Top 18 Science/STEM learning startups

Updated: Mar 23, 2026
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These startups develop virtual science labs, Physics-focused coding platforms, interactive experiment simulators, science quiz apps, hands-on project kits, etc.
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Labster
Country: Denmark | Funding: $150.5M
Labster is an e-learning company that offers virtual laboratory simulations based on mathematical algorithms.
2
Quizlet
Country: USA | Funding: $62M
Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
3
SAM Labs
Country: UK | Funding: $20.3M
SAM Labs is an edtech company that empowers teachers with the most engaging STEAM solution.
4
simpleclub
Country: Germany | Funding: €17.5M
Germany's most popular digital learning platform. Personalised learning, powered by the best content. For 1M+ people.
5
Sofatutor
Country: Germany | Funding: €6.5M
Sofatutor is an online platform of educational tutorials for school and college students to study for exams and recapitulate lessons.
6
Skriware
Country: Poland | Funding: $4.3M
Skriware provides an IoT ecosystem for STEAM education combining 3D printing, robotics and e-learning solutions.
7
Tuva
Country: USA | Funding: $430K
Building for a data literate future. Making data exploration, analysis, visualization, and interpretation human and accessible to all.
8
Fermi.ai
Country: India
Fermi.ai is transforming high-school STEM education with personalized learning. The company has launched its platform through subsidiaries in the United States and India, beginning with Math, Physics, and Chemistry. While most AI tools focus on speed and answers, Fermi.ai is built to focus on understanding and reasoning. The platform keeps students engaged in the learning process rather than giving instant answers. Fermi.ai aims to restore the 'Productive Struggle' with a focus on Deep learning for students and unprecedented insights for educators. The platform is built on four core pillars: adaptive real-time tutor, handwriting First Experience (via digital ink and stylus input on a smart canvas, ensuring STEM learning remains a natural, tactile reasoning process, Concept Graph + Question Bank (deep, exam-aligned question bank)
9
TechQuest Academy
Country: Nigeria
TechQuest STEM Academy provides education technology content, tools, digital empowerment and capability building programs.
10
TabbieMe
Country: UK
Tabbie is a formative assessment platform that provides analytics to drive equitable learning outcomes. We currently are at different stages of implementation at more than 200 school partners in India, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar.
11
Makers Empire
Country: Australia
Makers Empire helps K-8 teachers harness the power of 3D printing to teach Design Thinking, STEM and 21st century learning skills.
12
AskIITians
Country: India
AskIITians is an Online Education Portal
13
Schooly
Country: UK
Discover Schooly, your dedicated online tutoring platform, led by highly qualified STEM educators. Our focus is on the British curriculum, catering to students aged 11-18.
14
Stemi
Country: Croatia
Our cloud-based AI program teaches students to build complete AI conversational systems that solve social problems in their local communities.
15
World Science U
Country: USA
World Science U is a digital education initiative dedicated to teaching science to old and young learners.
16
STEMhero
Country: USA
STEMhero helps teachers turn their classrooms into centers of STEM skills.
17
Great Minds
Country: USA
A group of education leaders founded the non-profit Great Minds in 2007 to define and encourage content-rich comprehensive education.
18
Teachoo
Country: India
Teachoo provides NCERT solutions for Class 9 to 12, and Efiling of returns and challans of Income Tax, TDS and Goods and Services Tax (GST)
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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