Top 100 EdTech Companies in the UK | 2026

Lily Ruaah,
 17 April 2026

Edecth was one of the breakout sectors of the pandemic era, with UK companies raising £697.8m in 2021 — more than six times the previous year’s total. Investment has cooled significantly since, with 2025 seeing £131.6m raised, but the sector remains the largest by company count of any we’ve analysed, with 1,561 active edtech businesses now operating in the UK.

We’ve ranked the top 100 edtech companies by total equity raised (all data sourced from the Beauhurst platform).

What is edtech?

Edtech — short for education technology — refers to companies that develop digital products and services used in teaching, learning, training, and assessment. This spans online tutoring platforms, learning management systems, corporate training and upskilling tools, AI-powered tutoring, language learning apps, school administration software, digital textbooks, and immersive (VR/AR) learning experiences.

The UK has 1,561 active edtech companies — the largest sector population we’ve analysed. The number of active companies has grown 158% in the past ten years (2015–2025), reflecting both the diversity of education applications and the relatively low barrier to entry for software-led learning products.

Collectively, UK edtech companies have raised £2.60b in equity funding, with £1.84b — 71% of the total — secured since 2020. These companies employ an estimated 64,896 people and generate a combined turnover of £7.59b, making edtech one of the largest employers and revenue generators of any sector in our analysis.

Key findings

  • Multiverse, an apprenticeship and upskilling platform, tops the ranking with £320.8m raised. It is closely followed by International Schools Partnership (£308.7m), which owns and operates schools internationally, and Immersive Labs (£162.0m), a Bristol-based cybersecurity training platform. NIOX (£139.9m) and Perlego (£71.4m) — an e-textbook subscription service — round out the top five.
  • London accounts for 57 of the top 100 companies. The South East follows with 11, the East of England with eight, and both the South West and North West with six. Notably, the regional spread is broader than in most sectors — 13 of the UK’s 14 regions are represented in the top 100, reflecting EdTech’s geographic diversity.
  • The stage breakdown leans firmly towards scaling businesses: 42 of the top 100 are at Growth-stage and 34 at Venture-stage, with 13 Established and just five Seed-stage companies. Only three companies in the top 100 have exited — a notably low exit rate compared to AdTech (16) or Big Data (9), suggesting acquirers have so far been less active in this space.
  • The top 100 have collectively raised £2.11b, representing roughly 81% of all edtech equity funding in the UK. The top five alone account for £1.00b, with Multiverse and International Schools Partnership together making up over £629m.

Methodology

To be included in this list of edtech companies, companies must be:

  • Headquartered in the UK
  • Operating in the ‘EdTech’ Beauhurst industry classification
  • Listed as ‘Active’ on Companies House

We’ve then ranked these companies by total equity raised.

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All data for the analysis was taken from the Beauhurst platform, and is accurate as of 15 April 2026.

All data for the ranking list was taken from the Beauhurst platform, and is automatically updated weekly.

Top 100 edtech companies in the UK

10.

Total amount raised: £185m
Total equity rounds: 5
Established: 2014
Location: Oxford

Oxa develops software designed to power driverless vehicles, with technology that uses features such as cameras and lasers in order to sense and navigate the surrounding environment. In 2023, the UK government announced that Oxa had been included in their Advanced Manufacturing Plan, setting out £150m of investment to supercharge the self-driving vehicle sector. They have received £185m to date through five rounds of fundraising, including £113m in December 2022, aimed at selling its software to a wider range of industries and growing worldwide.

9. Callsign

Total amount raised: £215m
Total equity rounds: 5
Established: 2010
Location: City of London

Focusing on creating smooth customer interactions, AI company Callsign has produced technology for passive authentication, fraud prevention, and intelligence. Its proprietary technology uses artificial intelligence to mimic how humans recognise each other. In October 2021, Visa choseCallsign as their preferred behavioural biometric and device intelligence identity partner across Europe. Callsign is the world’s fastest-growing behavioural authentication and intelligence company. It has raised a total of £215m in investment, across five funding rounds. The company’s main investors include JP Morgan, AllegisCyber, and NightDragon Security.

8. Lendable

Total amount raised: £216m
Total equity rounds: 7
Established: 2014
Location: Hackney

Lendable is a fintech company developing a peer-to-peer lending platform for consumer finance. The company’s AI software matches users with appropriate investors, leveraging artificial intelligence and automated underwriting to quickly approve loans. Lendable also offers loans to those with lower credit scores to provide a fairer borrowing solution. Lendable has raised £216m, across seven funding rounds, since 2014. It’s expanded to offices in New York, Nairobi, and Singapore, and has featured in several high growth lists: 2022’s FT 1000, the Deloitte Fast 50 in both 2019 and 2020, and the Fast Tech Track 100, also in 2019 and 2020. Additionally, in 2018, Lendable participated in Addleshaw Goddard’s AG Elevate accelerator programme for scaling fintech startups.

