Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Massachusetts based Education companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Education industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Massachusetts Education Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
CareAcademy
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CareAcademy develops online training for senior care professionals, in an effort to allow the aged population to stay in their homes.
Panorama Education
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Panorama Education brings the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIT is a research university that conducts research and offers educational courses in science, technology, and engineering.
Kaymbu
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Kaymbu empowers early childhood educators to make learning visible and strengthen school communities.
Preply
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Preply is a language learning platform that allows for personalized learning driven by data.
Applause
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Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers.
Mainstay
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Mainstay is a developer of a chatbot platform that increases student engagement, enrollment, and success.
Ten Percent Happier
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Ten Percent Happier is a health and wellness platform that offers a simple approach to meditation.
Ellevation
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Ellevation is a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and the English learners.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions® is a leading provider of early education and preschools, employer-sponsored child care, back-up care,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global learning company specialized in pre-K–12 education content, services, and technology solutions.
BetterLesson
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BetterLesson is focused on aggregating and scaling the most innovative content and practices from high-performing teachers.
CollegeVine
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CollegeVine brings data-driven college guidance to families.
Tinkergarten
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Tinkergarten is a tech-enabled network of leaders bringing high quality early childhood education to a park near you.
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital is the primary teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility.
BrainCo
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BrainCo strives to apply brain machine interface (BMI) and neurofeedback training to optimize the potential of the human brain.
Mentor Collective
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Mentor Collective provides all students with a transformative mentoring experience
Cengage Learning
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Cengage Group, is a global edtech company providing millions of learners with affordable, quality digital products and services.
AceUp
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AceUp empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to lead through change
GoPeer
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GoPeer is a platform that connects K-12 students with vetted college undergraduates for in-person and online tutoring lessons.
Arist
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Arist is created to make learning as personal and frictionless as possible, one text message at a time.
LearnLux
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LearnLux is a digital, independent financial, and benefits education platform.
Esme Learning Solutions
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Esme Learning Solutions delivers transformational online learning experiences.
AllHere Education
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AllHere is an attendance intervention management platform for K-12 schools and districts.
Constant Therapy Health
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Constant Therapy Health is a digital therapeutics company and maker of the award-winning app, Constant Therapy.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university that offers academic, master’s, and doctoral programs.
Area9
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Area9 is the adaptive learning engine behind McGraw-Hill’s new range of LearnSmart products LearnSmart is an adaptive learning system
Security Innovation
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Security Innovation provides risk assessment, risk mitigation and education services to Global 500 and mid-size companies.
iSchoolConnect
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Artificial Intelligence, international student admission, international universities and colleges.
Tinyhood
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Tinyhood offers online courses, one-on-one consultations, and moderated communities.
Year Up
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Year Up is an organisation that provides urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support to reach their potential.
Schola
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ScholaMatch helps you connect your student with the perfect school
Certica Solutions
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Certica Solutions provides compliance and accountability solutions for the K-12 education system.
FineTune
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Educational Technology Company solving the challenge of qualitative assessment at scale for all verticals of the learning continuum.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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WPI is an education services provider, offers research facilities and a community of students and members.
Smarterer
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They help people change as fast as their industries. Their crowdsourced tests validate skills in as few as 10 questions & 120 seconds.
Smart Lunches
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Smart Lunches is an online ordering and delivery platform that enables parents to order school lunch for their children.
BoomWriter Media
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BoomWriter Media provides unique online collaboration services for generating ideas and original stories.
Unruly Studios
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Unruly Studios creates interactive games that combines physical, recess style play with STEM education for kids.
uConnect
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The first all-in-one virtual career center for higher education
Edmit
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Edmit is an operator of an ed-tech platform designed to create greater price and value transparency in higher education.
English Helper
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EnglishHelper Technologies Pvt. Ltd was established in 2009 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boston-based EnglishHelper Inc.
Linkage
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Linkage specializes in leadership development strategy, consulting services, and solutions for advancing women leaders.
Valore
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Valore offers innovative solutions that eliminate the inefficiencies throughout the textbook industry.
Erbi Biosystems
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Erbi Biosystems is a transformative microfluidic bioprocess instrumentation company.
Wyss Institute
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Wyss is a research institute developing biologically inspired materials and devices to solve critical medical and environmental problems.
Ready4
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Ready4 aims to create the world’s most advanced mobile learning platform and connect students to opportunity.
Testive
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Testive is a web platform that delivers personalized educational tools for teachers and students.
eCare Vault
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eCare Vault is a cloud-based platform that supports individualized learning and care coordination.
Fullbridge
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Fullbridge is a company that offers laboratory services to companies for collaboration in the sciences and businesses.
