Top 15 Digital Textbook startups

Updated: Dec 17, 2025
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These startups develop interactive e-textbooks, multimedia learning resources, digital annotation tools, adaptive reading platforms, etc.
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Uolo
Country: India | Funding: $32.5M
Uolo is developing school management platform for tracking payments, attendance, academic performance and communicating with students and parents. The platform enables online and offline payment processing, sending payment reminders, informs parents on children's attendance and performance and forms reports that meets ICSE/CBSE standards. It includes an online homework diary, school chats and voice calls. The company also creates engaging illustrated school textbooks paired with a mobile app for self-learning in subjects such as English, mathematics, computer science and general knowledge. Lesson plans and activities from these textbooks help teachers create engaging classrooms and extensive question banks for assessments.
2
EMBIBE
Country: India | Funding: $284.5M
Embibe provides personalized educational feedback services for students.
3
Top Hat
Country: Canada | Funding: $234.4M
Top Hat’s interactive software helps college professors quickly activate classrooms by engaging students over their own devices.
4
Chegg
Country: USA | Funding: $227.3M
Chegg is a student media learning platform offering services to universities and community colleges.
5
Brainly
Country: Poland | Funding: $148.5M
Brainly is a web-based learning platform where kids and parents seek homework and study assistance from peers and professionals.
6
RedShelf
Country: USA | Funding: $58.1M
RedShelf is a distributor of digital learning materials for the higher education community.
7
Scribe
Country: USA | Funding: $55M
Scribe lets users share how work is done, enabling anyone to automatically create step-by-step guides for any process.
8
Kognity
Country: Sweden | Funding: $32M
Kognity provides intelligent SaaS Textbooks with school customers in over 70 countries.
9
Numerade
Country: USA | Funding: $26M
Numerade is the virtual learning platform that adds understanding back to STEM education.
10
Ludenso
Country: Norway | Funding: $1M
Ludenso is a software developer of AR solutions for the education industry.
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