7. Huma

Total amount raised: £236m
Total equity rounds: 10
Established: 2011
Location: Westminster

​​Huma (previously Medopad) is developing a web-based portal for hospitals and healthcare professionals to contain, manage, and collect health records. This data is then accessible to patients through a mobile app. Alongside its main goal of managing healthcare data, Huma also works on digital health insights and has developed wearable technology to detect digital biomarkers and assess health in real-time. Huma has been working with many organisations around the world, including the NHS, to monitor COVID-19 patients remotely. The AI company has secured £236m in fundraisings, from investors including Healthbox, Nexus Investments, Bayer, and NWS Holdings. In 2020, the company acquired two businesses: stress and productivity biometric startup BioBeats, and Tarilian, an optoelectronic sensor company that makes technology for measuring blood pressure and heart monitoring. They have since acquired Alcedis, developers of a platform for the digitisation of clinical trials that can be integrated with third-party systems, and iPLATO, developers of an app that improves patients’ access to GP practices through an online booking system, and provides a platform for healthcare campaigns.

6. Patsnap

Total amount raised: £251m
Total equity rounds: 4
Established: 2007
Location: Southwark

Patsnap has created a web-based platform to help clients assess intellectual property patents, with access to patent expiry dates, licensing, renewal, and legal information for tech companies. The lawtech company’s platform is powered by artificial intelligence algorithms and natural language processing, to parse patents and IP, as well as extract and cross-match critical information. It can even analyse more complex documents, like clinical trials, chemical structures patents, and litigation records. Patsnap has over 10k customers in over 50 countries, including big names like Tesla, Dyson, and NASA. So far, the company has secured £251m in investment, across four funding rounds.

5. Quantexa

Total amount raised: £286m
Total equity rounds: 6
Established: 2016
Location: Lambeth

Quantexa is a cybersecurity firm that develops AI technology to secure organisations’ data and flag illegal activity. It works closely with industries that handle large datasets (such as banking, e-commerce, and the public sector), to create analytical models that uncover data risk, reveal opportunities, and enhance decision making. The company is backed by AlbionVC, Dawn Capital, HSBC Enterprise Fund, and Accenture, among others. In its latest funding round, Quantexa raised £104m in investment. This took the company’s total fundraisings to £286m. Quantexa has attended both the Microsoft ScaleUp accelerator and Tech Nation’s Future Fifty accelerator. It has also appeared on several high-growth lists, including The Telegraph’s Tech Hot 100, Fast Track’s Tech Track 100, InsurTech 100, and the 2021 edition of The Regtech 100.

4. Gousto

Total amount raised: £321m
Total equity rounds: 14
Established: 2012
Location: Shepherds Bush

Gousto is a meal kit delivery service that provides exact ingredients and portions to customers with instructions on how to prepare the dish. The food tech unicorn, backed by celebrity fitness coach, Joe Wicks, and Japanese investment giant SoftBank, is powered by AI, a technology used since its founding. They have received £321m in funding to date, through 14 rounds of funding. The most recent of these was in February 2023, which saw £50m invested to support them during times of economic uncertainty. Their post-money valuation was listed as £239m. They have been named on a number of high-growth lists, including the FT 1000, Fast Track Tech Track 100, and Top 100 – Britain’s Fastest Growing Businesses. They also attended the Future Fifty accelerator in 2017.

3. Cera

Total amount raised: £366m
Total equity rounds: 9
Established: 2015
Location: Islington

Cera provides homecare, telehealth consultations, and prescription services, which can be managed through a mobile app, which also allows users to book appointments with nurses on demand. To date, they have secured £366m through nine rounds of fundraising. In August 2022, they raised £81.3m to invest in increasing their capacity to help more patients, a project that was invested into by 8090 Partners, Evolve Healthcare Partners, Guinness Ventures, and Jane Street, amongst others. They have attended DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, PwC Scale Programmes, and Govstart.

