Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 7,178 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.
Austin-based SchooLinks, whose SaaS offers college and career readiness resources for K-12 students, raised a $80M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity
We're on a mission to transform college & career readiness across the U.S., already in hundreds of school districts! … Susquehanna Growth Equity : We're very excited to announce our investment in Scho...
Canadian startup Paper, which offers educational tools to K-12 schools in the US and Canada, raises a $270M Series D, bringing its total funding to ~$391M
Paper doubled the number of students on its platform to two million since last year. — On a mission to “democratize access” …
Vienna-based GoStudent, which connects K-12 students with online tutors, raises €300M led by Prosus NV at a €3B valuation
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Panorama, which provides K-12 education software to 50 of the largest 100 school districts in the US, raises $60M Series C, bringing total funding to $105M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Tweets: @geoffreylitt , @aaronfeuer , @generalatlantic , and @jeff Tweets: Geoffrey Litt / @geoffreylitt : Excited that my former employer @PanoramaEd now serves 13 mi...
PowerSchool, which develops software used by 70% of K-12 students in the US and Canada, raises $711M in its IPO, selling shares at $18, valuing it at $3.5B
Education software provider PowerSchool Holdings Inc. raised $711 million in an initial public offering priced at the bottom of a marketed range.
Paper, which provides educational software to K-12 schools in the US and Canada, raises $100M Series C led by IVP
For edtech startups, it's always been easier to go direct-to-consumer than it is to sell into school districts. The latter has stodgy and strict sales cycles …
Vienna-based GoStudent, which connects K-12 students with online tutors, raises $244M Series C led by DST Global at a $1.7B valuation
no longer last in class? Ryan Browne / CNBC : Europe's first billion-dollar education start-up is a tutoring site backed by SoftBank, Tencent Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups : Vienna-based online tutor...
upGrad, an online education startup focused on the post K-12 space, raises $120M from Singapore's sovereign fund Temasek, sources say at a $575M-$675M valuation
Kaavya Chandrasekaran / The Economic Times :
Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 educational content, raises $100M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Franklin Templeton and TCV
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