Top Education Technology Startups in 2026

We work to advance the quality of education by engaging pro bono technology consultants and providing technology grants to support nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in developing countries who have a vision for how technology integration can help them amplify their impact on teaching and learning. The goal is to build capacity for NPO staff, teachers, and students to use technology to accelerate knowledge acquisition and build lifelong learning skills, and ultimately to expand economic opportunities for learners in the global knowledge economy.

CharacterStrong provides social & emotional learning curricula and professional learning to PreK-12 schools in all 50 States, as well as schools across 11 countries. Our curricula include Middle School Social & Emotional Learning Lessons, High School Social & Emotional Learning Lessons, a Foundations of Leadership Course, a Service Leadership Course, and a PurposeFull People PreK-5 Toolkit. We host leadership conferences, offer live in-person and virtual professional development, in addition to online/asynchronous training and equity-specific training.

Quinncia is an AI-based career development platform that helps students improve interview skills, polish resumes and find jobs. With the mission to make career development a part of academic curriculum, Quinncia allows career service to scale their offerings allowing each student to get personalized feedback on their resume and interviewing skills. Quinncia’s AI is growing fast to change career professional development in higher education. Find out more at: quinncia.io/about

Since 1963, SEO has been an innovator in education, mentorship, peer-to-peer support, the delivery of excellence, and the leveraging of diverse networks and communities to turn untapped potential into newfound greatness, resulting in a more equitable society. Our six distinct programs have made a lifetime of achievement possible for our global alumni network of more than 19,000 accomplished and rising leaders in virtually every industry, who proudly represent the promise of our investment in today's SEO participants.

Established in 2012, BrainStation has worked with over 500 instructors from the most innovative companies, developing cutting-edge, real-world digital education that has empowered more than 100,000 professionals and some of the largest corporations in the world.

SkilloVilla is building the next generation platform to prepare students, fresh graduates and working professionals for the rapidly changing employment landscape through a technology-enabled advanced curriculum. In a world where technology evolves by the day, and educational institutions’ curriculums find it difficult to upgrade to rapidly changing industry needs, upskilling becomes the need of the hour for young graduates who are ready to enter the real world of opportunities. We strive to bridge the skills gap and propel a person's career with an industry-aligned curriculum that is not included in regular college syllabi. While we support novice professionals to become job ready, our team of hiring experts connects them to employers from top-tier partner companies to help explore opportunities and secure the jobs of their dreams. Started by seasoned entrepreneurs from IIT Delhi and IIIT Hyderabad, we are passionate about creating something unique, innovative and big from India. We're backed by Titan Capital, a prominent VC fund along with 10+ marquee angels.

Formative (formative.com) is the platform for real-time formative assessments. We allow teachers to see student work as it happens and intervene immediately, when it matters most. Studies show that speeding up the feedback cycle between teachers and students can have the single largest impact on student learning (+8 months per student per year).  If you'd like to see students grow and to disrupt the largest spend for schools in educational technology, then please join us. Member of the Imagine K12 Fall 2014 Cohort "The Ultimate Productivity App for Teachers" by CNN.com  1st Place - 4.0 Schools Launch Pitch Competition in NYC (judged by teacher panel)  1st Place LA - 1776dc Challenge Cup - Education (which led to a trip to the White House)  1st Place USA - Falling Walls Young Innovator's Competition  1st Place - UCLA Knapp Competition  3rd Place - SXSW Hatch Pitch  Finalist - Milken-UPenn GSE Education Business Plan Competition  "Best UCLA Startup" by the UCLA VC Fund

tl;dr: Prepfully helps candidates with interview prep. We’ve got interview guides, mock interviews, question banks, recorded interviews - you get the picture. Our goal is to become a one-stop shop for everything in a candidate’s interview journey - all the way from getting referred via an internal connection, to receiving the best free guidance on the internet. From thoughtful mentorship from the highest quality coaches in the world, to eventually learning how to negotiate and get compensated in a way that recognizes your true value. We are well on our way in this mission. We'd love for you to help us get there.

We’re building a modern SaaS management platform that will help schools attract more students to live on-campus while simplifying complex, highly custom workflows. Many people meet their best adult friends as college roommates, but a lot of complicated work goes into making that magic happen!

At Informed K12, we’re on a mission to help school district administrators operate efficiently and gain insight into their most critical school business processes. Still today, most school districts have hundreds of mission critical processes that run on paper, making visibility and improvement near impossible. We transform paperwork from a daily stumbling block to a strategic tool. This makes it possible to hire the right teachers faster, manage bus routes for students without permanent housing, ensure teachers get reimbursed and paid on time, and a lot more. We are powering the future of school district operations by helping district administrators drive the systemic change needed to improve productivity, accountability and equity. Our founders came out of Stanford's Graduate School of Education and was one of the first companies funded by StartX and top education technology incubator Imagine K12, now part of Y Combinator. Learn more at informedk12.com.