2. Thought Machine

Total amount raised: £392m
Total equity rounds: 8
Established: 2011
Location: Islington

Thought Machine develops fintech software Vault, which enables banks and financial services providers to centrally manage a range of products. Its core banking platforms can be used to run day-to-day operations, improving the cost, speed, and adaptability of legacy systems. Thought Machine’s software is accessed through an API and has a large artificial intelligence component. The AI company has raised £398m in growth capital so far, across seven funding rounds, with the likes of Molten Ventures (previously Draper Esprit), IQ Capital, Playfair Capital, and British Patient Capital. Its most recent fundraising, secured in July 2020, saw the company valued at £221m pre-money. Alongside new investors ING Ventures, JP Morgan Chase Strategic Investments, and Standard Charter Investments, this latest raise also saw Thought Machine reach unicorn status.

1. Graphcore

Total amount raised: £528m
Total equity rounds: 9
Established: 2016
Location: City of Bristol

Graphcore operates in the semiconductor processing chip industry, developing and manufacturing chips made specifically to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning tasks. Graphcore’s chips use Intelligence Process Unit (IPU) technology, housing 1,472 separate IPU-Cores, capable of executing 8,832 separate parallel computing threads. The Bristol-based AI startup has grown from strength to strength since 2016, with a total of nine funding rounds under its belt, which saw it reach unicorn status after just four years of trading. Graphcore has raised more than half a billion pounds in investment, and is partnered with large tech companies such as Microsoft and Dell Technologies. The company has offices in London, Cambridge, Oslo, Beijing, Seoul, and across the US.
Last Updated: 8 May 2026
# Company Region Stage Employees Total Raised
1 Multiverse London Established >1000 £320,813,960

Multiverse

Multiverse develops a software platform delivering training and upskilling content and allowing employers to match with apprentices.

https://www.multiverse.io/en-GB
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Higher education Human resources Recruitment, headhunting and talent management Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
2 International Schools Partnership London Established 500-999 £308,724,780

International Schools Partnership

International Schools Partnership owns a number of schools around the world.

https://www.internationalschoolspartnership.com/
Industries Application software Schools
3 Immersive Labs South West Growth 250-499 £161,988,910

Immersive Labs

Immersive Labs provides online training services for businesses, focusing on gamification to teach cyber security.

https://www.immersivelabs.com/
Industries Application software Human resources Security and surveillance Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
4 NIOX South East Established 100-249 £139,923,849

NIOX

NIOX researches and develops medical devices for the diagnosis and monitoring of asthma.

https://www.niox.com/en-gb/
Industries Application software Clinical diagnostics Customer support Distribution and wholesale Electronics hardware Embedded systems Manufacturing Medical devices and instruments Physical product design, testing and quality assurance Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
5 Perlego London Growth 100-249 £71,381,909

Perlego

Perlego operates an e-book subscription service for textbooks via their own app based e-reader.

https://www.perlego.com/
Industries Application software Books, comics and graphic novels Courses and educational material
6 Hack The Box London Growth 100-249 £55,965,417

Hack The Box

Hack The Box develops a cybersecurity up-skilling platform, that allows users to improve their digital penetration skills by taking part in a range of online hacking challenges and games.

https://www.hackthebox.com/
Industries Application software Security and surveillance Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development Video games
7 FutureLearn London Growth 100-249 £50,000,000

FutureLearn

FutureLearn provides a range of free online educational courses.

https://www.futurelearn.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Higher education Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
8 Kortext South West Established 100-249 £42,913,155

Kortext

Kortext operates an internet-based platform that allows students access to digital textbooks.

https://www.kortext.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Newspapers, magazines and online publishing
9 pi-top London Growth 10-24 £42,291,832

pi-top

pi-top provides training programmes for students to engage in computer science, including making their own laptops.

https://www.pi-top.com/
Industries Courses and educational material Electronics hardware
10 BibliU London Growth 250-499 £41,299,871

BibliU

BibliU offers a subscription service that provides students with access to academic textbooks online.

https://bibliu.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Higher education
11 MyTutor London Growth >1000 £33,335,888

MyTutor

MyTutor provides an online platform for students wishing to find tutors for online lessons.

https://www.mytutor.co.uk/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
12 Administrate East of Scotland Growth 100-249 £31,690,420

Administrate

Administrate develops business management software for clients that operate business training services.

https://www.getadministrate.com/
Industries Application software Assistants, secretaries and administrative support Human resources Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
13 CoGrammar London Growth 25-49 £30,729,355

CoGrammar

CoGrammar offers online, part time courses in coding and provides coding review services, as well as operating HyperionDev, a coding course provider in South Africa.

https://www.cogrammar.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
14 Intelligent Ultrasound Group Wales Exited 25-49 £29,459,334

Intelligent Ultrasound Group

Intelligent Ultrasound Group develops training products for postgraduate medical professionals, including tutorials on ultrasound examination techniques.

