Top 10 Personal Knowledge Management startups

Updated: Aug 01, 2025
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These startups develop apps that help to capture ideas from various sources, organize information and mine knowledge.
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StudySmarter
Country: Germany | Funding: $64.2M
StudySmarter is an EdTech company that develops an intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning.
2
Roam Research
Country: USA | Funding: $9M
Roam Research is a tool that offers services for notetaking and graph databases.
3
Gutenberg Technology
Country: France | Funding: €5M
Gutenberg Technology is the provider of the premier end-to-end content management platform
4
Mindstone
Country: UK | Funding: $4.2M
Turn daily learning, into quantifiable skills employers recognise
5
RemNote
Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
RemNote develops a knowledge management platform to enable effective and efficient learning.
6
Mendeley
Country: UK | Funding: $2.1M
Mendeley is an academic social network and program that enables users to collaborate online, and discover, manage and share research papers.
7
Obsidian
Country: Canada
Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
8
Citationsy
Country: Sweden | Funding: €50K
Citationsy is a no-nonsense reference collection and bibliography creation tool for people who value simplicity, privacy, and speed.
9
Literature and Latte
Country: UK
Apps for writers of all types, from novelists and screenwriters to academics and journalists.
10
Noteshelf
Country: India
Effortlessly create stunning notes. Embrace distraction-free, smart organization and AI notes.
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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