Best EdTech Companies in Ohio, United States
The 136 best EdTech companies in Ohio, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: HomeTown Ticketing.
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 Ohio
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HomeTown Ticketing Provider of digital ticketing, event management, and fundraising solutions for schools | $75M | 50 mo ago | Series A | 199 199 → 312 (+57%) | Nate Nale Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36 | 4 partnerships |
| 2 | SCOIR Online platform providing college discovery solutions 60Funding top 33%Tech top 36%Talent top 38%Growth top 40% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 33% Techtop 36% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 40% Markettop 47% Globalbottom 30% Funding: Raised $36.5M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 7 yrs (0.6/yr) Tech: 44 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $37M | 16 mo ago | Series B | 80 80 → 58 (-28%) | Gerry McCrory Co-Founder & CEO | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | — |
| 3 | Abre K-12 data platform that provides guidance to schools 42Talent top 28%Funding top 29%Moat top 39%Growth top 45% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 29% Moattop 39% Growthtop 45% Techtop 47% Marketbottom 29% Globalbottom 29% Newsbottom 22% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $28.6M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 9 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $29M | 12 mo ago | Series A | 11 | Zach Veen Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer | WordPressBugHerdZendesk+36 | — |
| 4 | Cognistar Online courses and publications for professional and consumer education | $8M | 286 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | Mark Luciano Chairman & CEO | — | — |
| 5 | AlensiaXR Technology startup that has developed the learning platform for medical students learn human anatomy 16Funding top 45%Talent bottom 49%Tech bottom 43%Global bottom 29% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 45% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 43% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 25% Funding: Raised $3.2M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 16/100 | $3M | 6 mo ago | Series A | — | Mark Day CEO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+16 | — |
| 6 | Acceptd Application and audition management platform connecting artists and organizations | $3M | 158 mo ago | Series A | 23 23 → 17 (-26%) | — | PHPTinyMCESalesforce+16 | 1 partnership |
| 7 | Pay Theory Cloud based platform offering payment solutions for education sectors | $2M | 52 mo ago | Seed | 9 | Joe Miramonti Co-Founder | WebflowGSAPTypekit+18 | — |
| 8 | Rosalyn Provider of an AI-based virtual assessment platform | $2M | 17 mo ago | Series A | 4 | Martin Jakobsson Co-founder and CTO | — | — |
| 9 | Ed Map Content management solutions for institutions | $2M | 267 mo ago | Deadpooled | 7 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Capture Education Education platform providing updates and optimizing user experience through data analysis | $1M | 146 mo ago | Deadpooled | 5 | Gene Lawhun CEO | — | — |
| 11 | Lightning Grader Educational platform providing assessment, data management, and learning solutions | $1M | 150 mo ago | Acquired | 11 | Elijah Stambaugh Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 12 | Wisr Platform to connect university students & alumni | $1M | 101 mo ago | Acquired | 21 | — | — | — |
| 13 | EduSourced Learning management system for experimental projects | $1M | 134 mo ago | Seed | 5 | Dan Thiery Co-Founder & Developer | — | — |
| 14 | Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute Provider of AI-powered marketing education and resources | $1M | 61 mo ago | Seed | 6 | Paul Roetzer Founder & CEO | HubSpot CMS HubMaterial Design LiteZURB Foundation+20 | — |
| 15 | Craft Education Provider of teachers recruitment services | $822K | 163 mo ago | Acquired | 12 | Mallory Dwinal-Palisch Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailReact+17 | 1 partnership |
| 16 | BOLD Guidance College application management platform | $700K | 144 mo ago | Deadpooled | 2 | Nichelle McCall CEO | — | — |
| 17 | UpClique College discovery platform | $350K | 173 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Jeremy Amos Co-Founder | — | — |
| 18 | Amvonet Platform for learning management and content creation | $250K | 163 mo ago | Seed | 7 | Vadim V. Eelen Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 19 | Norin.TV Netflix for English language learning | $150K | 154 mo ago | Deadpooled | 2 | John Ko Co-Founder & ex-CEO | — | — |
| 20 | BlendED Provider of content management solutions for teachers | $100K | 65 mo ago | Deadpooled | 10 | David Boone Co-Founder | — | — |
Top 12 EdTech companies in Ohio
#1
Series A · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2017 · 11 employees$28.6Mraised▾
K-12 data platform that provides guidance to schools. It offers solutions for the lifting of data along with collecting student data. It also helps to track and visualize the data points.
- Jun 2025Series A$13M
- Apr 2024Series A$24M
- Jun 2023Series A$3.8M
- Dec 2022Seed$750K
#2
Series B · West Chester, Ohio · founded 2013 · 80 employees$36.5Mraised▾
Online platform providing college discovery solutions. It enables students to search according to curricular and as well as extracurricular activities. Accessible through both mobile and web.
- Feb 2025Series B$7M
- Nov 2022Series B$12M
- May 2021Series B$14.5M
- Jun 2019Series A$10M
#3
Series A · Aurora, Ohio · founded 2023$3.2Mraised▾
Technology startup that has developed the learning platform for medical students learn human anatomy. It helps students learn human anatomy using mixed-reality technology. It also offers solutions for education institutions.
