Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Melbourne, Australia
The 60 best K-12 EdTech companies in Melbourne, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Compass.
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 Melbourne
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compass Web-based school management platform | $41M | 22 mo ago | Late Stage | John Motte Co-Founder & CEO | 2009 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | 3 launchs · 1 expansion |
| 2 | KNeoMedia Game-based learning platform for students | $5M | 104 mo ago | Public | James Kellett Executive Chairman & CEO | 1987 | — | — |
| 3 | Verso Cloud-based professional development platform for teachers | $2M | 107 mo ago | Series A | Colin Wood Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 4 | Operoo Provider of digital forms, communication & payment related platform for schools | $2M | 87 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 5 | TalkiPlay App-based language learning for kids | $531K | 53 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 6 | HackersJack SaaS-based platform offering cybersecurity lessons | $370K | 58 mo ago | Seed | Ikram Akbar Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 7 | Scriibi Provider of an online tool for the teacher to develop written communication skills of the student | $25K | — | Funding Raised | David Nicolaides Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2017 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+28 | — |
| 8 | Cadmus Online writing tool for students | $20K | 9 mo ago | Seed | Herk Kailis Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | Node.jsNext.jsstyled-components+18 | — |
Top 9 K-12 EdTech companies in Melbourne
#1
Late Stage · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2009 · 14 employees$41.1Mraised▾
Compass Education (trade name of JDLF International) offers web-based school management platform. Features include attendance and roll marking, semester and progress reporting, news feed, calendaring, staff, student and parent portal, online payments, curriculum builder, parent-teacher interviews, behavior management, budgeting and purchase orders. Accessible on PC, tablet, and mobile. Apps are available for iOS platform.
- Aug 2024PE—
- Nov 2019PE$41.1M
- Aug 2018PE—
#2
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2015 · 25 employees$20Kraised▾
Cadmus is an online writing tool for students. It enables students to write literature reviews, annotated bibliography, tutorial tasks, case study reports, lab reports, essays, and more. It also enables teachers to design and build assignment instructions, manage submissions, and grade.
- Sep 2025Seed—
- 2015Grant (prize money)$20K
#3
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 1987 · 35 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Game-based learning platform for students. It focuses on academic and life skills. It allows teachers to monitor individual student performance in multiple categories of learning including literacy, memory, reasoning, math, art, and science using an analytics dashboard.
- Oct 2017Post IPO$3.9M
- Mar 2016Post IPO$812K
- Dec 2015Post IPO$552K
#4
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2018 · 8 employees$530.9Kraised▾
TalkiPlay offers app-based language learning for kids. Provides games based on levels and interests. Caters to children of age 1 to 5 years. Also caters to institutions.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$285.2K
- Mar 2019Seed$530.9K
#5
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2012 · 27 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of digital forms, communication & payment related platform for schools. It provides solutions such as registration & onboarding, online forms & approval workflow, excursion management, payment & shopping cart, and many more. It also provides resources for parents such as notifications, parent form, online payment, medical form, and many more.
- Apr 2019Seed$1.5M
#6
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2013$1.6Mraised▾
Verso provides a cloud-based continuous professional development platform providing teachers with embedded, teaching strategies that help promote deeper and more personalized learning in every classroom. Provides Verso recipe cards, professional learning communities, collaborative learning library and classroom collaboration tools. Claims to be used by 12K+ schools and 40K+ teachers.
- Aug 2017Series A$1.6M
#7
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2020$370Kraised▾
SaaS-based platform offering cybersecurity lessons. It offers kids interactive lessons on cybersecurity, staying safe online, phishing attacks, and more. It also provides an analytical tool that provides parents with a complete list of knowledge gained and areas that need further improvements.
- Aug 2021Seed$370K
#8
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 4 employees$25Kraised▾
Provider of an online tool for the teacher to develop written communication skills of the student. It enables choosing essential skills, gets aligned with curriculum, and assess with consistency. It also enables maintaining students, target teaching, track learning, and personalized learning.
- Grant (prize money)$25K
#9
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014 · 16 employees—raised▾
Online virtual reading platform for kids. It offers features such as guided progress, immediate feedback, incorrectly pronounced words identified, and more. The mobile application is available for Android users.
- Dec 2021Seed—
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 rising · growth rising
How research on Edtech in Melbourne is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Melbourne — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 60 papers.
Melbourne's University of Melbourne leads edtech research on online/blended learning and analytics, with recent work (40 papers post-2020) cautiously optimistic (mean stance 0.23) but notably split between advancement and concern.
- The University of Melbourne36
- University of Melbourne21
- The Royal Melbourne Hospital2
- Melbourne School of Theology1
- St Vincent\'s Hospital Melbourne1
- Adaptation (eye)2
- State (computer science)2
- Concept drift1
- Inference1
- Attack model1
- Learning analytics3→4
- Blended learning2→3
- Educational technology7
- Learning analytics4
- Cognition4
- Medical education3
- Student engagement3
Common questions
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