Best Higher Education Tech Companies in Australia
The 115 best Higher Education Tech companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Navitas.
Here are the top Higher Education Tech companies in Australia, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum across 115 tracked players. Total disclosed capital sits at $395M, and one name pulls most of that weight: Navitas has raised $333M, leaving the rest of the field working in the tens of millions or below. Vivi follows at $24M, Cadmus at $20M, and Zookal at $17M. That concentration tells you something about where institutional confidence has landed. Globally, the sector's on a steep climb, forecast to reach $170.2B by 2028 at a 15.43% CAGR, driven by surging international student mobility and expanding enrollment pipelines.
So what's actually moving right now? App-layer adoption is one honest signal: median install growth is running at roughly +18% YoY across 569 education and edtech apps, which I'd call a real behavioral shift, not a blip. Recent thinking on reimagining higher education is pushing toward tech-enabled models that treat student engagement as infrastructure, and neuroscience-informed approaches to ed-tech design are starting to shape product thinking too. Active backers in this space include AngelCube, Artesian, and Quad Partners. The funding gap between Navitas and everyone else is wide, but the momentum underneath it is real.
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Ranked: Best Higher Education Tech companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Academ Management solutions for universities | — | — | Deadpooled | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Accelerus Reporting solutions for the education sector | — | — | Unfunded | — | Chris Rhodes Co-Founder | — | — |
| 3 | ACS Distance Education Online distance learning courses | — | — | Unfunded | — | John Mason Founder & Principal | PleskWindows ServerBootstrap+19 | — |
| 4 | Agentcis Business process management platform for education and migration agencies | — | — | Unfunded | 3 | Sulav Shrestha Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 5 | AirLabOne Provider of a platform for real-time remote lab-work experimentation and training | — | — | Unfunded | — | Mariam Martin-Mnatsakanyan Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 6 | Aloki Tutor discovery platform for students | — | — | Funding Raised | 3 | Zaver Sima Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 7 | AptoNow AI-based platform providing timetable management solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | Tom O'connor Co-Founder and CEO | — | — |
| 8 | Assignment Help Firm Mobile-based platform providing assignment assistance solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Higher Education Tech companies in Australia
#1
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2015 · 25 employees$20Kraised▾
Cadmus is an online writing tool for students. It enables students to write literature reviews, annotated bibliography, tutorial tasks, case study reports, lab reports, essays, and more. It also enables teachers to design and build assignment instructions, manage submissions, and grade.
- Sep 2025Seed—
- 2015Grant (prize money)$20K
#2
Acquired · Perth, Western Australia · founded 1994 · 125 employees$332.9Mraised▾
Provider of pathway programs, English language courses, and degree qualifications. The organisation delivers educational programs through colleges and campuses. It offers various study options, including degrees, diplomas, certificates, and employability training. The organisation connects students, agents, universities, and industry for international higher education.
- Feb 2019Grant (prize money)$5.4M
- Dec 2014Conventional Debt$327.5M
#3
Series B · South Yarra, Victoria · founded 2015 · 145 employees$24.3Mraised▾
Smart classroom solution for higher educational institutes. Features include wireless screen mirroring, user management, digital signage, emergency broadcasting, and more. Provides a BYOD platform that allows connecting devices and operating systems to the display directly through the network.
- Dec 2021Series B$20M
- Jan 2020Series A$4.3M
- Sep 2019Seed—
#4
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2011 · 46 employees$16.6Mraised▾
Zookal is an online service that lets users borrow, buy or sell books. Based in Australia, the platform provides a large library of books to select from. Zookal offers free delivery and picks up of books from customers. If the users like the books they can buy them at a discount on the retail price. Started an online video and tutoring marketplace where senior university students can upload a video of themselves explaining a subject to junior students. They can use methods like handwriting, PowerPoint presentations, and other materials.
- Mar 2020Series B$9.9M
- 2018Seed—
- Mar 2016Seed$643K
- Oct 2013Seed$550K
#5
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 257 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Online platform offering admission assistance solutions for studying abroad. It provides solutions for managing the paperwork and clears doubts of applicants, welcome sessions, and many more. It provides multiple courses in multiple locations.
- Apr 2023Seed$1.5M
- 2021Angel—
#6
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2016 · 54 employees$3Mraised▾
Vygo offers an app-based tutor discovery platform for school and university students. The platform allows students to search & book tutors for in-person and online classes. Tutoring is offered by students. Also allows tracking sessions through the app. Its mobile app is available for Android devices.
- Feb 2022Seed$2M
- Aug 2021Seed$621.4K
- Sep 2018Seed$360.2K
- Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$100K
#7
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 21 employees$2.2Mraised▾
The QPay app is an online membership portal that helps university clubs and societies to move membership online. The university societies can customize forms that can be filled by incoming students interested in joining the society. Payment can be done through the QPay app with credit cards. Provides ticketing service to the societies. Users can set different prices for members and non-members. Allows student head to notify the society members about society events, hoodies, yearbooks, etc.
- Jul 2021Seed$1.1M
- Aug 2018Seed$741.7K
- 2016Seed$288.9K
#8
Seed · Fitzroy, Victoria · founded 2017 · 48 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Online platform providing learning programs for students. The platform offers internships, innovation programs, global challenges, and more.
- Feb 2022Seed$1.2M
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$178.2K
#9
Series A · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2001$6Mraised▾
Moodle is an open-source learning management platform which is free to build upon. Moodle's development cost is supported by companies known as moodle partners. The platform includes customizable site design and layout, secure authentication and enrollment, multilingual capacity, course creation and user role management. Moodle has cloud-based in-house solution known as 'MoodleCloud' which offers fully-hosted LMS site on an annual subscription model. as of 2016 moodle had 19.1% of LMS market share in higher education.
- Oct 2017Series A$6M
#10
Deadpooled · Surry Hills, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 3 employees$1.1Mraised▾
AI-driven platform offering content management solutions for schools. It allows users to create formative assessments, grade answer sheets, upload lessons, receive student performance reports, and more.
- Apr 2022Seed$1.1M
#11
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 53 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Practera offers an experiential learning platform for educators. Enables universities and corporates to design and deliver work-related learning programs. Features include authoring, learning analytics, communication, etc. It can be integrated into the curriculum to deliver case studies and support flipped learning classrooms. Offered on subscription based on the number of users.
- Oct 2017Series A$3.8M
#12
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2012$1Mraised▾
Studylane offers a college and course discovery platform for students. Allows international students to search, compare and apply for courses. Enables searching course by programs, city, state, course, cost, institution, and duration. Courses cover subjects such as agriculture, engineering, mathematics, medicine, language, science, etc.
- Jun 2015Series A$1M
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