Acrux Education

What Acrux Education does

Acrux Education is an Australian EdTech company that provides AI-powered automated marking for handwritten secondary mathematics assessments. Founded in 2023 in Perth by Dr Leanne Russell (Co-founder & CEO, a former Head of Mathematics with 25+ years of classroom experience and a 2024 DBA) and Paul Kamarudin (Co-founder & CTO), the company targets Years 7-12 maths teachers and Heads of Maths as primary buyers. Acrux positions itself as the first Western Australian startup backed by Antler (Cohort 09 Perth) and serves schools in Australia, the UK, Singapore, and New Zealand.

The flagship product, Acrux Mark, ingests scanned PDFs of handwritten student assessments and returns per-question scores, feedback, and class-level diagnostic insights within minutes. The technical stack is an orchestrated AI pipeline: Google Cloud Vision performs OCR on handwritten responses, Mathpix extracts mathematical notation, and Anthropic language models generate feedback — all running on regional Google Cloud Platform instances (Australia, UK, Singapore) with student data anonymised via single-use identifiers before any third-party AI processing. A second product, Acrux Analyse, is announced for 2026 launch and adds longitudinal progress tracking, topic mastery heatmaps, and year-on-year cohort comparisons on top of Acrux Mark.

Acrux's commercial model is a per-student, per-year annual subscription priced at USD $14.50 for Acrux Mark and USD $21.75 for the combined Mark + Analyse bundle, with a 30-day free trial and a demo-driven enterprise sales motion in which the CEO runs 30-minute demos directly with school decision-makers. No revenue, ARR, customer count, or institutional logo is disclosed in source materials; only individual teacher testimonials are publicly cited. The company documents sub-processors and data protection practices publicly and is currently completing the ST4S (Safer Technologies for Schools) data sovereignty assessment, with submission planned for May 2026.

Name

Acrux Education

Legal name

Acrux Education Pty Ltd

Website

https://acrux.education

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Acrux Education is an Australian EdTech company, founded in 2023 in Perth, that provides AI-powered automated marking for handwritten secondary mathematics assessments. The company serves schools in Australia, the UK, Singapore, and New Zealand via a per-student annual subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Technology / Assessment Software

NAICS

Exam Preparation and Tutoring (611691)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Core Digital Curriculum & Courseware (Full Programs & Units) (EDAFACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Secure Browser, Device Lockdown & Exam Security Tools (EDAFADAI), Assessment Analytics & Item/Question Intelligence (IRT, Item Banks, Diagnostic Insights) (EDAFAFAG)

Keywords

• AI assessment marking
• EdTech software
• Automated grading platform
• Maths education tools
• Teacher productivity software

Headquarters

HQ city

Perth

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Acrux Mark Subscription: Annual subscription model priced per student per year. Includes unlimited handwritten maths marking, curriculum-aligned question bank, instant per-student feedback, Head of Department dashboard, and class-wide diagnostic insights. Whole maths department can use it without counting logins. Schools only pay for students sitting Acrux-marked assessments.
2. Acrux Mark + Analyse Bundle: Combined subscription adding longitudinal analytics on top of marking. Includes progress tracking, cohort comparisons, and early intervention alerts. Coming 2026.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Acrux Education is an EdTech company that sells Acrux Mark, an AI-powered platform that automatically marks handwritten secondary school maths assessments. Students complete assessments on paper, teachers scan to PDF, and the platform returns per-question scores, class averages, diagnostic insights, and individual feedback within minutes. The product is sold as an annual subscription priced per student per year to secondary school maths departments.

