This article showcases our top picks for the best EdTech companies based in Germany. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the EdTech industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We meticulously selected companies ranging from cutting-edge startups to established brands based on their outstanding performance in the following categories:
- Innovation: Innovative ideas, innovative route to market, innovative product
- Growth: Exceptional growth, exceptional growth strategy
- Management, diversity and/or societal impact
Top EdTech Startups in Germany
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
STUDYSMARTER: EdTech company that develops an intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning. The fastest-growing Education Tech company enabling access to digital education for everyone worldwide.
BABBEL: Market-leading app for language learning. Babbel is driven by a purpose: Creating mutual understanding through language. This means building an ecosystem of language learning offerings that helps people connect across cultures. The key is a blend of humanity and technology.
LINGODA: Offers online live language classes in English, German, Spanish, French with qualified, native-speaking teachers. Founded in Berlin, Germany in 2013, Their private and small group classes are taught by 1,500+ qualified.
CHARLY: Create an environment in which everyone enjoys learning and has access to relevant knowledge. Students learn easily and companies advertise successfully. charly creates a community that turns this vision into reality.
LECTURIO: The Next Generation Learning Platform for Medicine. Advance teaching with the most comprehensive, tailored, and highest quality AI-driven medical and nursing education .platform built on learning science. Advancing Medical & Nursing Education.
CAREERFOUNDRY: The online school for your career change into tech. They will take you from beginner to job-ready in as little as 5 months, and help you build a career you love. Their programs provide everything you need to make the change into tech.
SOFATUTOR: Online platform of educational tutorials for school and college students to study for exams and recapitulate lessons. Sofatutor has been helping millions of students to learn independently for more than ten years already.
BINA: Digital primary school ecosystem made to provide customised learning at scale. bina offers precision primary education. Master teachers lead tiny classes of 4-8 year olds from across the globe. bina education is data driven, adaptive and inclusive.
SIMPLECLUB: Germany’s most popular digital learning platform. Personalised learning, powered by the best content. For 1M+ people. For students from 5th to 13th grade class, simpleclub has already become the standard for learning with over 20,000 digital learning content.
SPEEXX: Intelligent language learning platform for the digital workplace. Helps large organizations bring out the best in their people with digital language training, business coaching, and skills assessment for everyone. Digital platform for on-the-job development.
BETTERMARKS: Online mathematics platform enabling students to consolidate their math skills and achieve improved marks. bettermarks is an adaptive learning system for maths replacing printed textbooks or exercise books. Students are enabled to learn from their mistakes.
STACKFUEL: Offers online based upskill and reskill programs in data literacy, data science and AI that are focused on the industry needs of businesses. Helps companies navigate digital transformation and the growing skills gap by supporting effective workforce development.
CHEGG: As the leading student-first connected learning platform, Chegg’s Student Hub makes higher education more affordable and more accessible, all while improving student outcomes. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, CA.
UNINOW: The ideal mobile companion for study and career. UniNow is the ideal mobile companion for studies and careers and is already used by over 480,000 students at over 450 universities. The UniNow app brings students, companies and universities together.
EDKIMO: Feedback for Learning. With privacy by design. Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement. As a teacher or trainer they can see learning through the eyes of the students and receive valuable feedback in real time.
STEPPIX: Smart home dance training. Awaken the rebel — Activate the dancer! Professional portable floors for Breakdancing. They are here to inspire people to be more adventurous, to break the status quo, to move forward in life with optimism.
CABUU: Creates scalable interactive educational content for simple fact learning. They produce scalable interactive content for mobile learning and say farewell to flashcards. cabuu is the no-effort study app that replaces flashcard learning with interactive facts.
TONIES: Develops an audio system to make children listen to stories and music. #Toniebox is a #ScreenFree, imagination-based audio speaker that plays music and stories when you place a Tonie on top. The app allows parents to easily adjust settings like maximum volume.
