Top Education Startups in 2024

Grammarly stands with Ukraine. We invite you to do the same. Here are some ways you can help: gram.ly/WeStandWithUkraine --- Grammarly’s AI writing assistance is trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results—without compromising security or privacy. Grammarly’s product offerings—Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education—work where you do, delivering contextually relevant writing support across over 500,000 apps and websites. We’re growing our values-driven team to support our expanding customer base! Grammarly is on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces. We operate with a remote-first hybrid work model, meaning we primarily work from home and meet for in-person collaboration at our hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków, as conditions allow. Team members can work in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland.

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.

Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on radically improving education for every student. Over 2,000 school systems serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted the Panorama platform to help educators collect data about the academic and non-academic factors that are key to each child’s success in school and in life. On the technical side, we are solving challenges in K-12 education, such as: *building real-time data pipelines of a student’s day-to-day life into our platform, including the quantifiable and qualitative elements of a student’s experience *measuring data across the country’s largest urban schools *designing a highly available online platform that calculates realtime analytics across billions of data points *refining our product’s user experience so that the data is truly useful, actionable information

Since 1995, Embark has been the leading provider of online application and admissions software to colleges, universities, and fellowship programs around the world. To date, we've powered more than 16 million students applications to clients including Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and the Rhodes Scholarships. Our admissions platform is always evolving and we're also creating new solutions to match students with educational opportunities.

WorkRamp is the All-in-One Learning Platform that your executives, employees, and customers will love. WorkRamp advances learning as a growth engine for your business with a flexible platform that empowers teams to develop top talent, exceed revenue targets, and inspire customers to become advocates. The remote-work movement has provided a lift for our business. There is an increased spotlight on employee retention, engagement, and upskilling. Our product squarely falls into that category and we experienced tremendous growth in 2021. We are looking for team members to help us in this next phase of growth!

ClassDojo is a feedback platform used by over 40 million teachers, students & parents in more than 150 countries to help students develop the character skills and behaviors they need for success in life - things like persistence, resilience and curiosity. ClassDojo is one of the world's fastest-growing education technology products; it currently reaches 1 in 3 schools in the US, and is scaling globally fast. Research shows that building behaviors like persistence, self-control and curiosity have a huge effect on test scores - as well as on incomes, health outcomes and dropout rates. So how do we create an education that not only builds academic knowledge, but also the character strengths that make people successful in life? That's what we're here to accomplish. ClassDojo is backed by some great investors including Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Yuri Milner, Matt Ocko, General Catalyst, Shasta Ventures, Felicis Ventures and others.

Our mission at Speak is to teach the next billion people how to speak English. We believe that speech recognition and machine learning will transform how people learn English. We're building this future now: software that can understand what a student is saying, give them immediate feedback, and guide them towards fluency, all on their phone.

Named #519 on Inc 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies in the world, Securly is a world-renowned innovator in student safety solutions. Our Mission Our mission is to cultivate a safer digital world for children. We see the internet as a space for learning and exploration, and social media as an opportunity to develop emotional intelligence and social competence. The internet brings many benefits to children’s development and learning but also presents many concerns. Our goal is not to censor the internet, but to mitigate the negative effects it can have on kids. We develop solutions to keep children safe online wherever they are - at school, at home or out in the world. From tools to help adults create a safer internet to an AI that recognizes signs of bullying and even intuits risks of self-harm, Securly continues to build technology and innovate solutions to support online safety and healthy digital lives for children.

Cirkled in is an award-winning, cloud-based, 21st-century recruitment platform matching colleges and universities to high school students based on students’ detailed rich portfolio. Colleges spend over $10 Billion every year on recruitment of High School students with only 1% return. They struggle to meet their enrollment goals and diversity and equity goals. And we know how excruciating and painful the process is for students. Cirkled in is a recruitment platform for colleges to get the holistic view of students’ achievement, strengths, and talents, identify the best-fit candidates for their institution and recruit them. Using proprietary data analytics, Cirkled-in will match colleges with the best-fit candidates. Cirkled in puts every student at the center of the circle, empowers them to showcase themselves in the best possible way and get discovered by colleges. Just like LinkedIn has revolutionized corporate recruiting, Cirkled in will revolutionize the college recruiting!

Preply is a global language learning marketplace, connecting 50,000+ tutors with millions of learners from all over the world. Since the company launched in 2012, students have signed up to more than 15 million lessons. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Preply is on a mission to shape the future of effective learning. Fueled by a belief that live engagement with a teacher is still the most effective way to learn a new skill, Preply is building a personalized learning space that will enable individual learners to reach their goals in the fastest way possible. Powered by a tenfold increase in revenues over the last three years, Preply is now leading the online language tutoring segment globally and has 600+ employees of over 50 nationalities based across Barcelona, Kyiv and the US. Preply is driven by a culture of experimentation and data-driven learnings, focused on building best-in-class consumer and enterprise solutions.