Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Minnesota, United States
The 59 best K-12 EdTech companies in Minnesota, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Connexeo.
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 Minnesota
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connexeo School administration software solutions provider | $110M | 99 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 2 | Trinity3 Provider of hardware and services for K-12 education matketplace | $48M | 68 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Gary Embretson CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 3 | Kaleidoscope Online platform for scholarship design and administration management | $18M | 35 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+33 | 1 job opening |
| 4 | Flipgrid Video discussion forum | $17M | 129 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | Pivot Interactives SaaS-driven platform offering activity-based learning resources for schools to teach students | $16M | 84 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLMariaDB+27 | — |
| 6 | EmpowerU Online platform providing courses on social-emotional learning | $3M | 38 mo ago | Acquired | Katie Dorn Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 7 | Reflection Sciences App based assessment platform for kindergarten | $3M | 35 mo ago | Seed | Stephanie Carlson Co-Founder & Chairman | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+32 | — |
| 8 | Andamio Games Model-based engineering tools for cyber-physical systems development and analysis | $2M | 94 mo ago | Funding Raised | Kyle Nelson CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 9 | Naiku Assessment platform for shools and teachers | $1M | 145 mo ago | Series A | Adisack Nhouyvanisvong Co-Founder | 2010 | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+18 | — |
| 10 | Reeher Fundraising management platform | $603K | 203 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2002 | — | — |
Top 12 K-12 EdTech companies in Minnesota
#1
Series A · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2016 · 26 employees$18.2Mraised▾
Online platform for scholarship design and administration management. It offers a software platform for institutions to design, build, and administer scholarship programs. Students log into the platform and fill in their profiles to get matched with qualifying scholarships. It allows institutions to manage unrestricted, restricted, and endowed funds from investment to disbursement.
- Aug 2023Series A$2M
- Apr 2022Series A$10M
- Mar 2020Series A$3M
- Jul 2019Seed$755.6K
#2
Seed · Saint Paul, Minnesota · founded 2014 · 9 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Reflection Sciences provides app based assessment platform for kindergarten. MEFS, their app allows clients to create tests, receive results, provides data to help teachers, and more. Enables to predict school readiness and year-to-year gains in reading and math. Offers training for educators through workshops and webinars. Also offers games for children. Focused on developing working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility. Caters to 2-7-year-olds. Offered on a subscription model.
- Aug 2023Conventional Debt$100K
- Jun 2019Seed$1.3M
- Dec 2018Seed$775.9K
- May 2018Conventional Debt$25K
#3
Acquired · Excelsior, Minnesota · founded 2018 · 40 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Online platform providing courses on social-emotional learning. It provides personalized learning programs for students. It also provides one-on-one coaching for K-12 students and higher education students to increase student retention.
- May 2023Seed$800K
- Mar 2022Seed$975K
- Dec 2020Seed$1M
#4
Acqui-Hired · Saint Paul, Minnesota · founded 2014$48.5Mraised▾
Trinity3 is a technology company that provides hardware and services for the K-12 education marketplace. It offers personal systems, warranties for protecting investments, financial services, enterprise solutions, and more.
- Oct 2020Series C$48.5M
#5
Late Stage · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2018 · 165 employees$110Mraised▾
School administration software solutions provider. It provides web-based solutions for the payment process, music classes, event ticketing, and student registration. It also provides solutions for art classes, adult programs, event organizers, and community programs. Its features include online registration, fee-collection, enrollment reporting, and others.
- Apr 2018PE$110M
#6
Acquired · Woodbury, Minnesota · founded 2012 · 15 employees$16.3Mraised▾
SaaS-driven platform offering activity-based learning resources for schools to teach students
- Jun 2019Series B$16.3M
#7
Seed · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2023$20Kraised▾
Online platform for finding and managing kids camps and activities based on various criteria. The platform enables to find and filter kids camps by interests, drop-off and pick-up times, price, location and more.
- 2023Seed$20K
#8
Acquired · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2012 · 24 employees$17.4Mraised▾
Flipgrid, a product of Vidku, provides a platform for classroom discussions and company interactions. Video responses can be made uploaded in response to a question posted on the forum. The answers are posted in a grid. Works on a premium model. Available on iOS and Android. Over 4.5 million videos have been created on the platform as of Dec 2015. Recipient of Webby Award, Davey Award and W3 Award.
- Oct 2015Series A$17.4M
- Feb 2015Seed$17M
#9
Funding Raised · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2013$2.1Mraised▾
Model-based engineering tools for cyber-physical systems development and analysis. It offers a curated library of analysis tools supporting Model-based DevOps, Digital Engineering, and ACVIP. The tools help system engineers improve system capabilities and reduce risks of cost and schedule overruns by detecting flaws early in the development lifecycle. It supports continuous integration and testing for model-based engineering and analysis, with access to software, models, and materials via subscription. It supports modeling standards like AADL, SysML, and FACE. The analysis tools operate as plugins to the Open Source AADL Tool Environment (OSATE) and as standalones via a standard Java API. It provides solutions for highly reliable, functional, safe, and secure cyber-physical systems.
- Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Mar 2017Grant (prize money)$747.7K
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$150K
#10
Series A · Minneapolis, Minnesota · founded 2010 · 4 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Naiku is an assessment platform which helps teachers and school administrators to gain insights on students and processes. Products are targeted for school districts which help student data management, creating and evaluating and benchmarking common assessment reports. Teachers can automate the grading process, monitor student proficiency for each individual, create and evaluate tests, and collaborate with colleagues to enhance teaching methods. Provides benchmarked ready to use assessments and reports to give teachers useful insights to drive student engagement.
- May 2014Series A$1M
- Nov 2011Seed$320K
- Oct 2011Seed—
#11
Acquired · Saint Paul, Minnesota · founded 2002 · 62 employees$603Kraised▾
Fundraising management platform. The platform provides a web-based SaaS platform for fundraising management to schools and universities. Provides tools such as high-value donor selection through predictive analysis, a dashboard for managing and tracking all funding activities, portfolio management, and more.
- Aug 2009Seed$602.9K
#12
Acqui-Hired · Saint Cloud, Minnesota · founded 2000 · 110 employees—raised▾
Hoonuit provides an online professional learning platform for educators in K-12 and higher education. The platform offers a personalized and collaborative environment for educators to learn. Also offers analytic solutions to schools and districts. Clients include Columbus City Schools, Chicago Publis Schools, Mesa Public Schools, Miami University, etc. Claims to offer 1000+ courses and serves 500,000 educators.
- 2019Conventional Debt—
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How research on Edtech in Minnesota is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Minnesota — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 46 papers.
University of Minnesota leads Minnesota's moderately optimistic edtech research, focusing on online learning, analytics, and adaptive systems, with advancements dominating but concerns tempering enthusiasm.
- University of Minnesota21
- University of Minnesota System14
- Minnesota Department of Education6
- Minnesota State University, Mankato2
- Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System2
- Chronic pain3
- Cognition3
- Adaptation (eye)3
- Apathy3
- Mediation3
- Class (philosophy)1→4
- Educational technology1→4
- Educational technology3
- Mathematics education3
- Learning analytics3
- Analytics3
- Science education2
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