Track record — UCL EdTech Labs

London and Paris are UCL programmes. Dubai and Toronto are Startup Labs programmes, delivered with commercial partners. The method is the same in each; who funds and hosts it is not.

London

United Kingdom

cohorts delivered

UCL programmeCurrent programme

Bringing startups into close proximity with research methods, so they can evidence that their product works.

Supported by Santander Universities, run under UCL Engineering and co-designed by the UCL Institute of Education.

Partners and funders

From this programme

Atom Learning

Raised a $25M Series A led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — one of the largest EdTech Series A rounds in the UK. Its adaptive learning platform is used in 500+ UK schools.

Chatterbox

Raised £1.5M pre-seed led by GMG Ventures. Delivers corporate language training through coaches hired exclusively from refugee and marginalised backgrounds.

See the London programme

Paris

France

cohorts delivered

UCL programme

Strengthening French startups' ability to evidence their impact, alongside academic and venture collaboration.

Funded by Île-de-France, headquartered at CY Cergy Paris Université and supported by ESSEC Business School.

Partners and funders

From this programme

Vittascience

Its coding and AI platform has reached 300,000+ teachers and students across France, and it built an embedded-AI classroom kit with STMicroelectronics.

Infolab.ai

Builds LLM-based tutors, and runs its own research and case studies to quantify how they change teaching and learning.

See the Paris programme

Toronto

Canada

cohort delivered

Startup Labs programme

Sustaining innovative practice inside a scaling EdTech company, and opening acquisition routes to promising startups.

Delivered by Startup Labs.

Partners and funders

From this programme

Knowledgehook

One of the fastest-scaling EdTech companies in North America. Its ClassOS platform personalises maths practice and gives teachers and system leaders real-time insight into where students are struggling.

4thewords

A writing platform built as a role-playing game: writers defeat monsters by hitting word counts. More than 6 billion words have been written on it since 2015.

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

cohort delivered

Startup Labs programme

Widening the founder pipeline, and supporting startups ready to scale into the MENA region.

Delivered by Startup Labs with ReimaginED Collective, a venture studio in the UAE.

Partners and funders

From this programme

iSchool

Live online coding and AI classes for children aged 6–18, taught in Arabic across the MENA region. 130,000+ alumni, and listed in the HolonIQ Top 50 MENA EdTech 2024.

Four programmes. Three continents.

Four programmes, in four education systems

London

Paris

Toronto

Dubai

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