Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Nigeria
The 86 best K-12 EdTech companies in Nigeria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: uLesson.
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 Nigeria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uLesson Provider of online learning platform for school students | $26M | 54 mo ago | Series B | — | 2019 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+28 | 1 internship |
| 2 | Edves Integrated management platform for schools | $3M | 31 mo ago | Series A | Dare Adebayo Co-Founder & Coo | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — |
| 3 | Teesas App-based platform offering online courses for students | $2M | 53 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | 1 launch |
| 4 | Schoolable Provider of financial services for private school system | $190K | 86 mo ago | Seed | Henry Chibuzo Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | Imisi 3D Developer of VR based educational solutions | $95K | 90 mo ago | Funding Raised | Judith Okonkwo Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | Allpro Financial management platform for K12 schools | $65K | 94 mo ago | Deadpooled | Henry Nnalue Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 7 | Nigenius Provider of lesson planning solutions for teachers | — | 52 mo ago | Seed | Kelechi Uchenna Founder & CEO | 2018 | Node.jsExpresscore-js+9 | 1 partnership |
| 8 | DoLessons Online marketplace for tutor discovery | — | 102 mo ago | Seed | Stanley Igwe Co-Founder | 2015 | TurbopackNode.jsUbuntu+17 | — |
Top 9 K-12 EdTech companies in Nigeria
#1
Series A · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2015 · 84 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Integrated management platform for schools. It allows clients to manage the overall operational activities of schools. It automates various K-12 school processes, including registering pupils, managing classes, attendance, and result computation.
- Nov 2023Series A$1.4M
- Sep 2021Seed$575K
- Oct 2020Seed$500K
- Nov 2018Seed$120K
#2
Series B · Lekki, Lagos · founded 2019 · 298 employees$25.6Mraised▾
uLesson is an educational technology company that provides an online learning platform for school students. It provides adaptive and interactive courses for students on various subjects like maths, chemistry, physics, and more.
- Dec 2021Series B$15M
- Jan 2021Series A$7.5M
- Nov 2019Seed$3.1M
- Apr 2019Seed—
#3
Seed · Ikeja, Lagos · founded 2020 · 82 employees$1.6Mraised▾
App-based platform offering online courses for students. The platform offers courses on mathematics, science, English, and more. Additionally, the platform provides entrance exam preparation, track progress, and more. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users.
- Dec 2021Seed$1.6M
#4
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2019 · 24 employees$190Kraised▾
Operator of a fintech company intended to focus on providing access to affordable finance in the private school system in Africa. The company leverages the data created by schools and their interactions with stakeholders to collect money from parents on a monthly basis and provide it to schools, enabling parents to pay, save, get loans and help schools handle their transactions efficiently.
- Apr 2019Seed$40K
- Mar 2019Seed$150K
#5
Funding Raised · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2016$95Kraised▾
Imisi 3D is an extended reality creation lab engaged in developing immersive solutions and providing educational and engagement experiences leveraging augmented and virtual reality. Its chief offering levrn3 is an open-source virtual reality platform for curriculum-based learning modules that supports both immersive classroom experiences for teachers and students.
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$95K
#6
Deadpooled · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2017$65Kraised▾
Financial management platform for K12 schools. Allows administrators to monitor finance, manage fees payments, generate payslips, and more. Enables parents to choose a payment plan, apply, pay fees monthly and weekly.
- Aug 2018Seed$65K
#7
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2018 · 6 employees—raised▾
Provider of lesson planning solutions for teachers. It enables teachers and parents to create a lesson plan and teaching resources, access to lesson plans & teaching resources, search engine, and updated teaching content. It works by searching on the basis of topics, subjects, and class.
- Feb 2022Seed—
#8
Seed · Port Harcourt, Rivers State · founded 2015—raised▾
Online marketplace for tutor discovery. Allows booking tutors for entrance exams like SAT, GRE, GMAT, WAEC, JAMB, TOEFL, and k-12 students. Allows book vendors to sell educational materials. Also enables students, parents, and teachers to advertise for tutoring needs.
- Dec 2017Seed—
#9
Seed · Ibadan, Oyo · founded 2014—raised▾
ExamTone is a platform where educational institutions create their own examination questions and answers for their students to attempt. Teachers can create tests by available formats or create their own format. Focuses on schools, examination body, students' practice tests, tutorial centre and class practise tests.
- Mar 2016Seed—
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 Nigeria
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 715 Nigeria-affiliated papers.
- Federal College of Education, Kano90
- Delta State University29
- University of Nigeria29
- University of Port Harcourt28
- University of Ilorin27
- Curriculum8
- Learning analytics5
- Transformative learning5
- Analytics4
- Learning sciences4
- Sample (material)1→34
- Structural equation modeling1→4
- Educational technology2→37
- Higher education1→33
- Context (archaeology)1→15
- Distance education2→7
- Internet access1→5
Where edtech is researched across Nigeria
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
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