Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Chicago, United States
The 76 best K-12 EdTech companies in Chicago, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Elevate K-12.
Our analysis of 50 K-12 EdTech companies
$1.5b in tracked funding; 100% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best K-12 EdTech companies in Chicago
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elevate K-12 Online platform providing virtual teaching solutions for schools 60Growth top 21%Funding top 25%Moat top 39%Tech top 45% All 8 signals ▾Growthtop 21% Fundingtop 25% Moattop 39% Techtop 45% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 32% Newsbottom 22% Growth: Headcount 27 → 62 (+130%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $54.5M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 8 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $54M | 13 mo ago | Acquired | 62 | Shaily Baranwal Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+36 | — | 1 partnership |
| 2 | eSpark Learning Personalized learning on the iPad for schools | $31M | 53 mo ago | Series C | 41 41 → 29 (-29%) | Eric Dahlberg Chief Executive Officer | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+34 | — | — |
| 3 | Wyzant Marketplace for offline and online tutoring classes | $22M | 150 mo ago | Acquired | 61 | Paul Mishkin CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+38 | 6 patents AI-driven tutoring matchmaking and educational content recommendation platform | — |
| 4 | ThinkCERCA AI-powered ELAR curriculum for argumentative writing and literacy skills | $20M | 108 mo ago | Series B | 16 | Eileen Murphy Founder and CEO | — | — | — |
| 5 | thinkcerca ThinkCERCA offers a personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills. | $20M | 108 mo ago | Series B | 65 | — | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | — | — |
| 6 | Trala App-based platform providing violin-related learning solutions | $18M | 37 mo ago | Series A | 37 | — | VarnishStripeGitHub Pages+8 | — | — |
| 7 | Drift Net Provider of software solutions for safety management | $16M | 39 mo ago | Series B | 67 | Aaron Coles Founder & CEO | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+14 | — | — |
| 8 | Codeverse Coding platform empowering kids to create games and apps | $10M | 94 mo ago | Acquired | 56 | Katy Lynch Co-Founder & Chief Communications Officer | WebflowReactAmazon Web Services+11 | — | — |
| 9 | inquirED Provider of inquiry-based social studies curriculum and professional learning for engaging students and… | $6M | 31 mo ago | Series A | 47 47 → 70 (+49%) | Shanti Elangovan Founder & CEO | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+22 | — | — |
| 10 | Innovare Social Innovation Partners Provider of data analysis and project management solutions for schools | $5M | 38 mo ago | Seed | 18 | Adrian Deleón Ed Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+40 | — | 1 launch |
| 11 | Pearachute Subscription Service for Kids activities | $4M | 87 mo ago | Deadpooled | 4 | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | TeleTeachers Online platform offering e-learning services 29Funding top 38%Talent bottom 49%Market bottom 42%Global bottom 29% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 38% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 42% Globalbottom 29% Funding: Raised $4.3M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $4M | 8 mo ago | Series A | 28 | Emily Smith Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 13 | GetSet Learning Improves student retention through community, analytics, and behavior change tools | $2M | 141 mo ago | Seed | 5 | Karan Goel CEO and Founder | RubyRuby on RailsAngularJS+13 | — | — |
| 14 | Digedu ModernTeacher | $2M | 149 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 20 | Matthew Tullman Founder | — | — | — |
| 15 | The Graide Network Platform connecting teachers with teaching assistants | $1M | 81 mo ago | Seed | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | AwardSpring Scholarship management system | $1M | 18 mo ago | Series A | 22 | Kurt Reilly Co-Founder & CEO | DudaNginxAzure+23 | — | — |
| 17 | Reach Pathways Platform connecting high-performing under-resourced students to companies and colleges | $1M | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | Jeffery Beckham Co-Founder & Co-CEO | WixSentryBootstrap+12 | — | — |
| 18 | Spotivity Provider of after-school activities discovery platform | $1M | 59 mo ago | Seed | 11 | Montana Butsch Founder | — | — | — |
| 19 | HiLink Cloud and AI-based platform providing collaborative learning solutions | $900K | 48 mo ago | Seed | 35 | — | Cart FunctionalityWixSentry+24 | — | — |
| 20 | TransparentCareer Career Management and candidate sourcing platform | $850K | 116 mo ago | Seed | 4 | Mitch Kirby Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | Parker Dewey Platform for students and companies to connect with each other for short-term projects | $720K | 100 mo ago | Seed | 49 | — | SentryErlangElixir+21 | — | 1 internship · 1 launch |
| 22 | ClassroomIQ Online grading tool for teachers | $389K | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Stephen Dillinger Founder | — | — | — |
| 23 | Cognomos Course matching platform for higher educational institutes | $385K | 99 mo ago | Seed | — | Matt Boulos Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 24 | Verboso Provider of online speech therapy platform | $350K | 58 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Michael Young Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 25 | Aidhen's Corner Online concierge service for kids activities | $300K | 142 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Arti Pullins Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 26 | Infiniteach Provider of adaptive edutainment apps for autism education | $270K | 78 mo ago | Seed | 5 | Katie Hench CEO | — | — | — |
| 27 | ImmersionED Platform offering learning video game modules for students | $120K | 33 mo ago | Seed | 5 | Chad Wilson Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 28 | StudyCloud Collaborative classroom management platform | $110K | 154 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 4 | Ravi Pilla Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 K-12 EdTech companies in Chicago
#1
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 62 employees$54.5Mraised▾
Online platform providing virtual teaching solutions for schools. The platform offers live teaching, live quizzes & polls, live labs, live audio, live video, and more. The platform offers learning solutions in math, science, computer science, and more.
