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ProProfs
The bootstrapped software company that turned a free online quiz into a 15-million-user suite for training employees and keeping customers happy.
Thinkific
How a lawyer's $29 LSAT course became a public 'learning commerce' company powering 35,000 course businesses.
LearnWorlds
The Greek-Cypriot company betting that online courses should feel less like a video dump and more like a school - and giving 12,000 creators the tools to build one.
Disprz
Disprz is an AI-powered corporate learning and skilling platform that bundles a learning management system, a learning experience platform, a content hub, frontline enablement and analytics into one suite - and now layers an agentic AI product called Turo on top that builds, localises and publishes training content on its own. Founded in 2015 in India as Learntron and renamed Disprz in 2017, the company sells per-learner subscriptions to more than 500 enterprises across 20-plus countries, reaching over 3.5 million learners at employers including Amazon, Petronas, Axis Bank, Starbucks, Carlsberg, GE Aviation and Emirates NBD. Its wedge is the workforce most learning software ignores: the deskless, multilingual, high-churn frontline in retail, banking, logistics and pharma across India, Southeast Asia and the Gulf. Disprz crossed Rs 100 crore in annual recurring revenue in April 2025 and is targeting Rs 200 crore by 2028, having raised roughly $45M-$52M across four disclosed rounds, most recently a $30M Series C co-led by Lumos Capital Group and 360 ONE Asset.
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.
Toddle - Your Teaching Partner
Toddle is an AI-powered, teacher-built teaching and learning platform for K-12 schools that unifies curriculum planning, assessments, gradebook, student portfolios, progress reports, family communication and class operations in one system. Founded in 2019 by educators, it is officially licensed by the International Baccalaureate and is used by 2,000+ schools across 100+ countries, with a mission to save teachers time and amplify their impact.
VMEdu Inc.
VMEdu Inc. is a global professional training and certification company founded in 2008 by Dr. Tridibesh Satpathy. It operates a portfolio of accreditation and education brands - including SCRUMstudy, 6sigmastudy, SMstudy, Kanbanstudy, OKRstudy and BALearning - and a cloud-based learning management platform used to deliver Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, business analysis and sales-and-marketing certifications. Backed by Sequoia Capital and recognized among Red Herring's Top 100 Global companies, VMEdu has trained hundreds of thousands of professionals across 150+ countries through a network of authorized training partners.
Kombo
Kombo is a unified API that lets B2B software companies connect to hundreds of HR, payroll, recruiting (ATS), and learning systems through a single integration. Instead of building and maintaining separate connectors to systems like Personio, BambooHR, Workday, Greenhouse, and Paychex, customers integrate Kombo once and gain access to a normalized data model and authentication layer across 300+ HR and ATS tools. Founded in 2022 and based in Berlin and New York, Kombo positions itself as the infrastructure layer for people data - from hire to retire.
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.
Axio Education
Axio Education is an AI-native learning platform, spun out of Arizona State University's Luminosity Lab in 2023, that helps colleges and universities design, deliver, and improve courses. It combines LMS, CRM, and SIS capabilities with agentic AI to compress course development from months to minutes, deliver personalized learning pathways, and give faculty real-time insight into how students are doing - while keeping instructors in creative control.
Edorer
Edorer is a San Francisco- and Bengaluru-based edtech company building an AI-powered learning, assessment and proctoring platform alongside a global university network. Its software lets universities, enterprises and governments run online courses, AI-proctored exams and talent assessments, while its SPICE network and blockchain-based CredX credits exchange aim to let students pick courses across institutions worldwide and carry verifiable, stackable credits between them. The company's stated mission is to internationalize universities and make affordable international education and exposure available to every higher-education student.
Thought Industries
Thought Industries builds an AI-first customer learning and intelligence platform that helps B2B and B2C companies train and educate the people outside their walls - customers, partners, and members. Founded in Boston in 2013, it turned the idea that 'external learning' deserved its own category into a business serving more than 21 million active learners, and now positions every lesson as a signal that drives adoption, retention, and revenue.
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.
Emtrain
Emtrain is a San Francisco-based workplace CultureTech company that pairs video-based microlearning with a behavioral analytics engine. Founded by employment lawyer Janine Yancey, it sells respect, inclusion, and ethics training to more than 800 organizations - including Netflix, Yelp, Dolby, and Live Nation - while quietly mining every learner click for early signals of cultural risk.
Conor Smith
Conor Smith is the CEO of Campus Connect Group, a Miami-based EdTech holding company that acquires, operates, and scales mission-critical software and services for higher education institutions. With an MBA from MIT Sloan and a background in entrepreneurship spanning Southeast Asia and North American software markets, Smith has built Campus Connect into a multi-product platform spanning financial aid, student information systems, enrollment management, and campus operations — serving colleges and universities across the United States.
Irana Wasti
Irana Wasti is the CEO of Thought Industries, the AI-powered customer learning and engagement platform trusted by 99 of the Fortune 100. A product leader who scaled GoDaddy's EMEA business past $500M and helped take BILL to $1B in annual revenue, she now leads Thought Industries through its transformation into an agentic AI intelligence platform that connects learning, customer behavior, and business outcomes. With a CS degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School, she has spent 20+ years at the intersection of technology, product, and growth.
Janine Yancey
Janine Yancey is the Founder and CEO of Emtrain, a San Francisco-based AI-powered compliance training and workplace culture analytics platform she founded in 2006. A former employment lawyer and first-generation college graduate, she built Emtrain to replace lecture-style compliance check-boxes with cinematic, skills-based learning backed by behavioral data. The platform serves 800+ enterprise clients including Netflix, Yelp, and Chevron, has raised $18M in funding, and is known for its proprietary Workplace Color Spectrum and culture benchmarking engine drawing on 25 million employee sentiment data points. Yancey famously predicted the #MeToo movement in a 2016 Medium article - months before it went global.