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.
Zenius was Indonesia's pioneering education-technology company, founded in 2004 as a Jakarta tutoring center and reborn in 2010 as one of the country's first video-based learning platforms. Built around founder Sabda PS's belief that education should teach fundamental skills and critical thinking rather than rote memorization, Zenius grew into a digital learning ecosystem with a library of more than 100,000 video lessons, a large UTBK question bank, AI-powered tools like ZenCore and ZenBot, and live classes. After acquiring legacy tutoring brand Primagama in 2022 to push into hybrid learning, the company struggled with the post-pandemic funding downturn and suspended operations in January 2024 after roughly 20 years.
byteXL is a Hyderabad-based education-technology company that partners with engineering colleges and universities to make students job-ready. Through a hybrid model of on-campus training, a cloud-based coding platform and guided placement support, it teaches emerging technologies such as AI/ML, cloud computing, cybersecurity and full-stack development - focused largely on students in India's tier 2 and tier 3 cities. Founded in 2019 by brothers Karun and Sricharan Tadepalli, byteXL aims to bridge the gap between what colleges teach and what the IT industry hires for.
Studyportals is a Netherlands-based education platform that helps students discover and compare study programs anywhere in the world. Through nine portals - including Mastersportal, Bachelorsportal, PhDportal and Scholarshipportal - it lists more than 240,000 English-taught programs from over 3,500 institutions across 110+ countries, drawing roughly 50 million student visitors a year. For universities, it turns that global demand data into recruitment, analytics and consulting services, and in 2024 it launched an AI Student Advisor named Sophia, built with AWS, to guide applicants in more than 20 languages.