Best EdTech Companies in Minnesota, United States
The 98 best EdTech companies in Minnesota, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Connexeo.
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 Minnesota
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 360 Stay Safe Online compliance and safety training platform for Universities | — | — | — | 2008 | Rodnie Williams CEO | — | — |
| 2 | 4mativ Provider of transportation performance management solution for school buses | — | — | 18 | 2017 | Carl Allen Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+28 | — |
| 3 | achievement data Achievement Data is a online testing services. | — | — | 11 | 1997 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Achievers Tutoring Online learning platform | — | — | 1 | 2021 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 5 | AdagioX SaaS-based platform providing activity-based music courses | — | — | — | 2021 | Brock Drevlow Founder | — | — |
| 6 | Apex Learning Virtual School Online school for students in grades 6–12 | — | — | — | 1997 | Paul Allen Founder | Craft CMSCart FunctionalityUnbounce+24 | — |
| 7 | Aurora Educational Technology PowerSchool plugins and database solutions for educational institutions | — | — | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Bazar Mobile-based math tutoring marketplace | — | — | — | 2016 | Erena Fridman Co-Founder | — | — |
Top 12 EdTech companies in Minnesota
#1
Series D · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2015 · 160 employees$110Mraised▾
Cloud based data research platform. It is a data research platform provider for the healthcare industry. It provides a platform for data capture, analysis, and research sharing. It also provides a platform for researchers to help in data capture, analysis, and research sharing. It allows data migration for importing data into its systems and combining data from multiple data sets.
- Dec 2025Series D$27.5M
- Oct 2025Series D$2.3M
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$8.7M
- Dec 2024Series D$20M
#2
Series A · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2016 · 7 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Online platform providing creation of the website for wellness professionals
- Aug 2024Series A$2.2M
- Mar 2022Seed$674K
#3
Series A · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2016 · 26 employees$18.2Mraised▾
Online platform for scholarship design and administration management. It offers a software platform for institutions to design, build, and administer scholarship programs. Students log into the platform and fill in their profiles to get matched with qualifying scholarships. It allows institutions to manage unrestricted, restricted, and endowed funds from investment to disbursement.
- Aug 2023Series A$2M
- Apr 2022Series A$10M
- Mar 2020Series A$3M
- Jul 2019Seed$755.6K
#4
Late Stage · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2018 · 165 employees$110Mraised▾
School administration software solutions provider. It provides web-based solutions for the payment process, music classes, event ticketing, and student registration. It also provides solutions for art classes, adult programs, event organizers, and community programs. Its features include online registration, fee-collection, enrollment reporting, and others.
- Apr 2018PE$110M
#5
Acqui-Hired · Saint Paul, Minnesota · founded 2014$48.5Mraised▾
Trinity3 is a technology company that provides hardware and services for the K-12 education marketplace. It offers personal systems, warranties for protecting investments, financial services, enterprise solutions, and more.
- Oct 2020Series C$48.5M
#6
Seed · Saint Paul, Minnesota · founded 2014 · 9 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Reflection Sciences provides app based assessment platform for kindergarten. MEFS, their app allows clients to create tests, receive results, provides data to help teachers, and more. Enables to predict school readiness and year-to-year gains in reading and math. Offers training for educators through workshops and webinars. Also offers games for children. Focused on developing working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility. Caters to 2-7-year-olds. Offered on a subscription model.
- Aug 2023Conventional Debt$100K
- Jun 2019Seed$1.3M
- Dec 2018Seed$775.9K
- May 2018Conventional Debt$25K
#7
Acquired · Excelsior, Minnesota · founded 2018 · 40 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Online platform providing courses on social-emotional learning. It provides personalized learning programs for students. It also provides one-on-one coaching for K-12 students and higher education students to increase student retention.
- May 2023Seed$800K
- Mar 2022Seed$975K
- Dec 2020Seed$1M
#8
Acquired · Woodbury, Minnesota · founded 2012 · 15 employees$16.3Mraised▾
SaaS-driven platform offering activity-based learning resources for schools to teach students
- Jun 2019Series B$16.3M
#9
Acquired · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2012 · 24 employees$17.4Mraised▾
Flipgrid, a product of Vidku, provides a platform for classroom discussions and company interactions. Video responses can be made uploaded in response to a question posted on the forum. The answers are posted in a grid. Works on a premium model. Available on iOS and Android. Over 4.5 million videos have been created on the platform as of Dec 2015. Recipient of Webby Award, Davey Award and W3 Award.
- Oct 2015Series A$17.4M
- Feb 2015Seed$17M
#10
Funding Raised · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2013$2.1Mraised▾
Model-based engineering tools for cyber-physical systems development and analysis. It offers a curated library of analysis tools supporting Model-based DevOps, Digital Engineering, and ACVIP. The tools help system engineers improve system capabilities and reduce risks of cost and schedule overruns by detecting flaws early in the development lifecycle. It supports continuous integration and testing for model-based engineering and analysis, with access to software, models, and materials via subscription. It supports modeling standards like AADL, SysML, and FACE. The analysis tools operate as plugins to the Open Source AADL Tool Environment (OSATE) and as standalones via a standard Java API. It provides solutions for highly reliable, functional, safe, and secure cyber-physical systems.
- Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Mar 2017Grant (prize money)$747.7K
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$150K
#11
Series A · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2010 · 4 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Naiku is an assessment platform which helps teachers and school administrators to gain insights on students and processes. Products are targeted for school districts which help student data management, creating and evaluating and benchmarking common assessment reports. Teachers can automate the grading process, monitor student proficiency for each individual, create and evaluate tests, and collaborate with colleagues to enhance teaching methods. Provides benchmarked ready to use assessments and reports to give teachers useful insights to drive student engagement.
- May 2014Series A$1M
- Nov 2011Seed$320K
- Oct 2011Seed—
#12
Funding Raised · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2016 · 9 employees$360.9Kraised▾
Developer of a literacy application designed to remove barriers to understanding through assistive technology. The company's application converts existing documents into interactive information resources for adults with limited literacy skills, impaired vision, dyslexia, or beginning English proficiency, thereby helping adults improve their ability to read over time.
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$254.9K
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$106K
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 Minnesota is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Minnesota — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 46 papers.
University of Minnesota leads Minnesota's edtech research, focusing on adaptive learning and online/blended methods with a cautiously optimistic tone (mean stance 0.33), as advancements outpace concerns two-to-one.
- University of Minnesota21
- University of Minnesota System14
- Minnesota Department of Education6
- Minnesota State University, Mankato2
- Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System2
- Chronic pain3
- Cognition3
- Adaptation (eye)3
- Apathy3
- Mediation3
- Class (philosophy)1→4
- Educational technology1→4
- Educational technology3
- Mathematics education3
- Learning analytics3
- Analytics3
- Data science2
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