Best K-12 EdTech Companies in New Jersey, United States
The 64 best K-12 EdTech companies in New Jersey, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Education Dynamics.
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 New Jersey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Education Dynamics Prospecting and student retention platform for educational institutions | $110M | 69 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2005 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+31 | 1 job opening |
| 2 | Beable Provider of online literacy system for k-12 students | $9M | 69 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 1 launch |
| 3 | STOPit Safety and wellness solutions for schools, workplaces, and communities | $9M | 125 mo ago | Series B | Todd Schobel Founder & Chairman | 2013 | HubSpot CMS HubSalesforceIntercom+22 | — |
| 4 | Thinkster Math AI, app, and SaaS-based platform offering math tutoring solutions for kids | $5M | 121 mo ago | Series A | Raj Valli Founder & CEO | 2010 | Beehiiv RSS feedVarnishGoogle PageSpeed+27 | — |
| 5 | Mindprint Learning Online platform offering cognitive assessment learning solutions for children | $2M | 38 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 6 | connectyard ConnectYard offers a social engagement platform that enables users to communicate across multiple platforms… | $1M | 167 mo ago | Seed | — | 2007 | — | — |
| 7 | KidGooRoo Online discovery platform for after-school activities | $831K | 87 mo ago | Seed | Catherine Goldin Co-Founder/ CMO | 2015 | — | — |
| 8 | Hulafrog Local Community Guides for Parents | $650K | 143 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2010 | — | — |
| 9 | SubjectToClimate Online platform offering lessons on climate change and sustainability | $200K | 58 mo ago | Seed | David Jaffe Co-Founder | 2020 | AlgoliaYouTubeTailwind CSS+27 | — |
| 10 | SafeBus Provider of school bus tracking solutions | $150K | 93 mo ago | Deadpooled | Edward Gillespie CEO & Chairman | 2017 | — | — |
| 11 | iSport360 Sports team management app | $140K | 122 mo ago | Seed | Ian Goldberg Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+31 | — |
Top 12 K-12 EdTech companies in New Jersey
#1
Acquired · Princeton, New Jersey · founded 2013 · 25 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Online platform offering cognitive assessment learning solutions for children. The platform includes an online test to evaluate a child on 10 cognitive skills in the domains of Executive Function, Complex Cognition, Memory, Motor Functions, and more. The results are normed against same-aged peers followed by personalized recommendations from psychologists and teachers for learning strategies, apps, games, websites, and workbooks.
- Apr 2023Seed$2M
- Aug 2020Grant (prize money)$244.8K
- Jun 2020Seed$200.5K
#2
Acquired · Hoboken, New Jersey · founded 2005 · 450 employees$110.5Mraised▾
EducationDynamics (formerly Halyard Education Partners) develops and provides online tools to higher education institutions to recruit, enroll, and retain students. It offers a suite of web-delivered services to drive student enrollment growth and reduce student attrition. Its services include prospecting, marketing, student enrollment, student relationship management, parent outreach, portfolio and career development, and others.The company claims to have partnered with 900+ institutions
- Sep 2020Conventional Debt$12.5M
- Sep 2020Series D$80M
- Sep 2012Series C$30.5M
- 2009Conventional Debt$106.2M
#3
Funding Raised · Lakewood Township, New Jersey · founded 2020 · 84 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Provider of online literacy system for k-12 students. It provides a literacy recovery platform for k-12 students. It also provides SAT and ACT exam preparation solutions. It also provides credit recovery solutions for students. It also provides academic lessons and content.
- Sep 2020Conventional Debt$8.8M
#4
Series B · Holmdel, New Jersey · founded 2013 · 26 employees$8.6Mraised▾
Safety and wellness solutions for schools, workplaces, and communities. They provide technology, training, and resources to safeguard students, employees, and citizens. Their offerings include an anonymous reporting system, HELPme support platform, STOPit Notify for instant alerts, and Bark for Schools+ network monitoring. They also offer SEL, safety, and wellness training, threat assessment training, and a threat assessment case management system. These cloud-based solutions aim to uncover the unseen, intervene in the imminent, and prevent the unthinkable, creating safer, better-connected, and healthier environments. They focus on configurable solutions, collaboration, comprehensive support, and a user-centric approach to ensure long-term success through clear communication. They are a SaaS company offering software and mobile app solutions.
