Top 10 English Learning startups

March 20, 2024 | By Nadia Neveu

These startups leverage mobile apps with gamified lessons, connect learners with native speakers for real-time conversation practice, and utilize AI-powered tutors that provide feedback on pronunciation and grammar.
1
Country: China | Funding: $1.1B
VIPKid connects teachers in North America with children around the world for real-time English immersion learning online
2
Country: USA | Funding: $183.3M
Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
3
Country: China | Funding: $128.9M
Liulishuo is an AI-driven educational technology company that helps users to learn English more efficiently and communicate with the world.
4
Country: China | Funding: $67.1M
51Talk is an online english school providing one-to-one foreign language teaching services.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $62M
Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
6
Country: USA | Funding: $60.2M
On-demand access to English tutors over video chat.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $41.8M
Voxy is a personalized and adaptive language learning platform.
8
Country: India | Funding: $4.2M
enguru offers an application that enables its users to learn English through interactive games and conversations.
9
Country: Vietnam | Funding: $4M
An online English learning platform optimized for working professionals
10
Country: USA | Funding: $2.2M
Buddy.ai is a voice-based virtual English tutor for kids that uses speech and virtual human technologies.
11
Country: Lithuania | Funding: €2M
At Leya AI we are building the next generation of personal coaching powered by Large Language Models
12
Country: USA
A group of education leaders founded the non-profit Great Minds in 2007 to define and encourage content-rich comprehensive education.
13
Country: UK
Fluento is an AI-powered online English learning application to improve spoken fluency and confidence.
14
Country: USA
Vocabulary.com is the easiest, most intelligent way to improve your vocabulary.
15
Country: Ukraine
Online English school for children, for adults, for companies.
16
Country: Canada
LinguaRolePlay provides an online platform full of immersive story content that allows ESL teachers to give fun and engaging online sessions to their students.
17
Country: Israel
Speak2Go offers language learning solution and technology that supports teachers and students to speak in english.
18
Country: Switzerland
goFLUENT offers business English distance learning and training solutions through written, telephone, and e-learning channels.
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