Best Education Companies in Shanghai, China
The 41 best Education companies in Shanghai, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Xuebajun 1 on 1.
Our analysis of 207 Education companies
$18.9b in tracked funding; 92% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Education companies in Shanghai
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Oak Education Provider of school operations management services | — | — | Unfunded | — | Weiqi Zhang Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 2 | CBL International Provider of financial requirements, career opportunity, and other support services | — | — | Acquired | 11 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Duowei Network Technology Provider of AR and VR based classroom | — | — | Funding Raised | — | Ginger CEO | — | — |
| 4 | EF English First Provider of english teaching services | — | — | Acquired | 4,703 | Jacob Toren CEO | StoryblokNode.jsNext.js+11 | — |
| 5 | Gordon Finance Financial education and training provider | — | — | Unfunded | 6,000 | — | — | — |
| 6 | guanghua education group Guanghua Education Group is a private education network in providing high quality international high school… | — | — | Private | 26 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Huatong International Provider of professional overseas study services offering customized study abroad programs | — | — | Funding Raised | — | Alex Guo CEO | — | — |
| 8 | LearningLeaders Center for education providing public speaking courses | — | — | Unfunded | 27 | — | HubSpot CMS HubEnvoyBootstrap+21 | — |
Top 12 Education companies in Shanghai
#1
Series C · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 150 employees$15.7Mraised▾
Paixueche (The school car) is a car driving school. It provides driver's license training courses, driving test training services for learner car owners, and more. It is based out of Shangai.
- Mar 2022Series C$15.7M
- Nov 2021Series C—
- Jan 2018Series B—
- Dec 2016Series A—
#2
Series B · Minhang, Shanghai · founded 2002 · 1700 employees$38.7Mraised▾
Qinhan Hutong Guoxue Academy offers offline learning for children and adults. Allows users to learn the Chinese language, Chinese calligraphy, engraving, Chinese painting, art, flute, and more. Alo offers online lessons.
- Mar 2020Series B$21.1M
- 2018Series A$14.8M
- 2017Seed$2.8M
#3
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013 · 1000 employees$155Mraised▾
Xuebajun provides an online platform for homework assistance for school kids. It assists students in homework by providing appropriate answers if students take a photograph of an assignment question and upload it to the system. It provides one-on-one online tutoring. Its apps can be downloaded via the Android and the IOS platform.
- Jan 2017Series C$100M
- Jun 2015Series B$50M
- Mar 2014Series A$5M
- Aug 2013Seed—
#4
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014$30.9Mraised▾
Diversified conglomerate operating in real estate, construction, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and capital allocation. It fosters sustainable growth across these sectors. The company's strategic vision focuses on delivering excellence while adapting to global market dynamics. It aims to create long-term value and contribute to societal development. Operations involve innovation in each sector, supported by strong leadership.
- Nov 2018Series C$15M
- May 2018Series B$10M
- Mar 2017Series A$4.4M
- Oct 2015Seed$1.6M
#5
Series C · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014 · 50 employees$62.2Mraised▾
Xstudy provides a platform through which parents can find suitable tutors for their kids. Follows a live classroom model to deliver content to students. Claims to have ~5,000 teachers registered on its platform. The company has partnered with Tencent (also the investor in the company) to use its live chat and video streaming products to offer virtual classroom services to its tutors and students. The company has also started a community for helping students get help from teachers and other fellow students.
- Jun 2016Series C$18.2M
- Jul 2015Series B$24M
- Jun 2015Series B$20M
- Jan 2015Seed—
#6
Series B · Yangpu, Shanghai · founded 2017 · 19 employees$14Mraised▾
Educational centre offering technology courses
#7
Deadpooled · Yangpu, Shanghai · founded 2005 · 8 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of an early education service. The company mainly focuses on course and education software development to provide early children education consulting and training services and also devises cloud data monitoring system to provide guidance for tracking children's growth, enabling clients to receive a high quality education service and improve children's early stage learning progress.
#8
Acquired · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 1905—raised▾
University offering multiple courses and degrees across diversified streams
#9
Series A · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 67 employees—raised▾
Operator of an online learning and exchange platform intended for exchanging medical and surgical skills. The company's platform provides medical and surgical knowledge from the world's best medical experts, enabling doctors to access medical knowledge and techniques from experienced doctors.
- Oct 2021Series A—
#10
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016—raised▾
Provider of academic tutoring services
- Jan 2021Series A—
#11
Deadpooled · Yangpu, Shanghai · founded 2018—raised▾
Provider of after-school based science learning programs
- Jun 2020Seed—
#12
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015—raised▾
Provider of professional tutoring services designed to help students improve academic performances. The company offers a wide variety of online and offline courses taught by experienced teachers, helping students to reach their ideal academic goals in a short amount of time.
- Feb 2020Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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How research on Edtech in Shanghai is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Shanghai — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 134 papers.
- Shanghai Normal University22
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University15
- Shanghai International Studies University13
- Shanghai Open University11
- University of Shanghai for Science and Technology8
- Artificial neural network5
- Adaptive learning5
- Learning analytics4
- Benchmark (surveying)3
- Adaptability3
- Blended learning1→15
- Educational technology1→14
- Class (philosophy)1→5
- Language acquisition1→3
- Blended learning5
- Mathematics education3
- Analytics3
- Educational technology3
- Digital transformation2
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