AWS EdStart: Meet Our Community
AWS EdStart Members and Collaborators provide solutions that are hosted on, or integrated with, AWS
Meet Our Members
Meet the companies who have been accepted into AWS EdStart and are building and scaling their solution with AWS.
Meet Our Collaborators
Education-focused organizations provide specialized solutions and support for AWS EdStart Members and AWS EdStart Innovators.
Meet Our Founders
Get to know select EdTech founders with a unique story to tell through their own words. Videos, case studies, and more.
Meet Our Collaborators
AWS EdStart Collaborators, an AWS EdStart feature, brings together education-focused organizations to provide specialized solutions, support, and/or best practices for AWS EdStart Members and AWS EdStart Innovators. The new feature strives to create a community of industry experts for AWS EdStart Members and Innovators to access including the resources they make available to the community. Membership benefits include discounted event registration fees, complimentary access to content, and networking access.
For additional information about the Collaborators program, please reach out to awsedstart-collaborators@amazon.com

AWS EdStart provides profound market insights, strong technical guidance, and global connections that help our education entrepreneurs design, develop, and scale their education ventures. AWS EdStart bends over backwards to support our competitions, industry bootcamps, and meet-ups and helps us realize our vision, which is to advance innovation in worldwide education. We are proud and grateful to be collaborators in the AWS EdStart program.
– John Gamba, Director of Innovative Programs and Entrepreneur in Residence, Catalyst @Penn GSE

AWS EdStart Collaborators

Arc Capital Development
Denver, Colorado, United States
Arc Capital Development is a global private investment and advisory firm offering hands-on expertise to innovative and rapidly growing research-based education industry organizations.

ABS Startups
São Paulo, Brazil
ABS Startups connects the Education ecosystem with research and discussions on real EdTech experiences and solutions. The ABS Startups Education Committee focuses on contributing to the development of EdTech startups and the broader ecosystem.

Blue Elephant Capital
Beijing, China
Blue Elephant Capital is China’s a pure-play education and EdTech investor. Blue Elephant is an important hub for overseas resources and overseas returnee entrepreneurs to enter China.

Catalyst @Penn GSE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
A center for global education innovation, Catalyst @ Penn GSE connects people and ideas to advance education in novel and meaningful directions. Catalyst operates at the nexus of education, business, and technology to help generate, test and disseminate best practices and powerful new tools for educators.

Central Square Foundation
Delhi, India
Central Square Foundation is a non-profit organization working to ensure quality school education for all children in India, with a focus on foundational literacy and numeracy. While our work ranges from driving foundational learning to strengthening the private school sector, a key focus area entails leveraging technology-based solutions to enhance learning.

Edinno
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Edinno is an inclusive learning community created to support and empower emerging EdTech innovators, with a mission to democratize access to information and social capital, making founding an EdTech company more accessible to all.

EDT & Partners
Valencia, Spain
A purpose-driven consulting firm dedicated to imagining, inspiring, and improving education. We place human capital development at the core of our activity because we believe in the effective use of technology to improve education. Our team specializes in open innovation processes and assisting companies with their digital transformation.

EdTech Impact
London, United Kingdom
EdTech Impact is an independent review platform for K12 education technology products, built to help EdTech companies build trust, prove their quality and increase conversions with prospective customers around the world.

EDUCATE acts as the catalyst in the development of evidence-based EdTech products and services. Their comprehensive and rigorous training program is designed to help SMEs and startups use research evidence to evaluate and improve their products, and researcher entrepreneurs to commercialize their work.
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Education Research & Development Institute (ERDI)
Chicago, IL | United States
Education Research and Development Institute is the premier provider of research and development opportunities for companies who are developing and providing products and services to support PK-12 education.
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EduGrowth
Melbourne, Australia
EduGrowth is Australia’s EdTech and innovation industry hub. Through connection and collaboration, they accelerate Australia’s EdTech ecosystem globally.

EduSpaze
Singapore, Singapore
EduSpaze is Singapore’s first EdTech accelerator supported by Enterprise Singapore. It aims to nurture a vibrant EdTech startup ecosystem that serves the education sector in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Eduvation
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
EDUvation’s mission is to support EdTech startups in keeping innovative ideas alive, specifically EdTech startups that are looking to reform education.

Edvantage Group
Hong Kong, Taiwan
Edvantage Group is a private higher education group is an early mover in the education sector focused on international expansion. As a part of their venture, the team hosts the Edvantage Acceleration Program focused on helping early stage EdTechs grow their networks, and gain traction in both local and global markets.

Esperenza
Hong Kong, Taiwan
Esperenza focuses on “Reimagining Education”, and identifying and supporting solutions that can motivate, empower, personalize, and democratize learning, while making teaching and learning more effective, from early childhood education to lifelong learning.

gener8tor
Madison, Wisconsin | United States
Gener8tor connects EdTechs, startups and investors via industry-specific accelerator and events.

Global Education Entrepreneurship Certificate
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Global Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation Certificate program provides industry leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to seed, accelerate, and scale entrepreneurial practice in their respective sectors.

Global Grid for Learning (GG4L)
Alameda, California, United States
Global Grid for Learning™ (GG4L) is a membership-based collaborative offering schools the fastest and safest way to share data with EdTech vendors while providing integration services through an iPaaS platform called School Passport.

