Best EdTech Companies in New Zealand
The 86 best EdTech companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Crimson Education.
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Our analysis of 261 EdTech companies
$20.4b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best EdTech companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson Education 🦄 Provider of application consulting services for students seeking higher education | $135M | 23 mo ago | Series D | Fangzhou Jiang Co-Founder | 2013 | StoryblokNode.jsRadix UI+29 | — |
| 2 | Polymath Gamified Maths learning platform for students between 5-10 years | $2M | 16 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | SentryNode.jsPanda CSS+13 | — |
| 3 | Educa E-Portfolio and classroom management app for early childhood centres and schools | $2M | 59 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 4 | Komodo Online platform providing school wellbeing solution | $1M | 7 mo ago | Seed | Chris Bacon CEO & Co-founder | 2018 | WebflowSveltecore-js+21 | — |
| 5 | Melodics Developer of virtual drumming pad software to learn the music playing | $1M | 105 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | Node.jsRadix UIReact+17 | — |
| 6 | Kami Provider of PDF and document annotation app | $1M | 22 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | 1 launch |
| 7 | Banqer Team Financial literacy learning platform for students | $838K | 44 mo ago | Seed | Marc McHardy Co-Founder & Designer | 2014 | RubyRuby on RailsAmazon ALB+18 | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 8 | Amy AI based mathematics tutoring application for students | $600K | 103 mo ago | Seed | Raphael Nolden Founder and Chief Executive Officer | 2015 | — | — |
| 9 | Kindello Provider of an online platform connecting parents with childcare centers | $400K | 45 mo ago | Seed | Logan Whitelaw Co-Founder | 2019 | Node.jsHeadless UITailwind CSS+13 | — |
| 10 | EdPotential Web-based data analytics software | $322K | 115 mo ago | Seed | Charlie Tomlinson CEO | 2016 | — | — |
Top 12 EdTech companies in New Zealand
#1
Series D · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2013 · 950 employees$134.8Mraised▾
Provider of application consulting services for students seeking higher education. They assist students with university admissions strategy, including school selection and application deadlines. The company offers extracurricular and leadership mentoring to help students build their profiles. Essay writing development is provided, from ideation to final drafts. Students receive feedback from former admissions officers.
- Jul 2024Series D$40.1M
- Aug 2021Series D$23.8M
- Oct 2019Series C$20M
- Oct 2016Series B$30M
#2
Seed · Christchurch, Canterbury · founded 2018 · 19 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Online platform providing school wellbeing solution. The platform enables collecting & managing data of student's wellbeing and also offers a team for managing all the wellbeing needs and achieving the goals. The platform offers resources such as articles, case studies, testimonials, and more.
- Nov 2025Seed$677.8K
- Aug 2021Seed$1.3M
#3
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2022 · 2 employees$2Mraised▾
Gamified Maths learning platform for students between 5-10 years
- Feb 2025Seed$1M
- Feb 2025Angel$1M
#4
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2013 · 30 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of PDF and document annotation app. The app enables to improve interactivity and collaboration within the classroom. Allows teachers to markup, discuss, and provide feedback to students in real-time. Enables students to annotate on ebooks, publisher-supplied PDFs, worksheets, and more. Offered on a monthly subscription plan.
- Aug 2024Seed—
- Jan 2019Seed$1M
#5
Seed · Christchurch, Canterbury · founded 2014 · 20 employees$837.6Kraised▾
Financial literacy learning platform for students. It is a learning tool to teach financial literacy to kids aged. It provides an online banking system for the classroom. Each student has their own bank account where they or can transfer money, set up automatic payments, track their spending, and more. Is made up of modules, so once a student has learned a module more can be added for them to learn about finances.
- Oct 2022Seed$837.6K
#6
Seed · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2011 · 284 employees$2Mraised▾
Educa is an e-portfolio platform that allows early childhood centers and schools to keep parents updated on their child’s activities. Teachers post images, videos, and narratives which can be seen in real-time by parents. Help engage parents and document learning from one simple platform. Features include notice, events update, lesson planning, document sharing, direct messaging, teacher portfolio, and more. The app is available on Android and iOS.
- Jul 2021Seed$2M
#7
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 5 employees$400Kraised▾
Provider of an online platform connecting parents with childcare centers. The platform allows parents to search for childcare options, compare services offered by different centers, read reviews from other parents, and book visits directly through the platform. It aims to simplify the process of finding and selecting suitable childcare, offering a centralized resource for parents seeking various childcare options. The platform also provides a listing service for childcare providers to reach potential clients.
- Sep 2022Seed$400K
#8
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2014 · 39 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Melodics is a music learning platform for drums, keyboards, pad controller, and other musical instruments. It develops software for pad drumming that is available for Mac and Windows devices. It offers music education with tracks, such as hip-hop, future beats, footwork, EDM, techno, trap, dubstep, downbeat, jungle, funk, soul, electronic, Bmore, electro, classic breaks, and others for playing. It also provides the insights for the users of their favorite producers, DJs, and performers for their music tracks. The mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices. Generates revenue through subscriptions.
- Sep 2017Seed$1.2M
- Aug 2016Seed—
#9
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 21 employees$600Kraised▾
Amy is an AI-based mathematics tutoring application for students. Features include intuitive analytics, multicurricular, multilingual, and others. Provides information to teachers regarding students performance. Claims to provide real-time feedback for filling the knowledge gap.
- Nov 2017Seed$600K
#10
Seed · Lower Hutt, Wellington · founded 2016$322.2Kraised▾
EdPotential provides a web-based software for schools to analyze student assessment data. Allows users to obtain visually-informative charts, tables and graphs, collaborate, and integrate with school management system, qualifications assessment system, etc. Claims that the analyses provide understanding on how students are achieving in different subjects, classes, and demographic groups.
- Oct 2016Seed$322.2K
#11
Deadpooled · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2011$40Kraised▾
Go Vocab develops games to teach, learn and revise vocabulary for K-12. Teachers can upload their content or use the already available one. Performance of students can be viewed via the dashboard. Offers multi-player games to quiz students on their vocab. Winner of BNZ Startup Alley competition at Webstock.
- Feb 2013Seed$40K
#12
Funding Raised · Dunedin, Otago · founded 2015 · 2 employees$30Kraised▾
Online platform offering music learning courses. It offers music learning courses to help students learn music theory and aural skills. The courses include gamification with levels, badges, games, quizzes, class, and leaderboards. The self-paced courses are based on the curriculum of major examination boards. The company offers the courses to individual learners, private teachers, schools, and studios.
- May 2017Grant (prize money)$30K
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 New Zealand
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 152 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- University of Auckland27
- Auckland University of Technology23
- University of Otago19
- Victoria University of Wellington16
- Ministry of Health15
- Operationalization3
- Learning analytics2
- Analytics2
- Data science2
- Science education2
- Educational technology3→11
- Mathematics education2→7
- Higher education2→6
- Perception1→4
- Blended learning3→6
- Educational technology8→11
- Higher education2→5
- Context (archaeology)2→5
- Learning sciences1→4
Where edtech is researched across New Zealand
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.
Common questions
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