Best EdTech Companies in San Diego, United States
The 95 best EdTech companies in San Diego, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CourseKey.
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 San Diego
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Stage | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robolink STEM education solutions provider empowering students through robotics, coding, and AI | — | $100K | 14 | — | Seed | Shogun Page BuilderCart FunctionalityShopify+29 | — | — |
| 2 | @Reks Educational iOS apps for children, focusing on language and learning | — | — | — | Natasa Gajic Founder & President | Unfunded | — | — | — |
| 3 | ACE Edutainment Apps Adaptive mobile app for vocabulary building | — | — | — | Charine Gey Van Pittius CEO | Unfunded | — | — | — |
| 4 | Agile Institute Provider of agile development training, coaching, and related educational resources | — | — | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ashford University Accredited online university | — | — | 3,662 | Craig D. Swenson CEO & President | Deadpooled | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Windows Server+11 | — | — |
| 6 | Binary Labs Suite of iOS applications for occupational therapy for students with special needs | — | — | — | Frank Jensen Founder & CEO | Unfunded | — | 18 patents Point‑of‑care chemiluminescent assays for neutrophil functional testing in blood. | — |
| 7 | BOSS Startup Science Provider of online educational tools and guided courses for entrepreneurs | — | — | — | Marty Bickford Founder | Unfunded | — | — | — |
| 8 | brainleap technologies, inc. BrainLeap Technologies offers gaze-driven video games that train and measure attention skills. | — | — | 6 | — | Private | — | — | — |
Top 12 EdTech companies in San Diego
#1
Series B · San Diego, California · founded 2015 · 34 employees$20Mraised▾
School management solutions provider. It offers various solutions such as time and attendance automation, digital assessments & evaluations, online learning communities, and ebook resources among others. Features include real-time insights on data, student analysis, and integration of LMS with the system.
- Jan 2025PE—
- Dec 2023Conventional Debt—
- Mar 2021Series B$9M
- Jul 2019Series A$5M
#2
Acquired · San Diego, California · founded 2006 · 37 employees$18.7Mraised▾
TakeLessons is an online marketplace for finding qualified and vetted instructors. Offers lessons in music, language, wellness, culinary, performing arts and more. Provides scheduling, billing, payment, and communication tools to teachers that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices. Students can compare and review tutors. Recently, collaborated with Amazon for booking lessons through their website in select US cities.
- Mar 2014Series B$7M
- Feb 2013Series A$4M
- Aug 2011Series A$6M
- 2006Seed$1.7M
#3
Deadpooled · San Diego, California · founded 2006 · 5 employees$16.4Mraised▾
KidZui provides a browser application, compatible with Firefox on MACs and PCs. Known as the 'KidZui' browser it allows kids access to over 2 million parents and teacher approved websites, pictures, games, and videos.Search and share options are inbuilt. Browsing reports and data are sent to parents on a weekly basis.The web network also supports 'ZuiGames' - a site for age appropriate flash games and 'ZuiTube' - a site for age appropriate Youtube videos.
- Dec 2011Series D$2.4M
- Aug 2011Series D$2M
- Mar 2010Series C$4M
- Jul 2007Series B$5M
#4
Acquired · San Diego, California · founded 2012 · 32 employees$9.1Mraised▾
Student hiring platform. The platform is a skills marketplace connecting students and employers. The platform enables students to create digital portfolios, displaying their skills and work samples as an alternative to classic resumes. It wants to help employers make better matches between entry-level candidates and jobs on the basis of digital portfolios of students vs. their sparse, limited resumes.
- Nov 2017Series A$368.2K
- Sep 2016Series A$6.7M
- Sep 2015Seed$1.2M
- Jul 2014Seed$900K
#5
Funding Raised · San Diego, California · founded 2003$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of online math classes and educational resources for students. It offers online courses, textbooks, and other learning materials for students in various grade levels. The curriculum focuses on advanced problem-solving skills and conceptual understanding. Additionally, it provides a platform for students to collaborate and learn from peers and mentors within a large online community. The company also offers live classes and programs for advanced learners.
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$3.5M
#6
Seed · San Diego, California · founded 2010$6Mraised▾
EdNinja develops educational apps for specially-abled kids in the age group of 3-9 years. It offers multiple apps for children with dyslexia, autism, concentration and attention disorder and other learning disabilities. Apps teach Math and reading skills (by asking kids to identify colors, shapes, sequence pictures and more), emotion recognition, communication skills, sound identification and distinguishing skills, etc.. Teachers can keep a track of students' progress via a dashboard.
- Jun 2016Seed$3M
- Jan 2012Seed$3M
#7
Seed · San Diego, California · founded 2019 · 36 employees$615Kraised▾
Online platform for discovering kids-friendly places. It helps users to discover playgrounds, hikes, walking trails, stroller running routes, indoor activities, restaurants, and more. It also allows users to search using location, distance, age, weather, and adventure types. The users can share personal experiences on the application. The mobile application is available for android and iOS users.
- May 2022Seed$615K
- Dec 2021Seed—
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$20K
#8
Series B · San Diego, California · founded 1994 · 28 employees$1.6Mraised▾
ScienceMedia is an online learning platform provider for medical professionals. Products include SMi Source, SMi Trial, and SMi Services. Topics covered under SMi Source are general oncology, hematologic malignancies, solid tumors, cardiovascular, neurological disorders, psychiatric behavior & psychological disorders, immunology basics, and others. Features include assessments, clinical summaries, therapeutic area training, e-learning modules, videos, and others.
- Feb 2020Series B—
- May 2019Unattributed$1.6M
#9
Funding Raised · San Diego, California · founded 2016$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of app-based virtual classroom software solutions. The company offers Spatial Vis - a tool that allows teachers to teach freehand sketching and spatial visualization skills. Additionally, students can sketch 2D and 3D shapes on a touchscreen and receive immediate feedback about their sketches. It also provides teaching resources, video lectures, and more. Its app is available for Android and iOS devices.
- Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$961.3K
- Dec 2016Grant (prize money)$224.9K
#10
Deadpooled · San Diego, California · founded 2011 · 8 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Nulu converts fresh news content into language-learning material for users who want to learn Spanish and English as their second languages. Users can listen to the news in the language they want to learn while reading the text in their native language. Translations are generated at the phrase level, and students can create flashcards with and take quizzes on the material.
- May 2013Seed$1.8M
#11
Funding Raised · San Diego, California · founded 2018 · 10 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Developer of games, activities, and creative virtual environments for learning. It offers simulation-based games and user tools that foster exploration and creativity. These tools provide virtual communities supporting users' social, behavioral, and educational development.
- Mar 2013Grant (prize money)$811.3K
- Jan 2012Grant (prize money)$150K
- Dec 2011Grant (prize money)$150K
#12
Funding Raised · San Diego, California · founded 2013$1Mraised▾
Online platform providing learning resources for professionals. Courses are available specific to various service providers for veterans such as healthcare, employers, caregivers, educators, volunteers & more.
- Nov 2014Grant (prize money)$1M
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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