Voting has opened for BusinessCloud’s EdTech 50 innovation ranking for 2026.
Alongside a panel of expert judges, your votes will help celebrate the UK’s most innovative startups, scaleups and established technology firms in the education sector.
A total of 104 companies have been shortlisted for potential inclusion in the EdTech 50, an annual ranking which focuses on companies creating original tech for early years, school and higher education, as well as workplace development.
On the voting page, available at the below link, we’ve included the names of the shortlisted companies, the city or town and region in which they are based, and a short description of what they do.
EdTech 50: Vote for the most innovative UK education tech firms
Reader voting begins today and will run for seven days, ending at 23:59 on Sunday 22nd February.
The final EdTech 50 ranking, to be decided by a combination of judging panel selections and reader votes, will be published on Monday 9th March.
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The judging panel:
• Rachel Vecht, founder, Educating Matters
• Dan Sandhu, CEO, Education Development Trust
• Tim Holmes, education, training and human capital M&A, Alvarez & Marsal
• Jonathan Symcox, editor, BusinessCloud


