Best K-12 EdTech Companies in Victoria, Australia
The 90 best K-12 EdTech companies in Victoria, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Edrolo.
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 Victoria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edrolo Provider of educational resources for students | $43M | 48 mo ago | Series B | Duncan Anderson Co-Founder | 2011 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowAmazon Web Services+25 | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Compass Web-based school management platform | $41M | 22 mo ago | Late Stage | John Motte Co-Founder & CEO | 2009 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | 3 launchs · 1 expansion |
| 3 | KNeoMedia Game-based learning platform for students | $5M | 104 mo ago | Public | James Kellett Executive Chairman & CEO | 1987 | — | — |
| 4 | Intellischool Cloud-based platform offering management solutions for schools | $3M | 45 mo ago | Series A | Dave Philp Co-Founder and CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 5 | Verso Cloud-based professional development platform for teachers | $2M | 106 mo ago | Series A | Colin Wood Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 6 | Operoo Provider of digital forms, communication & payment related platform for schools | $2M | 86 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 7 | Pivot Professional Learning Platform offering tools to improve teacher effectiveness in schools | $1M | 39 mo ago | Seed | Cleo Westhorpe Co-Founder | Pivot | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | TalkiPlay App-based language learning for kids | $531K | 52 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 9 | LoopSafe Provider of a commercial security services | $520K | 88 mo ago | Funding Raised | David S Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 10 | HackersJack SaaS-based platform offering cybersecurity lessons | $370K | 58 mo ago | Seed | Ikram Akbar Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
Top 12 K-12 EdTech companies in Victoria
#1
Late Stage · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2009 · 14 employees$41.1Mraised▾
Compass Education (trade name of JDLF International) offers web-based school management platform. Features include attendance and roll marking, semester and progress reporting, news feed, calendaring, staff, student and parent portal, online payments, curriculum builder, parent-teacher interviews, behavior management, budgeting and purchase orders. Accessible on PC, tablet, and mobile. Apps are available for iOS platform.
- Aug 2024PE—
- Nov 2019PE$41.1M
- Aug 2018PE—
#2
Series B · Fitzroy, Victoria · founded 2011 · 192 employees$43.4Mraised▾
Provider of educational resources for students. It provides courses for various subjects, including biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, English, legal studies, physical education, studio arts, and more. The courses consist of interactive video theory, formative assessment, practice exams, analytics, and more.
- Jun 2022Series B$40M
- May 2015Series A$2M
- 2013Seed$50K
- 2012Seed$1.3M
#3
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2015 · 25 employees$20Kraised▾
Cadmus is an online writing tool for students. It enables students to write literature reviews, annotated bibliography, tutorial tasks, case study reports, lab reports, essays, and more. It also enables teachers to design and build assignment instructions, manage submissions, and grade.
- Sep 2025Seed—
- 2015Grant (prize money)$20K
#4
Series A · Carlton, Victoria · founded 2018 · 24 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform offering management solutions for schools. It makes teaching engaging by offering stories, scientific explanations, and illustrations for lessons for kids. It also offers video instructions and tips for teachers.
- Aug 2022Series A$3.3M
#5
Seed · Essendon, Victoria · founded 2014 · 24 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Platform offering tools to improve teacher effectiveness in schools. It offers solutions to collect feedback from managers, peers, educational managers, principals, and teachers. It also allows schools to conduct students survey anonymously to gain feedback on student needs.
- Mar 2023Seed$1.4M
#6
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 1987 · 35 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Game-based learning platform for students. It focuses on academic and life skills. It allows teachers to monitor individual student performance in multiple categories of learning including literacy, memory, reasoning, math, art, and science using an analytics dashboard.
- Oct 2017Post IPO$3.9M
- Mar 2016Post IPO$812K
- Dec 2015Post IPO$552K
#7
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2018 · 8 employees$530.9Kraised▾
TalkiPlay offers app-based language learning for kids. Provides games based on levels and interests. Caters to children of age 1 to 5 years. Also caters to institutions.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$285.2K
- Mar 2019Seed$530.9K
#8
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2012 · 27 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of digital forms, communication & payment related platform for schools. It provides solutions such as registration & onboarding, online forms & approval workflow, excursion management, payment & shopping cart, and many more. It also provides resources for parents such as notifications, parent form, online payment, medical form, and many more.
- Apr 2019Seed$1.5M
#9
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2013$1.6Mraised▾
Verso provides a cloud-based continuous professional development platform providing teachers with embedded, teaching strategies that help promote deeper and more personalized learning in every classroom. Provides Verso recipe cards, professional learning communities, collaborative learning library and classroom collaboration tools. Claims to be used by 12K+ schools and 40K+ teachers.
- Aug 2017Series A$1.6M
#10
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2020$370Kraised▾
SaaS-based platform offering cybersecurity lessons. It offers kids interactive lessons on cybersecurity, staying safe online, phishing attacks, and more. It also provides an analytical tool that provides parents with a complete list of knowledge gained and areas that need further improvements.
- Aug 2021Seed$370K
#11
Funding Raised · Brunswick, Victoria · founded 2018$520Kraised▾
LoopSafe is a comprehensive hardware and software system that goes beyond visitor management, offering efficient and secure solutions for signing in visitors, staff, and contractors. Their technology solutions help organizations provide the highest standard of care to their community.
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$500K
- May 2018Grant (prize money)$20K
#12
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 4 employees$25Kraised▾
Provider of an online tool for the teacher to develop written communication skills of the student. It enables choosing essential skills, gets aligned with curriculum, and assess with consistency. It also enables maintaining students, target teaching, track learning, and personalized learning.
- Grant (prize money)$25K
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 Victoria researches in edtech
Victoria's institutions—led by Wellington and University of Victoria—research online/blended learning and analytics with a cautiously optimistic tone (mean stance 0.19), balancing 16 advancements against 14 concerns.
- Victoria University of Wellington16
- Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority8
- University of Victoria5
- Victoria University5
- Victoria School of Management1
Common questions
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