Edtech Companies

Parallel Learning connect school districts with licensed professionals who provide evaluations, specialized instruction, speech therapy, and counseling for special education students.

O’Reilly provides books, courses, and hands-on training for technology and business professionals. It offers a subscription service with access to books, videos, live training, and interactive coding labs, plus well-known technical titles often used as industry references. More than 2.8mm professionals use O’Reilly to build skills in software, data, AI, and leadership.

Course Hero helps college students study with course specific learning resources. It offers a large library of class notes, study guides, practice problems, and lab materials, plus 24/7 help from subject experts. Course Hero also uses AI tools to explain homework step by step, summarize PDFs, and turn notes into quizzes. The company serves over 30mm students worldwide and is widely used across colleges and universities.

ExploreLearning is a K–12 education company that focuses on STEM learning. Its products include Gizmos for virtual science and math labs, Reflex for basic math facts, Frax for learning fractions, and Science4Us for early science.

Sketchy helps medical and health science students learn complex topics using visual stories and memory techniques. It is widely used across medical schools to prepare for exams like the USMLE, and supports programs in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and physician assistant training. More than 400,000 students have used Sketchy.

Blueprint Test Preparation creates online courses, tutoring and practice exams for the LSAT, MCAT, NCLEX and PA exams.

Ruffalo Noel Levitz is a higher education services company that helps colleges recruit students, improve retention, and raise funds. It provides enrollment strategy, financial aid optimization, student success tools, and fundraising support for advancement teams. Each year, the company works with more than 1,900 colleges and nonprofits, manages millions of student records, and supports over $1 billion in philanthropic commitments. In 2025, Ruffalo Noel Levitz was acquired by Encoura.

Prodigy uses games to help students learn math and reading. Its main products are Prodigy Math, a fantasy game where students practice math skills, and Prodigy English, which builds reading and writing skills through interactive play. Prodigy has reached more than 100mm users worldwide and is used by about 800,000 teachers.

Wolfram is best known for advanced math and computation tools used in education, research, and industry. Its main products include Wolfram Mathematica, the Wolfram Language, and Wolfram|Alpha, which let users solve complex math problems, analyze data, and work with real-world knowledge.

BetterLesson is a K–12 education company that helps teachers improve classroom practice. It provides online and in-person workshops, private coaching, and self-paced courses for educators and school leaders. BetterLesson also offers lesson plans with practical teaching strategies across different subjects.

Flatiron School is a bootcamp that provides training in software engineering, data science, cybersecurity, and product design. Courses run full-time or part-time and focus on hands-on projects with strong career support, including private coaching after graduation. The school has trained more than 20,000 learners, with graduates hired by companies like Google, Microsoft, and Spotify.

Learning Without Tears is an early childhood education company that builds curriculum to strengthen handwriting, early literacy, and foundational motor skills from Pre-K through grade 5. It is best known for Handwriting Without Tears and has expanded into phonics, reading, writing, and keyboarding using multisensory methods aligned with the Science of Reading.

Edlink provides an API that connects education applications with school data systems, including learning management and student information systems. It turns complex integrations into a single set of endpoints to simplify data synchronization for roster, assignment, and grade data. This service currently supports more than 120 companies across 4,000 educational institutions.

SchoolMint provides strategic enrollment management software to help school districts and charter networks attract, enroll, and retain students. Its platform manages the full enrollment lifecycle, including applications, lotteries, registration, family communications, and behavior tracking, with analytics that help leaders understand demand and plan programs.

New Teacher Center is a national nonprofit that helps school systems improve student learning by strengthening teachers and school leaders. It works with districts and states to provide mentoring, instructional coaching, and leadership development, with a strong focus on supporting new teachers and reducing turnover.