Edtech startup DeweyLearn Raises $5M in Series A Funding led by SJF Ventures

The round also saw participation from Catalysis Capital, Morningside, and Owl Ventures, among others.

The company will use the funding to expand its operations and continue developing its products and technology.

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DeweyLearn's AI analyzes audio, video, and learning data to provide insights into teaching and learning. It supports both in person and online education across healthcare and clinical training, higher education, workforce training, and K-12 schools.

As employers and educators place more value on practical skills, performance-based assessments are becoming more important than traditional tests. DeweyLearn's AI is trained on each institution's curriculum and subject expertise to evaluate real learning and provide detailed feedback.

The platform delivers expert-level insights at a scale that would not be possible through human assessment alone. In recognition of its innovation, DeweyLearn won the 2026 ASU+GSV Cup, beating more than 3,000 companies to be named the world's top education technology startup.

DeweyLearn is helping improve student assessments across different fields. Riverside Insights is working with the company to explore new ways to make its student assessments more efficient and effective.

The platform is also used in clinical training. The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) uses DeweyLearn to expand continuing education for therapists who treat developmental and complex trauma.

"DeweyLearn is building a model of human learning informed by real cycles of observing, intervening, and measuring across diverse learning domains," said Dirk Liebich, co-founder and CTO at DeweyLearn. "Our novel approach quickly builds a knowledge graph tailored to each customer, like a knife cut technique or what makes a student chef successful. But, in doing so, we're also creating a meta knowledge graph of how people learn.

"SJF is focused on enabling better learning outcomes and career opportunities for all," said Arrun Kapoor, Managing Director at SJF Ventures. "We were wowed by the transformative potential of DeweyLearn's approach to applying multi-modal AI for education and confident that the founders have both the industry experience and AI expertise to execute on that potential.

About DeweyLearn

Founded by Luyen Chou and Dirk Liebich, DeweyLearn uses audio, video, and learning data to help educators better understand teaching and learning. Its AI provides insights into areas such as teaching effectiveness, student performance, cognitive skills, and engagement. The platform supports clinical and healthcare education, higher education, workforce training and K-12 schools in both in person and online learning environments.

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