Best Education IT Companies in United States
The 325 best Education IT companies in United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: kaltura.
Here's what you're actually looking at: the best Education IT companies in the United States, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum across 325 tracked players. Total disclosed funding sits at $153M, and the numbers concentrate fast. Kaltura alone accounts for $145M of that pool. Afterschool Hq follows at $5M, then the field drops sharply, with TeachBoost at $2M and ConnectYard at $1M. No unicorns yet. So the question isn't whether this sector has capital, it's whether that capital is spreading.
Momentum, though, tells a different story than the funding table. Median install growth across 569 education and edtech apps is running at roughly +18% YoY, which means users are showing up even when venture dollars aren't. As shown in 2015 research, structural gaps in education delivery have long pushed adoption ahead of institutional funding cycles, and you're watching that pattern repeat. Coverage of the sector is essentially flat right now, but the hot themes, school funding battles, tuition scholarships, and what one writer recently called the real issue in public education, signal that the policy environment is anything but quiet. AlphaLab is the most active investor in our directory. The ground is moving.
Ranked: Best Education IT companies in United States
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kaltura Kaltura develops video SaaS solutions for enterprises of all industries. 57Market top 19%News top 29%Funding top 31%Product top 35% All 11 signals ▾Markettop 19% Newstop 29% Fundingtop 31% Producttop 35% Moattop 38% Fin. healthtop 39% Growthtop 49% Globalbottom 42% Patentsbottom 34% Customersbottom 29% Innovationbottom 16% Market: 768 employees (top 11% of SaaS) · Revenue ~$44.6M News: 12 BI events in 12 mo (of 70 tracked, 10 types) · +100% YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $145M | 118 mo ago | Public | — | 2006 | — | 3 patents Real-time interactive video streaming with effects, prefetch optimization, and collaborative editing | 2 awards |
| 2 | afterschool hq AfterSchool HQ replaces the extracurricular activity flyer at schools enabling parents to find, register, and… | $5M | 20 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — | — |
| 3 | teachboost TeachBoost is an evaluation and feedback platform designed to engage teachers and administrators in an… | $2M | 143 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | HugoNginxAmazon Web Services+19 | — | — |
| 4 | connectyard ConnectYard offers a social engagement platform that enables users to communicate across multiple platforms… | $1M | 167 mo ago | Seed | — | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 5 | streamable learning Streamable Learning is a Technology based compamy. | $125K | 97 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 6 | examsoft ExamSoft provides computer-based testing solutions for exam takers and exam administrators internationally. | — | 145 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1998 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 7 | Tutor Technologies Limited information available | — | 181 mo ago | Deadpooled | Christy McGuire Co-Founder | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 8 | 1 prospect technologies 1 Prospect Technologies provides market research, IT support, and job training services to government agency… | — | — | Acquired | — | 2014 | — | 2 patents Automated document scanning and management systems for digital imaging and workflow automation | — |
Top 7 Education IT companies in United States
#1
Seed · Fishers, Indiana · founded 2017 · 16 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Developer of a youth program management software designed to connect youth with engaging after-school and summer learning programs. The company's platform provides learning opportunities with features that allow parents to find, register, and pay for activities, enabling students to discover their gifts and talents while creating close bonds with peers who share their passions.
#2
Public · New York, New York · founded 2006 · 768 employees$145.1Mraised▾
Kaltura Inc provides live and on-demand video SaaS solutions to thousands of organizations around the world, engaging hundreds of millions of viewers at home, at work, and school. It also offers specialized industry solutions, including Learning Management System Video, Lecture Capture, and Virtual Classroom for educational institutions, as well as a TV Solution for media and telecom companies. It operates in two reporting segments which are Enterprise, Education, and Technology and Media and Telecom. Majority of the revenue is derived from Enterprise, Education & Technology. Majority of the revenue is earned from United States.
#3
Acquired · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2012 · 19 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Developer of a customizable instructional leadership designed to encourage professional learning moments for successful, sustainable improvements in teaching and learning. The company's platform creates interactions among teachers and administrators through a collaborative portal and works in partnership with educators to develop a safe space for teachers to collaborate with, and learn from, enabling professionals to have a culture of shared responsibility and collective success improving feedback quality, and increasing student achievement.
#4
Seed · Wayne, New Jersey · founded 2007 · 15 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Operator of a student engagement platform intended to leverage social and mobile technology to increase engagement and retention. The company's platform offers multimodal messaging to reach everyone, increases interaction with learning content, tracks daily student engagement, and measures progression along with overall learning outcomes, enabling educational institutes to monitor student engagement and performance over time.
#5
Seed · Charleston, South Carolina · founded 2017 · 5 employees$125Kraised▾
Developer of an education platform designed to create live educational video content. The company's platform creates high-quality, cost-effective educational videos and distributes them across school networks, offers customized classes and subject-specific live streaming videos, educational programs, and interactive and graphics-based study materials accessible via multiple devices, enabling teachers and homeschool families to educate their K 12 students through interactive education and smart learning methods that are cheaper and faster, yet effective.
#6
Acquired · Dallas, Texas · founded 1998 · 100 employees—raised▾
Developer of an exam administration platform designed to manage the entire assessment process. The company's cloud-based exam management and analytics platform delivers data to assess learning outcomes and improves learning, engagement and retention, test design, and accreditation compliance, thereby enabling faculty, staff, and academic leadership to continuously administer exams, analyze resulting data and improve curriculum, program, and student success.
#7
Deadpooled · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2011—raised▾
Developer of online educational software and services. The company deals in research and development of tutoring software and services for the computational sciences. The company design and build web-based intelligent tutoring systems and provide data analytics for education.
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Education IT 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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