Edtech Companies

Academia.edu is an academic network where over 270M researchers and students upload, share, and discover over 55M scholarly papers. The platform allows users to build academic profiles, track readership analytics, and follow other researchers.

In 2022, the company expanded into publishing through its open-access initiative, Academia.edu Journals.

Cambly helps people learn English through live one-on-one conversations with native speakers. It serves students from all around the world and focuses on flexible, on-demand practice to improve speaking and listening skills.

Bottom Line is a nonprofit organization that helps students from low-income backgrounds get into college, stay enrolled, and graduate. Its core work is 1 on 1 advising, starting in high school and continuing through college, with support for applications, financial aid, academic progress, and career planning. Bottom Line also offers virtual advising through its Bluprint program to reach more students.

Encoura is a higher-ed enrollment company that helps over 2,000 colleges and universities find and recruit students using data, research, and specialized enrollment tools. Encoura also provides college planing preparation to over 7,000 K-12 schools. Their research division, Eduventures, has a deep understanding of the higher ed landscape and helps schools shape both their marketing and enrollment strategies.

Thought Industries provides a customer learning platform used by businesses to deliver professional training and certifications. It offers tools for course authoring, e-commerce, and learner analytics to manage external-facing education programs.

Teach Plus is a nonprofit that helps experienced teachers lead change in education policy and classroom practice. It runs fellowships and school partnerships that train teachers to work with policymakers, lead professional learning, also improves literacy and math learning.

MIND Education is a nonprofit that builds math programs to help students understand math deeply, not just memorize steps. Its well known product, ST Math, uses visual puzzles and game-based learning to teach concepts without relying on language, which helps reach more learners.

Collaborative Classroom is a nonprofit that creates research based literacy and social emotional learning programs for K–12 schools. Its core products include SIPPS for phonics and decoding, Being a Reader and Being a Writer for early literacy and writing, Making Meaning for comprehension, and Caring School Community for SEL. Collaborative Classroom has reached over 10 million students and hundreds of thousands of educators.

OnYourMark Education is a national nonprofit that provides virtual literacy tutoring for K–5 students. It uses the Science of Reading to help students build core skills like phonics, decoding, and fluency. Students work with trained literacy tutors in short daily sessions, and schools use assessment data to track progress.

Mango Languages offers a digital language learning platform featuring over 70 world languages and dialects for individuals and institutions. Its curriculum uses an intuitive methodology focused on conversation, grammar, and cultural context. The company provides its services to public libraries, schools, and government organizations.

Modern Campus is a content management system and student engagement software for higher education institutions. Its platform helps universities manage catalogs, curriculum, and public websites through a centralized interface.

Cadmus provides a secure online assessment platform for higher education institutions to manage the creation, submission, and grading of student work. The system features a specialized text editor that guides students through academic tasks while tracking engagement to ensure academic integrity. It offers real-time analytics for educators to identify at-risk students and streamline the feedback process.

Cialfo offers a platform for international schools and students to manage the university application and career guidance process. It provides data-driven tools for searching colleges and submitting documents to institutions worldwide. The organization focuses on simplifying global higher education transitions for high school students.

YouLearn provides an AI-powered study platform that transforms educational content into interactive learning materials such as quizzes and summaries. It allows students to upload textbooks, lecture videos, or notes to generate personalized study plans and academic support.

Anthology is an edtech company that builds software and tools designed for students, institutions (K-12, higher education, government) and companies. There are over 150 million people using an Anthology product across 80 countries. Their product suite is robust.

Blackboard Learn - Anthology's Learning Management System, is one of the largest learning management systems in higher education. Anthology merged with Blackboard during the fall of 2021.

Anthology Student - Their Student Information System, which is widely deployed across higher education.