WANLOC: Communication platform for active cooperation between people, businesses and education. As a Service (UCaaS) that simplifies communication, improves presentation, and eases education. at Wanloc can turn any TV into a touch screen monitor in just 2 minutes.
EASY-TUTOR: Pure online tutoring school specializing in digital learning. Intelligent ratings and evaluation systems ensure a high quality of teaching. Customer satisfaction is there driving force. They are continually improving their products and services.
EDURINO: E-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+. Playful and responsible digital learning. With their innovative play learning system of hard- and software, they make digital education tangible.
HEYLAMA: Social language learning platform that offers a personalized, immersive and social learning experience. Master languages through hands-on practice powered by AI. Heylama let’s the master languages through hands-on practice.
EDUKI: Platform to find and share lesson materials. Discover immediately usable teaching materials, worksheets and interactives – from teachers for teachers. Every day teachers around the world create hundreds of thousands teaching materials.
FEEDBACKPANDA: SaaS solution for online ESL teachers. Their mission is to enable teachers to teach better, teach more, and reduce burnout. FeedbackPanda uses automation and machine learning to support the teachers.
STUDYHELP: Offers an innovative Multi-Channel-Learning system for students. They offers intensive courses for schoolchildren and students. Prepare for the Abitur exam in math, English, German & bio in just a few days and secure the knowledge on site or in the webinar.
THEMIS: The learning experience platform to close the digital skill gap. The knowledge retention tool for the next generation. With the help of generative AI, we make it possible to capture the knowledge and expertise of individual employees in the company within minutes and to distribute it.
TEECH EDUCATION: Platform for schools to enable digital teaching. More than just a virtual classroom. With teech, They do not only accompany students and teachers through the hybrid school day, but also show them the possibilities that digitality holds outside the four walls of the school.
UDRUS: EdTech powered by Artificial Intelligence-Udrus is designed to simplify the admission process, scale up and diversify campuses worldwide. Matching the brightest minds and the best educational institutions, with the objective of fulfilling the full potential of the student.
STUDIENKREIS: Provider of tutoring services for primary and secondary school students in Germany. Studienkreis is an education management company based out of University. 104, Bochum, Germany. They support your child and another 125,000 students every year with passion.
ADAM FARD UX STUDIO: Tech company providing usability and growth focused services and educational content to startups and big brands. Growth-Focused Product Experience for AI, Fintech & SaaS Companies. They doubled the in-app purchases of a Global 500 company.
BLING!: Pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational. Make money a family-thing. Bling makes money easy! Pocket money, savings pots and cards for money-smart families.
TEESIS: Students’ digital workspace for academic papers. Student lives are becoming increasingly digital, but writing academic papers remains complex and inefficient. teesis is the web app that supports and accompanies students on the way to submitting their academic work.
TIGERMILK.EDUCATION: Innovating Education Edtech focussed on supporting students and parents with their algebra homework in a simple and accessible way. Their team is focussed on creating products that support school work.
STUDYBEES: Dynamic education startup dedicated to helping students prepare for exams. Shaping the future of higher education. Building the first smart learning platform that creates personalized learning paths for university students.
MEINUTERRICHT: Meaningful ideas for better education. Discover digital teaching material from your favorite publishers. Make teacher’s lives easier and help them create better lessons. meinUnterricht GmbH is a dynamic and successful Education Technology company based in Berlin.
CODE IT!: The online platform for kids to learn coding while building games, apps and more. Teaches online courses, webinars and child-friendly content! important basics of programming. Code it! is suitable for independent learning at home, but also for use at school.
NATE: The next generation tech learning platform for professionals with business background. Much like the PowerMBA but for technology. Native tech education is driven by proven leaders from the software world. The virtual live learning journey we created is guided by practitioners.
EDLIGO: Education analytics company. Talent Analytics and Learning Analytics for Corporations and Educational Institutions. They are a technology company that provides organizations around the world with AI powered Learning.
HEYTIMI: School students get connected to their perfect tutor and receive online tutoring lessons on a state-of-the-art digital platform. HeyTimi brings out the highest potential in students of all grades through its adaptive online tutoring platform.
