Coorparoo News · Feb 2025
Local reporting on Queensland schools trialing Edexia for marking and feedback, including Villanova College and other partner schools, with discussion of workload and classroom adoption.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Edexia is a Brisbane-based EdTech startup building an AI teacher assistant that grades essays and generates feedback for schools, especially VCE/HSC/QCE/WACE and IB English. The product is teacher-controlled, rubric-based, and positioned for school deployment rather than student-facing use. Public funding disclosures vary by source: early coverage reported a US$500k YC-backed round, while later job/profile pages describe about US$4.2M raised at a US$35M valuation.
Primary product
AI teacher assistant for grading essays and generating feedback
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Team size
10-20
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Education
Sub-industry
AI assessment / grading software
Offices
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
institutional licensing
department-level subscriptions
free trial
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.2M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2025
Latest amount
$4.2M
Mar 2025
Nov 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CTO
Chief Operating Officer
VCE Curriculum Lead
Founding AI Engineer
Work & culture
Mission-driven and teacher-centric, with a small, technical team focused on rapid iteration, close feedback loops with schools, and keeping teachers in control of assessment outcomes. Public hiring and founder posts emphasize high ownership, strong engineering ambition, and a hands-on, in-person Brisbane base with broader geographic flexibility.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public job postings show a Founding School Partnerships Lead / Account Executive role at US$100K-US$500K plus 0.10%-2.00% equity, and another posting in the YC listing around US$80K-US$200K plus 1.00%-3.00% equity. A founder hiring post also advertised a US$10,888 referral bonus for founding engineers.
Product & market
Pricing
Flexible school pricing / institutional licensing
Differentiators
- —Teacher-in-the-loop workflow rather than student-facing tutoring
- —Curriculum-specific alignment for VCE, HSC, QCE, WACE, and IB English
- —Visual rubric breakdowns that can be corrected by teachers
- —Learns a teacher's marking style from corrections
- —Supports handwritten essays and transcription
- —School-level moderation and data silos
- —Claims 81.2% exact agreement and 98.3% within one grade band
- —Australian hosting and privacy posture
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PostHog
Vercel
Hatchet
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Google Workspace
Microsoft 365
Zoom
Slack
GitHub
LinkedIn
X
Customers
Schools across Australia
VCE English departments
IB English teachers
Heads of English
Teacher moderators and VCE coordinators
St Bernard’s College
Villanova College
Competitors
MarkPoint
Study Marker
StudyPulse
AusGrader
Studytwin
Bakpax
Peergrade.io
Graide Assessment
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$660K ARR (2025 external estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
4.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
University of Queensland Ventures · Jan 2025
University of Queensland profile on Daniel Gibbon and Edexia, covering the YC move and the product's purpose as an AI teaching assistant for grading papers.
Y Combinator · Dec 2024
YC launch post describing Edexia's teacher-controlled AI grading product, its rubric-learning approach, and the company's early school partnerships and growth plans.
Business News Australia · Nov 2024
Reported that Edexia was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 cohort, with US$500,000 in funding to subsidise growth, and described its early traction with Queensland schools.
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