Best EdTech Companies in Georgia, United States
The 151 best EdTech companies in Georgia, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vanco Payment Solutions.
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 Georgia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanco Payment Solutions Provider of payment processing and financial management software for organizations | $87M | 170 mo ago | 257 257 → 303 (+18%) | 2007 | — | — | 6 job openings |
| 2 | Sora Schools Online high school for students 60Funding top 28%Tech top 29%Growth top 32%Moat top 39% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 28% Techtop 29% Growthtop 32% Moattop 39% Talentbottom 49% Productbottom 48% Marketbottom 43% Globalbottom 32% Funding: Raised $28.8M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 6 yrs (0.7/yr) Tech: 43 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $29M | 6 mo ago | 57 | 2018 | Garrett Smiley Co-Founder | — | — |
| 3 | The Desire Company Online expert review platform for multi-category consumer products | $16M | 13 mo ago | 36 | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 4 | MapHabit Provider of app and devices for disabled | $13M | 25 mo ago | 15 15 → 22 (+47%) | 2018 | Stuart Zola Co-Founder | 8 patents AI‑driven pharmaceutical therapies for memory impairment and related neurocognitive disorders | 1 launch |
| 5 | American Board Provider of online teacher certification programs across multiple subject areas | $11M | 189 mo ago | 36 | 2001 | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Authentica Solutions Cloud based Integration and Data Management for Education | $6M | 24 mo ago | 33 | 2013 | Russell Long Chief Executive Officer | — | — |
| 7 | Logical Choice Technologies Smart classroom solutions for schools | $5M | 157 mo ago | 5 | 1994 | — | 15 patents Interactive 3‑D educational cards and avatar‑driven learning interfaces | — |
| 8 | Illuminate Cloud-based integration platform for higher educational institutes | $3M | 96 mo ago | 20 | 2011 | Kiran Kodithala Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 9 | Choosing the Best Provider of curricula designed to educate teens on healthy life choices | $2M | 212 mo ago | — | 1993 | — | — | — |
| 10 | TripLingo Language learning mobile app for travellers | $2M | 139 mo ago | 42 | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Steppingblocks Online career exploration and personality assessment platform | $2M | 86 mo ago | 21 | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 12 | OpenStudy Free social networking platform for students and teachers | $1M | 216 mo ago | 27 | 2008 | Preetha Ram Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 13 | Zyrobotic Social robotic coach and smart toys | $1M | 109 mo ago | — | 2013 | Ayanna Howard Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 14 | HackQuest Platform offering Web3 developer education platform | $1M | 27 mo ago | — | 2022 | Cameron Wang Co-Founder | — | — |
| 15 | Changemaker Online platform for school fundraising, club, and organization support | $997K | 67 mo ago | 3 | 2017 | Chris Allen Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 16 | Kloud-12 Provider of classroom recording and sharing solutions | $756K | 72 mo ago | 16 16 → 16 (+0%) | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 17 | MillionDollarScholar Scholarship discovery and acquisition help | $600K | 137 mo ago | 2 | 2012 | Derrius Quarles CEO and Founder | — | — |
| 18 | TWP Pecan Ridge Provider of test preparation solutions | $587K | 50 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Edevate Digital credential and online courses provider | $300K | 152 mo ago | 5 | 2013 | Gordon A. Rogers CoFounder & President | — | — |
| 20 | LiquidText PDF editor with superpowers: document review, note-taking, and collaboration | $250K | 132 mo ago | 4 | 2012 | — | 3 patents Interactive digital reading interfaces with dynamic workspace and annotation features | — |
| 21 | Medsembly Online platform offering courses for medical students | $120K | 39 mo ago | 4 | 2018 | — | — | — |
Top 12 EdTech companies in Georgia
#1
Series A · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2018 · 57 employees$28.8Mraised▾
Online high school for students. It enables students to design a video game, engage in Socratic discussion and collaboration with industry mentors. It also enables students to collaborate with teachers and create their own curriculum for subjects such as Math, Science, English, and History.
- Nov 2025Series A$1.5M
- Mar 2024Series A$5.3M
- Oct 2021Series A$20.8M
- Oct 2020Seed$2.7M
#2
Series B · Georgia · founded 2020 · 36 employees$16.4Mraised▾
Online expert review platform for multi-category consumer products. Users to find reviews on various products like grooming essentials, fitness essentials, cooking products, travel bag essentials, and more. The platform provides information about how to use, short descriptive reviews for each products, and more.
- May 2025Series B$3.3M
- May 2024Series B—
- Dec 2023Series A$8.4M
- Nov 2021Series A$8M
#3
Seed · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2018 · 15 employees$13.4Mraised▾
MapHabit provides wearable devices with an app for people with mental disorders like Alzheimer's. It gives reminders and spoken commands. The app also has pictures, audio, & video.
