AI-Enhanced Learning Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Scribd gives you access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more — all in one place, for one price. OUR VISION Inspire the world through stories and knowledge. OUR MISSION Build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience. If you love working with smart, motivated people, you’ll love working at Scribd. We value our employees, we demonstrate accountability, and we take action. We’re one team with a common goal: helping our customers flourish.

Bloomy helps students learn more efficiently by using AI to identify exactly what a student should learn and when they should learn it. We provide adaptive and personalized curriculum to K-12, starting with English Language Arts, Math, and Writing.

Pixley turns kids' drawings and ideas into fully animated cartoons – in minutes. Kids are natural storytellers. With Pixley, any kid can draw a character, describe a world, and watch their story come to life as a personalized animated cartoon. Most kids' screen time is broken: passive, algorithmic content designed to keep kids watching, not growing. Pixley is the antidote. Every episode is safe, ad-free, and built around Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Parents can choose any lesson they want to teach their child, and Pixley weaves it naturally into the story their kids create. We're building the creative platform for the next generation – where kids are the directors, not just the audience. Additionally, the same technology powers Pixley Studios, our B2B content service for brands and content creators who want to produce high-quality AI video without the cost or time of traditional production. We’re 19 year old CS dropouts who’ve known each other since elementary school and won 4 hackathons at 15. After seeing AI flood the internet with low-quality content, we created Pixley – a safe, personalized way for kids to turn their ideas into animated stories.

Parrot is the TikTok for language learning. We turn doomscrolling into fluency with personalized short-form videos. Power users scroll for 6 hours/week on Parrot. Our team of engineers have lived the frustration of ineffective apps and learning methods - we’re building the first language platform that actually works.

Opennote is a notebook with an AI thinking partner built in. Feynman lives in your work: it edits your writing, references your knowledge and the web, runs background tasks, and gives feedback as you work.

Chiron is an iPad app that understands math as it’s written - like Grammarly for algebra. We’re both Oxford math grads, have tutored for a decade, and we’re creating the future of learning which will be entirely 1-on-1.

Miyagi Labs is an AI-powered exam preparation platform built to unlock human intelligence and democratize world-class education globally. We provide students with an elite AI tutor, hyper-personalized study analytics, and an infinite engine of rigorous practice material tailored to exam material. We currently support major standardized exams across North America, Africa, and Asia, including the SAT, ACT, and NYC SHSAT (US), the UTME (Nigeria), the KCSE and KJSEA (Kenya), and the NEET and CAT (India). We’re building the platform we wish we had when studying for exams. We envision a world where students anywhere can come to Miyagi to receive personalized, world-class AI tutoring designed to unlock their full potential.

Excellence an after-school maths and science program. We replace/supplement private tutoring and long-term study programs such as Kumon (over 30B TAM). US Parents are our primary customers. Our web and iPad software serves both ambitious and struggling students. As we believe each student is unique, we adapt our high quality courses and exercises to their knowledge and learning style in a very granular way. To facilitate learning, they get detailed text, voice and graphical explanations, can craft study plans, revise and memorize, and received human mentorship if needed. We believe LLMs have made edtech interesting, as technology now allows us to replicate a tutoring learning experience. In addition, we offer a program with daily courses and exercises, detailed feedback on their worksheets and more (super Kumon). Finally we sell the AI tutoring and exercise databases to schools in a B2B and B2B2C model and already work for the most prestigious institutions in France (Ecole polytechnique, college Stanislas...). We're a passionate team of ex-quants, mathematicians and physics champions devoted to improving science education.

Alice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI. We’re Duolingo for exams, and more than 10k college students have already used Alice. Kim, the CEO, is a domain expert in education with more than 10+ years of university teaching experience. He is also technical by background. MRR is $20k, growing +10% week-over-week the last 8 weeks Alice's core market opportunity is +$10b, with the global education market being almost $10trillion. As AI starts to disrupt education, Alice will use in-built network effects and virality in its product to create a global winner. Go Alice. Thank you!

