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🏆 Announcing the 2025 Europe EdTech 200. Higher Ed & Workforce Track at the Back to School Summit.

Explore Europe’s most promising 200 edtech startups—where workforce upskilling, immersive tech, and enterprise learning platforms are taking the lead. Join 700 leaders shaping the future of education, skills and work at the 2025 Back to School Summit in NYC.


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The 2025 Europe EdTech 200 spotlights the region’s most promising education startups. This year’s cohort leans hard into upskilling and workforce infrastructure, with nearly half of the startups focused on adult training. Standouts like Coachhub and TechWolf exemplify a shift from content delivery to scalable platforms that embed into corporate learning ecosystems. Immersive tech is gaining steam too. XR innovators Loft Dynamics and VRAI are bolstering experiential learning. While consumer models still dominate, platforms like Cyber Guru and Skillvue signal B2B momentum. This year’s cohort points to a maturing, pan-European landscape, despite the majority share snagged by the UK.

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🎯 The future of education and work is being built in New York this September.

2025 Back to School Summit | September 9–11 | New York City

Join 700+ higher education leaders, CEOs, investors, and global funders for two days of bold thinking and real-world solutions.

From AI integration and global student mobility to new funding models, policy and regulation, and workforce pathways. This is where the next chapter of postsecondary innovation comes into focus.

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đź’Ş Power Moves

🧑‍🏫 The University of Michigan and Google launched an AI Virtual Teaching Assistant to improve higher education and support educators.

đź“– Kuwait College of Science and Technology partnered with Microsoft to embed AI into academics and curricula.

🤖 IBM Taiwan partners with National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University to integrate watsonx.ai into AI classrooms and collaborative research.


đź’° Education Funding

🏫 Freemaths, a French mathematics revision platform, has raised $3.5M to invest in artificial intelligence for generating automated exercise corrections.

📢 US News & World Report acquired a majority stake in Sups, an AI-powered college admissions provider, to enhance U.S. News' college admissions services with AI technology.

🎓 International Schools Partnership, a UK-based internation school group, has acquired Smart Vision School located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates to enhance ISP's school portfolio in the Middle East. 

đź’ˇ Golden Peak Media, a major media and education firm, has acquired Creativebug, an online arts and crafts education platform.


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