Top 13 Rural Education startups

Aug 05, 2025 | By Nadia Neveu

These startups bridge the educational gap between urban and rural areas by providing educational services for specific needs of rural communities.
1
Country: India | Funding: $21M
Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC) aims to address the growing demand for quality education in India.
2
Country: Finland | Funding: $500K
We deliver the highest quality of educational content through gamified mobile application to unleash student learning success while decreasing school dropout of teenagers in the Middle East - Starting from Iraq.
3
Country: India | Funding: ₹10M
A startup working in the field of education and providing consulting, management services and solutions to rural schools in India.
4
Country: India | Funding: $104K
ThinkZone is an award winning social impact startup that enables women entrepreneurs to drive technology.
5
Country: Netherlands
SkillEd offers a versatile and lightweight e-learning solution – ideal when internet is slow or not available, and designed to facilitate collaboration between organizations.
6
Country: India
Paathshala Learning Solutions is a professional leadership development, learning, and coaching organization.
7
Country: India
Sudiksha Knowledge Solutions - an organisation that makes early education joyful, effortless and an affordable process
8
Country: Kenya
"Edutab Africa is dedicated to aiding schools, educators, students, and institutions in reaching greater heights through the utilization of technology and creative educational methods.
9
Country: USA
Empower Schools collaborates with communities to help them get the schools they want with the outcomes that students require.
10
Country: USA
Open Learning Exchange (OLE), as a social benefit organization.
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