http://www.intelligentultrasound.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Electronics hardware Hospitals and clinics Medical devices and instruments Medical doctors Surgeries and non-surgical procedures Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
15 BBC Maestro London Venture 25-49 £27,866,494

BBC Maestro

BBC Maestro operates as an online platform, providing a range of educational courses.

https://www.bbcmaestro.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
16 MEL Science London Growth 10-24 £22,818,044

MEL Science

MEL Science creates chemistry kits designed to teach science to children, available on a subscription basis. It also develops an app that assists in the education process, providing a virtual reality element to the chemistry experiments.

https://melscience.com/GB-en/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Electronics hardware Mobile, internet and wireless hardware
17 Colossyan London Venture 50-99 £22,461,144

Colossyan

Colossyan develops video creation software that uses generative AI to produce hyper-realistic synthetic video presenters and provide other automated services.

https://www.colossyan.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Languages, translation and interpretation Video content (including pre- and post-production)
18 OBRIZUM East of England Growth 50-99 £22,418,179

OBRIZUM

OBRIZUM provides training courses for the life sciences and academic market.

https://obrizum.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
19 Fuse South East Growth 100-249 £22,343,625

Fuse

Fuse develops software that allows employees to share knowledge in their workplace and assists companies in the creation of instructional videos for employees.

https://www.fuseuniversal.com/
Industries Application software Newspapers, magazines and online publishing Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development Video content (including pre- and post-production)
20 tiney London Growth 100-249 £22,126,735

tiney

tiney facilitates the matching of parents and children with childcare services, providing a mobile app which offers features such as live chat and payment management.

https://www.tiney.co/
Industries Application software Childcare and child supervision
21 Hopster London Venture 10-24 £21,103,654

Hopster

Hopster develops an app that offers pre-school TV and education-based games.

https://www.hopster.tv/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Films and TV Pregnancy and parenting Video games
22 Bloom Coaching London Venture 25-49 £20,812,104

Bloom Coaching

Bloom Coaching develops a coaching platform which uses behavioural science and AI to provide employees with personalised training programmes and check-ins.

https://usebloom.com/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
23 Third Space Learning South West Growth 25-49 £20,723,133

Third Space Learning

Third Space Learning provides one-to-one maths tutoring over the internet. The company also operates Matr , an online tuition service for children that trains its tutors using AI technology.

https://thirdspacelearning.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
24 EduMe London Growth 50-99 £20,223,291

EduMe

EduMe develops an app that businesses can use to provide educational material to its employees, including generating training materials based on requirements.

https://www.edume.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis
25 CENTURY London Growth 100-249 £19,862,355

CENTURY

CENTURY is developing an online educational platform that allows data on teaching and learning patterns to be efficiently collected and analysed by educators and institutions.

https://www.century.tech/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis Schools
26 Gemba London Growth 50-99 £19,613,608

Gemba

Gemba provides training services to senior professionals in a range of industries.

https://thegemba.com/
Industries Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
27 Gizmo London Venture 5-9 £19,294,127

Gizmo

Gizmo develops and provides a learning app that helps students study and memorize information through various tools and features.

https://gizmo.ai/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
28 Skill Dynamics London Growth 25-49 £19,148,300

Skill Dynamics

Skill Dynamics provides eLearning-based procurement and supply chain training services to businesses.

https://skilldynamics.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis Risk and compliance Supply chain management Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
29 Atom Learning London Growth 100-249 £19,000,000

Atom Learning

Atom Learning develops artificially intelligent online learning software for children, which aims to predict an individual student's chance of answering a question, and provide them with content tailored to their ability level.

https://atomlearning.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
30 Learnerbly London Established 25-49 £17,684,524

Learnerbly

Learnerbly develops professional development software for businesses designed to train staff by giving its users access to curated learning content from a range of providers.

https://www.learnerbly.com/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
31 Macat London Growth 5-9 £17,143,687

Macat

Macat is developing a subscription-based interactive library of analyses of books and academic papers.

https://www.macat.com/
Industries Books, comics and graphic novels Newspapers, magazines and online publishing Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
32 Busuu London Established 250-499 £17,083,518

Busuu

Busuu has developed a website where users can improve their language skills through translation exercises, direct contact with native speakers and peer-to-peer text corrections.

https://www.busuu.com/en
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Languages, translation and interpretation
33 Memrise London Growth 50-99 £15,450,382

Memrise

Memrise has developed a website that aims to bring together insights from neuroscience, and online games in order to help people learn foreign languages.

https://www.memrise.com/
Industries Application software Data aggregation Languages, translation and interpretation
34 HowNow London Growth 50-99 £13,986,563

HowNow

HowNow develops an educational content management tool that allows companies to create and manage training content for their employees.

