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The Tutor Who Became an Algorithm
Juni Learning grew by making online education feel unusually human. Then demand arrived too quickly for humans alone - and the company’s most revealing lesson became how to turn mentorship into software without losing the point of the mentor.
A Classroom with Two Doors: Afritutor Teaches Children at Home and Adults to Work Anywhere
From phonics and small-group homeschooling to AI tools and remote-work skills, the Port Harcourt company has built an unusual bridge between the classroom and the global job market.
The Startup That Texts College Dropouts Before They Drop Out
Melvin Hines was one of 68 kids in his high school class to graduate. He built Upswing so the other students - the adult learners, the first-gen, the ones nobody texts back - get a fair shot at the finish line.
The Boston Tutoring Company That Bet 50,000 Kids on One Idea: Send the Teacher to the Kitchen Table
Rich Enos and Greg Zumas skipped the storefront, sent tutors into living rooms, and turned a one-to-one hunch into a 23-city, 50,000-student business. In April 2026, Intrax bought the whole thing.
The Homework Camera That Became Indonesia's $27 Million Bet on Better Math
CoLearn turned a familiar after-school problem - a student stuck on one equation - into a mobile funnel for live, small-group tutoring. Its wager is that Indonesia's education gap is not only about access, but confidence, explanation and the quality of the teacher on the other side of the screen.
Stride, Inc.
Stride built a multibillion-dollar business by turning the school building into a service - then stretched that machinery from kindergarten lessons to job credentials. Its next test is whether a sprawling education portfolio can stay personal while operating at public-company scale.
Geniebook
Geniebook is a Singapore-based edtech company that pairs a proprietary AI engine with human teachers to deliver personalised learning for primary and secondary students across Southeast Asia. Its platform generates adaptive worksheets that target each student's specific knowledge gaps, streams live online classes led by experienced educators, and offers real-time teacher chat support - all aligned to Singapore's national (MOE) curriculum. Founded by former tutors Neo Zhizhong and Alicia Cheong, the company has grown from an offline tuition business into a regional platform serving more than 220,000 students, and has since expanded into hybrid online-plus-physical learning centres.
Knack
Knack is a student success technology company that helps colleges and universities run and scale peer-tutoring programs. Its platform recruits, trains, and pays high-achieving students to tutor their classmates through web and mobile apps and a real-time online classroom, giving institutions a measurable way to improve retention and graduation while creating paid campus jobs. Founded in 2015 and now serving hundreds of campuses including the University of Florida, Georgia Tech, Northeastern, Fordham, and Auburn, Knack raised a Series B in October 2025 and appointed higher-ed veteran Megan Dusenbery as CEO.
SplashLearn
SplashLearn (operated by StudyPad, Inc.) is a game-based learning platform for children in preschool through Grade 5, focused on math and reading. Founded in 2010 by four friends who saw the iPad as a natural learning device for kids, it now serves more than 40 million learners across 150+ countries and is used by hundreds of thousands of teachers and schools. The platform pairs an adaptive, curriculum-aligned library of 6,500+ games and activities with live small-group classes, aiming to turn children into confident, self-motivated learners.
Everest Education
Everest Education (E2) is a Ho Chi Minh City-based edtech company founded in 2011 that prepares Vietnamese students from Grade 1 to Grade 12 for international academic environments. Combining its own classroom-management software with in-person learning centers, it offers Math and English enrichment, test preparation, private tutoring, and college-admissions consulting through a blended-learning model. The company has recorded more than 12,000 enrollments and raised roughly $5.4M, including a $4M Series B led by Hendale Capital.
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.
Kristin Werk
Kristin Werk is the CEO of BookNook, a San Francisco-based edtech company delivering synchronous, research-backed K-8 tutoring in reading and math to students across the United States. A self-described introvert with 20+ years of operational leadership—spanning 17 years at Thomson Reuters, followed by executive roles at Questar Assessment and NWEA—Werk joined BookNook in 2023 as COO, expanded the platform to include math tutoring, and stepped up as CEO in December 2024. She holds a BS in Journalism from St. Cloud State University, an MBA from Capella University, and a stack of certifications including PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Prosci Change Practitioner.
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.
Sameer Shariff
Sameer Shariff is the co-founder and CEO of Cambly, a San Francisco-based edtech platform that connects English learners worldwide with native-speaking tutors via on-demand video chat. A Princeton and Stanford-educated engineer who spent five years at Google, Shariff co-founded Cambly in 2012 after a trip to Argentina revealed how dramatically conversation practice accelerates language fluency. After a failed Series A attempt, he drove Cambly to cash-flow positivity without touching raised capital - then raised $60M from Benchmark, Bessemer, and others once the company no longer needed it. Cambly has ranked #1 in app stores across 150 countries and reaches an addressable market of 1.5 billion people seeking English fluency.