Edtech
K-12, higher ed, lifelong learning
Largest rounds
Largest Edtech funding rounds
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Filter by company headquarters, or drag the year slider to include earlier rounds.
Largest Edtech rounds - Global 2026
VC investment
When the capital landed in Edtech
VC investment into Edtech companies over the last decade, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Counts VC rounds into companies tagged or classified to Edtech. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
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Hand-curated landscape charts from the Dealroom data team. Each map ranks every tracked startup in the segment by valuation, revenue, growth and funding.
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🔥 Hottest sub-sectors
What's heating up inside Edtech
Top 12 of 16 Edtech sub-sectors ranked by Dealroom's curated signal score (combines funding velocity, unicorn formation, recency). Tap any row to open the live Dealroom sector page with the underlying companies.
Heat ranking from venture-sector-lens — Dealroom's curated 0–100 sector signal combining funding velocity, unicorn formation, and emergence.
Sector comparison
How Edtech stacks up
Compare Edtech with the other simplified sectors — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for every sector.
Combined enterprise value of each sector.
Every simplified sector ranked by combined EV. Edtech's row is highlighted (#14).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | $3.5T | 9.2× | 320 | $145B | 18.5K |
| 2 | Fintech | $1.9T | 4.8× | 318 | $38B | 21.8K |
| 3 | Other B2B Software | $1.7T | 4.4× | 305 | $28B | 36K |
| 4 | Consumer Services | $1.3T | 2.4× | 220 | $22B | 23K |
| 5 | Biotech & Life Sciences | $1.1T | 3.4× | 158 | $26B | 9,200 |
| 6 | eCommerce & Marketplaces | $1.1T | 2.8× | 175 | $18B | 18.8K |
| 7 | Energy | $920B | 6.2× | 110 | $32B | 7,600 |
| 8 | Transportation | $880B | 3.7× | 88 | $19B | 4,400 |
| 9 | Health Tech & Medtech | $720B | 4.1× | 142 | $16B | 12.4K |
| 10 | Cybersecurity | $480B | 4.4× | 92 | $14B | 6,800 |
| 11 | Space | $380B | 5.6× | 32 | $7.4B | 1,400 |
| 12 | Food | $320B | 3.0× | 56 | $5.8B | 4,200 |
| 13 | Semiconductors | $240B | 7.6× | 26 | $8.4B | 980 |
| 14 | Edtech | $220B | 2.1× | 38 | $4.2B | 5,800 |
| 15 | Defence | $175B | 7.8× | 28 | $6.2B | 720 |
| 16 | Robotics | $165B | 6.1× | 28 | $9.1B | 1,600 |
| 17 | Marketing | $150B | 3.6× | 38 | $4.4B | 6,200 |
| 18 | Aviation | $95B | 4.2× | 12 | $3.8B | 540 |
Geographic concentration
Where Edtech startups concentrate
Cities and countries ranked by Edtech unicorns headquartered there, plus countries that over-index the global average (5× = 5× more represented than globally).
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What we don't show on this page (yet)
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Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Edtech
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Edtech on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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