Top Illinois Edtech Startups (119)

Aceable is a mobile education platform, focused on creating affordable, engaging, and convenient educational content. Our Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people pursue their dreams with continued education. After launching our first mobile app to provide accredited driver's ed courses, Aceable expanded into real estate, mortgage, and healthcare education. We actively work to foster a creative, collaborative, and diverse...

BenchPrep helps the world's leading education, training, and assessment companies build and deliver best-in-class online learning programs. The platform is designed to personalize the learning experience for each user, adapting to their needs and progress. BenchPrep often offers mobile apps or responsive design, making it easy for learners to access their materials on various devices, such as smartphones and tablets....

AwardSpring provides a SaaS scholarship management platform to foundations, colleges & universities that's simple, powerful, and easy to use. Our thoughtful, intuitive design simplifies the application process for students and empowers award administrators to focus on what really matters: less paperwork, more awarding.

Acentive is a performance-based crowdfunding platform that helps students raise money for college tuition and expenses. We offer students a simple and socially-acceptable way to gather financial pledges from family, friends, and community members. Pledges are tied to future academic performance, creating powerful incentives for students to excel.

Hatchix is a free social network that connects users looking for scholarships to organizations and past scholarship recipients for scholarships and career development opportunities.  Our platform is designed to facilitate the exchange of information on scholarships and career development opportunities and convey the experience through visual social media. The site posts scholarship and career development opportunities that users can then browse on...

Coding classes and camps in the Chicago area for grades K-8. Kids can have fun making their own games and stories, while learning valuable life skills.We are helping to prepare kids for the future, and to fill the future tech pipeline!

Common Goal Systems, a private company founded in 2001, develops and markets Internet services to the educational market. TeacherEase, our first product, came on-line for the 2001-02 school year. The company has been profitable since 2004. SchoolInsight was released in 2006. Our services are currently in use by over 1000 schools, 50,000 teachers, and 500,000 parents/students.

We are using education to drive positive change in the tech industry. Our approach focuses on accelerated learning, offering accessible, high-quality education and training that helps students learn not just what to think, but also how to think critically and adapt to a rapidly-changing environment. We are dedicated to building the world’s top pathway for individuals to secure high-growth tech careers...

Qooper Mentoring & Learning Software is an all in one, people development platform with mentorship, coaching, self-directed learning, groups/community/classes, and gigs.

Digital Adventures leverages cutting-edge technology, knowledgeable instructors, and the coolest toys (robots, 3D Printers) on the planet to create a fun, interactive environment that teaches kids (1st-8th) how to code computers. We offer programs on a variety of topics including: video game design, 3D Printing, Minecraft Mods & Lego Robotics.

At Drift Net Securities, our mission is to create and provide the most innovative technical solutions to keep communities safe— disrupting not only the world security but also of artificial intelligence based technology. With the KnowWhere Safety System, schools, businesses, and individuals can be better prepared to identify any threats early, res

Reading Glue helps teachers and parents keep track of reading activities, and monitor key data that is essential to increasing a child's reading ability.  We connect the classroom and home by allowing teachers and parents to implement and manage reading practice using the same tools and techniques.

Yolobe (pronounced Yo-Lo-Be) is a digital start-up company operating out of 1871. Yolobe stands for “Your Life Only Better.”  Our mission is to make the lives of our users, teenagers, better. We do this by helping them define and identify their goals, passions, interests and by connecting them to resources and services that make these more achievable and accessible. Yolobe...

inquirED's inquiry-based elementary social studies curriculum is used by schools and districts across the country to engage students, build their content knowledge, and develop their future-ready skills. inquirED's professional learning tools and programs support teachers as they shift their practice to inquiry-based instruction.

Afton Partners is an impact-driven consultancy, bringing technical savvy and a relational approach to partnerships with clients across the early care and education, K-12, higher education, and workforce development sectors. Since 2011, we’ve partnered with over 150 states, counties, cities, schools, districts, and state leaders in 40 states and territories and counting. Together, we reimagine scalable and sustainable systems, policies, and practices...

Lorman Education Services has provided continuing education on regulations, laws, and business skills to more than 1.4 million professionals over a 33-year history. We understand our customers’ need for concise, accurate and timely learning that impacts their business and clients.

Betterfly is building the next generation marketing, scheduling and video lessons/teaching platform to serve the 40+ million individual professionals/teachers in the United States. We are a fun-loving and passionate group who values engineering and believes that technology is the answer to finding an expert trainer, coach or teacher anytime and anywhere. We are based in the River North neighborhood of...

Elevate K-12 is passionate about creating high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and students. We are on a mission to make high-quality instruction available to all students, irrespective of where they live, bringing equality to education. We take pride in creating value and opportunities for children and women.

Amerigo supports international students at premier U.S. high schools with a focus on excellent academic outcomes. We combine a nurturing boarding environment along with academic and English learning support to prepare students for success in high school, university and beyond.

LEAP Innovations' mission is to transform learning into a holistic, tailored experience—designed to prepare, empower and inspire all learners to ignite their unlimited potential. Think of us as the R&D hub for education innovation, bringing the best learning science and technology here to pilot, research and scale.