Edtech startups in Toronto

Candice Faktor & Chris Sukornyk

Founded 2020 by Candice Faktor (who scaled Wattpad to 80M users) and Chris Sukornyk; an AI-powered social/cohort-based learning platform for creators and communities. Raised a US$4.75M seed (2021, GSV/Golden...

Claudio Erba

Founded 2005 by Claudio Erba (originally in Italy); AI-powered learning management system (Docebo Learn). Corporate HQ is now Toronto. IPO'd on the TSX in Oct 2019 and dual-listed on Nasdaq (DCBO) in Dec 202...

Matt Golden (founder & managing partner)

Toronto seed-stage VC founded 2011; the definitive local backer of the content/media/edtech cluster. An early investor in Wattpad (its stake returned more than the entire first fund on Naver's ~US$660M buyou...

Travis Ratnam (co-founder/CEO)

Founded 2014; a Toronto-HQ'd math instructional-guidance platform that surfaces student misconceptions for K-12 teachers. Raised a C$20M Series A in 2020 amid pandemic edtech demand (backers include John Doe...

Canada's largest educational publisher

Toronto-HQ'd, Canada's largest K-12 and higher-ed educational publisher, increasingly a digital-learning and courseware provider. An established anchor and channel partner in the local edtech ecosystem (e.g....

Rohan Mahimker & Alex Peters

Founded 2011 (Waterloo mechatronics grads); makes Prodigy Math and Prodigy English, curriculum-aligned game-based learning for grades 1–8 with ~100M+ registered users. Raised C$159M Series B (2021) from U.S....

Mike Silagadze, Mohsen Shahini

Founded 2009 (started in Waterloo, now Toronto-HQ'd); higher-ed courseware and student-engagement SaaS used across North American universities. Backed by Georgian, Union Square Ventures and others. Toronto e...