https://www.gethownow.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis Human resources Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
35 Sova South East Growth 50-99 £13,186,647

Sova

Sova develops software that provides psychometric testing for businesses, allowing them to test potential candidates.

https://www.sovaassessment.com/
Industries Application software Human resources Recruitment, headhunting and talent management
36 Mrs Wordsmith South East Growth 50-99 £12,083,093

Mrs Wordsmith

Mrs Wordsmith produces children's products that attempt to build their vocabulary and reading abilities. They offer a monthly subscription where instalments of their story products are sent to customers.

https://uk.www.mrswordsmith.com/
Industries Books, comics and graphic novels Toys and games Video games
37 MWS Technology London Growth 100-249 £12,074,310

MWS Technology

MWS Technology develops Aptem , an online platform that combines tools for job-seekers including eLearning, CV building and recruitment modules.

https://www.aptem.co.uk/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Human resources Recruitment, headhunting and talent management Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
38 Learning With Experts South East Venture 10-24 £11,984,345

Learning With Experts

Learning With Experts has created online virtual learning environments for vocational and hobbyist courses.

https://www.learningwithexperts.com/
Industries Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
39 ORCHA North West Growth 50-99 £11,614,260

ORCHA

ORCHA conducts reviews and assessments of healthcare apps and presents its conclusions in a searchable database.

https://orchahealth.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Market research Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
40 Firefly Learning London Growth 50-99 £10,392,889

Firefly Learning

Firefly Learning has developed an online tool for teachers, students and parents that integrates homework, timetabling, feedback and shared learning resources.

https://fireflylearning.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Schools
41 Satchel London Established 50-99 £10,032,694

Satchel

Team Satchel has developed software for teachers to set a calendar of homework for their students.

https://www.teamsatchel.com/
Industries Application software Schools
42 Osper East of England Venture 25-49 £9,362,694

Osper

Osper has developed money management and education software that combines prepaid debit cards and smartphone apps that are controlled by both children and their parents.

https://osper.com/
Industries Application software Banking Courses and educational material Pregnancy and parenting
43 Code Kingdoms London Growth 10-24 £8,968,939

Code Kingdoms

Code Kingdoms develops an online game that teaches children to code.

https://codekingdoms.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Social media Video games
44 ollo London Venture 10-24 £8,782,539

ollo

ollo develops a video platform that enables influencers to monetise their content.

https://www.askollo.com/
Industries Application software Video content (including pre- and post-production)
45 Mangahigh East of England Growth 50-99 £8,501,937

Mangahigh

Mangahigh develops a website that uses games to teach maths to students.

https://www.mangahigh.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis
46 Omniplex Learning East of England Established 100-249 £7,929,337

Omniplex Learning

Omniplex Learning provides training and develops software designed to assist in the development of eLearning tools.

https://omniplexlearning.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
47 CogBooks East of Scotland Zombie 50-99 £7,898,205

CogBooks

CogBooks has developed an online adaptive learning platform.

https://www.cogbooks.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Schools
48 Arbor London Growth 250-499 £7,477,946

Arbor

Arbor develops software for schools to benchmark their performance against other schools and monitor pupil progress.

https://arbor-education.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Schools Server software
49 Researcher London Dead 100-249 £7,195,576

Researcher

Researcher develops a mobile app which allows users to browse scientific journals.

https://www.researcher-app.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
50 Medly AI London Seed 5-9 £7,149,924

Medly AI

Medly AI develops revision software that provides AI personal tutors for GCSE, A Level and IB students, that offer conversational learning and instant marking and feedback on questions.

https://www.medlyai.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
51 Kinnu London Venture 10-24 £7,114,524

Kinnu

Kinnu operates an e-learning platform, accessible though its mobile app.

https://kinnu.xyz/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
52 QS Quacquarelli Symonds London Established >1000 £7,004,700

QS Quacquarelli Symonds

QS Quacquarelli Symonds operates an international network that provides guides, publications and events focussing on further education courses and institutions. They also develop software for educational institutions including packages aimed at recruiting and tracking students through the application process.

https://www.qs.com/
Industries Festivals, conferences, exhibitions and fairs Higher education Human resources Marketing, branding and advertising Recruitment, headhunting and talent management
53 Peak London Growth 50-99 £6,565,057

Peak

Peak (formerly known as Brainbow) develops educational games for smart phones and social networks.

http://www.peak.net/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Video games
54 Mindstone London Venture 25-49 £6,476,406

Mindstone

Mindstone develops a platform that helps individuals and companies learn and apply practical AI skills.

https://www.mindstone.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
55 5Mins.ai London Venture 25-49 £6,150,665

