Best EdTech Companies in Los Angeles, United States
The 243 best EdTech companies in Los Angeles, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: GoGuardian.
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 Los Angeles
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GoGuardian 🦄 AI and cloud-based platform offering school management software | $200M | 58 mo ago | 237 237 → 541 (+128%) | Advait Shinde Co-Founder | WebflowSentryAtlassian Statuspage+32 | — | — |
| 2 | Studio Online platform providing multi-disciplinary learning solutions | $50M | 50 mo ago | 9 | Valentin Perez Co-Founder | SentryFacebook LoginStripe+19 | 47 patents Engineered multispecific antibodies (catabodies) for viral detection and therapy | — |
| 3 | Edlio Content management platform for schools | $40M | 92 mo ago | 112 112 → 87 (-22%) | — | WebflowYouTubeAmazon Web Services+27 | — | 1 launch |
| 4 | Numerade Provider of study assistance platform for students | $26M | 59 mo ago | 46 | Alex Lee Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySentryZendesk+45 | — | — |
| 5 | Intro Platform connecting individuals with experts for advice via video call 35Funding top 35%Tech top 42%Growth top 45%Talent bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 35% Techtop 42% Growthtop 45% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 43% Marketbottom 25% Funding: Raised $25.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) Tech: 33 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $26M | 24 mo ago | 8 | Raad Mobrem Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28 | — | — |
| 6 | WeeCare Online marketplace for booking home daycare for kids | $22M | 51 mo ago | 35 | Jesse Forrest Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | 1 award |
| 7 | Fender Digital Application to assist in learning guitar | $13M | 120 mo ago | 1,562 | Andy Mooney CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Brella Mobile-based child care center | $13M | 53 mo ago | 50 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | 2 patents Waterproof outerwear design for personal rain protection | 1 launch |
| 9 | Dakim Programs for improving memory for elderly people | $13M | 188 mo ago | 1 | — | — | 6 patents Rule‑based adaptive cognitive training platforms for therapeutic mental health applications. | — |
| 10 | ENTITY Provider of online courses and mentorship programs for career development | $10M | 68 mo ago | 15 | — | — | 6 patents Enterprise data management platform for distributed storage and processing | — |
| 11 | EQtainment App-based educational platform for kids | $9M | 99 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Peachjar Connecting families and schools with resources to help children thrive | $6M | 100 mo ago | 48 48 → 31 (-35%) | — | SalesforceReactJSS+22 | 3 patents Online flyer creation, approval workflow, and targeted digital distribution platform | — |
| 13 | Profi SaaS-based platform providing training institute management solutions | $6M | 27 mo ago | 61 | — | WebflowAmazon ALBAmazon Web Services+26 | — | — |
| 14 | Find Your Grind Platform for self-discovery of multiple courses 24Talent top 28%Funding top 42%Global bottom 36%Market bottom 27% All 4 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 42% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 27% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $5.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 24/100 | $5M | 6 mo ago | 23 | The Dingo Co-Founder | — | — | 1 award |
| 15 | Archer Education Online platform providing enrollment marketing,recruitment and retention services | $5M | 185 mo ago | 177 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+33 | — | 1 award |
| 16 | Curious Cardinals Online platform providing mentoring solutions for school students | $4M | 40 mo ago | 9 | David Kim Co-Founder | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+23 | — | 1 award |
| 17 | codeSpark Gamified platform for kids to learn coding | $4M | 103 mo ago | 22 | Grant Hosford Co-Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceMUI+30 | 2 patents Visual, word-free level editing tools for game development | — |
| 18 | Knowable Online courses for individuals | $4M | 80 mo ago | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Skoolbo Online platform offering gamified learning solutions for kids | $4M | 138 mo ago | — | Shane Hill Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 20 | Playground SaaS and app-based platform offering school management solutions | $3M | 54 mo ago | 18 | Daniel Andrews Founder | Cart FunctionalityBigCommerceSentry+22 | — | — |
| 21 | Steezy Online dance classes with world-class instructors for all skill levels | $3M | 91 mo ago | 44 | — | SentryZendeskNode.js+21 | — | — |