Education Development Center (EDC)
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EDC is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates programs to address education, health and economic challenges.
Beagle Learning
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Beagle Learning provides software that accelerates learning and strategic decision making using custom built AI.
examPAL
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An online test prep company using advanced technology to optimize and personalize test prep. It offers GRE test prep and MBA consulting
Listenwise
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Listenwise makes it easy to bring authentic voices and compelling non-fiction stories to the classroom.
Jumpstart
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Jumpstart is working toward the day when every child in America enters school prepared to succeed.
LabCentral
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LabCentral developing novel cancer treatments: Conkwest, Inc, headquartered in DelMar, California, is opening its research laboratory at
Startup Institute
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Startup Institute’s program will give you the skills, mindset, and network to find a job you love, doing work that matters.
New Valence Robotics Corporation
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NVBOTS creates automated, enterprise 3D printing solutions that fix industry’s toughest problems.
n-Powered
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AI platform to bring critical personalized information to students in milliseconds.
MentorWorks Education Capital
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MentorWorks supports low/middle income students through income share agreement financing and career mentoring.
BellXcel
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BellXcel is a national nonprofit leader in out-of-school-time education
KaiPod Learning
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KaiPod Learning offers online learning for students to work on their classes, interact with other students, and receive teacher support.
College Guidance Network
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College Guidance Network is a virtual programming network services for college-bound high school students and their families.
edX
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EdX is a non-profit, open-source enterprise providing free online courses from universities around the world.
Cognii
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Cognii develops assessment technology to evaluate essay-type answers for online learning platforms.
ConnectEdu
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ConnectEDU provides technology solutions that help learners make academic and career decisions.
Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI)
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JOMI Surgical Video Journal offers a window into the practice of expert surgeons using high-quality, long-form, peer-reviewed videos.
CueThink
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CueThink is a peer-to-peer mobile learning platform for middle and high school students to improve their math problem solving skills.
Math Playground
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Math Playground is an educational site that provides math games, learning videos, and logic puzzles.
Overseas Students Services
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Overseas Students Services provides high school and college applications and transfer, language training, and test preparation.
Thought Industries
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Thought Industries’ cloud-based Online Learning Platform helps deliver education, training and information for B2B and B2C organizations.
RealPlay Sports
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Realplay’s video automation generates, edits and publishes unparalleled in-game video of every player, every play of youth sports.
Tactai
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Immersive haptics through patent-pending technology and the world’s first wearable to accurately replicate real-world sensory experiences.
YouTomb
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YouTomb is a research project of MIT free culture.
Social Judo
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Social Judo designs and develops parental control applications and games for teens and tweens that focus on smartphone safety.
Soshe
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Soshe is digital health & wellness platform for new and expecting moms that complements the care of your physician.
Merrimack College
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Merrimack College is a private college in the Roman Catholic, Augustinian tradition located in North Andover, Massachussets
metacog, Inc.
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Metacog is a PaaS-based deep learning analytics platform that is accessible via a series of APIs.
MassBay Community College
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MassBay Community College is a place that changes lives.
CampusTap
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CampusTap provides private career networking and mentoring communities to help students and alumni pursue meaningful careers.
MathWorks
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Mathworks is a producer of MATLAB, a program for data and statistical analysis.
CauseEDU
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CauseEDU is a crowdfunding and college financial literacy platform.
Museum of Science
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The Museum of Science is a science center and cultural institution that aims to promote engineering education awareness in the U.S.
Prolific Works
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Prolific Works is a Provider of an online publishing platform
United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
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Financial Opportunity and Educational Success.
Quatromoney
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We empower financial institutions and employers to become “paying for college heroes” with a turnkey college finance planning solution.
Education Modified
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Education Modified is an award-winning special education solution to improve special education instruction, beyond compliance.
Door of Clubs
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Door of Clubs is an online platform connecting student clubs and companies.
Ascend Learning
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At Ascend, we develop industry-leading online learning tools that help people enter, sustain and succeed in their careers.
Isis Parenting
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Isis Parenting is a provider of prenatal and early parenting education courses.
Sutori
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Sutori is an interactive presentation tool used by over 1.4m educators and students.
Eduventures
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The Eduventures Advisory Service for Higher Education Leaders provides research and recommendations focused on innovations in education.
Seeding Labs
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Seeding Labs creates opportunities for scientists in the developing world to conduct world-class research.
BoardProspects
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BoardProspects provides educational tools and resources to improve boardroom services.
Muzzy Lane Software
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Muzzy Lane Author allows you to create and deploy game-based learning activities and assessments.
Empow Studios
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Empow Studios operates in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area.
