69 Best Elearning Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Elearning Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 165 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $8.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $117.0m.

Last update to the database: Jul 15, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$431.5m

Money raised

Coursera is an online education technology company founded in 2012 by Daphne Koller.

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5

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008.

5

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

Simplilearn is an educational technology company with a focus on courses for digital skills.

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1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

Learn to Win is an interactive learning app that aims to break down complex material into bite-sized pieces for quicker and deeper learning.

8

Funding Rounds

$117.5m

Money raised

Skillshare is a New York-based educational technology company offering an online learning community for creative entrepreneurs.

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11

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform.

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5

Funding Rounds

$235.0m

Money raised

Udacity is an e-learning company that has a digital education platform. It was founded in 2011 and is located in Mountain View, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$66.2m

Money raised

LearnWorlds is a create and sell online courses, all-in-one founded in 2014 by Panos Siozos, Fanis Despotakis and George Palegeorgiou.

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1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Brilliant is a San Francisco-based educational technology company.

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9

Funding Rounds

$582.7m

Money raised

Synthesia is an AI-powered video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Niessner and Steffen Tjerrild.

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1

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

An educational technology company with a focus on STEAM lesson plans involving computers. It has offices around the world, the main one being in London, England. It was founded in 2014.

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1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

VEED.IO is a British company developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered online video editing platform to simplify creating videos for creators and businesses.

4

Funding Rounds

$58.0m

Money raised

NoRedInk is a San Francisco-based e-learning and educational technology company founded in 2012 by Jeff Scheur to help students writing abilities.

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5

Funding Rounds

$426.1m

Money raised

upGrad is an Indian online higher education company, founded in 2015 by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Phalgun Kompalli, and, Ravijot Chugh.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Sizzle AI is a company using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to provide interactive learning experiences, described as a "Free AI tutor for everyone."

1

Funding Rounds

$27.0m

Money raised

Speak makes AI-based apps that help users learn languages by simulating real conversations.

6

Funding Rounds

$234.5m

Money raised

Brainly is an educational technology company based in Krakow, Poland founded in 2009 by Michał Borkowski, Łukasz Haluch and Tomasz Kraus.

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6

Funding Rounds

$84.6m

Money raised

A company building training software for workforce for companies

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4

Funding Rounds

$216.0m

Money raised

Alma's integrated Student Information System empowers learning communities with future-ready software created for today ... and tomorrow.

4

Funding Rounds

$37.2m

Money raised

Microverse is a company that provides online education for software developers. It was founded in 2017 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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7

Funding Rounds

$122.0m

Money raised

Ooyala is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2007 by Bismarck Lepe.

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5

Funding Rounds

$112.5m

Money raised

Codecademy is a company providing a platform based on web and mobile that teaches digital skills to users. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

5

Funding Rounds

$9.2m

Money raised

BridgeU is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2015 by Lucy Stonehill.

4

Funding Rounds

$283.5m

Money raised

Collaborative learning platform that helps companies unlock knowledge based on shared expertise.

2

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

Nearpod is a company founded in 2012 by Guido Kovalskys, Felipe Sommer and Emiliano Abramzon.

9

Funding Rounds

$361.6m

Money raised

Vedantu is a Bangalore-based provider of online tutoring and one-on-one courses.

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6

Funding Rounds

$37.2m

Money raised

Online learning tool with courses created by its community

7

Funding Rounds

$115.3m

Money raised

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2

Funding Rounds

$14.3m

Money raised

Apex Learning is a Seattle-based company founded in 1998 by Paul Allen.

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9

Funding Rounds

$96.1m

Money raised

Bitly is a link management platform provider, helping enterprises optimize their digital operations with a variety of integrated social and digital marketing tools.

6

Funding Rounds

$35.2m

Money raised

Axonify is a Microlearning platform built for business.

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3

Funding Rounds

$36.6m

Money raised

Brandlive is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2010 by Fritz Brumder.

3

Funding Rounds

$8.2m

Money raised

Packback is a company founded in 2014 by Nick Currier, Kasey Gandham, Jessica Tenuta and Mike Shannon.

