Best Educational Support Services Companies in China
The 57 best Educational Support Services companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: GSX Techedu.
China's Educational Support Services sector is more active than the funding headlines suggest — our directory tracks 57 companies with $1.2B in total disclosed capital, and the concentration is stark. Gsx Techedu alone accounts for $870M of that pool. Ambow Education adds another $167M. Everything else is scrappier: Ai Xuetang at $34M, Ou Mei Si Education Technology Development at $29M, meishiedu at $28M. So when you're scanning this list, you're really looking at two tiers, one outlier and a long tail of sub-$35M bets. The global market sat at roughly $12.5B in 2021, growing at a 7.4% CAGR, driven by AI tools and shifting learner preferences — and China's concentration of capital in a handful of names tells you this market rewards scale fast.
The momentum data backs that up. Median app install growth is running around +20% YoY across 86 educational software and B2C training apps, which I'd call a quiet signal that demand is alive at the consumer layer even as institutional funding clusters at the top. Active investors here — JAFCO Asia, TH EDU Capital, 01VC, 10Fund, Actis — aren't chasing unicorns yet (none in this cohort), but they're clearly building toward that thesis. Regulatory headwinds in Chinese edtech remain real, so the companies earning follow-on attention are the ones threading compliance into product. That's the filter worth applying as you move through this directory.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
Our analysis of 50 Educational Support Services companies
$6.7b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Educational Support Services companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GSX Techedu Provider of Internet education technology services | $870M | 67 mo ago | Late Stage | Larry Chen CEO | 1999 | — | — |
| 2 | Ambow Education Educational IT solutions and services provider for K-12 schools and tutoring centers | $167M | 212 mo ago | Public | Jin Huang Founder & CEO | 2000 | — | 1 launch |
| 3 | Ai Xuetang K12 education, primary and secondary school MOOC platform | $34M | 96 mo ago | Series B | Wang Jianhong CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 4 | Ou Mei Si Education Technology Development Provider of solutions to educational institutions | $29M | 93 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | meishiedu Provider of education consulting services | $28M | 72 mo ago | Series B | — | 2009 | Node.jsstyled-componentsReact+8 | — |
| 6 | youshu.cc Developer of book sharing portal | $12M | 104 mo ago | Series A | Lei Wentao Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 7 | CollegeDaily Online portal for students who are going to study abroad | $5M | 103 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 8 | FSAI Provider of innovations and personalized learning experience to enhance education and healthcare | $4M | 97 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 9 | Foreign Education Technology Education solutions for foreign teachers | $2M | 100 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 10 | Guangzhou Shiniu Information Technology Developer of software and hardware solutions to support primary and secondary school operations | $2M | 82 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | — | — |
Top 12 Educational Support Services companies in China
#1
Late Stage · Haidian, Beijing · founded 1999$870Mraised▾
Provider of Internet education technology services
- Dec 2020Post IPO$870M
#2
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2009 · 500 employees$28.2Mraised▾
Provider of education consulting services
- Jun 2020Series B$28.2M
#3
Public · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2000 · 216 employees$167Mraised▾
Ambow Education provides e-learning technologies and services. It offers a learning engine that personalizes the way in which a student absorbs information; and a learning tracking system that records the student’s progress and achievements. Some of its solutions include e-learning platform which provides online education and training solutions, learning management system, School administration management system for education providers to support online teaching and learning environment for distance learning. Its language learning services product, BoPo classroom offers a new way to study English in an expedited manner (Short term courses spanning 4-8 months). which includes topics such as grammar, vocabulary, and other content in just four to eight months Has a chain of offline K-12 schools and tutoring center covering 30 provinces in China.
- Oct 2008Series D$103M
- Oct 2007Series C$54M
- Apr 2006Series A$10M
#4
Series A · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2012 · 90 employees$29Mraised▾
OMS Education is a provider of solutions to educational institutions. Provides solutions to management, recruitment, and teaching. Offer curricula and courses for students aged 3-16. Courses cover reading, science, English, art, animation, languages, etc. The management platform covers personnel management, financial statistics, educational teaching, market analysis,enrollment, and front-office business.