Edexia is an AI Teacher Assistant for grading essays. It can be trained and controlled by the teacher and can grade assignments from any curriculum, year level, subject, or format. Learning like a teacher, Edexia visually breaks down its understanding of the rubric, and updates this as a teacher corrects it. Our vision is to transform education by facilitating AI’s safe and effective integration across all institutions and applications. Not using AI to replace teachers but rather to empower them—providing them with all the time and resources they need to develop their students.

x1 is an AI app builder that helps anyone create real, App Store-ready iOS apps. Users start with a structured product plan, design polished iPhone screens in a visual canvas, build features step by step, and prepare launch assets like App Store listings, screenshots, monetization, and analytics. Instead of generating one-shot AI demos, x1 gives builders a guided system for turning an idea into a real app.

et al. is a mobile app that aggregates your newsletters, research papers, articles, and more, in one place. Think of it as an LLM-powered feed delivering you useful content in short insights. For example, if you’re building an AI voice agent, you’ll see the latest in speech-to-text models without having to actively search, go through a pile of research papers, or prompt an LLM. We extract key takeaways from long-form content - allowing you to read as little or as much as you like from the original piece of information. With et al., you get to stay on top of breakthroughs in your field, build knowledge, and discover new interests effortlessly.

Capitol AI is building a sovereign operating system for intelligence, designed for regulated, high-stakes institutions such as professional services firms, financial services, and government agencies. These organizations are overwhelmed by data and experimenting with generic AI tools that lack auditability, repeatability, and secure deployment. As a result, critical decisions are increasingly shaped by systems they do not fully control. Capitol runs entirely inside enterprise infrastructure and transforms proprietary data into structured, decision-grade artifacts such as due diligence reports, regulatory documentation, and executive intelligence. The platform is model-agnostic, fully auditable, and operates with no data egress, giving institutions durable control over their data, workflows, and standards.

SimCare is an all in one solution for training clinical skills in healthcare and behavioral health. From AI avatars that you can speak with, feedback systems trusted by the top programs in the country, to site placements tools that help you show your skills and find a job. SimCare is used across the board to train counselors, social workers, doctors and nurses.

Mathos AI (Formerly MathGPTPro) is the leading AI math solver that enables academic performance and productivity of both students and teachers. It has empowered over 1M students from over 200 countries in the past year, which turns the previously mission-impossible personalized learning into real. Our advanced math AI model achieves roughly 20% higher accuracy in mathematical and quantitative problem-solving capabilities then GPT4o. As we move forward, we will tackle the hardest problems in the educational sector, personalization, adaptive learning, and shortages of teachers, with our trial runs in schools. By automating grading, providing insightful analytics, and generating adaptive assignments, our model empowers teachers to understand what their students need and what should be provided accordingly.

Shepherd is a Learning assistant for schools to provide to their students. Shepherd seamlessly combines AI-enabled self-study, affordable tutoring, peer collaboration, and analytics for a personalized learning experience that is both efficient and effective.

Read Bean helps intermediate-advanced language learners and heritage speakers improve their literacy using real-world content. The app measures your initial reading level and automatically transforms texts into bite-sized lessons at your level. It adapts to your progress, reinforcing vocabulary and tailoring content to ensure continuous improvement.

Hyperbound is the leading enterprise-first Revenue Activation Platform, pioneering a new category focused on turning insights into revenue-driving actions. Hyperbound AI analyzes thousands of sales calls to identify the behaviors that lead to closed-won deals, then transforms those insights into realistic, highly customizable human-like roleplays with AI buyers that drive behavior change at scale. Trusted by enterprises like IBM, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Bloomberg, Vanta, Autodesk, and G2, Hyperbound helps revenue teams ramp 50% faster, define what good looks like, and scale top performance across thousands of reps. Interested in trying it out today? Start a free demo simulation at https://app.hyperbound.ai/buyers and book time with our team to learn more.

