Top 19 Teacher Productivity startups

Updated: Mar 19, 2026
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These startups are developing digital lesson planning platforms, grading automation tools, communication apps and professional development resources.
1
Teachy
Country: Brazil | Funding: $8.6M
Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
2
Brisk
Country: USA | Funding: $21.9M
Brisk Teaching provides AI-powered tools for educators to enhance teaching with digital resources. Brisk’s platform offers around 40 tools for teachers and students to use by way of a Chrome extension.
3
TPT
Country: USA | Funding: $64M
Teachers Pay Teachers is a community; the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell/buy original educational resources.
4
PowerSchool
Country: USA | Funding: $31.5M
PowerSchool develops cloud-based software for K-12 education, helping educators and students realize their full potential, in their way.
5
Seesaw
Country: UK | Funding: £17.5M
Seesaw offers a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum with interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features that provide continuous visibility into the student’s learning journey to support and celebrate their learning.
6
LearnWise
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €2.5M
LearnWise AI helps students and faculty in higher education get instant support 24/7 with their own AI assistants
7
LoveHeart
Country: Australia | Funding: $2.3M
LoveHeart assists educators in understanding children's growth and creating appropriate plans. LoveHeart is an AI assistant that helps you understand a child's development and plan what to do next, while simultaneously making you a better teacher by building your knowledge, skills and confidence.
8
Teachers Buddy
Country: Australia | Funding: A$1.9M
Teacher's Buddy offers a suite of AI-powered tools for teachers. The startup eases administrative burdens and enables continuous professional development for teachers. The AI ​​assistant allows to create engaging course topics, lesson plans, labs, presentations (directly in Google Slides), teaching aids, workshops, images and much more. It helps with brainstorming sessions, finding resources online, assessing student work, emailing parents and even offering conflict resolution recommendations. Teacher's Buddy uses ChatGPT as its AI engine, but any data input by users is not used to train ChatGPT's model. The platform has already been implemented by over 12,000 teachers in 130 countries and has signed 15 partnership agreements with schools in Australia and New Zealand.
9
Paddy
Country: Germany | Funding: €1M
Paddy is an AI platform that simplifies the teaching workflow- from planning and material creation to analyzing learning progress.
10
to teach
Country: Germany | Funding: $200K
To teach uses ai to create individual educational content. Content that adapts in real time to learners‘ interests, needs and abilities.
11
Cerebro
Country: Philippines | Funding: $62K
Cerebro provides cloud-based teaching content for K-12 schools allowing teachers to save up to 400 hours of preparation time per year.
12
QuestionWell
Country: USA
An AI tool that teachers can insert seamlessly into their existing workflows. The AI takes a topic and an optional reading and writes questions aligned to standards and learning outcomes.
13
TeacherKit
Country: Egypt
TeacherKit is a classroom management app that manages time and activities, records attendance, logs behavior, and tracks grades.
14
Mr. Chadd
Country: Netherlands
Mobile Chat app for educational support
15
Embrace
Country: USA
Embrace is an IT company for developing education software products.
16
Cadmus
Country: Australia
Cadmus is an online written assessment platform for university, improving the assessment experience for teachers and students.
17
Check
Country: Singapore
At Check, we are on a mission to reduce teachers' workload.
18
Ubindi
Country: Argentina
Ubindi is a software tool that helps instructors and teachers track students, reservations, fees, and attendance.
19
Magna Education
Country: USA
Magna Education develops AI-based EdTech platform to help teachers achieve their full potential. It focuses on one of the most stubborn problems in education: meaningful, timely feedback. Magna aggregates responses across an entire class, surfacing patterns teachers would normally need weeks to uncover.
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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