- Jan 2016Series B$6M
- Feb 2015Series A$2.6M
#5
Series A · South Brunswick Township, New Jersey · founded 2010 · 27 employees$4.8Mraised▾
AI, app, and SaaS-based platform offering math tutoring solutions for kids. It provides an initial assessment, a one-on-one tutoring session, customized worksheet, and progress tracking solutions. It utilizes artificial intelligence to create personalized learning programs. Its app is available for iOS devices.
- May 2016Series A$3.7M
- Sep 2013Seed$140.9K
- Jun 2013Seed$1M
#6
Seed · New Jersey · founded 2020$200Kraised▾
Online platform offering lessons on climate change and sustainability. It provides a platform that connects educators of all grade levels and subject areas to materials on climate change, sustainability, and environmental health. It offers a hub that provides access to lesson plans, articles, videos, and other resources.
- Aug 2021Seed$200K
#7
Seed · Fair Haven, New Jersey · founded 2015 · 4 employees$831.2Kraised▾
KidGooRoo is an online discovery platform for after-school activities. It enables parents to find activities on the basis of location, age, date, and others. Some of the activities offered include acting & theater art, birthday parties, dance, music, science & technology, sports, and others.
- Feb 2019Seed$831.2K
- May 2018Grant (prize money)$20K
#8
Seed · Wayne, New Jersey · founded 2007 · 15 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Operator of a student engagement platform intended to leverage social and mobile technology to increase engagement and retention. The company's platform offers multimodal messaging to reach everyone, increases interaction with learning content, tracks daily student engagement, and measures progression along with overall learning outcomes, enabling educational institutes to monitor student engagement and performance over time.
#9
Acquired · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey · founded 2010 · 19 employees$650Kraised▾
Hulafrog, Inc. is a network of hyperlocal sites that help moms find things to do with their kids, including local events, class providers, birthday parties. It is part daily event calendar, part parent-rated business directory available via the web, mobile, and email. With a daily "Our Pick" email and family-friendly deals, Hulafrog acts as a guide to parents with kids in suburban areas.
- Jul 2014Seed$300K
- Jun 2013Seed$350K
#10
Deadpooled · Jersey City, New Jersey · founded 2017$150Kraised▾
Provider of school bus tracking solutions. It enables schools to manage bus fleet & send notifications for information such as school news, events, and late openings. It allows parents to track school buses, and receive notifications about the arrival time of the bus at the bus stop.
- Aug 2018Seed$150K
#11
Seed · New Jersey · founded 2014 · 14 employees$140Kraised▾
Youth sports team management app. It enables coaches to add their team members and get access to evaluation and feedback tools for player performance analysis. It also enables parents to track their kids' sports performances on a regular basis. The mobile app is available for download from the App Store and Play Store.
- Mar 2016Seed$140K
#12
Acquired · Monmouth Beach, New Jersey · founded 2015—raised▾
SiLAS is a gamified learning platform for kids. Its features are story-based intervention, social skill development, scripting, self-management, and modeling. Teachers give a script to students and ask them to convert it to video using appropriate emotions. Through this gamified video, students learn emotions.
- 2018Seed—
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 United States
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 4,451 United States-affiliated papers.
- Purdue University West Lafayette107
- North Carolina State University61
- Michigan State University61
- University of Florida57
- Carnegie Mellon University56
- Adaptive learning3→51
- Analytics2→42
- Learning analytics6→44
- Educational technology6→37
- Artificial neural network1→27
- Educational technology84→423
- Experiential learning13→154
- Higher education4→126
- Curriculum23→137
- Learning analytics28→135
- Educational technology79→257
- Higher education7→109
- Professional development11→74
- Curriculum19→74
- Transformative learning2→55
Where edtech is researched across United States
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.
Who's filing edtech patents in the United States
United States edtech patent filing is accelerating — 2,649 filings from 804 assignees (2016–2025), led by Google, Microsoft, Adobe; annual filings 32→533.
- Google131
- Microsoft123
- Adobe110
- Equifax107
- IBM94
- Oracle64
- Capital One Services58
- Qualcomm55
Common questions
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