Best K-12 EdTech Companies in San Jose, United States
The 33 best K-12 EdTech companies in San Jose, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: zSpace.
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 San Jose
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zSpace Provider of an AR/VR headset for learning experiences 64Funding top 20%Moat top 26%Patents top 34%Tech top 36% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 20% Moattop 26% Patentstop 34% Techtop 36% Innovationtop 39% Markettop 43% Fin. healthtop 45% Growthtop 46% Newsbottom 48% Globalbottom 40% Funding: Raised $79.1M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 19 yrs (0.4/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 175 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $79M | 9 mo ago | Public | — | 2007 | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23 | 175 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 2 | Sokikom Online gamified math learning platform | $2M | — | Acquired | — | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Kidbee Gamified learning app for kids to view video-based educational content | $130K | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | Vasily Trofimchuk Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Syminar Immersive 360 video live streaming system for education and healthcare | $42K | 104 mo ago | Seed | Bryan Dang Co-Founder | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 5 | AchieveOn College community platform offering various services such as tutoring and homework help | — | — | Unfunded | Khursheed Hassan Founder | 2023 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Afficienta AI-powered learning for math, English, and test preparation | — | — | Funding Raised | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Aimber College communication platform | — | — | Unfunded | Parviz Latipov Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 8 | AirV Labs Platform providing virtual reality content creation solutions | — | — | Funding Raised | Faisal Yazadi Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 4 K-12 EdTech companies in San Jose
#1
Public · San Jose, California · founded 2007 · 69 employees$79.1Mraised▾
Provider of an AR/VR headset for learning experiences. It provides hardware, software and educational content for allowing students & users to learn in a superimposed and virtual environment. It offers education on life science, ELA, geography, mathematics, unity programming, and more for classrooms, media centers, makerspaces, and labs.
- Jan 2026Post IPO$3M
- Jun 2019Series B$10M
- Dec 2017Series B$10M
- Nov 2015Series B$30M
#2
Acquired · San Jose, California · founded 2008 · 9 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Sokikom provides an online gamified portal of multiplayer math games students in grades 1-6. Teachers can use it to instruct in the Common Core. Offers personalised learning. The games progressively become more difficult as the student becomes more proficient. If students get stuck, they receive hints or can view animated instructional videos specific to the area with which they’re struggling. Provides realtime mastery reports to teachers that show them data on how students are performing. Teachers can set up the classroom management tool separately from math program or use in combination.
- Angel$1.5M
- Grant (prize money)$2.1M
#3
Deadpooled · San Jose, California · founded 2016$130Kraised▾
Kidbee provides a gamified learning app for kids to view video-based educational content. It rewards kids to watch educational content, read books, or play educational games with stars. Kids can redeem these stars for real toys from its gallery, which the company ships to them. The platform creates a personalized learning curve around educational games for language learning, reading, maths, science, art, coding, and more. Parents pay a subscription fee for rewards starting at $9/month, which the platform uses as a baseline for the kind of rewards and its frequency. It is currently available for iOS.
- Aug 2016Seed$130K
#4
Seed · San Jose, California · founded 2011 · 4 employees$42.5Kraised▾
Immersive 360 video live streaming system for education and healthcare. This innovative system empowers educators to capture and share immersive virtual experiences with audiences, both live and asynchronously. It offers secure video hosting for clinical simulations, orientation modules, and lecture videos, complete with search functionality for easy navigation. The platform provides faculty support services to ensure educators are virtual-ready, offering remote-controlled assistance and zero-installation capture systems. Students can view videos through standard browsers with team authorization. This solution enhances remote education, particularly in areas like telesimulation, by increasing viewer engagement and attentiveness. It is a SaaS platform that provides a learning tool with a privacy-first design, ideal for institutions seeking to create engaging and accessible educational content. It is a B2B tech company.
- Feb 2018Seed$42.5K
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