Companies · Edtech
Ho Chi Minh City · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Remote · Edtech · founded 2021 · https://www.marathon.edu.vn
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Marathon Education — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Marathon Education: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Marathon Education is one of 262 Edtech companies tracked from Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Remote, on record since 2021. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 21% of sector peers), and in the long tail by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
We provide live after-school tutoring to K-12 students in Vietnam
Marathon Education provides live interactive tutoring classes to K-12 students in Vietnam, we're the fastest-growing edtech player disrupting the $5bn offline tutoring market by allowing students to learn online with the best teachers in large-class or small-class format. The company is founded by Duc, former education private equity investor at TPG Capital - where Duc invested in K-12 education and edtech businesses in Vietnam & Southeast Asia. Duc co-founded Marathon with Tung - serial tech entrepreneur in Vietnam who grew his last startup - Christina's to 500 employees across 8 cities.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 262 companies in Edtech. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 21% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 21% of peers (estimate).
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
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| No rounds recorded. | |||||
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Marathon Education is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 School Road Limited | Edtech | — | — | — | same sector |
| Able | Edtech | — | — | — | same sector |
| Academic Insight Lab, LLC | Edtech | Pre-Seed | $220K | $981K | same sector |
| Academic Merit, LLC | Edtech | Seed | $2.1M | $11.6M | same sector |
| Academy for the Development of Human Potentials | Edtech | — | — | — | same sector |
| Academy House & Cottages Management Company LTD | Edtech | — | — | — | same sector |
| Academy Of Aromatherapy LTD | Edtech | — | — | — | same sector |
| Academy of Science of South Africa | Edtech | — | — | — | same sector |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excellence Learning AI tutor starting with maths and science | Edtech | — | — | 75% |
| SchoolRunner, LLC | Edtech | Seed | $38.5M | 73% |
| Educato Worldwide exam-prep platform | Edtech | — | — | 72% |
| Dost Education Getting kids ready for school in India. | Edtech | — | — | 72% |
| Codecademy The leading online learning platform for technical skills. | Edtech | — | — | 71% |
| Coursemojo Inc. | Edtech | Series B | $23.3M | 71% |
| Keypath Education International, Inc. | Edtech | Pre-Seed | $4.4M | 71% |
| Big Blue Swim School, Llc | Edtech | Series A | $78.4M | 71% |
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