Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Ireland
The 82 best K-12 EdTech companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Learnosity.
Our analysis of 148 K-12 EdTech companies
$9.7b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best K-12 EdTech companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learnosity Provider of assessment-assistance solutions for educators | $19M | 96 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | WordPressSentryZendesk+33 | 1 job opening · 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 2 | Fishtree Learning management system for schools and higher education | $5M | 135 mo ago | Acquired | Jim Butler Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & Co-founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 3 | TerminalFour Digital Engagement and Web-Content management platform for Universities | $4M | 134 mo ago | Early Stage | — | 1996 | ZURB FoundationAmazon Web ServicesCloudflare+18 | — |
| 4 | StoryToys Developer of educational apps for childrens | $4M | 113 mo ago | Acquired | Emmet O'Neill CEO | 2008 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+32 | 1 launch |
| 5 | Adaptemy Classroom-focused adaptive learning platform | $4M | 41 mo ago | Seed | Conor O'sullivan CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 3 internships |
| 6 | Studytracks Provider of musical adaptations of school subjects for improved learning | $1M | 81 mo ago | Seed | Jon Hammond-Hagan Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2015 | — | — |
| 7 | Robotify DIY robotic kit to learn coding and software to control robots | $1M | 75 mo ago | Acquired | Evan Darcy Co-Founder & CTO | 2015 | — | — |
| 8 | TeachKloud Cloud based platform offering school management software | $834K | 77 mo ago | Seed | Wendy Oke Founder | 2016 | WordPressMySQLQuill+30 | — |
| 9 | VSware Student management system for schools | $750K | 145 mo ago | Seed | Patrick Barry Co-Founder & CEO | 2010 | SentrySummernoteHighcharts+23 | — |
| 10 | Words Worth Learning Literacy development program | $693K | 79 mo ago | Funding Raised | Rita Treacy Owner & Director | 2009 | — | — |
| 11 | CleverBooks AR based educational products aimed at primary kids and corporate | $447K | 66 mo ago | Funding Raised | Dba Darya Yegorina Founder | 2016 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+25 | — |
| 12 | Kids Speech Labs App-based platform providing speech and language-related skill development solutions | $190K | 48 mo ago | Funding Raised | Shona Darcy Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 13 | Schoolbooks.ie Provider of ecommercce platform for school supplies for students | $113K | 71 mo ago | Funding Raised | John Cunningham Founder | 2004 | Shogun Page BuilderCart FunctionalityShopify+35 | — |
| 14 | Animated Language Learning Adaptive language learning for kids with special needs. | $112K | 84 mo ago | Funding Raised | Enda Dodd CEO | 2007 | — | — |
Top 12 K-12 EdTech companies in Ireland
#1
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2013 · 7 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Classroom-focused adaptive learning platform. It provides features such as Curriculum maps, Real-time Classroom monitoring, an Automatic suggestion of content to students based on performance, Activities suggestion to teachers, Dashboard based reporting of various pre-defined metrics, and more. It also offers content authoring and integration services to publishers.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$164.3K
- Jan 2017Seed$3.5M
- Sep 2016Seed$278.7K
#2
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2018 · 4 employees$189.7Kraised▾
App-based platform providing speech and language-related skill development solutions. The platform enables parents to track and access the speech and language of a child according to their age. The platform offers interactive games and data-driven solutions, and clinical methods to monitor and improve a child's speech and language development.
- Jun 2022Grant (prize money)$79.8K
- Mar 2022Grant (prize money)—
- Mar 2020Grant (prize money)$55.3K
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$54.7K
#3
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2007 · 200 employees$18.8Mraised▾
Provider of assessment-assistance solutions for educators. It provides a tool for educational institutes to build online assessment and learning products. It offers pre-built APIs for creating and delivering content. It can be used by k-12 and higher education teachers.
- May 2018Series A$18.8M
#4
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2008 · 30 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Developer of educational apps for childrens. It offers interactive books combine stories, illustrations, and design with games. It also makes interactive childrens books and games for iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Android. The stories are presented in a simulation of a traditional pop-up book.