- May 2024Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$2.9M
- May 2022Grant (prize money)$3M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$2.4M
#4
Acquired · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2013 · 33 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Authentica Solutions is a team of educators, engineers seeking to solve the data challenges in the education space removing the implementation challenges, specifically the data integration. Authentica's DataSense platform provides a way to share all of district’s purposeful data between software applications, from enterprise-scale student information systems to web apps. Also offers Centrifuge, an open data management platform that provides a common data store for master data management. Some of its customers include Infinite Campus, Skyward, Blackboard etc.
- Jun 2024Series A$6.2M
- Nov 2023Seed—
#5
Acquired · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2007 · 257 employees$87Mraised▾
Provider of payment processing and financial management software for organizations. The company delivers solutions simplifying giving, payments, and financial administration. It offers tools for online giving, mobile applications, event management, and donor communication. The company provides resources for fundraising, recurring donations, and text giving. Its software integrates with various platforms.
- Mar 2012PE$80M
- Oct 2010Conventional Debt—
- Oct 2010Series A$2M
- Nov 2009Series A$5M
#6
Seed · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2022$1.1Mraised▾
Platform offering Web3 developer education platform. It offers courses for IT professionals. It offers courses, collaboration with leading Web3 ecosystems and projects and provides certification for course completion.
- Feb 2024Seed$1.1M
#7
Funding Raised · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2001 · 36 employees$11Mraised▾
Provider of online teacher certification programs across multiple subject areas. The organization offers a self-paced program designed for individuals seeking teacher certification. It allows candidates to study at their own convenience. The program focuses on enabling individuals to become certified teachers.
- Sep 2010Grant (prize money)$5.5M
- Jun 2007Grant (prize money)$5.5M
#8
Late Stage · Lawrenceville, Georgia · founded 1994 · 5 employees$5Mraised▾
Logical Choice Technologies provides an array of IT solutions for K12 schools. Products include interactive whiteboards, cloud-hosted network management systems and others. Also provides personalized learning software for specific topics including Letters alive, a supplemental reading program with a full year of curriculum aligned to common core state standards; Storybooks alive, the digital interactive storybooks; and Math alive, an application that helps teachers to teach math for early learners.
- May 2013PE$5M
#9
Seed · Duluth, Georgia · founded 2011 · 20 employees$3Mraised▾
Illuminate offers cloud-based integration platform for higher educational institutes. Allows clients to create API's to share and access enterprise data securely on-premise and on the cloud. The iPaas platform enables to integrate and connect campus systems to student information systems, learning management systems, and single sign-on applications. Offered on a subscription-based licensing.
- Jun 2018Seed$1.4M
- May 2017Seed$1.5M
#10
Series A · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2013 · 21 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Steppingblocks is an online career exploration and personality assessment platform. It enables students to explore career paths from various professionals based on job title supported by salary data, first jobs, etc. The students can take personality assessments, search for scholarships, calculate tuition fees, explore jobs and internships and access industry specific tips. The subscription is offered in for of Individual, parent and enterprise packages.
- Apr 2019Grant (prize money)$750K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$225K
- Jul 2017Series A$1.5M
#11
Seed · Atlanta, Georgia$587Kraised▾
Provider of test preparation solutions
#12
Acqui-Hired · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2011 · 42 employees$1.8Mraised▾
TripLingo provides mobile app based language learning for the travellers to learn the regional language. Provides audio lessons, interactive flashcards and an interactive quiz. Available as both iOS and Android app. The app supports across various nations. Applications teach short phrases for foreign travelers traveling. Also provides Wi-Fi dialer facility for customers. Won the Startup Riot ompetition. Available on Android and iOS. Also collaborates with corporate travel programs, travel brands, and agencies. Works on the premium model.
- Nov 2014Seed$206K
- Nov 2013Seed$915K
- Sep 2012Seed$703.8K
- Aug 2011Conventional Debt$250K
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 Edtech in Georgia is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Georgia — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 124 papers.
Georgia Tech, UGA, and Georgia State lead moderately optimistic edtech research (stance 0.28), focusing dominantly on online learning, analytics, and intelligent tutoring systems, with recent output surging fivefold.
- Georgia Institute of Technology41
- University of Georgia36
- Georgia State University12
- Georgia Southern University7
- Georgia Gwinnett College5
- Adaptability4
- Personalization4
- Gesture4
- Adaptation (eye)4
- Adaptive learning4
- Educational technology1→9
- Context (archaeology)1→4
- Teaching method1→4
- Learning analytics1→4
- Pedagogy1→4
- Educational technology4→12
- Mathematics education1→5
- Technology integration1→4
- Blended learning1→3
- Engineering ethics1→3
Common questions
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