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Noon figured out who was missing from online school. Your friends.
A Saudi test-prep website discovered that students wanted company as much as content. Now Noon is taking that idea off the phone and into classrooms.
Complete College America wants to give students their time back
A remedial class. A missing course. A semester that becomes a year. Complete College America helps colleges redesign the small delays that can swallow a degree.
The Octopus That Ate the Edtech Stack
Kira began by teaching computer science. Then it noticed the harder problem: teachers were doing unpaid integration work between a small republic of apps. Its answer is one purple, many-armed system - and Tennessee has supplied the first serious test.
The Classroom Was Hiding in the Seating Chart
Engageli began with an unfashionable suspicion: the trouble with online class was not the camera. It was the room - and, more particularly, where everyone had been told to sit.
Caleb Hicks and the missing 80 percent
A keyboarding teacher once watched most of his 300 students disappear into the middle of the room. Two decades later, Caleb Hicks is still trying to make each of them visible.
Fadl Al Tarzi and the University That Starts at the End
He began with a web-development course at 16 and built a university by reversing the usual order: read the labor market first, then write the curriculum.
Maggie Leen and the Education of an Education Company
A difficult chemistry class once made Maggie Leen doubt whether she belonged in college. Now the Top Hat CEO is betting that better courseware can keep the next student from asking the same question.
Jeff Scheur Graded 15,000 Papers. Then He Rebuilt the Feedback Loop.
A Chicago English teacher turned a 2 a.m. grading ritual into NoRedInk. His enduring idea is disarmingly practical: software should give students room to practice and give teachers more time to teach.
Ginny Ziegler Is Giving a 180-Year-Old Brand Its Voice Lessons
Before she untangled Pearson's “brand soup,” Ginny Ziegler learned to project from an opera stage. Now she is applying a singer's ear, a technologist's curiosity and a grandmother's gift for story to the business of lifelong learning.
Daniel Gibbon Gave Up Medicine to Fix the Red Pen
He had a medical-school place, a perfect university GPA and a tidy future. Then hundreds of teacher conversations persuaded him that the higher-leverage problem was hiding in a pile of unmarked essays.
The Quiz App That Ate 90% of American Schools Just Changed Its Name
Two Indian engineers built a math game nobody could keep fed with content. So they handed the tools to teachers instead - and accidentally built one of the most-used classroom platforms on Earth.
The Survey That Grew Up: How a Yale Dorm Project Reads 15 Million Kids
It began as a way to ask students what they thought of school. A decade and $105 million later, Panorama reads the data of 15 million American kids - and now wants its AI to write the next move.
The 138-Year-Old Publisher That Learned to Think in Software
McGraw Hill spent more than a century putting knowledge between covers. Its next act is turning that trusted catalog - and billions of student interactions - into adaptive software for classrooms that cannot afford to get the answer wrong.
Pearson
The 180-year-old company behind your GCSEs, your college textbook, and the exam that certified your IT job is betting its next chapter on teaching machines to teach people.
Cengage Group
The company that once filed for bankruptcy owning the textbook now rents you every book it makes for the price of one - and it is quietly rewiring how students, libraries, and job-seekers learn.
EduRev
EduRev (Education Revolution) is a Bengaluru/Gurugram-based Indian edtech company founded in 2015 and backed by Y Combinator (W20). It runs a mobile-first learning platform - pitched as a 'Netflix for Education' - that bundles video lessons, notes, question banks, mock tests, doubt-solving and progress analytics for school students (Class 6-12) and aspirants of competitive exams like NEET, JEE, UPSC, GATE and CAT. Its low-cost annual subscription (roughly $20-$50/year vs competitors' $300+) has drawn a reported 20M+ registered learners.
Excellence
Excellence is a Y Combinator-backed (W25) AI education platform, founded by three Stanford-trained builders, that turns generative AI into a genuine learning tool rather than a homework-answer machine. Designed with teachers, it lets educators generate personalized assignments and exams, create interactive materials, and track student progress, while giving students an AI tutor that asks progressive questions instead of handing over answers. It began as an AI tutor for maths and science aimed at replacing costly private tutoring and long-term programs like Kumon.
Edunation LTD
Edunation LTD is a Jordan-founded education technology company behind EdunationOS, a cloud-based platform that consolidates a school's academic, administrative, financial and wellbeing systems into one connected ecosystem. Built for K-12 and higher-education institutions across the Middle East, it supports multiple campuses, multiple curricula and 24 languages, blending physical and virtual learning. Founded in 2013 by Firas Jabbour and Mahmud Gabareen, the company raised a $3 million round in 2021 and serves schools across Jordan, Palestine, the Gulf and beyond.
Claude for Teachers
On July 14, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, giving verified K-12 educators in the United States a full year of free premium access to its AI assistant. The offer bundles teaching skills built with learning scientists, a Learning Commons connector carrying academic standards for all 50 states, nine classroom tool integrations, and FERPA-aligned data terms. It arrives amid a scramble among Google, OpenAI and Khan Academy for the American classroom, and reopens an old debate: what happens to a generation that grows up asking instead of searching.
Classera
Classera is an edtech company that runs a cloud-based Learning Super Platform used across K-12 schools, universities, and corporate and government training programs. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with deep roots in the MENA region, it pairs a core learning management system with gamification, AI-driven personalization, virtual-reality content, an educational marketplace (Edumalls), and embedded payments (C-Pay). The platform serves more than 12 million users in over 40 countries and, in October 2022, raised a $40M Series A led by Sanabil Investments - reportedly the largest edtech funding round in MENA and most of Africa.
