Top 11 History Learning startups

Aug 05, 2025 | By Nadia Neveu

These startups develop virtual museum tours, history quiz platforms, historical event simulators, immersive storytelling tools, etc.
1
Country: Qatar | Funding: $250K
History Adventures, World of Characters presents a fresh approach to history education, designed for the digital generation.
2
Country: Sweden | Funding: $150k
Humy.ai helps teachers bring history to life with AI-powered historical figures, engaging lesson plans, and automated grading tools for personalized and interactive learning experiences.
3
Country: UK
Introducing ClassVR, a groundbreaking technology designed to help raise engagement & increase knowledge retention for students of all ages.
4
Country: USA
Discovery Education offers standards-aligned digital curriculum resources and engaging content for K-12 classrooms.
5
Country: USA
Online video learning platform for K-12 and college courses
6
Country: Netherlands
Historiana offers free historical content, ready to use learning activities, and innovative digital tools made by and for history educators across Europe.
7
Country: USA
Globalyceum, a leading developer of active learning empowered content for college and high school.
8
Country: USA
A metaverse camera app that captures images from historical events and personal memories and then projects those scenes on the real-life locations where they actually happened.
9
Country: Switzerland
The gateway to historical maps from all over the world
10
Country: Spain
GeaCron creates World History Atlas & Timelines since 3000 BC
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