Top Edtech Startups in 2027

Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. --- Grammarly stands with Ukraine. We invite you to do the same. Here are some ways you can help: gram.ly/WeStandWithUkraine

Founded by educators and technologists passionate about improving education, Clever is on a mission to unlock new ways to learn for all students. Already used by more than 60% of U.S. K-12 schools, Clever brings all applications into one secure portal and provides single sign-on for everyone. With the leading network of digital learning providers, Clever makes school more engaging, personalized, and fun.

Springboard is an online school for 21st century skills like Data Science and UX Design. Our programs combine online coursework with 1-on-1 mentorship from industry experts. We're bridging the skills gap and preparing young professionals for the digital economy, through affordable, high-quality education. Our vision is to create a viable alternative to university education.

Computers are the most powerful tools to exist in the history of humanity. Today, only a relative few—professional software developers—can use this superpower to its fullest extent. This has created an unbalanced world where there are programmers and those who consume their programs. Replit is changing that dynamic by bringing the next billion software creators online.

Voicera is building the data layer for trust analytics, empowering People to score sincerity in human communication objectively at scale. Why now? Trust is the new currency. • Problem: All video meetings are recorded and processed by LLMs. How people communicate is lost in transcription, causing misinterpretation, and bad decisions. • Solution : Sincerity™ by Voicera analyzes people's behavior to assess how truthful they are from non-verbal cues with 80% accuracy. • Use Cases: Sales (customer insights, revenue forecasts), Training, HR (recruitment), Internal Fraud Investigations… • Outcomes: Voicera empowers customers to make more informed, ethical decisions in situations where trust is critical.

Enigma provides authoritative answers about business entities for agentic and automated workflows. By leveraging an industry leading business entity resolution model to link thousands of bespoke public and private datasets, Enigma enables agents and workflows to fully understand the relationship and connections between legal entities, brands, locations, and the owners. It means a search for a single record returns complete information about that business and the full network around it. The company is known for Enigma for AI and Enigma for Workflows (KYB, risk, fraud, underwriting, payments and go-to-market).

Newsela provides school districts with authentic instructional content that supports their curriculum, empowers teachers across subjects to promote standards-based instruction, and drives student engagement and learning. Content is published daily at 5 reading levels and aligned to standards with student activities and teaching scaffolds designed to bring lessons to life. With over 20 million users, Newsela is already helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We're looking for passionate, creative people with quick minds and warm hearts to join us. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.

At GoGuardian, we’re helping shape the future of digital learning by providing educators, students, and schools with tools to create equitable and engaging learning environments. Together, we build innovative solutions that empower students, deliver insights, encourage experimentation, and reduce inequity. We’re growing fast and looking for passionate team members to join us!

Nectir is a seed stage VC-backed ($6.3m raised) EdTech company founded by two students at UC Santa Barbara in 2018 with the mission of building the modern educational experience that every teacher and student deserves. Our newest software, Nectir AI, is conversational AI infrastructure that allows educators to utilize powerful LLMs to create FERPA/COPPA-compliant, customizable AI Assistants that sit within the LMS. What is Nectir AI? Nectir AI is revolutionizing how schools manage and use artificial intelligence on campus. Think of it as your institution's managed AI infrastructure - we make it easy to create custom AI Assistants trained on your specific courses, policies, and institutional knowledge. These AI Assistants integrate right into your LMS to provide 24/7 support for students, faculty, and staff while ensuring complete data privacy and FERPA compliance. The results speak for themselves: our partner institutions are seeing up to 20% increases in student GPAs, and we can deploy across an entire campus in just weeks. Plus, students gain valuable AI literacy skills that employers are actively seeking. It's a win-win - institutions get secure, scalable AI capabilities, and their communities get immediate access to powerful AI support that actually understands their specific needs.

Wonderschool was started in 2016. The company’s mission is to ensure that every child has access to a home away from home that helps them realize their full potential. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments.