Best EdTech Companies in Manchester, United Kingdom
The 33 best EdTech companies in Manchester, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Capslock.
Our analysis of 54 EdTech companies
$3.5b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best EdTech companies in Manchester
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capslock Online platform providing cybersecurity-related tutoring solutions with income share agreement | $2M | 59 mo ago | Seed | Lorna Armitage Co-Founder & Lead Tutor | 2019 | WebflowBootstrapEmotion+25 | — |
| 2 | Tootoot Incident reporting platform | $1M | 102 mo ago | Series A | Kieran Innes CEO - Co-Founder | 2013 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | — |
| 3 | Coursematch App-based college discovery platform for students | $387K | 103 mo ago | Seed | Chris Worsey Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 4 | Musical Futures An online platform providing music education | $20K | 97 mo ago | Funding Raised | Fran Hannan CEO & MD | 2003 | — | — |
| 5 | Connected Creatives Online collaborative learning platform for children | — | 85 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 6 | 2Bfluent Provider of online language learning resources for schools to teach students | — | — | Unfunded | Mazen Hilal Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 7 | Agribusiness Academy Online platform offering agribusiness-related courses | — | — | Funding Raised | Vijayender Nalla Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | — |
| 8 | Care Academy Online vocational courses in health, social care and housing sectors | — | — | Unfunded | Steve Co-Founder | 2006 | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETIIS | — |
Top 5 EdTech companies in Manchester
#1
Seed · Manchester, England · founded 2019 · 17 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Online platform providing cybersecurity-related tutoring solutions with income share agreement. It provides cybersecurity-related courses, career assistance, personal mentoring, and tutoring. It provides remote learning with live instructor-led learning and also provides scheduled learning.
- Nov 2021Seed$1.4M
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$191.9K
- Mar 2021Seed$479.8K
- Mar 2021Conventional Debt$68.5K
#2
Series A · Manchester, England · founded 2013 · 11 employees$1.1Mraised▾
tootoot is an incident reporting platform for Schools and Colleges. Provides an incident reporting and safeguarding app for students and staff for a real-time update on any incident in the campus. Provides real-time reports for SLT & governing bodies. The major use case is to anonymously report against bullying in educational institutes. Currently is providing the first 6 months for the platform for free.
- Apr 2018Series A$1.1M
#3
Seed · Manchester, England · founded 2016 · 3 employees$386.7Kraised▾
Coursematch is an app-based college discovery platform for students. Allows students to find information on courses, degrees, and colleges. Information includes entry requirements, student satisfaction rate, average starting salary, national student survey results, employability rates, etc. Available for Android and iOS platforms. Also allows students to connect and chat with other students.
- Mar 2018Seed$386.7K
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#4
Funding Raised · Manchester, England · founded 2003$20Kraised▾
An online platform providing music education. It offers music education resources and training for teachers to deliver practical, authentic, and engaging music lessons. Their online platform offers a range of teaching resources, including playalongs and learning tools, designed for the classroom.
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$20K
#5
Seed · Manchester, England · founded 2018 · 1 employees—raised▾
Online collaborative learning platform for children. It enables users to write stories, notes, poems, journals, blogs, articles, and others. Children can share it with parents, family, and peers. Features include a library, images, graphs, peer-review, and more.
- Sep 2019Seed—
- 2018Seed—
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
What Manchester researches in edtech
- University of Manchester18
- Manchester Metropolitan University11
- University of Greater Manchester2
- Greater Manchester Police1
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust1
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