Full List of Edtech Startup Companies in Nigeria and Funds Raised

Technological innovations have continued to make significant impacts in education, enhancing learning experiences, accessibility, and efficiency. They facilitate personalized learning, enabling students to progress at their own pace. Additionally, ed tech fosters interactive and engaging lessons, making education more enjoyable and effective. It also provides educators and school managements with valuable tools for data-driven decision-making, ultimately improving instructional strategies. However, challenges like the digital divide need addressing to ensure equitable access to these innovations.

Edtech Startups

Edtech startups are companies that leverages technology to provide innovative solutions and services in the education sector. These startups often focus on creating digital tools, platforms, or applications to enhance the learning processes, improve educational outcomes, and streamline administrative processes in schools and educational institutions. The main objective of these companies is to address challenges in education through the integration of technology, offering solutions such as online learning platforms, educational apps, virtual classrooms, and tools for personalized learning, tools for students data management.

There are startups in Nigeria leveraging technological innovations to provide education solutions. In this article we have compiled 23 edtech startup companies driving the sector. Cumulatively, these companies have raised  more than $38.2 million in seed capital.

They companies are:

• uLesson $25.6 million
• Edukoya $3.5 million
• Kibo School $2 million
• Teesas $1.6 million 
• Semicolon $1.2 million
• Altschool $1 million 
• Kunda Kids $800,000
• Edves $766,500
• Njakodekids $350,000
• PrepClass $322,000
• HITCH $290,000
• Klas $245,000
• Schoolable $190,000
• EduRecords $156,800
• Gradely NG $135,000
• Tuteria $105,000ScholarX $100,000
• Gidi Mobile $50,000
• Savvy Fellowship $25,000
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Teesas

Teesas is a Nigerian based innovative EdTech startup that  offers high-quality educational content in local and national languages.

Founded in 2029, Teesas is building educational app which offers a wide range of video tutorials on wide range of subjects and topics, which  are carefully curated and delivered by professional educators who understand the specific needs of African students.

AltSchool

AltSchool was established in 21 as a subsidiary of TalentQL, a tech talent outsourcing organisation. The company provides platform solutions for tech training in Africa. As an institution with the aim of reducing poverty in Africa, the company does not charge as fee, and also help getting job placements for its trainees.

AltSchool as of 2922 has raised about $1 million in Pre-seed funding to upscale its operations especially in tech infrastructure, content and curriculum development and a community that will enable students to meet offline to learn and network.

GEMS Africa

Another edtech startup operating in Nigeria is GEMS Africa.

GEMS is a global leading schools company, and has been in existence since 1968.

Gems is in the forefront of the integration of technological solution with business development.

Gems Consulting partners with Microsoft Gold certified  in Nigeria to offer bespoke solutions in 

Microsoft Dynamics ERP (Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations & Dynamics NAV)

Microsoft Dynamics Customer Engagement Management (Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement)

Business Productivity (Microsoft 365)

Electronic Document Management Systems (Microsoft SharePoint)

Business Intelligence (Power BI)

Cloud Transformation (Azure)

The company has raised about $45 million in capital through private equity.