Product overview

Acrux Education is an EdTech company offering a platform-plus-modules architecture centred on AI-powered assessment tools for secondary maths teachers (Years 7–12). The core product is Acrux Mark — an automatic marking platform that processes handwritten maths assessments via OCR and AI, delivering scores, feedback, and class insights in seconds. An upcoming add-on module, Acrux Analyse, layers longitudinal analytics on top of Acrux Mark — providing progress tracking, topic mastery heatmaps, and cohort comparisons over time. Both products are included in the combined subscription. The platform also includes a curriculum-aligned question bank used to build assessments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Acrux Mark: AI-powered automatic marking for handwritten secondary maths assessments. Students write on paper, teachers scan to PDF, and Acrux marks automatically with instant feedback and diagnostic insights.
• Acrux Analyse

Products and services

• Acrux Mark AI-powered automatic marking platform for handwritten secondary maths assessments (Years 7–12). Students complete printed assessments on paper; teachers scan to PDF and upload; Acrux returns detailed marking, per-question scores, class averages, and diagnostic insights in seconds. Teachers can review and override any mark before finalising. Sold to secondary school maths departments as an annual subscription priced per student per year.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% reduction in marking time
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• WondecoreTechnology or IntegrationSchool data synchronisation partner for UK schools. Wonde provides roster data synchronisation including student names, school-issued IDs, year levels, and class assignments. Enables seamless school MIS connectivity within the UK region.
• AnthropiccoreTechnology or IntegrationAI inference provider for marking suggestions and feedback generation. Processes anonymised assessment content (no PII). Data is anonymised using single-use identifiers before processing. Anthropic does not train models on Acrux data.
• Google Cloud VisioncoreTechnology or IntegrationOptical Character Recognition provider for handwritten student response recognition. Processes anonymised assessment imagery (no PII). Part of the marking pipeline.
• MathpixcoreTechnology or IntegrationMathematical notation extraction provider. Processes anonymised assessment content. Training opt-out verified disabled — models not trained on Acrux data.
• Google Cloud PlatformcoreTechnology or IntegrationInfrastructure, hosting, and database services provider. All platform data stored regionally (Australia, UK, Singapore). GCP provides 99.95% monthly uptime SLA.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Gradescope (Turnitin): AI-assisted grading platform owned by Turnitin that auto-marks handwritten and digital submissions at university and increasingly K-12 level. Closest direct competitor to Acrux Mark's core AI-marking workflow, though Gradescope is positioned primarily for higher education.
• Sparx Maths: UK-based AI-driven secondary maths homework and teaching platform used widely in UK and Australian schools. Direct competitor to Acrux's secondary maths focus, with overlapping curriculum alignment and school-department GTM.
• Eedi: AI-powered maths diagnostic and tutoring platform with strong UK presence. Overlaps with Acrux on curriculum-aligned maths assessment and teacher dashboards, though Eedi leans more toward diagnostic questioning than handwriting-based marking.
• Century Tech: UK AI learning platform combining personalised pathways, assessment, and teacher dashboards for schools. Comparable AI-driven assessment and analytics positioning to Acrux Mark + Acrux Analyse, with multi-subject scope.
• HegartyMaths: Widely adopted UK secondary maths platform with video tutorials, assessment, and question banks. Direct competitor in the secondary maths curriculum-aligned assessment space where Acrux operates.

Broad incumbents

• Mathletics (3P Learning): Global K-12 maths learning platform from 3P Learning, sold on school subscriptions across Australia, UK, and other markets. Larger incumbent offering curriculum-aligned maths content and assessment; overlaps with Acrux on buyer (Head of Maths) and curriculum-alignment message.
• Quizlet: Consumer-and-school study and assessment platform with AI-assisted learning tools. Adjacent to Acrux in the K-12 assessment and study-tools category, but broader and not maths-specialised.
• Edmentum: Established US-headquartered K-12 online learning and assessment provider with adaptive curriculum and assessment suites. Broad incumbent with overlapping assessment-and-analytics capability to Acrux Mark and Acrux Analyse.
• Khan Academy: Large free AI-enabled learning platform increasingly integrating AI tutoring (Khanmigo) across K-12 maths and other subjects. Indirect incumbent competing for the same teacher and student attention, with much larger brand.
• Pearson Education: Global education publisher and assessment provider with K-12 and digital learning products. Broad incumbent whose curriculum-aligned content and assessment overlap with Acrux's curriculum-aligned question bank and analytics roadmap.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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