Best Higher Education Tech Companies in Ontario, Canada
The 78 best Higher Education Tech companies in Ontario, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ApplyBoard.
Ranked: Best Higher Education Tech companies in Ontario
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CoursePeer Learning management system for educational institutions and corporates | — | $60K | 11 | Hadi Aladdin Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 2 patents AI-driven matching of students to employers via online content analysis | — |
| 2 | acadiate Acadiate is a web platform created to help post-secondary students and alumni develop their employability. | — | — | 2 | — | SummernoteTailwind CSSBootstrap+10 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 3 | Access Portal Provider of learning platform for nursing students | — | — | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 4 | Admitly AI-powered online exchange that helps international students and student recruiters apply to the institutions | — | — | — | Himanshu Barthwal Founder & CEO | BootstrapSwiperIsotope+9 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 5 | All Day TA Provider of AI-powered tools for enhancing course content and learning | — | — | — | Kevin Bryan Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | AME Learning SaaS platforms and educational resources for students in accounting | — | — | 13 | — | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+26 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 7 | Ametros Learning AI-based l learning company developing soft skills of students | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | ampEducator Web Based Administration Software for Schools | — | — | — | Jamie McLeod Co-Founder | TurbopackEmotionSentry+19 | Top 500k | — | 2 launchs |
Top 12 Higher Education Tech companies in Ontario
#1
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2016 · 69 employees$7.2Mraised▾
Online podcast streaming platform. It allows users to stream educational podcasts for learning about finance and accounting. The app is available for android and iOS users.
- Sep 2024PE—
- Aug 2022Series A$3.8M
- May 2021Seed$909.6K
- Jun 2019Seed$845K
#2
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2019 · 25 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Platform offering event ticketing management solutions. It is a fin tech startup that is redefining virtual and in person events. The platform is centred around event ticketing, increasing guest engagement, and creating communities on campus.It is a all in one platform that helps to organize, discover, and collect payments for events on campus. It is set out to improve the event experience for both hosts and guests.
- Aug 2024Seed$1.2M
- Jan 2023Seed$2.5M
#3
Series D · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 2015 · 1656 employees$495.8Mraised▾
Study abroad application platform connecting recruitment partners and schools. It uses artificial intelligence to browse for universities and end to end educational services for students. It manages the process of abroad study, application, and acceptance of students. Additionally, it also guides students through the visa application process.
- Jun 2021Series D$309.9M
- Sep 2020Series C$55M
- May 2020Series C$70.9M
- May 2019Series B$40.9M
#4
Series E · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2009 · 561 employees$199.5Mraised▾
Provider of interactive learning software for higher education course management. This platform facilitates student engagement through digital tools including polling, quizzes, and interactive textbooks. It integrates with learning management systems to track attendance, monitor student performance, and deliver course content. The software includes artificial intelligence features to assist with assessment creation and study support. Educators use these tools to manage classroom activities and identify learning gaps through data analytics.
- Feb 2021Series E$130M
- Feb 2020Series D$20M
- Feb 2020Conventional Debt$35M
- Jun 2017Series C$7.5M
#5
Public · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 1999 · 88 employees$158.8Mraised▾
Provider of LMS systems for multiple sectors. It offers virtual and professional learning solutions. It provides blended,virtual,professional,customer,employes and partner training for corporates. They also provides products with tools for the management of classroom learning and the workplace.
- Aug 2014Conventional Debt—
- Aug 2014Series B$77.7M
- Aug 2014Series B$85M
- Sep 2012Series B$81.1M
#6
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2019 · 40 employees$4Mraised▾
Online platform providing admission mentoring & coaching solutions for students. The platform offers one-on-one digital coaching, learning programs, scholarship assistance, personalized advice, and more.
- Oct 2022Seed$4M
#7
Acquired · Waterloo, Ontario · founded 2001 · 52 employees$7Mraised▾
DigitalEd online STEM course platform for students. The platform offers a case study, white papers, blogs, and webinars. Its products are Mobius courseware, Mobius assessment, Mobius content, and others. Mobius content provides study material on math, science, and engineering.
- Aug 2021Series A—
- Mar 2019Series A$7M
#8
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 1997 · 61 employees$5.7Mraised▾
Kivuto provides a web-based platform to educational institutions for distributing software according to their licensing requirements. Has partnered with software publishers including Microsoft, Adobe, VMware, National Instruments, Parallels and others. Manages worldwide academic software licensing programs, such as the DreamSpark program and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Provides a webstore for free and paid software downloads. Also provides a textbook adoption platform called Texidium. Contains publisher asset library, adoption, digital resource poertal and eReader Platform.
- Sep 2020Series A$5.7M
- 2009Unattributed—
#9
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2012 · 32 employees$9Mraised▾
Admission management solution for higher education. Allows clients to create customized video & written assessment, receive candidate responses and evaluate the responses. Also enables students to prepare for admission video essays, interviews, and assessments.
- Aug 2016Series A$5M
- Mar 2015Seed$949.2K
- 2014Seed$1M
- Sep 2013Seed$2M
#10
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 1995 · 2 employees$11Mraised▾
Destiny One offers customer lifecycle management software designed specifically for higher education providers. It provides solutions to help colleges and universities attract, manage and maintain their non-traditional students. Company's flagship product Destiny One allows administrators to manage curriculum, enrollment, marketing, reporting, finance, and system administration. The clientele of the company includes Duke University, McGill, Virginia Tech, and University of Calgary among many others.
- May 2018PE$11M
- May 2018Conventional Debt—
#11
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2010 · 125 employees$1.6Mraised▾
OneClass, formerly known as NoteSolution, hosts an interactive library for educational content starting at the university level. Allows tutors to utilize the platform as a distribution channel to create supplementary materials such as videos for each and every university subject. Students can ask questions on any subject. Encourages user interaction through a rewards system, offering them free services so long as they contribute their own notes.
- Oct 2013Series A$1.6M
#12
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2016 · 167 employees$120Kraised▾
BioRender is a digital teaching tool provider for life sciences. It provides icons, templates to help researchers & teachers create, share scientific illustrations. Monetizes through monthly subscription packages. Some of their clients include Standford medical, Genentech, University of Cambridge, Roche, University of Toronto, and others.
- Mar 2018Seed$120K
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