5Mins.ai

5Mins.ai develops a platform and mobile application which allows users to access training materials in the form of short video lessons.

https://www.5mins.ai/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
56 IntellectoKids London Venture 10-24 £5,896,857

IntellectoKids

IntellectoKids develops educational game apps for children.

https://intellectokids.com/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development Video games
57 Academy North West Dead 10-24 £5,864,743

Academy

Academy operates a career development programme for graduates in the technology sector.

https://academy.tech/
Industries Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
58 Neol London Seed 100-249 £5,812,445

Neol

Neol provides decentralised e-learning services and is a talent platform enabled by Web3.

https://www.neol.co/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Human resources Recruitment, headhunting and talent management Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
59 BridgeU London Growth 50-99 £5,660,865

BridgeU

BridgeU has created a university preparation platform that helps students to select a university and a course to study.

https://bridge-u.com/
Industries Application software Higher education
60 36Zero East of England Venture 5-9 £5,505,080

36Zero

36Zero is developing an app which uses e-learning to teach users about the construction industry's health and safety standards, and creates worker specific profiles using information about individuals' experience, employment history and geolocation in order to track and record construction site risks.

https://36zero.io/
Industries Application software Human resources Mental well-being Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
61 Titan Academy London Venture 10-24 £5,290,144

Titan Academy

Titan Academy provides custom gaming coaching based on data analysis.

https://www.titanacademy.io/
Industries Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development Video games
62 Habitat Learn Group South East Growth 50-99 £5,102,457

Habitat Learn Group

Habitat Learn Group develops educational technology products and services, including Note Taking Express, an AI assisted note taking software aimed at users with learning difficulties.

https://www.habitatlearn.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
63 Questionmark North West Exited 100-249 £5,000,203

Questionmark

Questionmark develops software that measures and analyses the knowledge and skills of users in order to help organisations improve their teaching and training methods.

https://www.questionmark.com/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
64 Cognassist North East Growth 50-99 £5,000,000

Cognassist

Cognassist develops an online neurodiversity assistance platform that is designed to identify unknown learning requirements.

https://cognassist.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Mental well-being Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
65 The World Continuing Education Alliance East of England Venture 10-24 £4,918,073

The World Continuing Education Alliance

The World Continuing Education Alliance provides online access to continuing education services by working with several educational partners.

https://wcea.education/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
66 Blackbullion London Growth 10-24 £4,883,621

Blackbullion

Blackbullion offers online classes that educate students how to manage their personal finances.

https://www.blackbullion.com/
Industries Budgeting and financial management Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
67 Opogo London Venture 250-499 £4,627,264

Opogo

Opogo operates an online platform and mobile app for sourcing and requesting supply teachers.

https://www.opogo.com/
Industries Application software Higher education Human resources Personnel supply and contract outsourcing Recruitment, headhunting and talent management
68 Guider East Midlands Venture 25-49 £4,550,847

Guider

Guider develops an artificially intelligent mentoring tool for businesses, aiming to match users with ideal mentors for the improvement of employee and company performance.

https://guider-ai.com/
Industries Application software Data management Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
69 eedi London Growth 25-49 £4,473,700

eedi

eedi provides vetted and qualified maths and physics tutors to deliver custom designed lessons online or in person. The company also run The Skills Academy , who help schools match students up with one-to-one tutors.

https://eedi.com/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
70 Mindful Education London Growth 50-99 £4,399,999

Mindful Education

Mindful Education works with educational institutions to create and run a variety of online higher education courses.

https://mindful-education.co.uk/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Higher education Schools Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
71 Mwabu East of England Venture 5-9 £4,385,960

Mwabu

Mwabu designs and creates online educational content and learning technology such as tablets for primary schools in Africa.

https://www.mwabu.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Electronics hardware
72 Goodnotes London Established 250-499 £4,359,612

Goodnotes

Goodnotes develops and offers a note-taking app that allows users to capture, organize, and collaborate on notes and documents.

https://www.goodnotes.com/
Industries Application software Assistants, secretaries and administrative support Online marketplace Schools Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
73 Avantis South West Established 50-99 £4,250,000

Avantis

Avantis develops virtual reality and augmented reality devices and software for schools.

https://www.avantiseducation.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Electronics hardware Schools Video games
74 Everybody Counts East of Scotland Venture 10-24 £4,249,997

Everybody Counts

Everybody Counts develops an online mathematics learning programme that aims to be multilingual and accessible worldwide, including training for teachers and features for teachers to analyse student progress.

https://everybodycounts.org.uk/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis Schools Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
75 Immersify Education North West Growth 25-49 £4,210,210

