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Education
103 startup drills in Education
PROVEN
Stepful
$111M
The Best Bet in Education? Teach What AI Won't Replace.
Education/Corporate · enter market
PROVEN
Paloma
$13M
Schools Blame Parents. Parents Blame Schools. Someone Ends the Loop.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Rima
$600K
The Most Elegant Business Model Right Now – and It's Replicable
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Contral
undisclosed
Vibe-Coding Gave Everyone a Gun. Most People Still Can't Aim.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Moxie
$51M
Don't Build for Founders – Build for Professionals Going Independent
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
RISING
NextWork
$7M
Skills Get You Qualified – Placement Gets You Hired
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Giant
$8M
Words Don't Work on Toddlers – Animation Does
Education/Kids · build adjacent
RISING
Pixley
$500K
Personalized Cartoons Where Your Kid Is the Star
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Scholé
$3M
The Platform Is Ordinary – the Timing Is Perfect
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Employkids
undisclosed
Pay Your Kids for Chores, Open a Roth IRA – Retire Them Rich
Fintech/WealthTech · build tooling
PROVEN
Emversity
$46M
Teach What AI Can't Automate – Moravec's Paradox Is Your Curriculum
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PROVEN
Yoodli
$61M
AI Role-Play Raised $40M in Seven Months – the Category Is Real
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Humy
$150K
What If Alexander the Great Taught Your Kids?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Oboe
$20M
The "Casual Learning" Market Doesn't Exist Yet – Go Build It
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Podium
$15M
Sequoia Paid $50K Per Member – and Called It Cheap
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Questas
undisclosed
"Quests" Will Blow Up the $350B E-Learning Market
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Find Your Grind
$8M
Stop Asking "What Do You Want to Be?" – Ask "How Do You Want to Live?"
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Ms.Engineer
$4M
The Tech Talent Gap Has an Obvious Fix
Education/EdTech · adapt model
RISING
uRoutine
$705K
There Are No Success Secrets – Just Habits Nobody Wants to Build
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
SEEDLING
100 Vibe Coding
undisclosed
Vibe Coding Is Here – Someone Must Teach What Comes Next
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
SEEDLING
CourseCorrect
undisclosed
150,000 Courses Online – Almost None Ranked by Whether They Work
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Gleam
undisclosed
Buffett Was Right: Communication Skills Have the Highest ROI
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Skala
undisclosed
An AI Lawyer on Call – and a Global Business Set Up Before Breakfast
AI/NLP · build tooling
PROVEN
Delphi
$19M
The Old Knowledge Business Is Dying – Expertise Isn't
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Rosebud
$6M
The Therapist That Never Forgets What You Said Last Month
Health/Mental · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
TeachMe.To
$10M
The Offline Learning Comeback Is Bigger Than the Online Boom
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Didask
$11M
There Are No Bad Students – Just Bad Matches
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Lyreka
undisclosed
Vibe Coding Exists – So Where's Vibe Learning?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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NotClass
undisclosed
The Online Education Revolution Is Eating Itself – Here's Who Wins
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Riot
$72M
Cyberattacks Are Up 1,000% Since ChatGPT – Lectures Won't Fix It
Education/Corporate · build competitor
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Ultra
$500K
Elite Admissions Is Pay-to-Win – Until Now
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Rabbithole
undisclosed
Don't Compete With Existing EdTech. Make It Obsolete.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Beanstack
$2M
Forced Learning Has the Same Problem as Forced Labor
Education/Kids · build adjacent
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Kaiden AI
$1M
Sell "Critical" – It's Easier Than Selling "Useful"
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
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Soma Lab
$500K
The Missing Piece in Medical Education Is Practice at Scale
Education/Corporate · adapt model
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Ai_licia
undisclosed
AI Characters Don't Have to Replace People – They Can Upgrade Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Seekho
$12M
Not Every Short Video Is Competing With TikTok
Education/EdTech · adapt model
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VocAdapt
undisclosed
Language Learning That Starts With Articles You Actually Want to Read
Education/Language · build adjacent
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Tenor
$5M
AI Role-Play That Teaches Leadership Through Practice, Not Lectures
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
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Amigo
$6M
AI Experts vs. AI Employees: Why the Distinction Changes Everything
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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CodeCrafters
$2M
Stop Teaching People to Code. Start Teaching Coders.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Univerbal
$2M
To Learn to Speak a Language, You Have to Actually Speak It
Education/Language · build adjacent
PROVEN
Stepful
$68M
To Make Real Money in Education, Teach Simple Skills at Scale
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Build Club
$1M
Free AI Training – With $150K in Cloud Credits Stacked On Top
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
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Revyze
$8M
The Exam-Prep App That Beat TikTok and Google in the App Store
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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LearnTube
$2M
Why Build Courses When YouTube Already Has Them All?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Moxie
$26M
4x Growth Without Owning a Single Clinic
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
LoveHeart
$2M
The Real AI Opportunity in Childcare Isn't Helping Parents
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Folio
$5M
The Internship Model That Actually Works for Everyone
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Genie
$500K
An AI Companion That Teaches, Motivates, and Creates With Kids
Education/Kids · build competitor
PROVEN
Female Invest
$17M
Women Will Control Two-Thirds of All Wealth – One Startup Noticed Early
Fintech/WealthTech · enter market
PROVEN
Joy
$10M
Your Parenting Experience Always Lags Behind Your Child's Age
Education/Kids · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
TeachMe.To
$7M
Offline Education Is About to Boom – Because Online Overshot
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Solidroad
$1M
Sales Training Needs to Be a Game, Not a Course
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Unikon
$2M
What If You Could Consult an Expert for $10?