- Nov 2025Series A$2.1M
- Jan 2024Series A$3.2M
#4
Series A · Dublin, Ohio · founded 2017 · 4 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Rosalyn provides an AI-based virtual assessment platform. Enables users to author, publish, sell, deliver, invigilate and manage their entire assessment workflows. The platform analyzes multiple signals to prevent, deter, and detect non-independent test-taking and informs human arbiters when serious violations occur
- Dec 2024Series A$4.6M
- Dec 2020Seed$2.5M
#5
Series A · Columbus, Ohio · founded 2016 · 199 employees$75.2Mraised▾
Provider of digital ticketing, event management, and fundraising solutions for schools. It offers tools for managing events, selling tickets, and online fundraising. The platform provides options for schools to connect with their communities. It facilitates digital-first events, mobile-friendly tickets, revenue management, attendance tracking, and gate scanning.
- Apr 2022Series A$75M
- Jul 2021Seed$196.9K
#6
Seed · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2018 · 9 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Cloud based platform offering payment solutions for education sectors. It allows organizations to embrace and implement technology that delivers better customer experiences, while at the same time ensuring inclusivity for all families regardless of their access to a checking account or credit card.
- Feb 2022Seed$2M
#7
Acqui-Hired · Upper Arlington, Ohio · founded 2000$7.8Mraised▾
Cognistar provides online courses and publications for professional and consumer education in the legal, IT professional, and health and wellness markets. It provides courses on continuing education for the legal professionals, health and wellness certification and continuing education for healthcare professionals and continuing education in HR and safety.
- Aug 2002Series A$7.8M
#8
Series A · Columbus, Ohio · founded 2011 · 23 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Application and audition management platform connecting artists and organizations. The platform provides software solutions for managing auditions, applications, recruiting, and adjudication. It streamlines processes with tools for scheduling, communication, and hybrid audition models. The digital audition platform allows organizations to collect and review applications, schedule auditions, accept online video auditions, adjudicate collaboratively using custom rubrics, and communicate directly with applicants. Features include custom applications, access for multiple reviewers, user-friendly navigation, payment processing, data reporting tools, and easy data exporting and API integration. The company offers personalized support to guide organizations through simplifying their audition process and assisting prospective artists with their applications. It serves artists and organizations, fostering connections within the arts community. This is a B2B SaaS platform.
- Apr 2013Series A$800K
- Nov 2011Series A$2M
- Jun 2011Seed$20K
#9
Seed · Cleveland, Ohio · founded 2015 · 6 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered marketing education and resources. It offers online courses, webinars, a newsletter, a podcast, and an annual conference focused on helping marketers understand, pilot, and scale the use of artificial intelligence in their work. The company provides educational materials and a community for marketers to learn and connect. It also partners with AI technology companies to offer insights into the latest advancements. The goal is to empower marketers to leverage AI for improved business outcomes.
- May 2021Seed$1M
- Nov 2020Conventional Debt$305K
#10
Deadpooled · Nelsonville, Ohio · founded 2002 · 7 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Ed Map provides resource management services and LMS for institutions. Products and services focus on finding, managing and delivering of educational resources. Solutions include OPENVUE, which is an LMS platform. ADVISOR, which is a service program for educational institutions for content strategy development and implementation assistance, business process re-engineering, project management, course materials partnerships and workflows management. CURATE, is a service program through which they help institutes to create course packs. Also provides services to reduce overhead by optimising purchasing, warehousing and delivering the textbooks, e-learning and manipulatives.
- Mar 2004Series A$2.1M
#11
Acquired · Cleveland, Ohio · founded 2016 · 21 employees$1Mraised▾
Platform to connect university students & alumni. The platform provides a mobile-based solution that connects students to alumni for career advice and allows students to create their personal board of advisors. Its features include automated matching, scheduling, automated feedback, analytics & reporting, branded applications, closed groups, and more.
- Dec 2017Conventional Debt$504.5K
- Nov 2016Conventional Debt$500K
- Oct 2016Grant (prize money)$25K
- 2016Seed—
#12
Seed · Columbus, Ohio · founded 2012 · 5 employees$1Mraised▾
EduSourced is a cloud-based software tool for educators to manage and track industry-sponsored learning projects. Help create a record and project archive and provide a collaborative environment for student teams to work with project clients. Provides customized reports and milestone tracking. Clients include Arizona State University, Yale School of Management and more.
- Mar 2015Seed$735K
- 2014Seed$270K
- Jun 2012Seed$20K
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 Ohio is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Ohio — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 52 papers.
Ohio State University and Ohio University lead Ohio's edtech research, focusing optimistically on online/blended learning and innovative teaching methods, with recent growth outpacing concerns.
- The Ohio State University32
- Ohio University17
- Ohio Department of Education9
- Northeast Ohio Medical University1
- Ohio Dominican University1
- Technology acceptance model1
- Educational technology1
- Multimedia1
- Human–computer interaction1
- Mathematics education1
- Educational technology2→9
- Mathematics education1→3
- Educational technology3→4
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