Global Schools Group Funding, Investors & Competitors

Yuanfudao is China's leading platform for live online courses targeting primary and secondary school students. It delivers comprehensive curricula covering English, Mathematical Olympiad, and full-subject secondary programs through sessions led by nationally recognized teachers. Founded in 2012, the service enables home-based tutoring with interactive online features for students across the country.

Pearson is a British education and assessment company headquartered in London, listed on the London Stock Exchange as a FTSE 100 constituent with a secondary New York Stock Exchange listing through American depositary receipts. It is organised into five business units: Assessment & Qualifications, Virtual Learning, English Language Learning, Higher Education, and Enterprise Learning and Skills. It owns Edexcel, one of the main GCSE and A-level examination boards in England, and sells learning materials, assessments, qualifications, virtual schooling and digital learning products to schools, universities, governments, employers and individual learners. In 2025 it reported revenue of £3,577 million, operating income of £507 million and an average workforce of 17,062. The company traces its origins to 1844, when Samuel Pearson set up the business that became S. Pearson & Son; in the twentieth century it built a publishing and media portfolio that included the Financial Times, a 50% stake in The Economist and Penguin Books. Under Marjorie Scardino it refocused on education, forming Pearson Education in 1998, and between 2015 and 2020 it sold the Financial Times, its Economist stake and its remaining stake in Penguin Random House. Omar Abbosh, formerly of Microsoft, has been chief executive since January 2024.

New Oriental Education & Technology is a prominent private education provider in China, offering a wide array of educational services. These include overseas test preparation and consulting services, high school academic tutoring, nonacademic tutoring, and intelligent learning systems and devices. Additionally, the company holds a 57% ownership stake in East Buy, a leading player in the livestreaming e-commerce market.

Duolingo Inc is a technology company that develops a mobile learning platform to learn languages and is the top-grossing app in the Education category on both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Its products are powered by sophisticated data analytics and artificial intelligence and delivered with class art, animation, and design to make it easier for learners to stay motivated master new material, and achieve their learning goals. Its solutions include the Duolingo Language Learning App, Super Duolingo, Duolingo English Test: AI-Driven Language Assessment, Duolingo For Schools, Duolingo ABC, and Duolingo Math. It has four predominant sources of revenue; time-based subscriptions, in-app advertising placement by third parties, and the Duolingo English Test, and In-App Purchases.

TAL Education Group is a smart learning solutions provider in China. It operates a few business lines including enrichment learning, high school academic tutoring, learning technology, and content solutions. Among those business lines, TAL focuses on enrichment learning and content solutions.

Graham Holdings Company is a diversified holding company with operations spanning educational services, television broadcasting, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive dealerships, and other businesses. The Company's education activities are conducted through Kaplan, whose services include academic preparation programs for international students, English-language programs, exam preparation, and career and academic advisement. These services are provided to students, schools, and colleges, both domestically and outside the United States. It operates through seven reportable segments: Kaplan International, Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan Supplemental Education, Television Broadcasting, CSI, Manufacturing and Automotive, with key revenue coming from the Education and Automotive segments.

Laureate Education is an international higher-education group founded in 1989 as Sylvan Learning Systems and historically headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Its institutions provide undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications through campus-based and online programmes. The network serves students across professional fields including business, health sciences, engineering, technology, design and hospitality. Revenue primarily comes from tuition and related education services paid by students, sometimes supported by public financing programmes. Laureate entered international higher education through Universidad Europea de Madrid in 1999 and expanded online education through Walden University in 2001. It sold its principal school-age education operations in 2003 and adopted the Laureate Education name in 2004. A KKR-backed consortium took the company private in 2007. By 2015 the network included more than eighty institutions across multiple regions, combining owned schools, controlled nonprofit institutions and selected management arrangements. The company became a Delaware public benefit corporation in 2015.

Guild is a Denver-headquartered education platform partnering with major U.S. employers to deliver upskilling programs for their workforce. It provides access to online courses, bootcamps, and associate degrees from partners including Coursera and Simplilearn, targeting career advancement in tech, healthcare, and business fields. Walmart, Disney, and Lowe's utilize Guild's services to support employee tuition assistance. The platform features AI-driven career coaching and progress tracking tools. Launched in 2015, Guild has expanded to serve over 2,000 organizations across North America.

East Buy Holding Ltd is a live-streaming platform that focuses on selecting premium products for customers. The company operates in three reportable segments: Private Label Products and Livestreaming E-Commerce, College Education, and Institutional Customers. The majority of its revenue comes from private label products and the direct e-commerce segment, i.e., direct online commerce with private label products sold to individual customers and providing commission services.

Adtalem Global Education is a Chicago-headquartered provider of postsecondary education in healthcare, business, and technology fields. It oversees institutions like Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, DeVry University, and Becker Professional Education, enrolling students in nursing, medical, accounting, and IT programs across the United States, Caribbean, and Brazil.

FibraEduca Management SC invests in real estate opportunities in the education sector. The company seeks investment opportunities in the education sector with administrative efficiency to generate returns to investors.

GoStudent is a Vienna-headquartered online tutoring platform operating in 15 European countries with virtual classrooms for primary through college students in math, languages, and sciences. Tutors deliver one-on-one video sessions using integrated whiteboards and screen sharing, booking over 400,000 lessons monthly.

Inspired is a global network of co-educational independent schools spanning ages 1 to 18, with campuses in the UK, Europe, US, and Asia. Headquartered in London, the group operates over 80 schools emphasizing progressive academics, arts, and sports. Facilities include modern labs, theaters, and boarding options, serving diverse student bodies with bilingual programs in select locations.

Stride Inc is a technology company providing an educational platform to deliver proprietary and third-party curriculum, software systems, and educational services designed to facilitate individualized learning for students and adults throughout the U.S. The platform delivers products and services to attract, enroll, educate, track progress, and support students. It provides customized solutions to public and private schools, school districts, charter boards, employers, government agencies, and consumers. Its platform addresses two markets in the K-12 space: General Education and Career Learning, with products and services for the General Education market predominantly focused on core subjects for kindergarten through twelfth grade students.

Eruditus Executive Education is a Singapore-headquartered platform partnering with universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, UC Berkeley, NUS, and HKUST to deliver online and blended executive programs. Founded in 2010, it has offices in six countries and offers courses in multiple languages including Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin to participants from over 80 countries.

Grand Canyon Education Inc is a publicly traded education services company dedicated to serving colleges and universities. GCE's university partner is Grand Canyon University, an Arizona non-profit corporation that operates a comprehensive regionally accredited university that offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, emphases, and certificates across nine colleges, both online and on the ground at its campus in Phoenix, Arizona, and at four off-site classroom andlaboratory sites. The Company generates all of its revenue through service agreements with its university partners.

Age of Learning is a Glendale-headquartered education technology company offering digital programs for children. Its ABCmouse Early Learning Academy provides comprehensive curricula for ages 2-8, while My Math Academy and My Reading Academy deliver adaptive math and literacy instruction. Over 50 million children worldwide have completed more than 11 billion activities on its platforms.

Outschool is an online learning marketplace linking children aged 3-18 with independent teachers for live virtual classes. San Francisco-headquartered and founded in 2015, it hosts over 140,000 classes weekly in subjects from robotics to Shakespeare across 200 countries. Teachers include certified educators and specialists delivering small-group sessions via Zoom, with parental controls for scheduling.