Best EdTech Companies in Denver, United States
The 69 best EdTech companies in Denver, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Galvanize.
Biggest earners Skillsoft Corp. ($513M, -3% YoY), Instructure Inc ($156M, +12% YoY), Blackboard Inc ($119M), Capella Education Co ($112M, +0% YoY)
Our analysis of 88 EdTech companies
$7.3b in tracked funding; 99% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best EdTech companies in Denver
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galvanize Bootcamps and startup growth platform | $138M | 80 mo ago | Acquired | 344 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+42 | — | — |
| 2 | The CE Shop Online real estate certification and licensing | $110M | 65 mo ago | Funding Raised | 141 141 → 166 (+18%) | Michael Mcallister Founder | Cart FunctionalityDrupalSentry+46 | 9 patents Online multi‑selection gifting and multi‑merchant payment processing for e‑commerce platforms | — |
| 3 | Craftsy Online platform empowering creativity through classes, videos, patterns, and community | $106M | 139 mo ago | Acquired | 190 | — | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+31 | — | — |
| 4 | TopSchool SaaS based student information management system provider | $21M | 171 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 14 | Matthew Schnittman CEO & President | — | — | — |
| 5 | MagicSchool AI-powered platform offering lesson planning solutions for teachers 74Funding top 21%Tech top 22%Moat top 36%Talent top 38% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 21% Techtop 22% Moattop 36% Talenttop 38% Markettop 45% Growthtop 45% AItop 45% Newsbottom 42% Globalbottom 32% Funding: Raised $20.3M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 3 yrs (1.0/yr) Tech: 60 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $20M | 17 mo ago | Series B | — | Adeel Khan Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowApple iCloud Mail+28 | — | — |
| 6 | Pairin Online candidate assistance platform for career guidance | $19M | 40 mo ago | Acquired | 28 | Michael Simpson Co-Founder and CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+23 | — | — |
| 7 | Modern Teacher Transforming education through modern learning, professional development, and strategic frameworks | $4M | 96 mo ago | Series A | 34 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Scholarly Provider of faculty affairs software for higher education institutions | $4M | 23 mo ago | Series A | — | Kristina Brown Co-Founder | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+12 | — | 1 launch |
| 9 | Schoolrunner School management system | $4M | 110 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 10 | — | NVD3D3Google Sign-in+21 | — | — |
| 10 | ScholarCentric Online platform offering learning solutions for schools | $2M | 160 mo ago | Acquired | 4 | Ron Klausner CEO | — | — | — |
| 11 | Via TRM Traveler Relationship Management software for study abroad offices and educational travel companies | $1M | 127 mo ago | Seed | 18 | Samantha Martin Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 12 | Edify Transforming education through personalized learning programs and innovative technology | $550K | 126 mo ago | Seed | 44 | Jacob Zax Co-Founder & CEO | — | 5 patents AI-driven personalized digital content, safety monitoring, datacenter ops, e‑therapy analytics, dynamic IVR | — |
| 13 | mcSquares Interactive dry erase whiteboards for use in teaching | $515K | 71 mo ago | Seed | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Medallion Learning Online certification prep courses for professional development of employees | $500K | 146 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Stuart Horsfall CEO | — | — | — |
| 15 | Beanstalk Online platform providing live and on-demand classes for kids | $300K | 70 mo ago | Seed | — | Amy Molk Founder & CEO | — | 4 patents Indoor vertical farming hardware and integrated self-contained digital media projection systems. | — |
| 16 | DrivenData AI competitions and data science for social impact solutions | $256K | 58 mo ago | Funding Raised | 12 | — | PythonChart.jsBootstrap+18 | — | — |
| 17 | Learn Fresh STEM learning platform provider for children | $250K | 120 mo ago | Funding Raised | 22 | Bill Daugherty Co-Founder | Craft CMSPHPGoogle Maps+19 | — | 1 partnership |
| 18 | Campuscene College discovery platform | $193K | 120 mo ago | Seed | 2 | Ryan Schwartz Co-Founder & President | — | — | — |
| 19 | Couragion STEM career exploration & self-discovery app | $100K | 110 mo ago | Acquired | 20 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 EdTech companies in Denver
#1
Series B · Denver, Colorado · founded 2023$20.3Mraised▾
AI-powered platform offering lesson planning solutions for teachers. It also provides assignment management solutions for teachers.
- Jan 2025Series B$45M
- Apr 2024Series A$17.9M
- Aug 2023Seed$2.4M
#2
Series A · Denver, Colorado · founded 2023$4Mraised▾
Provider of faculty affairs software for higher education institutions. Their software integrates with various existing systems like Banner, Workday to provide a single source of truth for faculty data.
- Jul 2024Series A$4M
#3
Acquired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2012 · 344 employees$138.4Mraised▾
Galvanize is the creator of boot camps for web development, data science, data engineering, and workshops on programming languages such as PHP, HTML, CSS, and more. Also provides a working area for entrepreneurs, a desk for startups with a small team to work, private rooms with internet connection for bigger teams. The idea is to bring startups and learners together. This way the startups can look for skilled developers and data scientists from the batch.
