higher education platform providing various programs.
5
Course Hero
Country: USA | Funding: $477.4M
Course Hero is a digital learning platform helping students and educators master their classes.
6
Knewton
Country: USA | Funding: $182.3M
Knewton is an adaptive learning technology provider with a mission to bring personalized education to the world.
7
Studocu
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €46.7M
Studocu is a knowledge-sharing platform for university students. Students who excel in a particular course upload their lecture notes, summaries, or study guides to Studocu for others to use. Documents are organized by specific courses at specific universities. The service offers a set of AI-powered tools that save time and improve learning efficiency. A built-in AI chat provides instant explanations for a specific course based on real student notes or document summaries. It allows to turn notes into flashcards or quizzes for active memorization practice before exams or into audio notes for studying on the go. The Studocu mobile app allows to photograph and recognize textbook pages and record/recognize real lectures.
8
Mentor Collective
Country: USA | Funding: $28.4M
Mentor Collective provides all students with a transformative mentoring experience
9
Zookal
Country: Australia | Funding: A$22.7M
Zookal is Asia Pacific's fastest growing educational platform providing a variety of services including digital learning products
10
TEDU
Country: USA | Funding: $5.6M
TEDU allows to unify your academic support offerings into one student and administrative-facing platform to increase accessibility, raise completion and retention while reducing program facilitation costs.
11
Kartable
Country: France | Funding: €1.2M
Kartable is a free learning platform for students from 12 to 18 editing its own learning materials and technology.
12
edept
Country: India | Funding: $1M
Edept empowers students with global opportunities and academic excellence, bridging industry and academia to develop skilled citizens.
13
Melvano
Country: India | Funding: $295.2K
Melvano is a Bangalore-based EdTech company founded by Taran Singh that provides online courses for high school and undergraduate students.
14
Pahamify
Country: Indonesia | Funding: $150K
Pahamify is a EdTech Startup with a vision to create education super app that provides high quality content.
15
Straia
Country: USA
Straia unifies your institution’s complex data sources and delivers actionable insights to administrators — simply by asking questions.
16
ZNotes
Country: UK
ZNotes platform is a global community giving millions of students across the world unrestricted access to high-quality educational content.
17
College Vidya
Country: India
College Vidya is unbiased Online Education Portal working online with an aim to bring transparency in field of online education.
18
Nerdify
Country: USA
Nerdify is an AI-powered platform and text-based student assistant that provides on-demand help by texting as a personal assistant.
19
StudyHelp
Country: Germany
StudyHelp offers an innovative Multi-Channel-Learning system for students.
20
Virtual High School
Country: Canada
Virtual High School is an online school that provides credit courses to the students.
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Nadia Neveu
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