Top Higher Education Startups in 2024

NexGenT is building the largest online IT school to help millions of people transition into tech jobs. Our mission is to inspire, create, and empower the next generation IT workforce by providing the highest quality tech education that is affordable to anyone.

Spiritual Data helps people of all beliefs to unite in an unbiased examination of truth. We do this through relating spiritual experiences and research to spiritual hypotheses and using statistical methods to determine the most likely conclusions. Technology automates this process.

Nexford University provides a tech-enabled learning experience that is affordable and entirely focused on job skills.

Wiingy provides online tutoring and technology courses to school and university students across the globe. Our experiential learning methodology enables students to learn and apply principles of maths, science, coding & design to create exciting digital & physical experiences - games, animation, stories & real robots. Wiingy works with highly qualified instructors to deliver the courses in small group & private formats. Parents and students have consistently rated the teaching experience as 4.8/5 and above. Our tutoring program covers core foundation subjects such as Maths, Science, English and a spectrum of innovative courses such as Robotics, Coding, Design, AI & IoT. Our deep belief is that technology education is essential for today's young minds and that drives our vision to be the best Technology School for students across the globe. We are a community of over 20,000 students across 10+ countries growing daily.

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.

At CourseCareers, we are on a mission to unlock all of human potential through affordable, high-quality education and access to opportunities. We're providing a direct alternative to expensive multi-year college programs, reducing the cost of starting a career by over 100x. No more will people be forced into debt to be able to live a successful life.

Learnroll is a US based leading provider of immersive healthcare solutions, leveraging AI and XR technologies to revolutionize medical practices. With a focus on women's healthcare and cardiovascular care, our cutting-edge capabilities empower healthcare professionals to deliver personalized, advanced care, driving improved patient outcomes and transforming the future of digital health with solutions in education & training, disease management and rehabilitation.

Avela is a platform for organizations and governments to run markets to equitably allocate resources and opportunities. The right person in the right position will change the world. Learning opportunities, field-based experiences, and consultant projects all have something in common. Currently, these opportunities are allocated through a combination of manual processes, spreadsheets, and trial-and-error - rife with implicit bias and questionable outcomes. Our mission is to more equitably and efficiently distribute opportunity. Learn more at avela.org

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS platform that brings together students, banks and universities to power smarter ‘Selection' and ‘Financing’ of college education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the ‘Right University’ at the ‘Right Cost’. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and finance them at the lowest cost, by 2025. Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly. Our second product - SelectRight is an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities. In just two years, GradRight has enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 1.75 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 175 Million in loans. GradRight was Ranked 1 in the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & were among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. GradRight’s team of 200+ members is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania and has significant experience in building successful brands in the education sector of India. GradRight is a USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India.

StudyFree is a rapidly growing edtech startup looking to democratize international education. StudyFree is an online platform that connects students with international opportunities worldwide. We guide students along the entire application process from applying to a program to securing a scholarship and finally immigrating. The team’s goal is to become a leading player in a $15 billion international education admission services market today, growing globally at a rate of ±2.5% per annum to +$35 billion by 2040. The market growth for underrepresented markets takes up the largest portion of that growth. Our website: studyfree.com/en](https://studyfree.com/en Our platform: platform.studyfree.com Today, StudyFree is already *helping over 78,000 students worldwide* to get scholarships and grants and we have more than *98% success rate.* We are an American company of Russian origin. We have developed *without external investments for 2 years*. We were also selected to participate in the highest-rated US business accelerators Berkeley SkyDeck and TechStars NY. We won several international startup competitions. All this with 0 initial investment - we know how to make money.