- Sep 2019Series C$13.4M
- Jul 2018Series C$43.4M
- Apr 2018Series B$5M
- Oct 2017Series B$7M
#4
Acquired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2012 · 28 employees$18.7Mraised▾
Online candidate assistance platform for career guidance. The platform provides a management system and tools to teachers, mentors, students, and employers to focus on and accelerate the development of skills. The platform also conducts surveys to measure attitudes, motivations, and behavioral proficiencies.
- Feb 2023Series B$2.1M
- Feb 2023Conventional Debt$2M
- Jan 2021Series A$4.4M
- Dec 2020Series A$7.9M
#5
Funding Raised · Denver, Colorado · founded 2005 · 141 employees$110Mraised▾
The CE Shop offers online courses in pre-licensing, post-licensing and continuing education in real estate. The license is valid for two years. Also offers offline courses.
- Jan 2021Conventional Debt$110M
#6
Acquired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2010 · 190 employees$106Mraised▾
Online platform empowering creativity through classes, videos, patterns, and community. It is a vibrant online learning community for makers, offering access to over premium classes across categories like quilting, sewing, knitting, baking, and more. Users can learn new skills with detailed, step-by-step instructions from industry experts, download patterns and recipes, and participate in live streaming instructor events. The platform fosters a collaborative environment where enthusiasts can connect, share projects, and find inspiration. It is a subscription-based service providing crafting videos, tips, techniques, and resources for various creative pursuits. The platform offers a cart, login, and profile features for members. It is a B2C platform that aims to fuel passion, ignite imagination, and help individuals discover the joy of bringing their ideas to life through crafting.
- Nov 2014Series D$50M
- Dec 2013Series C$35M
- Apr 2012Series B$15M
- Sep 2011Series A$6M
#7
Acqui-Hired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2006 · 14 employees$21.2Mraised▾
TopSchool is a SaaS-based student information management system provider. It provides solutions for colleges to manage and report students information. It also provides solutions for student lifecycle management aspects like recruitment, retention, and career service.
- Mar 2012Series D$2.5M
- Jul 2010Series C$8M
- Mar 2009Series B$7M
- May 2008Series A$3.2M
#8
Series A · Denver, Colorado · founded 2012 · 34 employees$4Mraised▾
Transforming education through modern learning, professional development, and strategic frameworks. This organization supports educational leaders in modernizing learning at scale for a more equitable future. It provides a strategic framework, methodology, resources, and a professional community to lead modern school districts. The focus is on achieving learner-centered, competency-based learning experiences and building teacher proficiency in new instructional models. They offer aligned professional learning, analytical insights, and critical thought partnership to help districts deliver measurable outcomes and realize their vision for the future of learning. The organization aims to redefine the student experience by delivering competencies relevant to today's learners, fueled by modern pedagogy and tools. They establish a culture of modern learning and align systems to make the vision a reality.
- Jun 2018Series A$4M
#9
Acqui-Hired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2012 · 10 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Schoolrunner provides a platform to track all student data such as academics, behavior, attendance and more. Provides analytics support. Teachers can gain insights into student learning and can spend their time focusing on just the topics that students haven't learned yet. Administrators can know whether goals are being met and can answer questions and address issues as they arise.
- Apr 2017Series A$2M
- Mar 2015Series A$1.5M
#10
Acquired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2006 · 4 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Online platform offering learning solutions for schools. It provides educators with assessments and curriculum-related resources for the personal development of K 12 students. It also helps educators to track student performance along with the engaging curriculum.
- Feb 2013Series A$2.1M
#11
Seed · Denver, Colorado · founded 2011 · 18 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Traveler Relationship Management software for study abroad offices and educational travel companies. The platform enables educators to market programs, gather student data, track applications, and create accurate reports. Allows students to build their profile, get advice, find program matches and apply to the programs. Accessible on a desktop, tablet, and mobile. Offered on an annual subscription based on enrollment numbers and team size.
- Nov 2015Seed$575K
- Sep 2015Seed—
- Oct 2014Seed$699.7K
- Jul 2013Seed$25K
#12
Seed · Denver, Colorado · founded 2013 · 12 employees$515Kraised▾
mcSquares are a hand-held dry erase interactive whiteboard that snaps together on a wall to create larger collaborative displays for schools. It is a mosaic system of individual dry-erase tiles that are portable, reconfigurable, and flexible.
- Jul 2020Seed$50K
- Sep 2019Seed$155K
- Dec 2016Seed$275K
- 2016Seed$35K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of EdTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Education Technology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Education Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 4,451 United States-affiliated papers.
- Purdue University West Lafayette107
- North Carolina State University61
- Michigan State University61
- University of Florida57
- Carnegie Mellon University56
- Adaptive learning3→51
- Analytics2→42
- Learning analytics6→44
- Educational technology6→37
- Artificial neural network1→27
- Educational technology84→423
- Experiential learning13→154
- Higher education4→126
- Curriculum23→137
- Learning analytics28→135
- Educational technology79→257
- Higher education7→109
- Professional development11→74
- Curriculum19→74
- Transformative learning2→55
Where edtech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing edtech patents in the United States
United States edtech patent filing is accelerating — 2,649 filings from 804 assignees (2016–2025), led by Google, Microsoft, Adobe; annual filings 32→533.
- Google131
- Microsoft123
- Adobe110
- Equifax107
- IBM94
- Oracle64
- Capital One Services58
- Qualcomm55
Common questions
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