- May 2025Series C$3.8M
- Jun 2022Series C$40M
- Mar 2021Series B$9.5M
- Mar 2019Series A$300K
#2
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2019 · 28 employees$4.3Mraised▾
Online platform offering e-learning services. It is a behavioral health platform offering teletherapy services to schools and organizations serving vulnerable students and youth.
- Oct 2025Series A$1.3M
- Nov 2022Series A$1.5M
- Jul 2020Series A$2.8M
#3
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2013 · 22 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Scholarship management system. The features include customizable application, scholarship matching, evaluation, follow up notifications, reporting, single sign on, integrations with SIS, and more. The platform is offered on monthly subscriptions basis.
- Dec 2024Series A$2.4M
- Nov 2021Seed$1.2M
#4
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2016 · 37 employees$18.1Mraised▾
App-based platform providing violin-related learning solutions. It offers tutorial videos and daily lessons for the students. It also allows them to chat with the instructor and enables the instructors to provide instant feedback to the students. It also provides a practice journal. Available on both Android and iOS devices.
- May 2023Series A$19.5K
- Dec 2022Series A$14.5M
- Dec 2021Series A—
- Jul 2020Series A$3.5M
#5
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2018 · 67 employees$15.6Mraised▾
Provider of software solutions for safety management. It provides users with a platform for managing safety solutions for facilities, assets, and campuses. It also provides users with threat assessment, threat detection, visitor management, and emergency planning solutions.
- Mar 2023Series B$15.6M
#6
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 47 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Provider of inquiry-based social studies curriculum and professional learning for engaging students and supporting teachers. It offer curriculum resources and tools for elementary schools, focusing on inquiry-based learning in social studies.
- Oct 2023Series A$6.2M
#7
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2010 · 41 employees$30.7Mraised▾
Personalized learning on the iPad for schools. Its technology allows for easy iPad setup, which enables educators to deliver and manage personalized learning in their classrooms. Provides around the clock personal assistance to teachers using eSpark. eSpark is working with more than 3,000 apps and learning experiences (eBooks, iOS apps, web apps, instructional videos and songs), curating those apps into custom learning profiles and playlists for students based on their individual needs.
- Jan 2022Series C$25M
- Jan 2015Series B—
- Sep 2012Series A$5.7M
#8
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2022$1Mraised▾
Platform connecting high-performing under-resourced students to companies and colleges. It uses metaversity setting and a video-game style curriculum, to reach career pathways to bring scholars' programming to more students.
- May 2024Seed$1M
#9
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 18 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of data analysis and project management solutions for schools. It offers features such as data management, strategy development, project management, and more. It monetizes through a subscription-based model.
- Apr 2023Seed$2M
- Aug 2021Seed$3M
- Jun 2021Seed—
#10
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2012 · 16 employees$19.8Mraised▾
AI-powered ELAR curriculum for argumentative writing and literacy skills. This company provides a comprehensive Core ELAR curriculum enhanced by an AI-powered platform, designed to accelerate literacy growth. It offers engaging, high-quality curriculum aligned to standards, flexible and easy-to-use for teachers, and blended for interactive classrooms. The platform includes vocabulary instruction, technology-enabled scaffolds like Immersive Reader, custom lesson creation tools, and support for English Language Learners. It also features embedded assessments, benchmark writing assessments, and comprehensive reporting to drive teamwork and collaboration. The platform integrates with various SSO, SIS, and LMS providers, offering Tier interventions and personalized learning paths. This is a B2B SaaS company that focuses on educational software, curriculum development, and professional learning, aiming to equip students with critical thinking skills through writing across all subjects. The platform offers login access for teachers and students, demo requests, and subscription options.
- Jun 2017Series B$10.1M
- Jul 2016Conventional Debt$3M
- Mar 2015Series A$5.2M
- Jun 2014Seed$1.5M
#11
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2012 · 65 employees$19.8Mraised▾
Developer of a personalized literacy platform designed to nurture students' reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. The company's platform facilitates thinking through argumentative writing and tracks real-time reading and writing progress through collaborative discussions and debates in classrooms, enabling teachers to design, share, deliver and assess lessons' argumentation framework and students to use the process of argumentation to learn about any subject.
#12
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2005 · 61 employees$21.5Mraised▾
Marketplace for offline and online tutoring classes. Its platform allows students and parents to search for and hire instructors for personalized tutoring sessions in their area. It also provides yearly scholarships for some of its students.
- Dec 2013Series A$21.5M
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Chicago researches in edtech
- University of Illinois Chicago14
- University of Chicago8
- Chicago Public Schools2
- Concordia University Chicago1
- Chicago State University1
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