Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Missouri, United States
The 38 best K-12 EdTech companies in Missouri, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Answers.
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 Missouri
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acellus Academy Accredited online school for K-12 students | — | — | Unfunded | 3 | Roger Billings Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+20 | — | — |
| 2 | Book Retriever Classroom library management system for leveling, tracking, and checkout | — | — | Public | — | Benjamin Conn Founder | — | — | — |
| 3 | Campus Eye Communication platform provider for colleges | — | — | Unfunded | — | Rob Sweeney Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Classroom Library Company E-commerce platform to purchase books | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | PrestaShopCart FunctionalityMySQL+10 | — | — |
| 5 | Flewently Provider of an AI-based language learning platform | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Martin Stillman-Jones Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 6 | focusandread.com FocusandRead.com is the Reading Focus Cards tools to help reduce issues with focusing and attention | — | — | Private | 3 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 7 | Foliotek Accreditation management platform for higher education institutes | — | — | Unfunded | — | Chris Miller Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | Friendschool Online tutoring platform to learn Spanish | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Maestra Ketita Owner | — | — | — |
Top 12 K-12 EdTech companies in Missouri
#1
Seed · Kansas City, Missouri · founded 2018 · 30 employees$4.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI-driven interactive math-based games for schools. It offers features such as personalized learning solutions, reporting, dashboards, quizzes, assessments, and more.
- Apr 2026Seed$1.3M
- Sep 2022Seed$3M
- Oct 2021Seed$1.4M
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$100K
#2
Series A · Kansas City, Missouri · founded 2017 · 19 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Cloud based ERP software and solutions for schools. Its features include school bus tracking solutions, GPS tracking, viewing arrival time, optimizing the route, notifying substitute bus numbers, real-time broadcast video, pickup, and dropoff notification. It works on subscription-based pricing models.
- Jan 2025Series A$502.9K
- Jan 2023Series A$3.2M
- Apr 2020Series A$3.3M
- Nov 2018Seed$1M
#3
Acquired · Saint Louis, Missouri · founded 1999 · 20 employees$387.5Mraised▾
Answers is a social Q&A community where users can ask general questions on any topic and seek answers from other members. It allows users to create community discussion forums. It has a WikiAnswers page where users can get their questions answered by experts. Users can also submit articles on the site. Generates revenue through advertising.
- Oct 2014Post IPO$39M
- Dec 2013Post IPO$300M
- Apr 2012Post IPO—
- Jun 2009Post IPO$13M
#4
Seed · Kansas City, Missouri · founded 2021$200Kraised▾
Provider of early scholarship matching platform. It facilitates connections between high school students and universities, providing early access to scholarship opportunities. The platform aims to guide students toward higher education by matching them with universities that offer scholarships based on their academic profiles. It partners with high schools, districts, and universities to streamline the scholarship process and broaden students' college options.
- May 2025Seed$200K
#5
Series C · St. Louis, Missouri · founded 2007 · 405 employees$107Mraised▾
Provider of live online tutoring and test prep platform. Its offerings include one-on-one and small-group live tutoring sessions in K–12 academic subjects, college-level coursework, languages, test preparation and enrichment modules. It also provides instant homework help via chat, self-paced classes, live group courses, essay review support, and small group/large group learning events—used by individual learners as well as integrated school programs. The platform uses a proprietary AI-powered matching system to pair each learner with optimal tutors, plus a virtual classroom environment offering two-way audio/video, collaborative whiteboards, document editing, and session recording.
- Feb 2018Series C$50M
- Nov 2015Series B$50M
- May 2014Series A$7M
#6
Late Stage · Earth City, Missouri · founded 1995 · 82 employees$11.2Mraised▾
ORIGO Education provides an online maths-based learning platform. It provides its cloud-based learning management system called "Stepping Stones" which is a program that provides a blended curriculum and online resources along with traditional printed materials. It also has professional development videos embedded within the online program for teachers.
- Sep 2015PE$11.2M
#7
Series A · St. Louis, Missouri · founded 2006 · 8 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of interactive educational videos and learning resources for students. It offers learning resources across subjects like math, science, and reading. The platform provides content for students, teachers, and parents. It allows users to explore educational content.
- Feb 2011Series A$3M
#8
Funding Raised · St. Louis, Missouri · founded 2022$75Kraised▾
Online platform providing personalized tutoring programs. It connects minority students with the tutors and offers tutoring related to multiple subjects and tests.
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$75K
#9
Seed · Kansas City, Missouri · founded 2015 · 8 employees$100Kraised▾
Online platform that provides video-based dance exercises for improving students' fitness. It also enables users to create custom videos.
- 2022Seed$100K
- Aug 2020Grant (prize money)$2.5K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$50K
- Aug 2018Grant (prize money)$100K
#10
Seed · Kansas City, Missouri · founded 2020 · 3 employees$100Kraised▾
Provider of AI-based educational solutions. It uses natural language processing and speech recognition technologies and enables children to learn how to read. It provides phonics instruction solutions for teaching students with speech articulation disorders, dyslexia, and learning disabilities. It also provides solutions to track and analyze the reading levels of students, as well as time assessment.
- Sep 2022Seed$100K
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$50K
- Jun 2021Seed—
- Aug 2020Grant (prize money)—
#11
Funding Raised · St. Louis, Missouri · founded 2010 · 3 employees$75Kraised▾
Provider of project-based learning kit for teachers. The company offers an in-classroom greenhouse kit that allows students to learn how climate and the environment affect plant growth by experimenting with the conditions inside.
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$75K
#12
Seed · St. Louis, Missouri · founded 2010 · 1 employees$60Kraised▾
Vital provides software to create digital, tactile graphics for students with visual impairments, ADHD, autism, and dyslexia. Claims that students can learn by feeling vibrations, taking audio cues and text-to-speech. Users can customize the learning content by adding multisensory touch, organize & share the content in real-time, and add sound effects to engage the students. The solution is focused on K-12 and higher education. Offers iOS and Android app that has around 100+ installs. Also can be integrated into classroom settings. Partners are Lighthouse for the Blind St. Louis, The Lean Lab and Arch Grants among others.
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$50K
- Apr 2016Seed$60K
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 Missouri is moving
A read on the academic research around Edtech in Missouri — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 49 papers.
- University of Missouri19
- Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education7
- University of Central Missouri4
- University of Missouri–St. Louis3
- Missouri State University3
- Transformative learning2
- Personalized learning2
- Educational technology2
- Comprehension2
- Learning sciences2
- Educational technology7
- Mathematics education4
- Science education3
- Technology integration3
- Literacy3
- Educational technology1→6
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