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, insurance, and healthcare education. We actively work to foster a creative, collaborative, and...

Founded in 2012 and recently named one of the nation’s fastest-growing private businesses by Inc. Magazine, RedShelf is a Chicago-based EdTech company helping to make education both more affordable and more effective by replacing yesterday’s print publications with today’s more dynamic and far less expensive digital content.

Instant E-Training is one of the leading providers of on-demand Digital Marketing training. Since its launch in 2011, Instant E-Training has trained thousands of adult professionals in all areas of digital marketing including Social Media, SEO, PPC, Content Marketing, Web Analytics and more. Instant E-Training delivers its training through its extensive on-demand library of training videos and through online webconferences...

Goldstar Learning is a Chicago-based EdTech software company founded in 2000 to answer education's evolving assessment, reporting, and data-analysis needs. We provide K-12 educators with industry leading web-based tools that assist in raising student achievement and provide real-time access to student achievement data used to shape their instructio

We started AllCampus with a bold vision: to lower the cost of education in the United States through a more thoughtful, more collaborative and more effective partnership with our partner universities. Today we have hundreds of programs, across dozens of distinct academic disciplines, at leading institutions that will attest that we’ve reached that goal. However, the students we serve now...

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...

Heggerty is a literacy education company providing the #1 phonemic awareness curriculum for preschool and elementary classrooms. Founded nearly 20 years ago by Dr. Michael Heggerty, a reading instruction pioneer, we provide digital and print curriculum, classroom resources, and professional development to help educators empower the next generation of readers. The Heggerty curriculum can be found worldwide and we are...

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...

HowToFund (HTF), previously known as HowDoWe, is a SaaS company that helps schools and nonprofits maximize their fundraising efforts. We build free donation pages that match the look of the organization's website, helping them to raise money for their fundraisers, track incoming donations, automatically send receipts and thank you's, and much more.

Admissionado is a mentorship and admissions consulting company founded by two Brown University grads, and is one of the fastest growing firms in its space. We’ve grown from a 2-man show in 2007, to a team of over 100 people with offices in the US and China.

Holberg Financial is a mission-driven financial health perk that helps employees reduce financial stress and work towards their financial goals and dreams. - Attract top talent by offering a desired benefit - Retain employees by helping them achieve financial health - Empower employees by making them more informed, confident, and more productivity

CodeHS is a platform for helping high schools teach computer science. We provide a comprehensive solution to schools looking to improve or create a computer science program. We offer web-based curriculum for Introduction to Computer Science and AP Computer Science classes, tools for teachers to manage their classroom, and professional development to help teachers learn to teach coding. We are working...

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!

CMMI® Institute helps organizations discover the true value they can deliver by building capability in their people and processes.

MentorMob is a unique learning and discovery website and app for a growing list of topics. The community behind MentorMob finds the best free learning content and organizes it into comprehensive, addictive MentorMob learning Guides. 

Overgrad equips counselors with the data and tools necessary to empower student choice and increase postsecondary access.

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.

Forte Knowledge recognizes the importance of updating your skill set in order to keep up with today’s job market. Our programs cater to the working professional: beginner to advanced, weeknight to weekend, we help you strengthen your IT career. In a matter of a few months, we transform skilled individuals into advanced IT professionalsForte Knowledge courses are divided into 3 Specialized...

Education startup focused on digital marketing, blogging and content strategy. Students explore the world of content marketing through the eyes of industry leaders and learn to craft strategy and deploy tactics that harness the power of the web.

Cappex is an online platform dedicated to connecting students and colleges. Since our founding in 2006, we’ve helped over 8 million students achieve their college dreams and more than 1,000 higher education clients with recruiting and enrollment business solutions. Every year, more than 1.2 million high school students register for Cappex. We offer