- Oct 2018Series A$21.7M
- Mar 2017Series A$7.3M
#5
Series B · Haidian, Beijing · founded 2014$33.7Mraised▾
Ai Xuetang is a K12 education, primary and secondary school MOOC platform. It is the basic education channel of the Ministry of Education Online Education Research Center in China. Provides online learning to primary and secondary schools children through videos comprising of synchronized teaching materials and anime.
- Jul 2018Series B$33.7M
#6
Series A · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015 · 20 employees$12Mraised▾
Developer of an online book reading platform. The company's book reading app and WeChat group connect the readers and offers various book products such as audio books, enabling its users to read and listen to their favorite books on the go.
- Oct 2017Series A$12M
#7
Deadpooled · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2013$4.5Mraised▾
CollegeDaily operates an online portal that caters to Chinese students who are going abroad for college. Provides information on college applications, living abroad and career development. It also provides ratings on various US colleges so as to assist students in decision making. Compared to other portals that focus on tests and admissions, CollegeDaily also provides cultural information to students around food, lifestyle, etc. Claims to have 600,000+ readers on the platform.
- Nov 2017Series A$3M
- Mar 2016Seed$1.5M
#8
Series A · Kwun Tong, Hong Kong · founded 2016 · 40 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Developer of learning platforms built to solve the real-world challenges in traditional education system. The company's platforms utilizes artificial intelligence technologies to provide an adaptive and personalized learning experience by analyzing learner's emotional state and motivation, enabling students and corporate professional to learn & grow, and enabling teachers to keep track of a student's learning experience in real time as well as forecast the student's performance in exams.
- 2018Series A$4.2M
#9
Series A · Guangzhou, Guangdong · founded 2014 · 66 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Developer of software and hardware solutions to support primary and secondary school operations
- Aug 2019Series A$1.6M
- Jun 2019Series A—
#10
Deadpooled · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2016 · 89 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Foreign Education Technology provides education solutions for foreign teachers. Offerings include online foreign curriculum solutions for training institutions, customized teaching materials, consulting in foreign teacher selection, and English learning products. Clients include Sunshine Excellent English Training School, Linyi New Concept English Training School, Nanyang Macheng English Training School, Zhangjiagang Central Asia International Education. etc. Claims to have served 200+ institutions.
- Mar 2018Seed$2.4M
#11
Series A · Guangzhou, Guangdong · founded 2014—raised▾
Provider of comprehensive academic, research, and other educational support services
- Mar 2023Series A—
#12
Public · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2014—raised▾
Provider of digital learning services
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Educational Support Services 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 China
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 2,700 China-affiliated papers.
- Beijing Normal University81
- Central China Normal University76
- East China Normal University55
- Zhejiang University51
- Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University32
- Adaptive learning1→86
- Adaptive control1→22
- Blended learning1→21
- Control theory (sociology)1→18
- Pattern recognition (psychology)1→13
- Educational technology14→262
- Blended learning4→210
- Mathematics education16→212
- Curriculum3→80
- Context (archaeology)5→81
- Educational technology7→63
- Blended learning3→38
- Mathematics education3→37
- Context (archaeology)1→25
- Cognition1→24
Where edtech is researched across China
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 China
China edtech patent filing is accelerating — 65 filings from 83 assignees (2017–2025), led by Huawei TECH, UNIV Zhejiang, NIO Technology Anhui; annual filings 1→14.
- Huawei TECH29
- UNIV Zhejiang5
- NIO Technology Anhui3
- UNIV Beijing Technology3
- TSE HO Keung3
- Qualcomm2
- Sanya NAT Institute Of Southern 2
- Malakhov Kirill Aleksandrovich2
Common questions
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