Top Education Startups in 2024

Plotly creates leading open source tools for composing, editing, and sharing interactive data visualization via the Web. Our collaboration servers (available in cloud or on-premises) allow data scientists to showcase their work, make graphs without coding, and collaborate with business analysts, designers, executives, and clients. Plotly leads digital transformation at some of the world's largest companies using Python, R, and React. By applying cutting-edge Web technology to scientific computing and BI, we're preparing industries for their next 20 years of data-driven growth. Along the way, Plotly has democratized access to world-class, scientific software through open-source - enabling a new generation of scientists, engineers, and companies to collaboratively tackle new challenges. Our libraries have been downloaded more than 5 million times in every country in the world.

Esalen is a leading center for exploring and realizing human potential through experience, education, and research.
 We work toward the realization of a more just, creative, and sustainable world, seeking answers to questions unlikely to be explored by traditional universities and religions.
 We sponsor pioneering initiatives and offer personal, spiritual, and social transformation programs for residents, interns and workshop participants.

We at Educate! tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs, and drive development in their communities. We directly implement our model in secondary schools and partner with governments to support national education systems. Among other benefits, Educate! leads to improved soft skills, increased secondary school completion rates, more youth selecting STEM and business majors, delayed fertility, reductions in risky behavior, and declines in intimate partner violence.

PlayShifu is a leading AR toy company revolutionizing the world of tomorrow by providing educational play experiences for kids today. With 16 products that offer unique tactile play experiences for ages 4-12 years, kids build STEAM and other foundational skills such as critical thinking, engineering, and geography. PlayShifu’s founders are both parents that wanted to embrace technology as a part of their children’s development. They created a vision to make screen time meaningful, not mindless. Its three toy platforms, Shifu Orboot, Shifu Plugo, and Shifu Tacto are loved around the world and are currently available in 35 plus countries as they make screen time more meaningful through a physical and digital, or as we like to say, phygital experience.

VdoCipher provides video streaming solutions for media & education businesses to help them serve content on their site/app in the most secure and smooth manner. A combination of Hollywood standard DRMs directly licensed with Google & Apple, backend licensing technologies, & proprietary viewer specific watermarking ensure highest security from downloads & screen capture of videos. VdoCipher facilitates the video hosting with a number of features like providing video analytics , custom player design , creation of albums and setting prices. VdoCipher serves clients across 40+ countries. We have won the best DRM video security company award by Streaming Media Magazine, Europe. We also serve as technical partner to AWS.

PresenceLearning (presencelearning.com) is one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in the country with a mission to help special needs children unlock their full potential. We build groundbreaking software solutions that connect therapists and special needs students live and online. We have built a team of smart, fun, and friendly fellow entrepreneurs who are driven to make a difference in the world.

Zen Educate (zeneducate.com) is a fairer and better way to connect schools and teachers for supply work and long-term roles. We've built a marketplace that connects schools and teachers directly, cutting out the agency middlemen that have added a big layer of fees, bureaucracy, and a bad taste into the system for schools and teachers for too long. In the process, we're sucking out hundreds of thousands of pounds of waste from the education system that goes back to schools, teachers and ultimately pupils. With Zen, teachers don't get underpaid, spammed with endless calls and texts about irrelevant roles, and schools aren't ripped off and sent teachers and teaching assistants who don't pass the bar they need. We operate in London and Manchester and are growing quickly to provide a better service for schools and teachers than any traditional agency can provide.

Voxy is an online English learning platform providing educational institutions and corporations with a personalized language curriculum, adaptive web and mobile technology and best-in-class support. Voxy’s task-based courses use authentic, real-world content from leading publishers, and adapt to learners’ unique needs in real time. Voxy launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2010 as one of the most disruptive technology startups of the year, and has been recognized for its innovative approach by the New York Times, CNN, CNN en Español, Forbes and Fast Company, among many others. Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo, Brazil.

Learnyst is an LMS Software Company based out in Bangalore, India. We help educators to sell their courses online from their own branded website & mobile apps. We are a "SHOPIFY for education". Our focus is to make technology simple for educators & to help them grow. Using simple drag & drop interface, educators can create courses, mock-tests & sell it to their students across the world. With our powerful test engine, educators can schedule CAT, GATE, IIT-JEE, GMAT, IAS & Banking Exams online. Our software also lets them track student performances with our indepth test analytics reports. Lastly, educators get 100% course sales credited to their bank account. We don't charge them any transaction fees. To summarize, we offer them an end-to end solution that helps them teach online without worrying about the technology or maintanence costs of apps. So far, Learnyst has helped 1000+ educators to generate 10X revenue over investment and save at least 80% on online teaching platform maintenance. On Learnyst educators have launched 50000+ courses with course sales of more than $40 million and more than 300,000 students are using Learnyst branded apps.

We are energized by complex, multistakeholder spaces where the solutions are not obvious and the potential for impact is high. Our work spans a broad cross-section of topics across four focus areas: education and the future of work, scientific breakthroughs, future of health, and infrastructure. We are agile, “no surprises” consultants who work hand-in-hand with government, foundation, and private-sector clients. To help organizations “make it real,” we convene multidisciplinary stakeholders, facilitate alignment among partners, map ecosystems, create frameworks for thoughtful and considered decision-making, build scenarios around opportunity areas, select pathways, design strategic programs — and ultimately, operationalize and launch new initiatives. When the bets are big and the stakes are high, our clients come to us for rapid alignment, smart strategies, and agile execution. We deliberately design pilots and incentive programs for both short-term and long-term ambitions. When Osso VR won the EdSim Challenge, it was a newly established company. Since then, the company has deployed its solution in more than 20 global hospital residency programs and now employs over 100 people. Last year, the winner of the Opioid Detection Challenge was awarded a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) contract to conduct the first phase of a pilot program; its advanced threat algorithms detect narcotics and opioids that are shipped and concealed in mail and other packages. And the results of MagQuest will inform the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s acquisition strategy for a World Magnetic Model data collection capability, with an expected procurement that can provide operational capacity by 2027. We also design pilot programs to validate and refine concepts: CTE CyberNet, initially a three-location pilot, is now set to expand into additional locations.