Best Higher Education Tech Companies in Sydney, Australia
The 32 best Higher Education Tech companies in Sydney, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zookal.
Ranked: Best Higher Education Tech companies in Sydney
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zookal Books rental service | $17M | 80 mo ago | Series B | — | 2011 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+9 | — |
| 2 | Practera Experiential learning platform for educators | $4M | 108 mo ago | Series A | Wes Sonnenreich CEO | 2013 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryElementor+50 | — |
| 3 | QPay University societies ticketing and membership platform | $2M | 64 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 4 | GrowPro Experience Online platform offering admission assistance solutions for studying abroad | $2M | 42 mo ago | Seed | Goiko Llobet Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | Studylane College and course discovery platform for students | $1M | 136 mo ago | Series A | Bipul Kafley Co-Founder & CSO | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | BRiN Platform providing education content through both a chatbot and an app interface | $950K | 124 mo ago | Seed | Dale Beaumont Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 7 | SpoonFeedMe White-labeled online courses for university students | $300K | 148 mo ago | Seed | Daniel Brand Founder & Director | 2013 | — | — |
| 8 | Momentum Cloud SaaS platforms for educational institutes | $40K | 146 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | — | — |
Top 10 Higher Education Tech companies in Sydney
#1
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—
#2
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
#3
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
#4
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
#5
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016$950Kraised▾
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.
- 2016Seed$950K
#6
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
#7
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.
- 2014Seed$300K
#8
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013$40Kraised▾
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.
- Aug 2014Seed$40K
#9
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.
- Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$3.9K
#10
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.
- Jan 2021Seed—
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