Immersify Education

Immersify Education develops gamification apps, designed to use augmented and virtual reality to aid teaching in universities.

https://immersifyeducation.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Dentistry and oral hygiene Higher education
76 MOONHUB London Venture 10-24 £4,031,916

MOONHUB

MOONHUB develops VR-based training material for businesses.

https://themoonhub.com/
Industries Application software Electronics hardware Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
77 Teaching Art London Established 10-24 £4,000,000

Teaching Art

Teaching Art produces art instruction videos, sells drawing projectors and runs art companies including the SAA , a subscription-based community for artists, and Artifolk , and art supplies store.

https://www.saa.co.uk/
Industries Application software Arts and crafts Online retailing Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
78 Chalkie London Seed 5-9 £3,979,737

Chalkie

Chalkie develops AI-based lesson planning software for teachers.

https://chalkie.ai/en
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis
79 Re:course AI North West Venture 10-24 £3,800,000

Re:course AI

Re:course AI develops a consultation practice app for clinicians in training, allowing users to answer questions and provide diagnosis suggestions to mock patients.

https://www.recourseai.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Medical doctors Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
80 Bud South West Growth 50-99 £3,749,999

Bud

Bud develops an online platform which aims to allow organisations to manage and deliver apprenticeships and training courses.

https://bud.co.uk/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Risk and compliance Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
81 Auris Tech South East Growth 10-24 £3,735,290

Auris Tech

Auris Tech develops voice recognition technology designed to understand children reading out loud.

https://www.auris.tech/
Industries Application software Languages, translation and interpretation Robots and automation Schools Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
82 Learn Amp London Venture 25-49 £3,687,217

Learn Amp

Learn Amp develops software designed to help employers measure and improve employee engagement through features such as educational material and knowledge trackers.

https://learnamp.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Human resources Recruitment, headhunting and talent management
83 Skiller Whale London Venture 10-24 £3,629,903

Skiller Whale

Skiller Whale hosts live online sessions designed to coach developers in skills they want to focus on.

https://www.skillerwhale.com/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
84 8billionideas London Venture 25-49 £3,626,404

8billionideas

8billionideas operates an educational platform for young children & schools, providing mentoring and online courses.

https://www.8billionideas.com/
Industries Application software Books, comics and graphic novels Courses and educational material Schools Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development Video content (including pre- and post-production)
85 PonchoPay South West Venture 10-24 £3,595,455

PonchoPay

PonchoPay develops an online childcare support platform that provides access to virtual and in-person activities and educational material for children, as well as advice for parents.

https://www.ponchopay.com/
Industries Application software Childcare and child supervision Courses and educational material Data aggregation Data provision and analysis
86 Languagenut South East Venture 10-24 £3,544,975

Languagenut

Languagenut has developed an online language learning tool. The company's product features multimedia learning material in 19 languages and can be used by teachers to track the progress of their students.

https://www.languagenut.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Languages, translation and interpretation
87 Hive Learning N/A Venture 25-49 £3,500,000

Hive Learning

Hive Learning develops an app that allows people to use and create learning materials.

https://www.hivelearning.com/
Industries Application software Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
88 Complete Mathematics London Venture 10-24 £3,401,221

Complete Mathematics

Complete Mathematics provides a learning platform which helps schools teach Mathematics to children.

https://completemaths.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
89 Classlist South East Venture 10-24 £3,284,325

Classlist

Classlist has developed software that allows parents with children at the same school to communicate and get in contact with each other for anything from lost-property, transportation and book exchange.

https://www.classlist.com/
Industries Application software Pregnancy and parenting Schools
90 PsycApps London Zombie 10-24 £3,279,336

PsycApps

PsycApps develops a mobile app that educates users about mental disorders, and provides tools for self-screening and symptom monitoring.

https://www.psycapps.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Mental well-being
91 Planet Pop East of England Venture 10-24 £3,261,012

Planet Pop

Planet Pop develops a learning platform that aims to help users learn English using music.

https://www.planetpop.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material
92 HiUp London Venture <5 £3,235,997

HiUp

HiUp has developed an app where users create a digital CV, and are matched with jobs that suit their skills and experience. They also provide online and face-to-face training to help jobseekers improve their skills.

https://hiupapp.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Human resources Recruitment, headhunting and talent management
93 Eintech London Growth 10-24 £3,230,000

Eintech

Eintech develops and delivers assessment software and services for professional exams.

https://eintech.com/
Industries Application software
94 Filisia London Venture 10-24 £3,213,647

Filisia

Filisia develops software and hardware to assist in education, training and therapy for people with disabilities.

