Zen Educate
Tech-driven staffing marketplace that connects UK and US schools with vetted supply teachers, teaching assistants and cover supervisors, cutting agency fees.
Zen Educate runs an online marketplace that matches schools with supply, long-term and permanent teaching staff based on proximity, skills and experience. It makes money by charging schools a markup of about 15–18% on each booked hour or day, which undercuts traditional agencies' 30–35% margins. It also sells SaaS tools for credentialing, compliance and absence management. Launched in London in 2017, it raised a £19.3M Series A extension in 2022 to expand into the US (starting with Houston) and a $37M Series B led by Round2 Capital in May 2024, followed by a reported ~$30.8M Series B2 in January 2026 (about $106M total per PitchBook). It also bought Aquinas Education in 2024 and AK Teaching in January 2026, and Tracxn put its 2024 revenue at £50–100M.
