Tagged: k-12
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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.
Flint
Flint is an AI-powered personalized learning platform built for K-12 schools. It lets teachers design AI tutors, activities, and assessments that adapt to each student across every subject - from language speaking practice to guided science labs - while giving educators real-time visibility into student progress without adding to their workload. Founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator, Flint raised a $15M Series A in November 2025 and serves hundreds of schools and hundreds of thousands of students worldwide.
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.
Matt Rubinstein
Matt Rubinstein is the founder and CEO of LiveSchool, a Nashville-born K-12 behavior and school-culture SaaS platform used by more than 1,200 schools across 48 states and 10+ countries. A former KIPP Nashville teaching fellow, he built the first LiveSchool prototype on an iPad to replace his own school's paper 'paycheck' behavior system, and has run the company since 2011.
Clayful
Clayful is a tech-enabled mental health company that gives K-12 students on-demand, chat-based coaching with a certified coach in about 60 seconds, across 133 languages. Founded in 2021 by Maria Barrera and Melissa Pelochino, the platform is purchased by school districts and free for students, aiming to make proactive mental health support a right rather than a privilege.
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.
Homeroom
Homeroom is a San Francisco software company that runs the back office for school auxiliary programs - after-school enrichment classes, extended care, summer camps, leagues and tutoring. Founded by Stanford classmates Casandra Espinoza Stewart and Christina Walker, it started as a three-sided marketplace connecting parents, schools and class vendors, then grew into an all-in-one platform handling registration, rosters, attendance check-in/out, contractor payments, compliance and financial reporting. It raised $3.5M in seed funding led by Forerunner Ventures in 2019 to chase a roughly $23 billion U.S. after-school market where more than 40% of children are not enrolled in any program.
Inspirit
Inspirit is a Palo Alto-based education technology company building a spatial-computing platform that brings virtual and augmented reality into STEM, career, and workforce learning. Its no-login library of 270+ interactive 3D models and simulations runs across VR headsets like Meta Quest and Pico as well as ordinary Chromebook browsers, letting teachers and trainers plan, run, and track immersive lessons without heavy hardware budgets. Founded by Stanford Graduate School of Education researchers, Inspirit grounds its content in learning science and is used across hundreds of school districts and, increasingly, in workforce and justice-reentry programs.
Letterly
Letterly is an AI-powered writing education platform that pairs students ages 8-18 with human coaches to build literacy through daily writing, structured feedback, and real publishing. Founded by former Wall Street analyst Jane Chen, the company runs multi-week bootcamps where students draft, revise, and publish articles - and even ship a physical copy of a book they author. Letterly reports serving more than 3,000 students across 30 states and seven countries, with students improving roughly half a grade level in eight weeks.
Lauren Dachille
Lauren Dachille is the founder and CEO of Nimble, a Y Combinator-backed edtech company building data-driven applicant tracking software that helps K-12 school districts identify, hire, and retain effective teachers. A former DC Public Schools recruiter and StudentsFirst policy hand, she built the system she wished she'd had when sorting through thousands of teacher applications by hand.
Sown To Grow
Sown To Grow is a K-12 platform that helps students set goals, reflect on their learning, and check in on how they're feeling - giving teachers and district leaders the real-time signal they need to support student well-being and academics through Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS).
Tim Novikoff
Tim Novikoff is the founder and CEO of Super Teacher, an AI tutoring app for elementary students that has reached roughly 20,000 families and public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii. A former NYC math teacher with a PhD in applied mathematics from Cornell, he co-authored a PNAS paper on the math of spaced repetition, built and sold the video-editing startup Fly Labs to Google in 2015, then worked on Google Photos and ran Google Colab before returning to education. As a kid he voiced Jeffy on MTV's animated series Daria.
Classtime
Classtime is a Zurich- and US-based education technology company building a web-based platform for formative and summative assessments. Teachers use it to create and grade quizzes, run collaborative challenges, and watch student understanding update in real time across any device. Founded in 2016, it serves hundreds of thousands of teachers and learners in more than 60 countries, with a free library of 30,000+ standards-aligned questions and a focus on grounding its design in learning science.
Huddle Up
Huddle Up (formerly DotCom Therapy) partners with K-12 school districts to deliver high-quality speech therapy, occupational therapy, mental health, and school psychology services for students with IEPs. Combining licensed providers in all 50 states with a proprietary technology platform, the company offers both virtual and in-person care to close special-education staffing gaps. Founded in 2015 to reach students in remote Alaska, it has delivered more than 1 million therapy sessions and now serves close to 1,000 school districts nationwide.
Kyron Learning
Kyron Learning is an AI education company building an interactive video platform that turns recorded lessons into two-way tutoring conversations. Teachers record instruction once; the platform's conversational AI then understands what a learner types or says, detects misconceptions in real time, and serves the matching teacher response - approximating one-on-one tutoring at roughly a tenth of the cost of a live tutor. Founded in 2022 by former Google Cloud AI VP Rajen Sheth and Qwiklabs founder Enis Konuk, the public benefit company raised a $14.6M Series A in December 2023 to open its platform to any learning provider.
Joe English
Joe English is the co-founder and CEO of Cartwheel, a school-based mental health company he launched in December 2022 to put licensed clinicians and a HIPAA-compliant platform inside K-12 districts. Cartwheel has grown into the largest K-12 mental health telehealth provider in the United States, reaching roughly 350 school districts across 15 states after nearly 300% year-over-year growth and raising a Series B that brought total funding to about $44 million. A Yale graduate and former student body president with an MBA from Harvard Business School, English previously founded the LGBTQ-inclusion nonprofit Hope in a Box and worked as a McKinsey consultant on K-12 education. He grew up on a farm in rural upstate New York, an experience that shaped his belief that schools are the natural front door for reaching kids and families.
