Zen Educate
zeneducate.com
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Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials
Funding and backers
Latest round
Venture round
Apr 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
18
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Brighteye Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, a new city, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 24
Raised a round Venture round
Mar 2
First role in United States Product Engineer (Remote - US CT/ET)
Jan 16
Raised a round Venture round
Oct 2, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Oct 8, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
May 1, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 23, 2023
Raised a round Venture round
Feb 7, 2023
Raised a round Venture round
Oct 15, 2020
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 3, 2019
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 24, 2019
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 5, 2018
Raised a round Venture round
May 14, 2018
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 4, 2017
Raised a round Venture round
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.13%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Zen Educate Zen Educate Limited | its site |
| Registered | 19 Sep 2016 |
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How Zen Educate hires
Truth index
B 82/100
Median time to fill
73 days
Ghost roles
22%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Zen Educate scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 22% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 73 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 1
- United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)
Overview
Zen Educate is a London company founded in 2017 that matches schools with supply teachers and teaching assistants directly. By removing agency margins it pays staff more while charging schools less than traditional supply agencies. The company operates across Britain and has expanded into the United States.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zen Educate over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL
JavaScript
Ruby
Frameworks & libraries
React Native
React.js
Ruby on Rails
Cloud & platforms
Cloudflare
Expo
Figma
Heroku
AI & ML
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13 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$66k
Typical range
$42k – $160k
Open positions
12
4
Jobs
Junior
25%
Senior
50%
Staff
25%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $60k | $60k |
| Senior | 2 | $160k | $160k |
| Staff | 1 | $86k | $86k |
Highest paying role
Chief of Staff, North America
$160k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Zen Educate
By role, level and city, against the market · 12 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
18
5 opened / 19 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
73 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
HR
33% ▼
Marketing
22% ▼
Sales
17% ▼
Operations
11% ▲
Product
6% ▲
Finance
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Newport
Oct 2026
New location: Leeds
Oct 2026
New location: Manchester
Oct 2026
Added Xero to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Exeter
Sep 2026
Added Lovable to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
9
Countries
2
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $73k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Finance, HR
Bristol
United Kingdom
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $69k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Sales
Chicago
United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
Los Angeles
United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
Liverpool
United Kingdom
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $58k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
Exeter
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Leeds
United Kingdom
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $58k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
Manchester
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $58k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
Newport
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $42k Avg Salary
hires for HR
Earlier presence
Truro, United Kingdom
Sunderland, United Kingdom
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Jobs
≈ $86k – $162k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • London
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Financials
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
13
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2018 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2018 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2017 | — | Details |