https://www.explorecosmo.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Electronics hardware
95 Globalbridge North East Venture 10-24 £3,200,650

Globalbridge

Globalbridge operates a web-based recruitment database and portal, focussing on school and university leavers.

https://www.myglobalbridge.com/
Industries Application software Higher education Human resources Recruitment, headhunting and talent management Schools
96 Graide West Midlands Venture 10-24 £3,071,838

Graide

Graide develops software that uses AI to reproduce answers & feedback for students aimed at improving efficiency for teachers grading work.

https://www.graide.co.uk/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data provision and analysis Higher education Schools
97 Metaverse Learning South East Venture 10-24 £3,058,132

Metaverse Learning

Metaverse Learning provides a range of educational programs for a variety of industries, specialising in the use of augmented reality and virtual environments, with the aim of increasing student learning.

https://metaverselearning.co.uk/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Embedded systems Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
98 Class For Kids West of Scotland Growth 10-24 £3,025,875

Class For Kids

Class For Kids operates a search engine for children's activities, such as sports clubs and educational classes.

https://classforkids.io/clubs/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Data aggregation Pregnancy and parenting Sporting events and activities
99 Navitas Safety East Midlands Established 50-99 £3,005,113

Navitas Safety

Navitas Safety provides a range of safety services, such as consultancy, food safety software and hardware development, and training.

https://www.navitassafety.com/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Electronics hardware Food and drink processing Health and safety Management and strategy consultancy
100 Grasp North West Seed 10-24 £3,000,000

Grasp

Grasp develops an online learning platform for adults which aims to make learning new skills quicker and easier.

https://grasp.study/
Industries Application software Courses and educational material Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development

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The future of edtech in the UK

Edtech offers the clearest example of a post-pandemic boom and correction in UK tech. Investment surged from £103.8m in 2020 to £697.8m in 2021 as remote learning created enormous demand, then declined every year since to £131.6m in 2025. New company formations have followed the same pattern — peaking at 136 in 2021 before falling to 39 in 2025.

But the underlying conditions for edtech remain strong. AI is rapidly reshaping the sector, with companies like Medly AI, Mindstone, Chalkie, and Graide developing AI-powered tutoring, lesson planning, and grading tools. Corporate upskilling — led by Multiverse, Immersive Labs, Hack The Box, and EduMe — has emerged as one of the sector’s most fundable categories, driven by skills shortages in cybersecurity, data, and digital roles.

Immersive learning is another growth area, with Avantis, MOONHUB, Immersify Education, and Metaverse Learning building VR and AR-based training and education products. And in K–12, established players like Arbor, Satchel, and Firefly Learning continue to build out school administration and learning platforms.

With renewed government focus on skills, apprenticeships, and digital literacy — and AI lowering the cost of building personalised learning products — UK edtech is well positioned for its next chapter.

FAQ

The top 100 edtech companies in the UK is a ranking of the most prominent UK-based education technology businesses, ordered by the total equity funding they have raised. It highlights companies operating across online tutoring, corporate training, school software, language learning, AI-powered education, and immersive learning.

Companies are ranked by total equity raised, using data from the Beauhurst platform. This provides a consistent, objective measure of investor confidence and growth potential.

UK edtech companies have raised £2.60b in equity funding to date, with £1.84b of that secured since 2020. The peak year for investment was 2021, when £697.8m was raised — more than six times the 2020 total.

Edtech — education technology — refers to digital products and services used in teaching, learning, training, and assessment. This includes online tutoring platforms, learning management systems, corporate upskilling tools, AI tutors, language learning apps, school administration software, digital textbooks, and VR/AR learning experiences.

London is the largest hub with 57 of the top 100 companies. The South East has 11 and the East of England has eight. Notably, EdTech has one of the broadest regional spreads of any sector — 13 of the UK’s 14 regions are represented in the top 100.

The sector is still expanding in absolute terms — there are now 1,561 active edtech companies, up 158% over the past decade. However, investment and new company formations have both declined sharply since the 2021 peak, reflecting a post-pandemic correction after a period of intense growth.

UK edtech companies span a wide range of activities, including online tutoring and academic support, corporate training and upskilling platforms, cybersecurity and skills training, school administration and learning management systems, language learning, digital textbooks and e-readers, AI-powered tutoring and assessment, and immersive (VR/AR) learning.

Yes. The top 100 includes companies at every stage — from Seed-stage startups through to Established firms with over 1,000 employees.

The ranking table is automatically updated weekly using data from the Beauhurst platform.

All data is sourced from the Beauhurst platform, which tracks equity investment, company financials, and growth signals for UK companies.

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