Omar Dawood
Omar Dawood is the CEO and board member of Huddle Up, the pediatric digital health company formerly known as DotCom Therapy. A physician with four degrees and a long run through the digital mental-health world (Ginger, Calm, BetterUp), he now leads a team delivering speech, occupational, mental-health and special-education therapy to children across nearly 1,000 US school districts. Under his watch the company rebranded, closed a Series C led by Kayne Anderson Growth Capital, and crossed one million care sessions.
Wayfinder
Wayfinder is a K-12 edtech company that builds a PreK-12 platform for purpose-driven learning, combining research-backed social-emotional and life-readiness curriculum, MTSS-ready resources, and real-time insights. Born out of Stanford's d.school K12 Innovation Lab, it helps students develop durable, future-ready skills like purpose, belonging, adaptability and collaboration, and is used across thousands of schools and districts.
Parallel
Parallel (Parallel Learning) is a New York-based special education company that connects school districts with licensed clinicians - school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, behavioral counselors, and specialized instructors - through a proprietary teletherapy and case-management platform. Founded in 2021 by Diana Heldfond, who was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia as a child, Parallel helps schools deliver legally required IEP services to students with learning and thinking differences when in-person staff are scarce. The company has raised about $48.9 million and reported that 98% of its students met or exceeded their IEP goals in the 2024-2025 school year.
Diana Heldfond DiGia
Diana Heldfond DiGia is the founder and CEO of Parallel, the first tech-forward provider of special education care in the United States. Diagnosed with severe dyslexia and ADHD at seven, she built Parallel to deliver virtual psychoeducational assessments, teletherapy, and specialized instruction to K-12 school districts. The company now serves more than 10,000 students across 25 states, has raised $48.9M including a $20M Series B led by Valspring Capital, and reports that 98% of its students meet or exceed their IEP goals. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 (Education, 2024) honoree.
Rick Hess
Frederick M. Hess - known to nearly everyone in education circles as Rick - runs Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and writes the long-running Education Week column 'Rick Hess Straight Up.' A former high school social studies teacher with a Harvard PhD in government, he has authored or edited dozens of books on K-12 and higher education and is repeatedly ranked among the most influential people shaping U.S. education policy.
Martina Tam
Martina Tam is the CEO of Paper, the Montreal-based edtech company that runs one of North America's largest virtual tutoring services for K-12 districts. A Stanford and Wharton alum, she stepped in at the start of 2025 after operator stints at Brightwheel, MasterClass, and Eventbrite, and is now steering Paper's pivot toward its high-impact tutoring program, GROW.
Manan Khurma
Manan Khurma is the founder and chairman of Cuemath, an online math learning platform that teaches K-12 students across 80+ countries through live 1-on-1 classes. An IIT Delhi engineer who started teaching JEE math in his second year of college, Khurma has spent two decades trying to make a billion kids fluent in mathematics.
Kiddom
Kiddom is a K-12 digital curriculum platform that bundles high-quality instructional materials, assessment, and analytics into one place teachers can actually open on a Monday morning. Founded in 2012 by Ahsan Rizvi and Abbas Manjee, the San Francisco company partners with publishers like Illustrative Mathematics, OpenSciEd, and EL Education to deliver standards-aligned curriculum to districts across the United States.
Ahsan Rizvi
Ahsan Rizvi is the CEO and co-founder of Kiddom, a San Francisco-based education technology platform that has become the first all-in-one solution for high-quality digital curricula in K-12 schools. Born and raised in Pakistan, he came to the US after passing a grueling 1-in-1,100 entrance exam at age 12, an experience that shaped his lifelong commitment to the transformative power of education. After earning degrees in Industrial Engineering and Public Policy from the University of Illinois, he co-founded Kiddom in 2015 with his college friend Abbas Manjee. The company has raised $56.5M in total funding, grown to 220 employees, and now has at least one teacher using its platform in 70% of US schools.
Kevin Zerber
Kevin Zerber is the Founder and CEO of Treering, the edtech company that turned the school yearbook into a personalized, sustainable, and digitally-native experience. Since co-founding Treering in 2009, Zerber has guided the company from a scrappy startup to a platform serving 15,000+ schools across the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - printing over 11 million yearbooks along the way. With $7.6M in funding backed by notable investors including Rich Barton (Expedia, Zillow) and Mike McCue (Flipboard), and recognition on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, Zerber has carved out a distinctive niche at the intersection of nostalgia, technology, and inclusivity.
Treering
Treering is a Redwood City technology company that reinvented the school yearbook. Schools design online; families personalize their own pages; each book is printed on demand. For every yearbook sold, Treering plants a tree with Trees for the Future - over 4 million planted to date. Used by more than 15,000 schools worldwide.
VIPKid
VIPKid is an online education platform that pairs young learners with native English-speaking teachers for live, one-on-one video classes. Founded in Beijing in 2013 by Cindy Mi, it grew into one of the world's largest live-tutoring marketplaces before pivoting to international markets after China's 2021 'double reduction' policy reshaped private tutoring.
WuKong Education
WuKong Education is a Silicon Valley-headquartered online learning company founded in Auckland in 2016 that delivers live, small-group Mandarin Chinese, Math and English Language Arts classes to children aged 3 to 18 in more than 100 countries. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Marcy Venture Partners, it serves over 400,000 families with a global teaching network of more than 3,000 instructors.