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Top 24 Startups that help kids learn to read
Sep 24, 2025 | By Nadia Neveu | 16 |
These startups develop phonics apps, interactive storybooks, reading comprehension tools, vocabulary-building games, speech recognition software, etc.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $7M
Shoelace Learning is the create games that instil a love for reading.
Shoelace Learning is the create games that instil a love for reading.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5M
Beanstack helps educators and librarians run reading challenges that engage more people and provide better data.
Beanstack helps educators and librarians run reading challenges that engage more people and provide better data.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $175.6M
DreamBox Learning offers elementary mathematics education through its intelligent adaptive learning platform.
DreamBox Learning offers elementary mathematics education through its intelligent adaptive learning platform.
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Country: USA | Funding: $40.3M
Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors.
Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $32.5M
Osmo is a gaming company built around its proprietary Reflective Artificial Intelligence. It aims to create a new play movement to unleash the boundaries of the screen with the launch of its inaugural product, Osmo. Osmo expands the playing field and engages creative thinking and social interaction, allowing any object - pen and paper, you name it - to interact with the digital device.
Osmo is a gaming company built around its proprietary Reflective Artificial Intelligence. It aims to create a new play movement to unleash the boundaries of the screen with the launch of its inaugural product, Osmo. Osmo expands the playing field and engages creative thinking and social interaction, allowing any object - pen and paper, you name it - to interact with the digital device.
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Country: Sweden | Funding: $12.7M
The all-in-one service for systematic reading development. Lexplore offers assessment, insights and development in one place to support systematic reading development.
The all-in-one service for systematic reading development. Lexplore offers assessment, insights and development in one place to support systematic reading development.
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Country: Brazil | Funding: $1.6M
Yuna develops an AI-driven platform that provides personalized, interactive, and free children's stories.
Yuna develops an AI-driven platform that provides personalized, interactive, and free children's stories.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.1M
ReadAskChat provides parents, caregivers, and teachers the guidance they need to lay a strong foundation for reading and a love of learning.
ReadAskChat provides parents, caregivers, and teachers the guidance they need to lay a strong foundation for reading and a love of learning.
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Country: Finland | Funding: €600K
BeiZ is a Beijing-based game studio engaged in the development of educational games for adults and children.
BeiZ is a Beijing-based game studio engaged in the development of educational games for adults and children.