Education/EdTech · build competitor
PROVEN
Rising Team
$11M
Management Training Ships as a Product, Not a Workshop
HR/Learning · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Instaclass
$500K
The Best Course on Any Topic Is the One You Designed
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Rumi
$300K
Banning AI in Schools Is as Smart as Banning Calculators
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Outread
$750K
Journal Access Costs $100K a Year. $120 Gets You the Same Knowledge.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Microverse
$16M
Pay Nothing Until You're Hired – Then Teach the World to Code
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Yeti Confetti Kids
$5M
Edtech for Ages 3–8 Is More Defensible Than Any Gaming Market
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Home From College
$7M
20 Million College Students Need Work. Companies Need Flexible Talent.
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
EdLight
$7M
The Right Answer Is the Least Useful Feedback You Can Give
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Packback
$12M
AI That Makes Students Think, Not Just Complete Assignments
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Mathdash
$500K
Math Competitions Reach 300K Students – Out of 33 Million Eligible
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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The New Club
$3M
Belonging Is a Retention Strategy – and Most Tech Companies Miss It
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Legends
$6M
Five Minutes a Day to Build Confidence in Kids Ages 7–11
Education/Kids · adapt model
PROVEN
Buildspace
$10M
What a16z-Backed Pivots Teach You About Product-Market Fit
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Raising Superstars
$2M
Screen-Free Development Sells – If You Have a Daily Activity Plan
Education/Kids · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Fluently
$500K
Stop Separating Language Learning from Actual Use
Education/Language · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Graide
$3M
Instructor Feedback Doesn't Scale – Until Now
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Interview Kickstart
$10M
Sell Pros on Earning More, Not on Learning More
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
CareerOS
$1M
Universities Track Graduation Rates. Nobody Tracks Whether Students Get Jobs.
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PROVEN
Cloverleaf
$15M
Train More, Spend Less – Corporate L&D Has a Math Problem
HR/Learning · build adjacent
PROVEN
Groover
$17M
3,000 Industry Gatekeepers Contractually Obligated to Respond
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Studio
$60M
What If Learning Left You With Something You Actually Made?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
UpSmith
$8M
The Trades Are Bigger Than Tech – and Almost Nobody Is Building for Them
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Hyperbound
$500K
5.7M Sales Reps in the US – and Most Practice on Real Prospects
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Atlas Primer
$850K
Atlas Primer Turns Commute Time Into Audio-First Structured Learning
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
ProperPlan
$300K
ProperPlan Generates AI-Powered Roadmaps for Small Business Owners
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Rflect
$629K
Rflect Teaches University Students to Reflect, Not Just Acquire Skills
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Immertec
$12M
Immertec Found VR's Killer Healthcare Use Case: Live Surgical Observation
Health/Telemedicine · enter market
PROVEN
DeepHow
$37M
DeepHow Turns Expert Workers' Video Into AI-Structured Training Lessons
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Sidebar
$14M
Sidebar's $3,600 Peer Community Requires an Interview to Join
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
KindWorks
$2M
KindWorks Sells Employee Retention Framed as Workplace Kindness Training
Education/Corporate · adapt model
PROVEN
ZayZoon
$75M
ZayZoon Lets Employees Access Earned Wages Before Payday
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
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Gizmo
$4M
Gizmo Uses AI Flashcards to Fix Online Learning's Retention Problem
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Sizzle
$8M
AI Will Disrupt Education – Just Not How You Think
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Raven360
$19M
Teach First, Sell Second
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Quench
$10M
Quench Builds a Just-in-Time Learning Coach for Professionals
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Stimuler
$1M
Stimuler Coaches English Speaking With Instant AI Feedback
Education/Language · adapt model
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Antimatter
$2M
Antimatter Teaches Concepts by Having Students Build and Decode Memes
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Acadeum
$24M
Acadeum Lets Colleges License Each Other's Online Courses for Credit
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Go1
$414M
Go1 Raised $413M to Be the Netflix of Corporate Learning
Education/Corporate · build competitor
PROVEN
GetSetUp
$21M
GetSetUp Reaches 4 Million Learners Over 55 Across 160 Countries
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Upduo
$4M
Upduo Trains Sales Teams Through Structured Peer-to-Peer One-on-One Sessions
Education/Corporate · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Mantra Health
$3M
Mantra Health Addresses College Mental Health With Video Therapy Built for Students
Health/Mental · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Uplancer
$2M
Uplancer Matches Students With Paid Freelance Projects
Education/EdTech · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Pangea
$3M
Pangea Is Building Freelancing as the New Entry-Level Career Path
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
CareerFairy
$2M
CareerFairy Moves the Campus Career Fair Online and Year-Round
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PROVEN
Personal AI
$14M
Personal AI Trains on Your Data, Not the Internet's
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Hack The Box Builds Cybersecurity Training Around Legal Hacking Challenges
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
mmhmm
$36M
mmhmm Composites the Presenter Into Their Slides During Video Calls
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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