At Studdy, our mission is to unlock the full potential of the next generation by providing a personalized AI tutor for every student. Studdy Buddy is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, as well as advanced speech, text, and image recognition technology to supercharge students' ability to learn new subjects. We believe that making self-learning as easy as possible for as many students as possible (no matter their cultural, social, or educational background) is the key to unlocking the full potential of students around the world. We're a passionate team of AI experts, educators, and builders - if you also have a passion for transforming education we'd love to hear from you. Shoot us a message at team@studdy.ai!

Pair AI is Shopify for knowledge products. We empower creators, educators, and experts to launch addicting mobile-first video courses and provide AI-assisted coaching services at scale. Our platform is a one-stop shop to seamlessly monetize what you know! We make learning as fun and engaging as watching a TikTok.

We are re-building code hosting, code review, and CI primitives from the metal, for the next generation of professional developers: Small, focused teams, working closely, augmented by AI.

Deterministic, auditable automation for the finance workflows your team dreads. We build and run it on your existing stack. You approve only the exceptions.

Every student deserve personal attention. With AI, we can infinitely scale personalised learning experience at scale to every student. That's what we are building at SuperKalam.

inBuild boosts revenue for home builders by automating the thousands of invoices they receive for every project. For example, when a subcontractor sends an invoice for work they completed, inBuild checks the cost against the project budget, handles any approvals, pays the bill, and updates Quickbooks.

Founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ariglad The first AI platform that integrates with support channels and release notes to auto-maintain your knowledge base. Ariglad suggests new articles, updates existing ones, detects duplicates, and merges them. Basically, it puts your knowledge base maintenance on auto-pilot. This is led by Co-Founders Sophie and Ali. They are both completely obsessed with this problem and their customers, who have partnered with Ariglad to become immensely more efficient.

Trellus delivers simple coaching prompts to your salespeople in real time as they speak to prospects. Prompts are delivered in response to what is happening in a conversation. The goal of these prompts is to get more reps achieving quota and to reduce the time it takes to start attaining quota. Prompts are action-oriented steps toward empathetic listening and effective discovery. Examples include 'pause' (when talking too much), 'set next steps' (when wrapping up a call without them), and 'ask current state' (when encountering objections). Trellus is backed by Y Combinator and founded by former MIT researchers.

At Raven, we are building AI assistants for manufacturing plants which can offer intelligent assistance for day-to-day operations like training, job planning, troubleshooting, reporting and also helps with real-time analytics — all while seamlessly integrating with your existing systems. We’re taking decades of manufacturing expertise and combining it with AI to solve real operational problems. We’re a small, focused team working to make industrial operations safer, smarter, and more efficient.

Darsel is a AI-powered math education chatbot which is designed to supplement K12 education systems in resource-constrained environments. Darsel allows students to practice math questions & do their homework through platforms like SMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

Toko helps English learners in East Asia achieve speaking fluency. Through our mobile app, learners engage in short, realistic conversations with an AI and receive feedback on their grammar. With over 500 topics, learners can practice real-world scenarios ranging from small talk to workplace discussions. Toko offers a low-pressure environment to help learners build up their confidence. We make language fluency accessible to everyone - not just those with the means to meet 1:1 with a tutor. In Taiwan (our first market), Toko is ranked top 3 in the App Store for Education!

MySivi is an AI-powered English learning app. Learn English Speaking The Fastest Way (AI + Human) 😀 Practicing with AI English Tutor and Human is the fastest way to learn to speak. Try now to feel the change within a week.

At Sentiyen, we build GPT-based AI assistants that are trained on your content and enable your audience to get the answers they need 24 hours a day. We allow creators and businesses scale themselves to unlimited 1:1 conversations with potential customers, which helps increase revenue, reduce spend, and improve customer satisfaction.

