Edtech companies create the tools and materials that help people learn. There are roles in sales, marketing, and customer success — often working directly with school districts, higher-ed administrators, or HR and training leaders.
If you’re technical, there’s always demand for engineers, designers, and product managers to build products. If your background is in education or curriculum, you’ll find opportunities to design learning experiences, assessments, and content that drive real impact in classrooms and workplaces.
Vector Solutions provides training, safety, and compliance tools for schools, public safety, and other regulated industries. It offers learning management systems for professional development and required training, along with tools for safety reporting, risk management, and workforce readiness. Vector Solutions serves more than 24,000 organizations and serves ~22mm users worldwide.
HackerRank is an upskilling and hiring platform for software engineers, that helps identify and screen candidates through assessments, interview questions and plagiarism detection. They have over 26mm software engineers in their community - including 2,500 companies.
Turnitin helps schools protect academic integrity. It is best known for plagiarism checking and now also detects AI-generated writing. The company serves more than 16,000 schools and universities in over 180 countries, supporting around 70mm students. Its tools, including Feedback Studio and Gradescope, help educators review originality, give feedback, and better understand how students write.
Crimson Education helps high school students prepare to apply to the world’s top universities. The company offers personalized plans, mentoring for projects or research, plus support with essays and applications. It also runs Crimson Global Academy, an online high school offering A-Levels and AP courses. Crimson students have earned more than 10,000 offers to leading universities, including over 1,300 Ivy League offers and hundreds to Oxford and Cambridge.
Campus is an ACCJC accredited online community college that offers live classes, job-focused programs, and transfer pathways to four-year schools. Students often graduate with low or no debt through Pell Grants.
Braven is a nonprofit education organization that helps college students develop career skills and secure strong first jobs. Its flagship program, the Braven Accelerator, combines a semester-long course with continued support through graduation. The program provides coaching, skill-building, resume and interview preparation, networking, and connections to employer partners.
Kiddom is a K-12 edtech company that provides a digital curriculum and instructional platform to help teachers personalize learning and leverage analytics to monitor student progress. Kiddom partners with curriculum and education organizations to deliver high-quality, standards-aligned instruction through its platform, including - Illustrative Mathematics, EL Education, Core Knowledge Foundation, and CenterPoint Education Solutions. Kiddom also integrates with major education systems like Clever, ClassLink, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams to streamline rostering, single sign-on, and interoperability for schools and districts.
Zūm provides an AI-driven student transportation platform to modernize school bus logistics for school districts. It uses real-time data to optimize routes, reduce commute times, and provide parents with live tracking of their child’s bus.
Blackbaud is an edtech company that provides a Student Information System for K-12 schools to manage enrollment, billing and student data securely. Additionally, Blackbaud’s fundraising and accounting software (Raiser’s Edge NXT and Financial Edge NXT) is heavily used by nonprofits, schools, and social-impact organizations.
ParentSquare helps schools communicate with families by sending messages, alerts, forms, and payments by text, email, voice, and app, with translation in many languages. After acquiring Remind in 2023, ParentSquare now supports communication for more than 20mm students across the U.S.
Teaching Strategies supports early childhood learning from birth through age eight. It offers The Creative Curriculum for game based instruction, GOLD for tracking child development, professional development for teachers, and family engagement tools like ReadyRosie. The company serves over 4mm children each year in more than 240,000 classrooms worldwide.
GoGuardian is a K–12 education technology company. GoGuardian Admin is a web filtering tool that focuses on online safety. GoGuardian Teacher is used by over 1.9mm teachers to create personalized learning environments. GoGuardian Beacon focuses on student safety by providing teachers and administrators with alerts and early intervention students to prevent students from self-harm or harming others Across its entire product suite, GoGuardian is used in over 10,000 schools - impacting 25mm students and 2mm educators.
Chess.com is the premier platform for learning and playing chess. It offers live games, daily games, lessons, videos, puzzles, and AI-powered analysis. Chess.com has a large global community of over 150M members playing approximately 10mm games per day.
Jenzabar is a higher education Student Information System that manages academic records and administrative tasks. Jenzabar supports student record management, registration, financial aid, academic advising, and enrollment with added tools for reporting and student communications. Jenzabar is used by more than 1,350 campuses, mainly private nonprofit colleges and is widely used to improve student retention and campus operations.
360Learning is an edtech company that provides an AI-powered learning platform that helps over 2,500 organizations build, deliver, and manage internal training, onboarding, compliance, and upskilling.
Its platform supports course authoring, SCORM/xAPI import, skill-based learning paths, and collaborative “Academies.”