Best Higher Education Tech Companies in Pennsylvania, United States
The 57 best Higher Education Tech companies in Pennsylvania, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ZAP.
Ranked: Best Higher Education Tech companies in Pennsylvania
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mentorscape Limited information available | — | $25K | — | Ashley Lai Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | academyone AcademyOne is a consulting and software development firm. | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | 2 patents Educational course management and delivery platforms for e‑learning systems | — |
| 3 | Acatar Online course creation and hosting platform | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | AdmissionsRevolution Empowering students to achieve college dreams through expert admissions guidance | — | — | — | Sara Harberson Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | BeenThere Online platform providing admission solutions for MBA students | — | — | — | Cara Morphew Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Campus Consortium Foundation Provider of IT solutions for students | — | — | 176 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 7 | Campus ToolKit Student success tool provider | — | — | — | Heather Post Owner | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Cloudtutor.com Online tutoring platform | — | — | — | Prashant Vanka Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Higher Education Tech companies in Pennsylvania
#1
Series A · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2014 · 19 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Student engagement and success software empowering institutions to foster student development. This mobile-first platform enhances student participation, tracks experiential learning, and provides modern co-curricular transcripts. It offers solutions for student engagement, development, and retention, with products like Guided Pathways and Student Organization Management. The platform helps institutions create personalized learning journeys, manage student organizations, and provide a dynamic record of the college experience. It also includes tools to assess career readiness and provides resources like insights, guides, case studies, and events. The software aims to bridge silos between university leaders, faculty, staff, and administrators, enabling them to achieve strategic goals and customize the platform to meet the needs of their unique student population. It is a SaaS platform that offers login, demo requests, and contact options.
- Sep 2024Series A$1M
- Mar 2020Seed$550K
- Dec 2015Seed$230K
#2
Acquired · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 1997 · 26 employees$79.7Mraised▾
Provider of admissions and enrollment management software for higher education. The software manages the student lifecycle from prospect to enrolled student. It offers modules for customer relationship management, student tracking, and interview scheduling. The software converts data into business intelligence to identify candidates. It provides secure data collection and streamlines student management.
- Jul 2022Series C$64.7M
- Mar 2021Series B$14.9M
#3
Series C · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2002 · 238 employees$44.6Mraised▾
Discovery, review, and rating platform for colleges and K-12 schools. Provides college-wise reviews and opinions on academics, campus quality, technology, transportation, and campus housing facilities. Also offers a feature to compare between colleges and provides information on scholarships.
- Apr 2020Series C$35M
- Feb 2019Series B$2M
- Feb 2018Series B$6.6M
- Nov 2015Series A$1M
#4
Seed · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2022$1Mraised▾
Provider of application management solutions for medical colleges. It also provides solutions for the evaluation process in medical education.
- Sep 2023Seed$1M
#5
Acquired · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2014 · 26 employees$8.3Mraised▾
OThot provides big data and predictive analytics solutions for education industry. It provides a predictive analytics platform and & intelligence-driven solutions for easy integration of predictive analytics into business processes. It captures, processes, and analyzes large data sets, providing its customers with understandable results.
- Jun 2020Series A$1.3M
- Jun 2019Series A$4.1M
- Mar 2017Seed$448K
- May 2016Seed$1.7M
#6
Seed · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2014 · 32 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Online platform providing student engagement solutions. The platform offers resources such as events, instructor certification courses, case studies, newsletters, e-books, and more. The platform enables students to learn beyond the classrooms.
- Sep 2020Seed—
- Jul 2020Seed$1.5M
- Jun 2020Conventional Debt$750K
- May 2020Seed—
#7
Acquired · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2013 · 19 employees$17Mraised▾
Learning science-based adaptive courseware & data analytics platform for personalized learning. It provides users with a learning platform enabling educational institutions to improve learning outcomes at reduced costs through data-driven and personalized learning solutions. The platform uses a learning-science-based approach for course design and breakthrough analysis and modeling of learning data for adaptive instruction for students.
- Nov 2016Series A$5M
- Jul 2015Series A$9.8M
- Feb 2015Series A$2.3M
- Sep 2014Grant (prize money)—
#8
Acquired · Conshohocken, Pennsylvania · founded 2008 · 120 employees$2.1Mraised▾
WizeHive provides a platform to manage scholarships, grants, and awards in businesses. It enables users to manage scores, reviews, and reports of the competition. It allows users to manage administrative tasks and organize the workflow process, share information with others and can be integrated with other solutions. It helps in managing fellowships, internships, accreditations, awards, and scholarships.
- Jun 2021Series A—
- Jun 2017Series A—
- Mar 2013Seed$1M
- Apr 2011Seed$980K
#9
Acquired · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2012 · 39 employees$750Kraised▾
AEFIS is a cloud-based integrated assessment management platform for higher education institutions. It offers various solutions which include course & syllabus management, curriculum mapping & outcome alignment, outcomes assessment & evidence collection, strategic planning & data collection, and more. Its partners include the University of Wisconsin, the University of Iowa, and more.
- Feb 2020Seed$750K
#10
Seed · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2014 · 4 employees$1Mraised▾
Tassl is a mobile-based platform for universities to track, inform, connect, and engage alumni networks. The solution includes Tassl App and Tassl Connect for alumni and university respectively. Using Tassl app, alumni can search and connect with each other to build their network. Stay up to date with university news, sports, and alumni events both locally and back on campus. Get recognized within their network and alumni body for their involvement through Tassl Awards. App available on Android and iOS.
- Jul 2017Seed$635K
- Mar 2016Seed—
- Nov 2015Seed$400K
#11
Acquired · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2010$915Kraised▾
HigherNext is a test administration and proctoring platform for online certification and school exams. Their flagship product is business skills exam for entry-level job applicants. Platform is licensed to educational institutions and employers for a fee. Acquired by ProctorU in 2014.
- Jul 2012Seed$540K
- May 2012Seed$125K
- Mar 2011Seed$125K
- Jul 2010Seed$125K
#12
Acqui-Hired · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2015 · 6 employees$250Kraised▾
FlockU offers an online community platform for college students where they can discuss events, news, viral contents. It also allows users to chat with each other, follow other users' content, share videos, etc.
- Jul 2016Seed$250K
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