AI-native Tax workflow Platform for accounting firms from client request to delivery. We raised $18m from patient investors who are onboard to help us grow and serve tens of thousands of accounting firms. We're not in this market to grow fast and fail fast. We're in this to build something that'll last decades.

Jovian is an online university for software development and data science. We offer practical and industry-focused programs that help professionals learn technical skills, build real-world projects, and advance their careers. Students learn practical skills, build real-world portfolio projects, and undergo job readiness training. Our tutors offer 24x7 guidance & mentorship over Slack & Zoom. Students also get access to jobs with 200+ hiring partners.

AI Engineers, ML+ Data Scientists, AI Product Engineers. We also help companies accelerate AI Adoption.

EARTH AI is a predictive explorer and driller for critical metal deposits. We discovered 5% of the world’s deposits this year, thanks to our AI with 66% vs 0.5% success rate and Low Disturbance Drilling tech which enables 1/4 cheaper and 4X faster site testing.

Kunduz is making test prep resources 10x faster and cheaper for students who prepare for university entrance tests. With its first mobile platform, Kunduz provides instant answers to students’ test prep questions through its 35,000 tutors. Kunduz currently serves students in Turkey and India.

AskMyClass, is a learning assistant that helps teachers save time and enhance learning, using smart speakers like Alexa, and help students get back-on-task quickly and build life skills through classroom management, social-emotional learning, and lesson support.

Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to understand human language. We give any developer access to the most advanced speech AI transcription and understanding with just an API call. Our models deliver the fastest, most accurate transcription alongside contextual features like summarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. Beyond that, developers can: 🔊 Process live-streaming or pre-recorded audio 🌎 Transcribe in dozens of languages ⚙️ Train custom models for unique use cases 🔑 Access deep NLU with a unified API 💻 Build in any programming language with our SDKs ✅ Deploy on-prem or on DG’s managed cloud 📈 Get scalable GPU infra for training and inference Deepgram is a proud NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company, and we recently completed a $72M Series B to define the future of AI Speech Understanding, making us the most-funded speech AI company at its stage.

Platzi turns a company's scattered knowledge into training that automatically builds expert teams. It captures how an organization's top performers sell, build, and operate, then shapes that knowledge into structured training that brings the rest of the workforce to their level. The courses are created instantly from each company's own knowledge, self-updating as it changes. It's training that never goes stale, and no one has to maintain. And just as pilots learn to fly in a simulator, Platzi measures mastery in simulated work scenarios, like a sales rep handling a hard objection or a frontline worker holding the line on safety while a manager pushes to cut corners. The test is the work, not course completion.

Meet Sparky, a fun and quirky AI buddy in the avatar of a friendly fox who kids can just speak with to build fluency and confidence with English speaking. Powered by Generative AI, and made magical with child-appropriate experience, features and topics, Sparky brings a whole world of knowledge and a judgement-free environment for kids to become comfortable with speaking English. 142 countries (outside English dominant countries) mandate English learning as part of the national education policy. These kids have exposure to English but feel underconfident and embarrassed to speak. The biggest problem across the classes and books they get, is the lack of real conversational practice. With AI, we're making this affordable accessible and enjoyable for kids across the world. We're a passionate team of educators with over 30 years of combined experience in building education products for kids and have held leadership positions are India's biggest education companies - Byju's and LEAD.

It combines the latest adaptive learning and Natural Language Understanding technology with pedagogical content as well as on-demand human instructors to offer its students affordable, personalized, 1:1 learning. Based in San Francisco, the company was funded by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Google Assistant Investments Program, and several other investors. Over 800 thousand students have improved their English with Edwin. In early 2020 Edwin merged with MyBuddy.ai. The resulting company kept the name “Buddy.ai”. Headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on building a virtual English conversation partner for over 500 million children around the globe who are trying to learn English, but can't reach fluency because they lack genuine practice speaking the language. The company doubled down on its mobile app Buddy, the voice-based English tutor for kids, organically combining solutions developed by Buddy.ai and Edwin.