Top 10 Professional Certification startups

Updated: March 27, 2024 | Editor: Nadia Neveu

These startups offer flexible, affordable, and accessible certification programs across a wide range of fields and disciplines.
1
Country: India | Funding: $668.2M
UpGrad is an online higher education platform providing various programs.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $458.9M
Coursera is an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform.
3
Country: India | Funding: $426.9M
The online learning platform that provides free online courses from universities around the world.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $240M
Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $76M
Simplilearn helps professionals around the world acquire the skills they need to succeed in today’s digital economy.
6
Country: UK | Funding: £50M
Enjoy learning for life with free, online courses from top UK and international universities.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $28.2M
BenchPrep offers a learner success platform to improve engagement and outcomes for learners.
8
Country: USA | Funding: $4.2M
CodeHS is a comprehensive platform for helping high schools teach computer science.
9
Country: Denmark | Funding: €1M
Diplomasafe is an IT company that offers digital, secure, verifiable, and shareable diplomas to students worldwide.
10
Country: USA
CBT Nuggets is an online platform that provides a diverse range of on-demand video training services for IT pros.
11
Country: USA
Scantron helps education, commercial, and government organizations worldwide measure and improve effectiveness with assessment and survey
12
Country: USA
Prometric provides technology-enabled testing and assessment solutions for organizations, academic institutions, and government agencies.
13
Country: USA
freeCodeCamp helps people learn to code for free. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons - all freely available to the public.
14
Country: Brazil
A plataforma Cursa oferece cursos gratuitos com certificados, sendo nosso objetivo reunir o melhor do conteúdo educacional gratuito hoje disponível na internet em um só lugar, pois o conhecimento é direito de todos!
15
Country: UK
Knowledge Train provides professional training and online classes about project management.
16
Country: India
Great Learning is an ed-tech company for professional and higher education that offers comprehensive, industry-relevant programs.
17
Country: USA
KnowledgeHut is a global ed-tech company, helping organizations and professionals unlock productive excellence through skills development.
18
Country: India
Techcanvass is an IT training organization for mid-level professionals in the field of Business analysis and automation testing.
19
Country: Norway
A SaaS platform that allows our customers to hold, verify, and issue any digital credential in the world.
Editor: Nadia Neveu
Nadia Neveu is a senior editor for EdTechStartups. She is a writer covering early childhood education, K-12, higher education and edtech business, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice. Nadia holds a degree in mass communication from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Nadia is also a student in the Master of Science in Data Analytics program at the University of Houston-Downtown. Nadia seeks to uplift all teachers in the work that they do and support them as leaders and agents of change. You can contact Nadia at neveu(at)edtechstartups(dot)com