EdTech vs HealthTech - Q3 2020

2 billion more learners between now and 2050.

Global population will expand by nearly 2 billion more people over the next 30 years. The education and healthcare systems of today, already under severe strain, compounded by the pandemic and primarily funded by governments struggling to balance budgets, need to innovate and evolve to deliver better education to more people. Much of the population growth will come from markets where better health and nutrition of children is fundamental to their ability to learn.

Global Capital vs Education and Health Flows

Representing $15T of annual global spend, Education and Healthcare are incredible economic and social wellbeing engines. That’s almost 20% of Global GDP. Over the decades, these two predominately public sectors have started to turn to public-private partnerships and capital markets to fund and fuel growth and innovation. Beginning with social infrastructure, then services and now digital infrastructure, institutions and companies of all kinds are collaborating to build a better future.

Asia leads Education Investment. North America leads Health.

Globally, HealthTech attracts more than 2x the venture capital investment that EdTech secures. However, this picture varies significantly in different regions of the world. For every $10 that North American venture capital invests in HealthTech, it invests only $1.50 of venture capital in EdTech. Asia, on the other hand, invests 1.5x more venture capital into HealthTech than it does into EdTech.

From a geographic share of global investment perspective, the split is a mirror image. Asia’s proportional investment in Global EdTech is about the same as North America’s share in Global HealthTech and vice versa.

70 Education & Health Tech Unicorns

Together EdTech and HealthTech have over 70 Unicorns. We maintain a complete list of all 20 EdTech Unicorns and 50 HealthTech Unicorns that are updated monthly as mega-funding pours into the space. These two sectors, once considered sleepy and fragmented, are increasingly thought of by governments and investors alike as fundamental to powering a global economy that will thrive through the 21st century.