Sohan Choudhury
Sohan Choudhury is the co-founder and CEO of Flint, an AI platform for K-12 schools that lets teachers personalize instruction without adding to their workload. A Georgia Tech Stamps Presidential Scholar who left school in 2020 to build the video-chat startup Gatherly (later acquired), he launched Flint with Jinseo Park in 2023 through Y Combinator's Summer batch. Flint raised a $15M Series A in November 2025 co-led by Basis Set Ventures and Patron, and now serves 400,000+ students and teachers across independent and public schools.
Gooroo
Gooroo is a New York-based education technology company founded in 2015 by Scott Lee that pairs students with vetted tutors through personalized matching and pairs that with a library of self-paced online courses and small-group clubs. Built to make one-on-one tutoring affordable and to celebrate individual learning styles, Gooroo grew a network of NYC tutors, ran a 'Gooroo Gives Back' nonprofit arm for underserved students and seniors, and raised roughly $14M across seed rounds. As of 2026 the company paused consumer enrollments while it evaluates a pivot toward trustworthy, accountable AI for learning and student protection.
Muzzy Lane
Muzzy Lane is a Massachusetts edtech company that builds tools for creating game-based learning simulations and roleplay assessments. Its flagship no-code Author platform lets instructional designers and publishers build immersive, decision-driven activities without programming, while its SkillBuild courses pair simulations with AI coaching to award durable-skills microcredentials. Founded in 2002 by MIT-trained engineer David McCool, the company has powered tens of millions of simulations and assessments for universities, publishers like McGraw Hill, and corporate training programs.
Super Teacher
Super Teacher is a New York-based edtech company building an AI-powered tutoring app for elementary school students. Founded in 2022 by former Google product manager and NYC math teacher Tim Novikoff, it delivers unlimited, conversational one-on-one tutoring in reading and math for roughly $15 a month - a fraction of the cost of a human tutor. Unlike most AI education tools, Super Teacher avoids large language model guesswork in favor of a deterministic content system designed to always give correct answers. Around 20,000 families have signed up, and public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii now use the app in classrooms.
Janos Perczel
Janos Perczel is a theoretical quantum physicist turned education entrepreneur. After earning a PhD from MIT working on invisibility cloaks and cold-atom quantum systems under Mikhail Lukin at Harvard, he co-founded Polygence in 2019 with Jin Chow. The company pairs high school students with PhD mentors for one-on-one research projects, and now reaches tens of thousands of students worldwide. As CEO he has pushed Polygence into AI, releasing TeachLM, a language model fine-tuned on 100,000 hours of real one-on-one tutoring data.
Aditya Vishwanath
Aditya Vishwanath is the co-founder and CEO of Inspirit, a Palo Alto edtech company that brings virtual and augmented reality into middle and high school STEM classrooms. A Georgia Tech computer scientist turned Stanford learning-sciences PhD, he built Inspirit to be the bridge between cutting-edge academic research and the everyday teacher. Before Inspirit he co-founded MakerGhat, a network of makerspaces for youth in low-income Mumbai neighborhoods. He is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Schmidt Futures Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in education.
David McCool
David McCool is the co-founder, President and CEO of Muzzy Lane, a Massachusetts edtech company that builds 'no coding required' tools for creating online role-play simulations that teach and auto-assess skills. An MIT-trained electrical engineer who once bought a TRS-80 with paper-route money, he spent the 1990s building carrier-grade networking gear before turning his attention to whether software could make learning as engaging as a great video game. Since 2002 he has steered Muzzy Lane from WWII strategy game 'Making History' through publisher partnerships with McGraw-Hill to its current focus on SkillBuild microcredentials and generative-AI authoring tools, with tens of millions of assessments delivered.
Scott Lee
Scott Lee is the founder and CEO of Gooroo, a New York based education technology company building an AI-driven platform that matches students with the right tutor and bundles online courses, clubs and progress tracking under one roof. Born in Seoul and arriving in the US at 16 without speaking English, he leaned on tutors and mentors to find his footing, studied engineering at Columbia, paused to serve as a sergeant in the South Korean army, and worked as an analyst in JP Morgan's Chief Investment Office before going all in on education. He has raised more than $8 million and serves thousands of students worldwide, with a stated mission to make quality, personalized learning accessible to everyone.
Todd Zipper
Todd Zipper is a longtime education-and-technology operator now running Axio Education, a Scottsdale-based agentic AI learning platform that turns static coursework into adaptive, personalized pathways. Before Axio he spent more than two decades building and scaling online-education businesses: he led The Learning House to its 2018 sale to Wiley, then ran Wiley's global education and talent operations as an executive vice president overseeing more than $300 million in annual revenue. He hosts the higher-ed podcast An Educated Guest and holds a CFA charter alongside degrees from Penn and Columbia.
Yermie Cohen
Yermie Cohen is the founder and CEO of Memorang, an AI stack for education that lets organizations build, launch, and scale custom learning and assessment content. A med student who arrived at UCLA from MIT with biology and mechanical-engineering degrees, he was buried in flashcards and frustrated by tools that were either too simple or too expensive, so he built his own. Memorang began as a free spaced-repetition study app in 2013 and has since become a platform pitched at publishers, institutions, and professional organizations who want to turn expertise into AI-driven courses, quizzes, and exams with humans kept in the loop.