Best EdTech Companies in Auckland, New Zealand
The 43 best EdTech companies in Auckland, New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Crimson Education.
Our analysis of 261 EdTech companies
$20.4b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best EdTech companies in Auckland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson Education 🦄 Provider of application consulting services for students seeking higher education | $135M | 25 mo ago | Series D | Fangzhou Jiang Co-Founder | 2013 | StoryblokNode.jsRadix UI+29 | — |
| 2 | Polymath Gamified Maths learning platform for students between 5-10 years | $2M | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | SentryNode.jsPanda CSS+13 | — |
| 3 | Melodics Developer of virtual drumming pad software to learn the music playing | $1M | 107 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | Node.jsRadix UIReact+17 | — |
| 4 | Kami Provider of PDF and document annotation app | $1M | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | 1 launch |
| 5 | Amy AI based mathematics tutoring application for students | $600K | 105 mo ago | Seed | Raphael Nolden Founder and Chief Executive Officer | 2015 | — | — |
| 6 | Kindello Provider of an online platform connecting parents with childcare centers | $400K | 47 mo ago | Seed | Logan Whitelaw Co-Founder | 2019 | Node.jsHeadless UITailwind CSS+13 | — |
| 7 | Wukong Chinese Operates K-12 school | — | 38 mo ago | Series B | — | 2016 | SentryApple iCloud MailNode.js+18 | 1 award |
| 8 | academyEX Online platform offering UG and PG courses | — | — | Unfunded | Frances Cnzm Founder & CEO | 2013 | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | — |
Top 7 EdTech companies in Auckland
#1
Series D · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2013 · 950 employees$134.8Mraised▾
Provider of application consulting services for students seeking higher education. They assist students with university admissions strategy, including school selection and application deadlines. The company offers extracurricular and leadership mentoring to help students build their profiles. Essay writing development is provided, from ideation to final drafts. Students receive feedback from former admissions officers.
- Jul 2024Series D$40.1M
- Aug 2021Series D$23.8M
- Oct 2019Series C$20M
- Oct 2016Series B$30M
#2
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2022 · 2 employees$2Mraised▾
Gamified Maths learning platform for students between 5-10 years
- Feb 2025Seed$1M
- Feb 2025Angel$1M
#3
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2013 · 30 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of PDF and document annotation app. The app enables to improve interactivity and collaboration within the classroom. Allows teachers to markup, discuss, and provide feedback to students in real-time. Enables students to annotate on ebooks, publisher-supplied PDFs, worksheets, and more. Offered on a monthly subscription plan.
- Aug 2024Seed—
- Jan 2019Seed$1M
#4
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 5 employees$400Kraised▾
Provider of an online platform connecting parents with childcare centers. The platform allows parents to search for childcare options, compare services offered by different centers, read reviews from other parents, and book visits directly through the platform. It aims to simplify the process of finding and selecting suitable childcare, offering a centralized resource for parents seeking various childcare options. The platform also provides a listing service for childcare providers to reach potential clients.
- Sep 2022Seed$400K
#5
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2014 · 39 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Melodics is a music learning platform for drums, keyboards, pad controller, and other musical instruments. It develops software for pad drumming that is available for Mac and Windows devices. It offers music education with tracks, such as hip-hop, future beats, footwork, EDM, techno, trap, dubstep, downbeat, jungle, funk, soul, electronic, Bmore, electro, classic breaks, and others for playing. It also provides the insights for the users of their favorite producers, DJs, and performers for their music tracks. The mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices. Generates revenue through subscriptions.
- Sep 2017Seed$1.2M
- Aug 2016Seed—
#6
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 21 employees$600Kraised▾
Amy is an AI-based mathematics tutoring application for students. Features include intuitive analytics, multicurricular, multilingual, and others. Provides information to teachers regarding students performance. Claims to provide real-time feedback for filling the knowledge gap.
- Nov 2017Seed$600K
#7
Series B · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2016 · 127 employees—raised▾
Operates K-12 school
- Jun 2023Series B—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
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How research on Edtech in Auckland is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Auckland — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 48 papers.
- University of Auckland27
- Auckland University of Technology23
- Auckland Council2
- Operationalization2
- Socratic method2
- Argumentation theory2
- Socratic questioning2
- Engineering design process2
- Educational technology1→4
- Educational technology3→5
- Context (archaeology)1→3
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