Education startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Noto

San Francisco

Noto provides AI-native vertical software for after-school businesses—tutoring centers, music and art schools—to reduce administrative tasks like registration, rescheduling, and payments, letting owners focus on teaching. Led by CEO AJ Ding

HackerRank

Mountain View

HackerRank is a Mountain View-based platform that helps thousands of companies hire developers by skills, not resumes, and supports upskilling across the developer journey; it raised $60M in 2022 at ~$500M valuation and has 26M+ developers

Brilliant

San Francisco

Brilliant helps people learn quantitative and technical skills (math, data, CS/AI) to become better problem solvers, serving hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers with ambitions to reach millions, backed by top-tier investors and pursui

Padlet

San Francisco

Padlet is a San Francisco-based software company, founded in 2012 and led by CEO Nitesh Goel, with a 65-person team. Its platform serves over ten million users worldwide, including millions of kids using it as their first Internet creation

Lirvana Labs

Menlo Park

We are building a Limitless Learning Companion, starting with an AI-powered app for kids - Yeti Confetti Kids.

Y Combinator

San Francisco

Y Combinator is a leading startup accelerator founded in 2005 by Jessica Livingston that runs programs to support startups, including the YC Program, Startup School, and Co-Founder Matching, and provides resources, deals, and ongoing guidan

ClassDojo

San Francisco

ClassDojo is a San Francisco-based education platform that connects teachers, children and families through a communication app, serving 51 million+ users in 180 countries and reaching 95% of US pre-K–8 schools, making it one of the fastest

NatureBridge

Sausalito

NatureBridge is a residential environmental campus offering field science and youth leadership programs to connect with the natural world.

TypeOS

San Francisco

TypeOS is an education technology company behind VibeGrade and VibeLearn, backed by Y Combinator.

Edexia

Brisbane

Edexia is a company focused on fixing education, aiming to provide personalized learning that cultivates curiosity, critical thinking, and purpose for learners. It plans a trillion-dollar business with a team of 30 or fewer, using AI to amp

Ello

San Francisco

Ello is an AI-powered education company aiming to improve literacy and learning outcomes for children and close educational gaps; backed by investors after YC W20 and a Series A, it pursues building the world’s first complete AI teacher for

Ultra

San Francisco

Ultra is a life-planning platform that helps students navigate college admissions and life decisions. Founded by Oliver Zou, it serves the US and China and is backed by Y Combinator and General Catalyst, with Uber and Lyft angel investors.