| 22 | BabyFirstTV Gamified learning for kids | $3M | 129 mo ago | 113 | Guy Oranim Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | — | — |
| 23 | GIBLIB Medical education platform offering on-demand courses and CME for doctors | $2M | 72 mo ago | 12 | — | Amazon ALBstyled-componentsReact+23 | — | — |
| 24 | Lighthaus Provider of learning experiences in virtual reality | $2M | 84 mo ago | 5 | David Sarno Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 25 | Sesh Provider of AI-based neuroscience-based software for the development of doctors | $2M | 70 mo ago | 7 | David Dorfman Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 26 | HeyTutor Online platform that allow learners to find and book K-12 tutors | $2M | 81 mo ago | 70 | Ryan Neman Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+42 | — | — |
| 27 | Twigtale Personalized parenting resources & childrens books | $1M | 133 mo ago | 4 | Bobby Benfield Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 28 | Codesmith Provider of programs in software engineering, data science and machine learning | $1M | 116 mo ago | 32 | Chad Troutwine Co-Founder & Chairman | HubSpot CMS HubWistiaAmazon Web Services+30 | — | — |
| 29 | Artkive Preserving kids' art into personalized books and framed mosaics | $920K | 147 mo ago | 37 | Jeff Lipp Co-Founder and COO | Cart FunctionalitySentryZendesk+24 | — | — |
| 30 | TutorMe Provider of online tutoring and writing feedback services | $720K | 136 mo ago | 462 | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | Generation Genius Science learning resources for children and schools | $600K | 89 mo ago | 25 | — | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+44 | — | — |
| 32 | Microduino Provider of DIY kits for kids learning | $500K | 103 mo ago | 9 | Bin Feng Co-Founder & CEO | — | 17 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 33 | Kidjo Mobile game developer focusing on games for Pre-K children | $500K | 122 mo ago | — | Martin Poix Founder & CEO | — | — | 2 partnerships |
| 34 | Nardagani Learning solutions provider for children with special needs | $330K | 85 mo ago | 3 | Narda Pitkethly Founder | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceTypeScript+23 | — | — |
| 35 | Toot Chat-based tutoring platform for K-12 | $300K | 96 mo ago | — | Sophia Parsa Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 36 | Synctum Online learning platform | $274K | 27 mo ago | — | Viacheslav Shishov Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 37 | Mindoptix Learning management system for schools | $250K | 94 mo ago | 4 | Christian Schraga Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 38 | Prep Expert Online courses for test preparation | $250K | 121 mo ago | 46 | Shaan Patel Founder | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+41 | — | — |
| 39 | Kudo Gamified language learning for preschoolers | $245K | 153 mo ago | — | Cynthia Rajchman Co-Founder & CEO | — | 10 patents Real-time multilingual speech and image translation for virtual meetings and presentations | — |
| 40 | Lola Teaching tool for students with special needs | $243K | 111 mo ago | 4 | Karen Caruso CEO | — | — | — |
| 41 | NexusEdge Bridging education and employment with employer-integrated skills training and hiring | $210K | 100 mo ago | 9 | Eddie Lin Founder | RubyUbuntuRuby on Rails+14 | — | — |
| 42 | Music Siren Online community platform for learning music | $200K | 162 mo ago | — | Kirk Salvador Co-Founder & CSO | — | — | — |
| 43 | Caseworx Online platform for case based learning | $150K | — | 43 | Justin Wolske Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 44 | Jumpcut Online courses for entrepreneurs, leveraging trends and technology for business success | $125K | 117 mo ago | — | — | Cart FunctionalitySentryPHP+13 | — | — |
| 45 | RocketLit SaaS-driven adaptive learning platform for K-12 students | $120K | 117 mo ago | 8 | Brendan Finch Co-Founder | — | — | — |
Top 12 EdTech companies in Los Angeles
#1
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2015 · 23 employees$5Mraised▾
Find Your Grind is a platform for self-discovery of multiple courses. It enables users to discover various courses through interactive lifestyle assessments and career aptitude tests. It provides users with an alternative channel to interact, engage, and learn from modern-day mentors and misfits based on real-life scenarios. The app is available for iOS devices
- Nov 2025Series A$5M
#2
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2020 · 8 employees$25.7Mraised▾
Platform connecting individuals with experts for advice via video call. It facilitates virtual consultations with professionals across various fields. These fields include career and business, home decor, wellness, and style and beauty. The platform allows users to book one-on-one sessions with experts.