- Jan 2017Series A$507.5K
- 2016Series A$1M
- Aug 2015Seed$54.5K
- Apr 2013Seed$1.2M
#5
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 18 employees$5Mraised▾
Learning management system for schools and higher education. The platform combines learning management with content curation and personalization that engages teachers, parents, and students. The platform enables interaction by creating a learning community through their analytics, recommendations, and personalization engines. Delivers a classroom solution for the teacher as well as personalization for the student. Adapts to the needs and changes profile for both teacher and student. Its features are lesson planner, allows teachers to prepare lessons from multiple sources and modes of content, including open education resources and premium content, and align to any standard, skill, or competency.
- Mar 2015Series A$3M
- Sep 2014Seed$2M
#6
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2016 · 12 employees$447.4Kraised▾
CleverBooks is the provider of augmented reality-based educational solution for the primary schools. Offers geometry and geography-based kits to 7-11-year-olds that includes a companion application, a curriculum-based workbook, flashcards, and a paid-for in-app game. Allows the user to scan the flashcard and the workbook for augmenting the underlying AR content. The company additionally provides solutions catering to industries such as hospitality, travel, entertainment, airlines, etc. The application is compatible with both Andriod and iOS devices. Clientele includes Nasco, Enterprise Ireland, Adlibris, Cork Institute of Technology, Accelerace, Spectrum, EdTechX Europe, Rainbow Resource Center etc. Also provides training, workshops, consulting & project integration services. The products can be bought online through third-party websites and authorized resellers such as Lulu, IngramSpark, Foyles, Booktopia, Nasco etc.
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$28.3K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$419.2K
#7
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015 · 17 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Robotify Labs offers DIY robotic kits for helping school kids learn to code. It additionally offers a software called Roboverse for remotely controlling the robots. The company also manages a fleet of robots and allow kids to code in a gamified and competitive environment using a time-sharing model. Kids compete in a series of challenges designed to enhance their coding skills.
- Mar 2020Seed$1.1M
#8
Early Stage · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1996 · 86 employees$3.8Mraised▾
TerminalFour offers a digital engagement and web-content management platform for Universities and colleges. Provides products for Content Management, Email marketing, A/B Testing, Landing Pages creation, Social media campaign management, Social Analytics, etc. Oxford University, UCD, Imperial College London, St Andrew’s University and Columbia University are among its clients.
- Apr 2015Unattributed$1.5M
- Jan 2010Unattributed$2.3M
#9
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2009$693.1Kraised▾
Words Worth Learning is an online literacy program that is focussed towards reading and spelling problems like dyslexia and helps students to better their comprehension, vocabulary, and memory. The platform can be used by schools or at home, on PC or Tablet. Provides a dashboard for results-based evidence. The platform allows students to watch the videos and do exercises. The platform is priced at $110/month/user.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$427.6K
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$138.9K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$126.6K
#10
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of musical adaptations of school subjects for improved learning. It offers educational content transformed into music to facilitate quicker recollection. The platform aims to enable longer retention of academic material for students. It also provides resources for teachers to integrate into their instruction.
- Sep 2019Seed$1.2M
- Nov 2018Seed—
#11
Seed · Cork, Munster · founded 2016 · 3 employees$833.7Kraised▾
Cloud based platform offering school management software. Provides an inspection app allowing schools to manage and create policies, and accident and emergency reports. Offers teaching materials and allows teachers to create content like learning journals, stories, and observations. Also provides a parent communication app to share pictures, daily updates, and important information.
- Jan 2020Seed$833.7K
#12
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 25 employees$750Kraised▾
VSware provides a cloud-based Management Information System platform for school management. Features includes an attendance management dashboard, incidents management and predictive analysis, payment management, performance management of students, scheduler, communication platform and more. Works on the subscription-based pricing model. Also integrates with Microsoft office to provide accessibility.
- May 2014Seed$750K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of K-12 EdTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth flat
How research on Education Technology is moving in Ireland
A read on the academic research around Education Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 145 Ireland-affiliated papers.
- Dublin City University25
- University of Limerick21
- Trinity College Dublin14
- University College Dublin12
- University College Cork10
- Active learning (machine learning)3
- Personalized learning2
- Educational technology2
- Educational game1
- Game based learning1
- Educational technology4→13
- Psychological intervention1→4
- Learning analytics1→4
- Educational technology3→10
- Pedagogy1→5
- Higher education2→5
- Experiential learning1→4
Where edtech is researched across Ireland
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.