Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Netherlands
The 133 best K-12 EdTech companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Pok Pok.
Tracking the best K-12 EdTech companies in Netherlands by disclosed equity funding, this directory covers 133 ventures with a combined $27M raised, and the spread tells you everything about where the sector actually sits right now. Pok Pok leads at $10M, WizeNoze follows at $8M, and after that the numbers fall fast: LearnWise Software International at $2M, then a cluster of early-stage bets at $1M or below. No unicorns. Coverage is flat. And yet the activity underneath that flatness is real, with YES!Delft, Antler, and Startupbootcamp all making moves in the ecosystem.
So what's the thesis here? Hot themes this quarter are educational apps, tech-enhanced pedagogy, and virtual classroom technologies, with a specific spike of interest around engineering projects for adolescents. I'd watch that last one closely. Globally, the funding picture is uneven: one K-12 firm recently froze salaries and laid off staff amid a cash crunch, a reminder that momentum doesn't protect against burn. As shown in 2022 research, digital pedagogy outcomes depend heavily on implementation quality, not just product novelty. The Dutch cohort, lean and early-stage as it is, is building into that exact gap.
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 Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 360AI Provider of AI-driven content management platform for publishers | — | — | Unfunded | — | Roland Groen Co-Founder | — | — |
| 2 | 42 Education Platform for special learning | — | — | Unfunded | 3 | Thomas Meijers Co-Founder | — | — |
| 3 | Appracadabra Educational mobile app for kids | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Aura Software Online library management software for schools and organizations | — | — | Unfunded | 7 | — | DNNMicrosoft ASP.NETBootstrap+12 | — |
| 5 | Basicly Provider of SaaS-based virtual classroom software solutions for schools | — | — | Unfunded | — | Veenbrink - Co-Founder | — | — |
| 6 | Blink Uitgevers Provider of educational products and services for children. | — | — | Private | 60 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+24 | 1 job opening |
| 7 | Bloomwise B2B platform for language learning | — | — | Unfunded | — | Peter Rus Co-Founder | RaphaelChart.jsBootstrap+8 | — |
| 8 | BOLAS Digital literacy tool for higher education | — | — | Unfunded | — | Jaap Jong Co-Founder | — | — |
Top 12 K-12 EdTech companies in Netherlands
#1
Seed · Hilversum, North Holland · founded 2023$2.1Mraised▾
SaaS and AI-based platforms offering solutions for educational institutions
- Nov 2024Seed$2.1M
#2
Series A · Netherlands · founded 2018 · 11 employees$9.6Mraised▾
Online platform providing gamified learning solutions for kids. It provides a collection of digital toys that helps kids with creativity and learning through open-ended play.
- Mar 2024Series A$6M
- Jun 2022Seed$3M
- Feb 2021Seed$925K
#3
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2013 · 34 employees$7.9Mraised▾
WizeNoze provides cloud-based platforms for schools. Products include YourSearchEngine, which is a search platform adjusted to the age and reading level of users. The engine automatically determines the reading level of texts and semi-automatically adjusts them to the correct level. A content editor WizeNote, with this a text for adults can be converted to versions of the text for children. WizeScan, platform to check the reading level of texts on any web page.
- Jul 2020Series A$4.5M
- May 2017Seed$1.4M
- Jun 2015Seed$2M
#4
Seed · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2013 · 234 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Online tutor discovery platform for kids. It allows kids to select school type, courses, and pin code to find tutors. Kids can find tutors on subjects like biology, German, economy, history, physics, chemistry, math, and more.
- Apr 2022Seed$917.3K
- 2021Seed$566.3K
#5
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2020 · 106 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Online platform offering tutoring solutions for kids. It provides courses under different categories including AI, AR, robotics, blockchain, metaverse, and others. It offers project based learning and works on subscription-based revenue model.
- Jul 2022Seed$1.2M
#6
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2022$319Kraised▾
Cloud-based platform offering learning solutions for Anatomy. It creates 3D anatomy in augmented reality and virtual reality to help students and professionals to investigate the details of human anatomy. Apps are available for android and iOS users.
- Dec 2022Seed$319K
#7
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2018 · 16 employees$496.6Kraised▾
Provider of software solutions intended to support universities in offering all students a lively, social, and engaged student life. The company's platform helps universities and other academic institutions to manage student well-being and engagement by helping students to find events, organize communities, and host meet-ups, enabling universities to increase graduation rates, retention rates, and academic results.
#8
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2009 · 96 employees$358.9Kraised▾
SaaS-based platform offering teachers to create and share interactive lessons. It is the creator of software for smartboards which helps in making lessons interactive by inducing digital learning in the classroom. Teachers can collaborate over the lessons. Can draw, write, open images, videos, sounds, and so forth to engage students. Works on a premium model with both school and district pricing.
- Apr 2022Seed—
- Jul 2020Grant (prize money)$358.9K
- Jan 2012Seed—
#9
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014 · 24 employees$809Kraised▾
Bomberbot provides a gamified platform for teachers to teach programming. Its activities are focussed on logic-based puzzles with visual programming blocks. It provides lesson plans and presentations to teachers for teaching programming and also provides dashboards for teachers to track student progress. It works on the subscription-based pricing model.
- Mar 2017Seed$809K
- Feb 2016Seed—
- Mar 2014Seed—
#10
Seed · The Hague, South Holland · founded 2015 · 46 employees$385.7Kraised▾
LessonUp is an online content creation platform for educators, publishers, and schools. It provides lessons for various subjects in various formats such as videos, images, and assignments. It also enables users to create their own lessons.
- Nov 2019Seed$385.7K
#11
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014 · 20 employees$584.1Kraised▾
ProctorExam creates a virtual exam room so that an exam can be taken from anywhere. Facilitates secure online examinations for remote students through a secure webcam and screensharing platform. Allows recording with a 360 degree camera view. Has 3 pricing plans with different features called light, classic and pro. Raised seed funding through an angel investing platform called LeapFunder.
- Jan 2016Seed$584.1K
#12
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 30 employees$417.6Kraised▾
Nimbles provides an online platform for finding tutors near the neighborhood. Teachers can be rated on the platform. For becoming a tutor, a user has to signup in the platform. Tutors can specify their time and hourly rates on which the student can choose tutors around them. Provides marketing tool and manages the business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, and communication tools. Finalist in TedX Amsterdam startup awards.
- Jan 2017Seed$417.6K
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 Education Technology is moving in the Netherlands
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 340 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Open University of the Netherlands42
- Delft University of Technology33
- University of Twente31
- Utrecht University31
- Maastricht University26
- Adaptation (eye)13
- Bridge (graph theory)12
- Multidisciplinary approach10
- Dissemination9
- Massive open online course9
- Educational technology13→31
- Professional development1→11
- Mathematics education10→19
- Blended learning4→13
- Active learning (machine learning)1→10
- Educational technology6→18
- Higher education1→12
- Learning analytics4→12
- Analytics4→12
- Literacy1→5
Where edtech is researched across Netherlands
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.