- Jun 2024Series A$15.7M
- Oct 2021Seed$10M
#3
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2014 · 237 employees$200Mraised▾
AI and cloud-based platform offering school management software. The platform enables members to monitor, manage, and filter any school device on your network. Schools can also monitor student activity, control inappropriate content, and manage theft. It also helps members in identifying students who are most at risk of suicide using machine learning.
- Aug 2021Series B$200M
- May 2018Series A—
#4
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2018 · 61 employees$6Mraised▾
SaaS-based platform providing training institute management solutions. Features include communication management, payment management, content management, and more. The platform offers solutions for coaches, trainers, consultants, and therapists.
- Mar 2024Angel—
- Feb 2022Seed$6M
#5
Late Stage · Los Angeles, California · founded 1994 · 9 employees$50Mraised▾
Online platform providing multi-disciplinary learning solutions. The platform offers online tutoring on creative baking, filmmaking, pop songwriting, and more.
- Apr 2022Unattributed$50M
- 2015Unattributed$20K
#6
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2017 · 35 employees$22.3Mraised▾
Online marketplace for booking home daycare for kids. Its features include licensing documentation, curriculum building, financial management, and more. The company also provides an app to facilitate communication with parents.
- Feb 2022Series A$17M
- Aug 2018Seed$4.2M
#7
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2017 · 46 employees$26Mraised▾
Provider of study assistance platform for students. It provides assistance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It also provides videos, answers to questions, books, and many more. Its mobile app is available for iOS devices.
- Jul 2021Series A$26M
#8
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2018 · 50 employees$12.8Mraised▾
Mobile-based child care center. The platform offers on-demand scheduling of classes, meals, app-based pickup scheduling, STEM-based learning solutions, and more. Additionally, the platform also offers parent events and a community for parents. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.
- Jan 2022Seed$5M
- Apr 2021Seed$7.8M
- 2018Seed—
#9
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2020 · 9 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Online platform providing mentoring solutions for school students. The platform offers one-on-one mentoring solutions, workshops, and projects. The platform offers workshops on songwriting, writing short stories, healthcare innovations, and more. The platform also enables creating projects on web development, policy memo writing, poetry chapbook creation, and more.
- Jan 2023Series A$465K
- Mar 2022Seed$4.2M
- Jan 2022Seed$2.6M
#10
Series C · Los Angeles, California · founded 2011 · 112 employees$40Mraised▾
Content management platform for schools integrated with their website. The websites are custom designed for charter schools, school districts, and public and private schools. Features include teacher and class subscriptions, news alerts, email sender, google integrations, web forms, stores, voice, text messaging, and iOS and Android apps, and more.
- Oct 2018Series C—
- Oct 2016Series C$40M
#11
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2016 · 15 employees$10Mraised▾
Provider of online courses and mentorship programs for career development. It delivers resources and services designed to help individuals advance professionally. The offerings include mentorship opportunities and skill-building programs. It also provides resources for employers seeking to develop talent.
- Sep 2020Series A$10M
#12
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2022$274.3Kraised▾
Online learning platform. It offers video courses and live events in various professional fields such as business, fitness, health, and personal growth.
- Mar 2024Seed$274.3K
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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