LEARNING CHOCOLATE: Designed to help you memorize English,Chinese,German or Spanish vocabulary in an easy, fun way that really works. All the exercises use pictures, sounds, and games to make learning a new language as fun as enjoying a piece of chocolate!
EDUBAO: The only platform you will need to study abroad. EDUBAO is a digitally-driven service provider aimed at covering all the needs of young people wishing to study abroad. They provide comprehensive tips and in-depth guidance for every step on your journey abroad.
MINDUS: Stream your apps. Stream your services. Disrupting services by disrupting apps. One code. One app. Connect & Share it anywhere, anytime. Mindus tackles digital pollution and bridges the digital divide caused by apps.
SMARTERGERMAN: Easier than you think. Give it a try. Learning a language is an act of love and devotion. sG is honoring their learners’ commitment by respecting their effort. Learning German can be quite a strain. Focus on learning not searching for the best materials.
LEHRER ONLINE: Service and information portal for teaching with digital media. Teaching ideas and materials-practical, pedagogically tested, for all school types and subjects. Lehrer-Online is the leading editorially managed material and service portal for teachers of all school types and levels.
CBTL: E-learning services provider in education and training. With their comprehensive service portfolio, They have been one of the leading providers of holistic solutions for integrating e-learning into qualification measures since 1999.
CANDENA: Platform and solutions provider specialized in enabling enterprises to launch and run their own collaborative online courses. Candena is a Software-as-a-Service provider of enterprise solutions in education and training.
FESTO DIDACTIC: Equipment and solution provider for technical education. They design and implement learning laboratories, educational equipment and programs that train people to perform in highly dynamic and complex industrial environments.
AXINIO.COM: Online-based teaching administration for educational institutes. Also online-based software for managing music schools. They develop their product according to the principle “Easy [to set up]. Flexible [to use]. Intuitive [to use]”.
LINGUATV: Online Language Courses for Companies, educational establishments and private customers. Innovative language training for companies, educational institutions and private learners. Effective language training for employees and students.
SUPRATIX: Revolutionised work-life-learn technology with the introduction of the Smart Learning Environment in 2016. Offers digital solutions for modern work environments. They provide tools for efficient networking, personnel management, and supply chain organization.
MY GERMAN UNIVERSITY: German EdTech startup for international students based in Hamburg, Germany. Since the launch in summer 2019 it has built up Germany’s largest database of English-taught study programs with more than 2,200 Bachelor’s and Master’s.
BISTREAM: Builds professional business exchanges between the innovation and technology industries of Berlin-Tokyo. EU-Japan/Asia talent exchange & team development Cross-border expansion support for startups in the early phase.
NACHHILFEPASS: EdTech Plattform for online tutoring. At NachhilfePass they are rethinking tutoring with the vision of making technology-based tutoring better for students and teachers. Their mission is to make high-quality tutoring easily and conveniently accessible to everyone.
CODEGALAXY: E-Learning platform for computer science and programming languages. Learn by solving programming courses/quizzes with explanations and theory. Feels like Duolingo for programming languages combined with community-based content as at Stack Overflow.
COYOTIV: Helps prepares software engineering students by providing a remote education. A young and modern software engineering ecosystem of teaching, mentorship, co-creation, and innovation. Collaboration Platform is a unique take on elevating experiences of startups.
EXCLAMO: App for schools against bullying and for mental health of students, developed by students for students. They have the vision of schools where every students treats every other student equally and respectfully.
ENDOO: Network Infrastructure for Education. endoo’s WiFi experts will accompany you throughout the entire process of planning, introducing and using a WiFi solution specifically for schools. They are committed to raising awareness about the topic of digitalization in the education sector.
FRANCKE ATTEMPTO VERLAG: The leading scientific publishers in German & Romance Studies & offers practical publications. One of the leading academic publishers in the fields of German, Romance, English, foreign language didactics, theology and cultural studies.
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