Growth Marketing Studio
Singapore, Singapore
Growth Marketing Studio helps EdTechs define their growth and marketing strategies, and coaches teams to support their execution.
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Institute for the Future of Education
Monterray, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Tec de Monterrey through the Institute for the Future of Education drives research, innovation, and entrepreneurship in educational innovation by collaborating with professionals worldwide to meet today's educational challenges and create the future of education.

LearnLaunch Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
LearnLaunch Institute, serves the education ecosystem by providing programs and services across stakeholder groups who impact education: policy leaders, education practitioners, and EdTech innovators.

LearnPlatform
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
LearnPlatform is home to an award-winning team of educators, researchers, technologists and thought leaders who build and deliver ground-breaking tools that increase the capacity of educators and their organizations to research, select and evaluate digital learning products that best meet the current needs of their students.
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Me.reka
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Developing changemakers and entrepreneurs for the industries and businesses that will shape the future of tomorrow. Me.reka serves international development agencies, foreign and local government agencies, corporate foundations, corporate clients, schools and education institutions with designing and implementing in-depth and low-touch training programs for individual learners and organizations.

Mirainxt
Hyderabad, India
Mirainxt is an innovation center born out of the need to add purpose to work, enabling startups to get the hands-on experience required for exploring the landscape's diverse perspectives which can be the fodder to innovative ideas. Mirainxt also offers accelerator programs and mentorship for early stage EdTech startups.

Octava
Singapore, Singapore
With the mission to enable equitable education and skills development for underserved children and youths, Octava Foundation deploys a venture philanthropic approach in supporting social innovators, entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations to develop solutions, strengthen their proposition and measurement to ultimately further their scale.

OneValley
San Mateo, California
OneValley provides acceleration, mentorship and tools for early-stage companies through its online platform, Passport. OneValley supports startups by providing best-in-class network access, resources, and discounted tools and services to accelerate business growth.

Oriental Education Institute (OEI)
Bejing, China
Oriental Education Institute (OEI) aims to identify and nurture future businesses who are committed to shaping the future of education. We provide services including tailored training classes, industry research reports, online courses, industry seminars and innovation and entrepreneurship competitions.

Perfect Puzzle Capital
Beijing, China
Perfect Puzzle Capital provides a platform for startup companies in China with channel resources and industrial resources in the education industry to help startups grow and scale up.

Project FoundEd
San Francisco, California, United States
Project FoundED is dedicated to improving equitable learning outcomes for all learners by removing barriers to EdTech innovation and adoption.

Promise Venture Studio
Palo Alto, California, United States
Promise Venture Studio is a nonprofit venture studio that attracts, supports, and connects promising entrepreneurial talent, capital, and stakeholders to pave the way for the sustainable growth and impact.
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ReimagineEd Collective
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A thesis-driven, founder-focused Venture Studio for seeding and scaling EdTech ventures poised to create global educational impact, starting with the MENA region.

RYE Consulting
Denver, Colorado, United States
Focusing on engaging clients from PreK through HigherEd, RYE Consulting uses in-depth industry knowledge to design customized consulting solutions for innovative EdTech from around the world. RYE specializes in empowering entrepreneurs and emerging technology startups from pilot to profit.

SEK Lab
Madrid, Spain
SEK Lab is an EdTech accelerator in Spain, and part of SEK Education Group, an institution with more than 120 years in the Education industry with 10 international school and the Camilo Jose Cela University. SEK Lab is founding member of the European Edtech Alliance.

Shonan Seminar
Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan
Shonan Seminar, an education company supporting students at every stage of their learning journeys innovates learning by applying technology to the classroom.

StartEd
New York, New York, United States
StartEd's world-renowned virtual programs provide access to an elite network of EdTech mentors and investors in New York and California, plus intensive masterclasses, and access to capital — including angel, venture capital, private equity, and grant funding.

StormBreaker Ventures
Bangkok, Thailand
Stormbreaker is an EdTech accelerator that provides EdTech startups access to capital, mentorship , world-class knowledge, partnership, B2B sales opportunities and a supportive community. Stormbreaker focuses on Coding for All, Future of education, 21st century skills and workforce re-skilling.
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SuperCharger Ventures
London, United Kingdom
SuperCharger Ventures is a cross-border EdTech accelerator dedicated to both early-stage and growth-stage EdTech startups to fuel their global expansion.
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TiE Bangalore
Bangalore, India
TiE supports entrepreneurs by offering education, mentorship, networking and funding opportunities. The mission of TiE is to foster entrepreneurship globally through the 5 pillars of TiE: mentoring, networking and education, funding and incubation.

UCL EdTech Labs
London, United Kingdom
UCL EdTech Labs is an accelerator for learning innovation. We leverage the resources and intellectual capacity of University College London (UCL) to develop and grow the brightest learning innovations.

UIncept
Gurugram, India
UIncept is a 21st century incubator-accelerator operating in India and is a starting ground of ideas and leaders that can transform the world. UIncept offers office space, partner perks, capital/investment, network access, and mentoring to EdTech startups operating in the Indian education space. Startups who wish to venture into the Indian EdTech space can apply to their EdTech-focused entrepreneurship program.

ZA SHARE
Taipai City, Taiwan
As a leading EdTech platform in Taiwan, they built an ecosystem for innovation to empower every education change-maker and shape education innovation and lifelong learning to be trendy like fashion.

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