Here are the top 5 Nigerian Edtech platforms in 2025 by impact
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According to EdTech Global, Nigeria’s EdTech system is projected to reach $400 million in revenue in 2025, up from an estimated $270–300 million in 2024. This shows the continued growth of a market that has experienced increasing footprints since the COVID-19 era.
Beyond the mission to modernise access to education, Nigerian edutech startups have been driving impact by providing both students and learners with a platform to achieve efficiency and measured growth. Outside the classrooms, some startups are onboarding youths for tech skills, with self-paced embedded learning.
This article will spotlight the top 5 Nigerian Edtech startups driving impact in 2025.
The metric used was generated mostly from media coverage, reviews made on the web, Google and App store.
1. AltSchool Africa
Founded: 2021
Founders: Adewale Yusuf, Akintude Sultan, and Opeyemi Awoyemi
AltSchool Africa is an EdTech platform that provides practical, tech-focused education to help individuals begin or continue their careers in various tech fields such as Software Engineering, Data, Product, and the Creative Economy.
Its Nano-Diploma courses, which were recently introduced, provided learners with a self-paced online program, where they can learn at their own speed. It offers flexibility and a chance for working-class Africans to learn tech skills at their own specified time frame.
2. uLesson
Founded: 2019
Founder: Sim Shagaya
uLesson is an e-learning platform that provides a mobile learning app for primary and secondary school students. The platform features a range of educational content, including video lessons, quizzes, and mock exams.
Four weeks after its official launch in 2020, the edtech startup celebrated 40,000 downloads from the Play Store. The platform has surpassed 1 million downloads.
Its partnership with Miva Open University, an open university, allows uLesson to extend its mission to tertiary education learning.
Also Read: Top 10 edtech startups by Nigerians in the diaspora transforming education globally.
3. Schoola
Founded: 2020
Founders: Abdullahi Muhammad Bature, Nasiru Mustapha, and Abdulalim Ladan
Schoola is an edtech company that facilitates K12 education (primary and secondary) with gamified learning and AI. One of the company’s groundbreaking features, Curri AI, enables teachers to create lesson plans and educational content in seconds, allowing them more time to focus on class delivery.
Also, the AI feature allows school owners to create a secure resource management system in just one minute and invite their entire teaching staff in five.
4. Educare
Founded: 2018
Founder: Alex Onyia
Formerly based in Nigeria, but now in Georgia, Educare provides cloud-based tools for school performance tracking, teacher evaluations, and admin management.
Educare modernises K–12 operations in a space often left behind by innovation. The startup currently operates in over 100 Nigerian schools.
The startup has continued to offer a technology platform that fuels a vision for a future where education empowers students, teachers, and communities.
5. Teesas
Founded: 2021
Founder: Osayi Izedonmwen
Teesas is an edtech company that provides both online and physical learning platforms for students, with a focus on making education accessible and culturally relevant in Africa.
Through its offerings, the Edtech startup has been redefined from a mere learning app to an edutech company committed to whole-child development.
Impact and feedback
| EdTech | Impact | Learner’s feedback |
| AltSchool Africa | 1. The platform has expanded its footprint across Africa, providing youths with access to multiple tech-skills training. 2. It recognises users’ feedback and implements such initiatives. For instance, it launched a “Nano-Diploma” option in response to complaints about schedule adjustments. |
Learners have often made positive testimonies about how the course they did at Alt School Africa changed their lives. “Huge thanks to @HackSultan for the partial scholarship that made this possible. This one-year journey at @AltSchoolAfrica stretched me, built my skills, and sparked real growth. Grateful for every lesson,” a learner said on X. |
| uLesson | 1. The platform is prominent among secondary school learners. A survey by uLesson showed that 7 out of 10 learners used the platform during holidays, while 90% used it to prepare for the upcoming academic session. 2. As part of its commitment to transforming education, uLesson was recognised by TIME and Statista in May 2025 as one of the world’s top EdTech rising stars. |
There is a widespread positive perception of the app’s usefulness and its seamless ability. For instance, nearly 80% of learners find it very easy to navigate, and a significant number of users (almost 75%) readily recommend the app to their friends. |
| Schoola | Schoola has expanded to over 300 schools across Nigeria, including Lagos and Abuja. | Schoola recorded a 70% boost in student engagement and a 30% improvement in academic performance across schools onboarded on the platform. “It’s time-saving, honestly, it’s like a relief. The tool gave me a different perspective from what I was planning to teach. I learned something new, and so did my students,” said a Teacher using Curri AI in Lagos. |
| Educare | 1. Its “Kit Up a Child” program has continued to combat poverty by providing essential school materials such as textbooks and uniforms to underprivileged students in rural Nigerian communities. 2. Through its founder, Educare was instrumental in identifying major anomalies in the JAMB 2025 exam results. |
Schools using Educare’s platform reported that it helps bring more structure, digitisation and data transparency to school operations. |
| Teesas | 1. Matric, its dedicated e-learning solution designed to improve student outcomes, especially for SSCE and UTME, has been pivotal in helping students with a record of 97% pass rate. 2. The Teesas Summer School in mid-2025 focused heavily on entrepreneurship. Teenagers developed and pitched business ideas to real business leaders for a chance at start-up capital. |
1. Parents like Mr Otameh shared success stories of their children passing exams after previously failing, crediting Teesas’ dedicated tutors and resources, such as access to 40 years of past questions. 2. There was an app upgrade in early 2025 where users acknowledged smoother navigation, better video tutorials, and enhanced mock tests. |
Note: While more than five Nigerian Edtech platforms are making an impact across the country, the above list isn’t final. Startups such as Edves, Klas and Kunda Kids have been significant in the drive for education via technology.
