Top 22 Startups that help kids learn to read

Oct 20, 2024 | By Nadia Neveu

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Country: USA | Funding: $175.6M
DreamBox Learning offers elementary mathematics education through its intelligent adaptive learning platform.
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Country: USA | Funding: $40.3M
Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors.
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Country: USA | Funding: $32.5M
Osmo is a gaming company built around its proprietary Reflective Artificial Intelligence. It aims to create a new play movement to unleash the boundaries of the screen with the launch of its inaugural product, Osmo. Osmo expands the playing field and engages creative thinking and social interaction, allowing any object - pen and paper, you name it - to interact with the digital device.
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Country: USA | Funding: $15.5M
Ello is an app-based reading coach that works with real books.
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Country: Sweden | Funding: $12.7M
The all-in-one service for systematic reading development. Lexplore offers assessment, insights and development in one place to support systematic reading development.
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Country: Brazil | Funding: $1.6M
Yuna develops an AI-driven platform that provides personalized, interactive, and free children's stories.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.1M
ReadAskChat provides parents, caregivers, and teachers the guidance they need to lay a strong foundation for reading and a love of learning.
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Country: Finland | Funding: €600K
BeiZ is a Beijing-based game studio engaged in the development of educational games for adults and children.
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Country: USA | Funding: $250K
InferCabulary is a web-based, visual vocabulary and reasoning program using the semantic reasoning method.
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Country: Australia | Funding: A$200K
Bookbot is an app that helps child to improve reading skills.
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