Companies we back
Ten investments across the full stack of AI-native education — from classroom annotation and formative assessment to curriculum design, accreditation infrastructure, and knowledge platforms for the workforce. All pre-seed or seed stage. All building from Australasia or with strong Australasian roots.
Kami
AI-Enhanced Classroom Annotation Tools
Brings live document annotation and collaborative markup into the classroom, with AI-assisted feedback layered over student work. Widely used across NZ and Australian schools.
Education Perfect
Adaptive Learning Platform for K-12
Curriculum-aligned adaptive practice platform for secondary schools, with spaced repetition and mastery-based progression built around NZ and Australian national standards. Strong footprint in languages, science, and mathematics.
Lingostar
AI Conversational Language Tutoring
Spoken conversation practice powered by large language model tutoring — targeting professional language development for enterprise workforces rather than consumer gamification. Fills the gap between formal language courses and on-the-job immersion.
Authory
AI Knowledge Portfolio and Content Archive
Automatically aggregates and archives a knowledge worker's published output across platforms, building a searchable, portable content record. Addresses the endemic problem of professional work disappearing when platforms change or accounts close.
Panorama Education
AI-Powered Student Success and Early Warning Platforms
Aggregates attendance, assessment, and social-emotional data to surface early-warning indicators for students at risk of disengagement or dropout — giving school counsellors and administrators a unified view of student wellbeing across the district in real time.
Pedagogue
Generative AI Curriculum Design Platform
Brings generative AI into the professional workflow of curriculum writers and instructional designers — producing standards-aligned learning objectives, assessment criteria, and unit plans aligned to NZQA levels and Australian Curriculum frameworks. Replaces the Word document workflow that most curriculum development still runs on.
Amira Learning
AI-Powered Oral Reading Assessment and Literacy Tutoring
Combines speech-recognition-based running-record assessment with adaptive AI tutoring to identify and remediate phonemic and decoding gaps in real time. Serves PreK–8 students across 4,000-plus schools, compressing the time teachers spend on one-to-one oral reading assessment while improving diagnostic accuracy.
Learnosity
Assessment Engine API for EdTech Platforms
Embeddable assessment engine delivered as an API — question authoring, item banking, adaptive test delivery, and results reporting that other EdTech products integrate rather than rebuild. The infrastructure layer that makes assessment a shared service rather than a per-product problem.
Woolf
Accredited Degree Infrastructure for Online Universities
Provides the accreditation and degree-conferral infrastructure that lets online education providers grant recognised qualifications without building a university from scratch. Operates as a licensed higher education institution whose member colleges deliver programmes under its accreditation umbrella.
Practera
AI-Managed Experiential Learning at Scale
Manages work-integrated learning and project-based programmes at institutional scale — coordinating students, industry mentors, and university supervisors through structured placements that would be logistically unmanageable without software. Uses AI to match students to projects and guide reflection throughout.
We invest at pre-seed and seed stage in AI-native education and knowledge platforms. We don't have a narrow mandate within EdTech — the portfolio ranges from early-literacy assessment to accreditation infrastructure because we follow the most important problems, not a category checklist. If you're building something that belongs in this list, write to us directly.
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