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5

Funding Rounds

$228.4m

Money raised

OpenClassrooms is a massive open online course platform founded in 2013 by Pierre Dubuc.

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1

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

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5

Funding Rounds

$50.9m

Money raised

Panopto is a Seattle-based company founded in 2007.

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2

Funding Rounds

$140.0m

Money raised

Formative is a company founded in 2013 by Dino Vendetti.

4

Funding Rounds

$98.5m

Money raised

BlueJeans Network is a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2009 by Krish Ramakrishnan.

2

Funding Rounds

$34.3m

Money raised

Forage is a company founded in 2020 by Thomas Brunskill.

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1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Encode is a web3 education community. We help ambitious, talented people achieve their personal and professional goals together. We do this through awesome programmes with the leading protocols in crypto. We then help you get a job or raise funding.

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4

Funding Rounds

$22.0m

Money raised

Learning development platform that helps employees access and manage their learning resources and opportunities.

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4

Funding Rounds

$15.8m

Money raised

OpenLearning is a MOOC platform that allows users to create, run, teach and enroll in a course (free or private).

1

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$1.6m

Money raised

AvePoint is a Jersey City, New Jersey-based technology company providing infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.

2

Funding Rounds

$780.0k

Money raised

PowToon is a company founded in 2011 by Ilya Spitalnik.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$14.5m

Money raised

Zimbra is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2004.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Alida is a formerly known as Vision Critical founded in 2000 by Andrew Reid.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

Articulate is a company founded in 2002 by Adam Schwartz.

3

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$32.0m

Money raised

Babbel is an online language learning platform founded in 2007.

4

Funding Rounds

$251.0m

Money raised

EVERFI is a K-12, financial, and corporate compliance education platform.

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3

Funding Rounds

$80.3m

Money raised

YOOBIC provides a digital workplace for frontline teams.

3

Funding Rounds

$46.8m

Money raised

Mobile platform enabling businesses to train and engage their workforce seamlessly.

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1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

Bravely is a platform for professional coaching to corporate employees founded in 2017 by Sarah Sheehan.

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5

Funding Rounds

$24.5m

Money raised

Almentor is a video based contentious online learning platform accessible through B2C and B2B channels.

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3

Funding Rounds

$42.4m

Money raised

Sales Impact Academy is a the World's Leading Go-To-Market Learning Platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$34.8m

Money raised

Cybrary is a College Park, Maryland-based career development platform in cybersecurity and information technology applications.

Key people:

5

Funding Rounds

$54.1m

Money raised

Knowunity is an AI learning app founded in 2020 by Benedict Kurz, Gregor Weber, Lucas Hild and Yannik Prigl.

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2

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

Founded in 2015 by brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg, ACGprovides courses on how to use the cloud.

4

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$15.1m

Money raised

BetterLesson is a company founded in 2008 by Alex Grodd.

Key people:

1

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Robotic educational kits that teach core principles of engineering and programming. The Codrone is a programable quadcopter.

5

Funding Rounds

$4.2m

Money raised

Bamboo provides voice-enabled Alexa Skills for users ages 6 to Adult.

1

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$76.0k

Money raised

Boomset is a company founded in 2011 by Cem Kozinoglu.

2

Funding Rounds

$70.0m

Money raised

ActivTrak is a company founded in 2009.

2

Funding Rounds

$33.0m

Money raised

AltSchool is a partnership between educators and engineers aiming to deliver personalized learning for children.

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1

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Motion Math is a company founded in 2010 by Gabriel Adauto.

4

Funding Rounds

$27.5m

Money raised

Mainstay is a Boston-based company.

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3

Funding Rounds

$18.3m

Money raised

Raven360 provides a sales readiness platform that delivers up-to-date and consistent sales content, training and coaching.

3

Funding Rounds

$27.8m

Money raised

BenchPrep is a Chicago-based company founded in 2010 by Ashish Rangnekar.

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3

Funding Rounds

$9.4m

Money raised

Cleverly is a Berlin-based e-learning company founded in 2020 by Bjorn Jopen, Fredrik Harkort, Julia Nuss and Philipp Amadeus Grassinger.

6

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

BrightBytes is a company founded in 2012 by Rob Mancabelli.

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