Top Education Startups in 2024

Trainual is more than an onboarding and training tool. It's an interactive wiki for your business. Once your team starts documenting what they do, you'll be on your way to creating a turnkey operations manual and playbook for every role in the organization.

Life is short—do something that matters! We are Academia.edu. Our mission is to accelerate and democratize the world's research, which increases the velocity of scientific discovery and technological progress, which benefits everyone. Who we are We are building the world’s largest network for sharing and finding academic research online. With over 260M registered users and nearly half of the world’s academics using our platform monthly, Academia.edu has a significant global reach. By joining our team, you will have the chance to make a positive and lasting impact on our users around the globe. Our users include researchers, academics, industry professionals, and college students. Our company has over 340,000 paying premium subscribers, which has resulted in positive cash flow. This puts us in a unique position to disrupt the $25 billion academic publishing industry. Our ~100-person team, which includes ~45 Software Engineers, values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and collaboration. We are passionate about building a great work environment that produces excellent products. Academia has attracted $62 million in investment from leading VC firms, including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media, including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

OpenSesame is the world’s marketplace for buying and selling elearning courses. We make buying and selling corporate eLearning as easy as downloading a song from iTunes. The OpenSesame marketplace and technology disrupts the leaders in the highly fragmented $4.5B elearning content market. With more than 21,000 courses from 260 sellers, buyers purchase courses with no expensive subscriptions or long-term commitments and use them instantly online, by email or in any learning management system.

360learning provides the world's first collaborative learning platform. we focus on helping teams create, ship and improve courses together. our easy authoring tool, built-in feedback loops & learning analytics help teams identify which courses are working best, and which need work.

We believe that providers should focus on providing incredible child care — the kind of work that only people can do — and that software should manage the rest. We’re building the child care management platform that eliminates the administrative work of running a center.

Formation is a platform that combines adaptive learning technology with a mentorship network of industry experts to create personalized, online training programs for job seekers at scale. Our first program is the Engineering Fellowship, a training program that helps software engineers from nontraditional and underrepresented backgrounds break into top tier tech companies. Fellows are trained by current engineers from Facebook, Dropbox, etc. and are unconditionally supported by the entire Formation team until we succeed in landing their next role.

We are a group of entrepreneurs building digital platforms to empower the middle class of Latin America. We have a venture studio model, with ventures designed in-house using a proprietary business design methodology, then founding teams are recruited to lead them. Polymath remains deeply involved in our companies throughout their life cycles, providing strategy, operations & design-thinking methodologies support. Operating since 2012 and with offices in Bogota and Mexico City, Polymath has launched 9 ventures and raised US$30M+ of equity and debt financing across the group. We have raised three venture studio investment vehicles, achieving an unrealized IRR of 37%. Ventures examples: Elenas - Elenas is building the first social selling platform for consumer products in LATAM.The unique digital direct sales model leverages the power of personal relationships and the scalability of e-commerce in order to improve income opportunities for millions of women across LATAM.(elenas.co) Nido - Nido is a digital platform to serve tenant’s growing demand for affordable room rentals. Aflore - Aflore creates a new channel to issue credit to the under-banked middle class (aflore.co) Autolab - Autolab is an auto repair platform that uses technology to integrate and solve the deep pain points of car owners, mechanics, and the parts supply chain, enabling a trustworthy and affordable experience for the end-customer (autolab.com.co)

Lrnr (“learner”) provides personalized courseware and online homework solutions that are affordable and aligned to a wide selection of OER and textbook content. Each of Lrnr’s solutions is built on top of Lrnr’s innovative personalized learning platform that cleanly integrates all course components: learning content and engaging activities, individualized assessment, flashcards, student notes, personalized pathways, instructor contributed material, customizable courseware and assignments, and actionable analytics. Lrnr applies Cognitive Theory (knowledge acquisition, reasoning, problem solving) and Spaced Retrieval (for long term memory) techniques to continuously collect data and analyze each student’s strengths, weaknesses, knowledge gaps and provide optimal combinations of content, activities and quizzes matched to the student’s ability. Lrnr helps improve outcomes by personalizing pace, sequence, difficulty, mode and remedial focus for each individual.

Nation's largest college planning program providing enrollment solutions and insightful analytics. We are the leading provider of data and analytics solutions to public and private colleges and universities. Our Data Lab intelligence provides better match and information to serve students, parents and educators. Data Insights on what is top of mind in the student and parent population provides the foundation for helping higher education leaders make data based informed decisions. We leverage our data and platform to help colleges and universities improve key metrics around student success and graduation rates.

QuillBot is an AI edtech writing platform with over 20 million monthly active users that provides students, attorneys, educators, ELLs, and bloggers with free online writing and research tools to help them become more effective, productive, and confident writers. Founded under the belief that learning and applying the knowledge is more rewarding than the mundane aspects of writing, The QuillBot team seeks to advance that idea by, automating those tasks and allowing their users to focus on what they write, not how they should write it. Whether one is writing emails, social media posts, or essays, QuillBot has their back. It has an arsenal of productivity-enhancing tools that are already changing the way the world writes, and we're looking for world-class talent to change the way people write. Join us if you want to help us lead the way.