This article showcases our top picks for the best Cape Town based Education companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Education industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Cape Town Education Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
GetSmarter
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GetSmarter, is a digital education company that delivers premium online short courses.
Explore Data Science Academy
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The Explore Data Science Academy will serve the demand for big data analytics skills .
Snapplify
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As a global edtech company, Snapplify specialises in enabling digital learning via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa.
Digemy
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Digemy is an EduTech that help training providers transform their physical workshops into engaging and effective online learning.
Every1Mobile
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Every1Mobile uses mobile social networks to build youth communities in Africa, focusing on health, education, jobs and entertainment.
Koa Academy
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Koa provides an IEB education for children in grades 4-12 through an online learning environment that is both structured and individualised.
EduOne
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EduOne is a suite of digital education products ranging from information websites to scholarship management platforms.
Siyavula Education
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Siyavula is an education technology company that enables learners to improve their performance in high school mathematics and science.
Mobenzi
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Mobenzi provides technology and professional services to organisations involved in research.
UAV Industries
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UAV Industries has a simple vision: “To become the standard for safe and legal drone operations in Africa
Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Bertha Centre is the first academic centre dedicated to advancing social innovation and entrepreneurship.
Lightbulb Education
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Lightbulb Education is an e-learning company that provides innovative and result-orientated teaching and training services on mechanism.
Zelda Learning
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Zelda is a mobile platform that provides career guidance to students in high-school and university,
Preeva
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Preeva ensures student can benefit from a tutor and has access to high quality and affordable tutoring.
Cognician
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Cognician activates employee behavior change at scale
Bambisa
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Bambisa is a smartphone application that enables teachers to keep in touch with students and parents.
Funda
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Funda for eLearning provides a complete solution for rapid training and mobile learning.
Skillup Tutors
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Skilluptutors.com is a marketplace of tutors for students and parents, focused initially on in-person extra lessons.
Karri
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Karri system allows parents to easily pay for their child’s events and other expenses using mobile application.
Teach Me 2
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Teach Me 2 specializes in recruiting quality tutors and matching them with the tutoring requirements of clients to achieve learning goals.
ReKindle Learning
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ReKindle Learning is an Education company.
Milpark Education
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Milpark Education is one of the first private providers of management education.
Mindjoy
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Mindjoy leverages mobile tech to build a joyful kid learning community.
Daptio (Pty) Ltd
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Daptio is an adaptive online learning platform that is optimised for integration into current LMS’s and 3rd World environments.
Hubble Studios
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Hubble Studios specializes in e-learning, development, learning design, education content, edtech and digital learning platforms services.
Net Prophet
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Net Prophet is an event created to inspire and educate upcoming innovative entrepreneurs in the local Internet based economy.
Now Novel
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Now Novel is an online writing website and community that helps people to finally write that novel they want to write.
Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation
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DTHF is Committed to the pursuit of excellence in research, treatment, training and prevention of HIV and related infections in SA.
Paper Video
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Paper Video provides easy access to quality extra teaching to all South African students.
CodeSpace
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CodeSpace provides e-learning courses on coding, programming, software and mobile development.
Obami
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Obami is the most flexible and popular learning engine in Africa.
Rethink Education
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Rethink Education believes in delivering high quality education resources to all students through innovatively leveraging technology.
Matai Youth Camp
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Matai Youth Camp is to build relationships, learn new skills and have fun in a positive natural environment.
Excel@Uni
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Excel@Uni supports students going through college with mentoring, academic support, bursary funding, career advice and personal development.
Red Yellow
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The Red and Yellow School is a Marketing and Advertising college in Cape Town.
43 Air School
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43 Air School is a flying training organisation for the private, general commercial, airline & military pilot sectors.
Ikamva Youth
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To enable disadvantaged youth to pull themselves and each other out of poverty and into tertiary education and/or employment.
99Tbei
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99Tbei is a business platform that offers a wide range of services for professionals.
Together We Pass
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Together We Pass offers online private study groups to UNISA students.
City Varsity
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City Varsity is a school for media and creative arts.
Pearson South Africa
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Pearson South Africa provides learning solutions from early childhood learning to professional certification.
Earlybird Educare
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Earlybird Educare is an education management company that renders educational programs for children.
Turtlejar
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Turtlejar is a platform that connects students to tutors in South Africa. Turtlejar is South Africa’s fastest growing tutoring company
Africa Trust Academy
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Africa Trust Academy is an education company dedicated to inspiring and educating people for economic transformation
Philtech Business Academy
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Educational Technology (EdTech) Company
Uthini
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Uthini provides chat-based language learning courses delivered by experts.
Webgrowth Academy
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Webgrowth is a training academy that offers courses on digital marketing for small business owners and digital marketers
Tutorfy
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Tutorfy is an online curated marketplace that connects students with home tutors.
Via Afrika
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Via Afrika is a publishing company that produces and packages educational content and learning materials to develop training courses.
Khabza Communications
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We share graduate and Matric opportunities
Startup Safari
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Enabling emerging market entrepreneurs to scale globally through an eco-system immersion program fuelled by cross border JV’s
Groundflr
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Groundflr is a digital agency that works with businesses to create effective training strategies and programs.