Best EdTech Companies in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 57 best EdTech companies in Scotland, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Twig.
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 Scotland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twig Provider of educational resources for the classroom teaching | $5M | 125 mo ago | Series B | Catherine Cahn CEO | 2009 | BootstrapGSAPAmazon Web Services+8 | — |
| 2 | Sumdog Adaptive learning games for grades K8 | $4M | 106 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1993 | — | — |
| 3 | IDI Online degree courses in art and design | $3M | 132 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2004 | — | — |
| 4 | Skoogmusic Cubical instrument for children & differently-abled people | $3M | 102 mo ago | Seed | — | 2009 | — | — |
| 5 | Gecko Platform offering student recruitment and engagement with higher educational institutions | $2M | 84 mo ago | Seed | Matthew Lanham Founder & CEO | 2012 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+31 | — |
| 6 | Ajenta Provider of teleconferencing and video communication platform | $1M | 72 mo ago | Seed | John Wilson Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 7 | Continulus Online platform providing healthcare-related learning solutions | $696K | 64 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 8 | Present Pal Presentation support software for students with dyslexia | $637K | 61 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+25 | — |
| 9 | Funky Moves Online learning platform offering interactive games for kids | $332K | 169 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ralf Klinnert Ex-Founder & MD | 2006 | — | — |
| 10 | Klik2learn Provider of solutions for ESOL and functional skills | $127K | 66 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ann Attridge CEO | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | 1 partnership |
Top 12 EdTech companies in Scotland
#1
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2014 · 1 employees$637.2Kraised▾
Present Pal is a presentation support software for students with dyslexia. Provides interactive flashcards with bullet points, tutorials, presentation stopwatch, and more. The platform can be personalized to reduce the visual stress of users. Available for iOS and Android platforms. Offered on subscription-based pricing.
- May 2021Seed$637.2K
#2
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2019 · 4 employees$695.9Kraised▾
Online platform providing healthcare-related learning solutions. The platform offers lectures and courses for healthcare professionals. The platform offers courses on critical factors, managing burns, international sepsis symposium, CASTED, and more. Additionally, the platform also offers podcasts for learning.
- Mar 2021Seed$695.9K
#3
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2013 · 22 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Ajenta provides a teleconferencing and video communication platform. It delivers real-time video communications and caters to virtual learning and smart healthcare. It enables educators to create virtual classrooms and facilitates effective communication between doctors, nurses, and patients.
- Jul 2020Seed$1.3M
#4
Funding Raised · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2009 · 3 employees$126.7Kraised▾
Klik2learn is an online educational technology company that provides various solutions for ESOL and functional skills. It offers various solutions which include English Skills Test, an online language assessment tool for corporates, schools, and universities; Journey 2 English, an accredited digital course for intermediate learners of English; and a collaborative learning platform. Features include Oxford learners' dictionary and grammar guide.
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$126.7K
#5
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2012 · 64 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Platform offering student recruitment and engagement with higher educational institutions. It provides solutions such as inquiry management solution to student recruitment and engagement, outbound call campaign, email, SMS, social media, and instant messaging channels for communication.
- Jul 2019Seed$2.3M
#6
Acquired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 1993 · 36 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Sumdog creates adaptive learning games for grades K-8. Games teach Mathematics, reading, and writing. Offers multiplayer games, inter-school math contests, and more activities. A dashboard is also offered where the progress of a student can be tracked individually as well as relatively. Schools can also buy the product for their classrooms where they pay on a per student per year basis. Students earn rewards as they progress. Available on iOS and Android.
- Sep 2017PE$1.9M
- Aug 2017PE$1.8M
#7
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2009 · 7 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Cubical instrument for children & differently-abled people. Skoog is designed to get children hands-on with musical sounds. It acts as a game controller for playing music, it gets connected with smartphones or tablets via Bluetooth.
- Dec 2017Seed$748.9K
#8
Series B · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2009 · 114 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of educational resources for the classroom teaching. It provides teaching tools and resources for the classroom. Its content is designed to be matched to curriculum, covering a range of subjects including science, geography, and more. The company offers a comprehensive range of interactive films, experiments, and worksheets to support classroom learning.
- Jan 2016Series B$5M
#9
Acquired · Musselburgh, Scotland · founded 2004 · 41 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Online degree courses in art and design. Courses offered include graphic design, illustration, interior architecture, graphic communication, photography, etc. Offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
- Jun 2015Venture Debt$3.2M
#10
Deadpooled · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2006 · 2 employees$332Kraised▾
Provider of interactive games intended to make children active and fit. The company's interactive games can be enjoyed by all ages, abilities and activity levels, enabling children to enhance key motor and cognitive skills.
- May 2012Seed$332K
#11
Funding Raised · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2001$38.7Kraised▾
Provider of a framework for understanding and comparing qualifications. The framework features qualifications offered by schools, colleges, universities, workplaces, training organisations, and in the community. It helps individuals plan learning and develop progression routes. The framework also offers resources, workshops, and services to support learners, educators, and employers.
- Jun 2016Grant (prize money)$38.7K
#12
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 1994 · 62 employees—raised▾
Provider of an AR/VR-based learning platform. It allows teachers, academics and training professionals to teach their subjects in a superimposed and virtual environment. It features spatial computing, remote teaching and video conferencing capabilities.
- Feb 2019Seed—
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 Scotland researches in edtech
Education Scotland and University of the West of Scotland lead cautiously optimistic edtech research (mean stance 0.19), dominated by online/blended learning and analytics, with concerns nearly matching advancements.
- Education Scotland17
- University of the West of Scotland16
- Medical Research Scotland1
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