Best EdTech Companies in Houston, United States
The 60 best EdTech companies in Houston, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Accelerate Learning.
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 Houston
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accelerate Learning Online STEM curriculum for K-12 sector | $10M | 40 mo ago | Series A | Jarrett Reid Whitaker Founder and SVP | 2014 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressSentry+32 | — | — |
| 2 | GiantLeap Provider of cognitive assessment app to manage neurological disorders in children | $1M | 70 mo ago | Seed | Or Hofnung Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Teachers of Tomorrow Alternative teacher certification, empowering educators, and supporting schools nationwide | $285K | 127 mo ago | Acquired | Vernon Reaser Founder & CEO | 2004 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+44 | — | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 4 | Camperoo Online marketplace for camping activities | $275K | 149 mo ago | Deadpooled | Emmie Chang CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 5 | iQurious Kids Online after-school activity discovery solutions | $270K | 117 mo ago | Seed | Jayant Damle CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Raptor Technologies Visitor and safety management solution for schools | — | 84 mo ago | Acquired | Gray Hall CEO | 2002 | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+45 | 4 patents Advanced slip-form concrete construction and AI-driven data analysis/augmentation technologies. | — |
| 7 | Adroit Student transportation solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 9 patents Anonymous data correlation platform and IoT-enabled illuminated packaging containers. | — |
| 8 | AdvanceOnline Web-based Environment Health Safety Quality compliance training | — | — | Acquired | — | 1997 | Cart FunctionalityDrupalSentry+22 | — | — |
Top 6 EdTech companies in Houston
#1
Series A · Houston, Texas · founded 2014 · 148 employees$10Mraised▾
Online STEM curriculum for K-12 sector. It offers online lessons that have multiple assessment types, such as kinesthetic, rubric-based, open-ended, gamified, and multiple-choice assessments. It also provides analytics, lesson planner, e-books, and more. It monetizes through a subscription-based pricing model.
- Feb 2023Series A—
- Dec 2018Series A—
- May 2016Series A$10M
#2
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2018 · 8 employees$1Mraised▾
GiantLeaps provides a cognitive assessment app to manage neurological disorders in children. The application platform helps the parent's and care professionals to optimize the child's cognitive ability by giving gamified activities and questionnaires. The AI-based technology helps in giving clinical decision support solutions for the care professionals in optimizing the treatment approaches and reassessing the activities for better health outcomes. The app helps in managing and early detection of dyslexia, dyscalculia, and ADHD disorders in the children.
- Aug 2020Seed$900K
- 2020Seed$110K
#3
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2016$270Kraised▾
Online after-school activity discovery solutions. This helps businesses to find new customers and the site provides real-time leads on parents who viewed the activity profile.
- Sep 2016Seed$270K
#4
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2004 · 200 employees$284.6Kraised▾
Alternative teacher certification, empowering educators, and supporting schools nationwide. They provide a pathway for aspiring teachers to earn certification through flexible training and expert support. Their programs are designed to help individuals transition into teaching roles and address the need for qualified educators in schools. They offer resources, test preparation, and professional development opportunities for teachers. They partner with school districts to strengthen their talent pipeline and connect them with ready-to-teach candidates. Their mission is to prepare exceptional educators who transform classrooms and positively impact students' lives. They aim to be a trusted partner to diverse and dedicated educators throughout their careers, making a lasting impact on children and communities by developing quality educators.
- Dec 2015Seed—
- Mar 2010Grant (prize money)$284.6K
#5
Deadpooled · Houston, Texas · founded 2013$275Kraised▾
Camperoo offers an online platform which serves as a marketplace for camping activities to enable parents search and book for camps based on the location and also camp activity providers to post their offerings to get listed on the platform. The portal includes a discovery engine for parents to enter the details of location, dates, age of children etc. to get a listing of activities. Camperoo also provides the tools for camp organizers to manage, market, and grow their business. Received funding from Y Combinator in Jan 2014.
- Jan 2014Venture Debt$275K
#6
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2002 · 131 employees—raised▾
Visitor and safety management solutions for schools. The company's solutions have various modules namely visitor management, volunteer management, and emergency management. The features include real-time incident management, detailed incident reporting, volunteer tracking, management of numbers of hours worked by a volunteer, visitor screening, database management, and more. The solution is also available as a mobile app.
- 2019Conventional Debt—
- Nov 2018PE—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Houston researches in edtech
- University of Houston16
- Sam Houston State University8
- Houston Independent School District1
- Houston Methodist1
- University of Houston - Downtown1
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