Top 14 International Education startups

Aug 05, 2025 | By Nadia Neveu

These startups provide students with access to high-quality education abroad regardless of geographical constraints.
1
Applyboard
Country: Canada | Funding: $554M
ApplyBoard is a Canada-based technology company that simplifies the study abroad journey.
2
Leap
Country: India | Funding: $317.4M
Leap is a study abroad platform that supports Indian students who want to study abroad at global universities.
3
Cialfo
Country: Singapore | Funding: $82.6M
Cialfo is an AI driven solution that brings together people, software, and data to simplify college and career counseling workflows.
4
Leverage Edu
Country: India | Funding: $73.8M
AI-enabled marketplace designed to help students with their higher education and career growth plans
5
Outlier
Country: USA | Funding: $46M
Outlier is an online education platform that offers intro-level college courses online at a relatively affordable price.
6
Hippocampus Learning Centre
Country: India | Funding: $21M
Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC) aims to address the growing demand for quality education in India.
7
Educatly
Country: Egypt | Funding: $3.5M
Educatly is a student-recruitment platform providing students with all the information they need to study abroad.
8
Vidysea
Country: India | Funding: $1M
Vidysea helps students discover and secure the most suitable international educational opportunities for studying abroad.
9
Wayble
Country: Canada | Funding: $434.4K
International student’s way to endless possibilities beyond borders
10
Borderless.so
Country: Kazakhstan | Funding: $46.4K
The first online community in the CIS, where students and young professionals unite, ready to fill their lives with experience around the world, grow together and implement ideas.
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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