Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 33 best K-12 EdTech companies in Scotland, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Twig.
Our analysis of 50 K-12 EdTech companies
95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021; the median company was founded 2015.
Ranked: Best K-12 EdTech companies in Scotland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twig Provider of educational resources for the classroom teaching | $5M | 129 mo ago | Series B | Catherine Cahn CEO | 2009 | BootstrapGSAPAmazon Web Services+8 | — |
| 2 | Sumdog Adaptive learning games for grades K8 | $4M | 109 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1993 | — | — |
| 3 | Skoogmusic Cubical instrument for children & differently-abled people | $3M | 106 mo ago | Seed | — | 2009 | — | — |
| 4 | Gecko Platform offering student recruitment and engagement with higher educational institutions | $2M | 88 mo ago | Seed | Matthew Lanham Founder & CEO | 2012 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+31 | — |
| 5 | Ajenta Provider of teleconferencing and video communication platform | $1M | 75 mo ago | Seed | John Wilson Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 6 | Klik2learn Provider of solutions for ESOL and functional skills | $127K | 70 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ann Attridge CEO | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 7 | edify Provider of an AR/VR-based learning platform | — | 92 mo ago | Seed | Chris Bryson Co-founder & COO | 1994 | WebflowSwipercore-js+15 | — |
| 8 | Admit SaaS platform that provides decision-making support to local authorities with their Early Learning Childcare | — | — | Unfunded | Josh Carson Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — |
Top 7 K-12 EdTech companies in Scotland
#1
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2013 · 22 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Ajenta provides a teleconferencing and video communication platform. It delivers real-time video communications and caters to virtual learning and smart healthcare. It enables educators to create virtual classrooms and facilitates effective communication between doctors, nurses, and patients.
- Jul 2020Seed$1.3M
#2
Funding Raised · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2009 · 3 employees$126.7Kraised▾
Klik2learn is an online educational technology company that provides various solutions for ESOL and functional skills. It offers various solutions which include English Skills Test, an online language assessment tool for corporates, schools, and universities; Journey 2 English, an accredited digital course for intermediate learners of English; and a collaborative learning platform. Features include Oxford learners' dictionary and grammar guide.
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$126.7K
#3
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2012 · 64 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Platform offering student recruitment and engagement with higher educational institutions. It provides solutions such as inquiry management solution to student recruitment and engagement, outbound call campaign, email, SMS, social media, and instant messaging channels for communication.
- Jul 2019Seed$2.3M
#4
Acquired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 1993 · 36 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Sumdog creates adaptive learning games for grades K-8. Games teach Mathematics, reading, and writing. Offers multiplayer games, inter-school math contests, and more activities. A dashboard is also offered where the progress of a student can be tracked individually as well as relatively. Schools can also buy the product for their classrooms where they pay on a per student per year basis. Students earn rewards as they progress. Available on iOS and Android.
- Sep 2017PE$1.9M
- Aug 2017PE$1.8M
#5
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2009 · 7 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Cubical instrument for children & differently-abled people. Skoog is designed to get children hands-on with musical sounds. It acts as a game controller for playing music, it gets connected with smartphones or tablets via Bluetooth.
- Dec 2017Seed$748.9K
#6
Series B · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2009 · 114 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of educational resources for the classroom teaching. It provides teaching tools and resources for the classroom. Its content is designed to be matched to curriculum, covering a range of subjects including science, geography, and more. The company offers a comprehensive range of interactive films, experiments, and worksheets to support classroom learning.
- Jan 2016Series B$5M
#7
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 1994 · 62 employees—raised▾
Provider of an AR/VR-based learning platform. It allows teachers, academics and training professionals to teach their subjects in a superimposed and virtual environment. It features spatial computing, remote teaching and video conferencing capabilities.
- Feb 2019Seed—
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
What Scotland researches in edtech
- Education Scotland17
- University of the West of Scotland16
- Medical Research Scotland1
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