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Best Higher Education Tech Companies in New South Wales, Australia

The 43 best Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zookal.

43companies tracked
$27.4Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
12have raised

Ranked: Best Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Zookal
Books rental service
$17M77 mo agoSeries B—2011Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+9—
2Practera
Experiential learning platform for educators
$4M105 mo agoSeries AWes Sonnenreich
CEO
2013WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryElementor+50—
3QPay
University societies ticketing and membership platform
$2M61 mo agoSeed—2014——
4GrowPro Experience
Online platform offering admission assistance solutions for studying abroad
$2M40 mo agoSeedGoiko Llobet
Co-Founder
2016——
5Canopy Study
AI-driven platform offering content management solutions for schools
$1M52 mo agoDeadpooledDean Mikan
Co-Founder & CEO
2019——
6Studylane
College and course discovery platform for students
$1M134 mo agoSeries ABipul Kafley
Co-Founder & CSO
2012——
7BRiN
Platform providing education content through both a chatbot and an app interface
$950K122 mo agoSeedDale Beaumont
Founder & CEO
2016——
8SpoonFeedMe
White-labeled online courses for university students
$300K146 mo agoSeedDaniel Brand
Founder & Director
2013——

Top 12 Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales

#1
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 257 employees
$1.5Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2023Seed$1.5M
  • 2021Angel—
Founders & team
Goiko LlobetCo-FounderPablo BrusolaCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Angels Capital, K Fund, Lanzadera
Tech stack
Node.JsReactVercelNext.JsGoogle Tag ManagerAhrefs
#2
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2011 · 46 employees
$16.6Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2020Series B$9.9M
  • 2018Seed—
  • Mar 2016Seed$643K
  • Oct 2013Seed$550K
Investors
Wee Hur Holdings, Artesian, FJ Labs, Lead River, VentureCrowd, Unigestion
#3
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.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Seed$1.1M
Founders & team
Dean MikanCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Folklore Ventures
#4
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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 3.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2021Seed$1.1M
  • Aug 2018Seed$741.7K
  • 2016Seed$288.9K
Investors
Sydney Angels, American Express, AngelCube, Artesian, Transition Level, Startmate
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpUbuntuYoutubeBootstrap
#5
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 53 employees
$3.8Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 19k LinkedIn followers — 18.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2017Series A$3.8M
Founders & team
Wes SonnenreichCEO
Investors
Main Sequence
Tech stack
AccessibeAmazon CloudfrontAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAngularAnimate.Css
#6
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016
$950Kraised
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Platform providing education content through both a chatbot and an app interface. AI technologies offer human-like support to millions of business owners simultaneously. BRiN App is able to pinpoint user business problems with the help of a chat interface and give solutions and recommendations within microseconds. The app is available on both Android and iOS platforms.

Funding rounds
  • 2016Seed$950K
Founders & team
Dale BeaumontFounder & CEO
#7
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2012
$1Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2015Series A$1M
Founders & team
Bipul KafleyCo-Founder & CSOElaine StarkeyCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Sapien Ventures
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpApache Http Server
#8
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 2 employees
$300Kraised
▾

SpoonFeedMe provides online courses to students based on the university and subject that they need. Users can search through university name and further by course name. Content is created by students and is further curated. Works on the premium pricing model. Videos are of short duration and uses whiteboard style of production. Also provides curated summary pdfs and notes on the courses.

Funding rounds
  • 2014Seed$300K
Founders & team
Daniel BrandFounder & Director
Investors
Grand Prix Capital
#9
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013
$40Kraised
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Momentum Cloud provides SaaS platforms for educational institutes. Features include attendance, academic, assessment and well-being management.Products include K-12 Education Momentum ESR, which is a student information management system for k-12. Early learning momentum EYLF, which is a SIS for continued learning and early learning. Momentum Cloud, which is a cloud storage and application distribution platform.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2014Seed$40K
Investors
muru-D
Tech stack
Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceGoogle AnalyticsHstsRssOpen Graph
#10
Funding Raised · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 3 employees
$3.9Kraised
▾

SaaS-based platform providing educational management system. Features include customer relationship management, agency management, document management, sales management, student management, payment management, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$3.9K
Founders & team
Raphael AriasFounder & Co-CEO
Investors
INCUBATE
Tech stack
VarnishGithub PagesJqueryGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle Font ApiCloudinary
#11
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2003 · 413 employees
—raised
▾

Studiosity is an online platform for connecting students with tutors. Provides on-demand study support for students. Features include chat, feedback, whiteboard, file sharing, and others. Some of the subjects covered are English, math, science, commerce, statistics, economics, accounting, and others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 9.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Vancouver American University London) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2021Seed—
Investors
OES, CVC Emerging Companies
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#12
Public · Pyrmont, New South Wales · founded 1997 · 152 employees
—raised
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Ready Tech provides student management solutions and staff management solutions. It offers JR Plus, a student management solution that helps educational institutions to manage student enrollments, scheduling, reports, etc. and VETtrak for RTOs to manage administrative processes. Also, offers A2E, that enables users to measure students attitude and commitment levels. Also, offers corporate solutions for payroll management, HR administration, work safety management, behavioral assessments, apprenticeship management, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 16k LinkedIn followers — 15.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2020Post IPO—
Investors
Pemba Capital Partners

Funding & investor landscape

$27.4Mtotal disclosed funding
10companies funded
15disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Artesian2 rounds
Sapien Ventures2 rounds
Startmate2 rounds
Ac Holdings1 rounds
American Express1 rounds
AngelCube1 rounds
Angels Capital1 rounds
Ayanda Capital1 rounds
CVC Emerging Companies1 rounds
Evolve Private Capital1 rounds

Notable founders

Goiko Llobet
Co-Founder · GrowPro Experience
Pablo Brusola
Co-Founder & CEO · GrowPro Experience
Dean Mikan
Co-Founder & CEO · Canopy Study
Wes Sonnenreich
CEO · Practera
Dale Beaumont
Founder & CEO · BRiN
Bipul Kafley
Co-Founder & CSO · Studylane
Elaine Starkey
Co-Founder & CEO · Studylane
Daniel Brand
Founder & Director · SpoonFeedMe
Raphael Arias
Founder & Co-CEO · EducationLink
Prism market signals · Australia · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,465,167 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Higher Education Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Higher Education Tech companies are there in New South Wales, Australia?
Radar tracks 43 indexable Higher Education Tech companies headquartered in New South Wales, Australia that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales, Australia?
The Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales, Australia on this list have raised a combined $27.4M in disclosed equity funding across 10 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Higher Education Tech company in New South Wales, Australia?
Zookal is the highest-funded Higher Education Tech company in New South Wales, Australia, with $16.6M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales, Australia are funded?
10 of the 43 Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales, Australia on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Higher Education Tech unicorns are there in New South Wales, Australia?
None of the Higher Education Tech companies in New South Wales, Australia on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in New South Wales, Australia Higher Education Tech companies?
The most active investors in New South Wales, Australia Higher Education Tech companies on this list include Artesian, Sapien Ventures, Startmate, Ac Holdings, American Express.
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