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.
ClassDojo is a K–8 education company that helps supports classroom management - allowing teachers to better connect with families and build a stronger classroom community. It offers tools for behavior tracking, classroom updates, messaging (with automatic translation), student portfolios, and new AI features like an assistant for teachers and a reading coach. ClassDojo is used in more than 95 percent of United States K–8 schools and reaches over 51 million teachers, students, and families each month across 180 countries.
Benchmark Education is a K–12 publisher that specializes in literacy and language arts for both English and Spanish. It offers core curriculum, supplemental materials, reading-intervention programs, and bilingual resources for English language learners. The company also provides educator training, through its digital platform, Benchmark Universe, for instruction and assessment in for K–8 students.
SchooLinks helps students plan for college and their careers. Schools use SchooLinks to track coursework, explore careers, manage college applications, and monitor academic progress.
LearnUpon is a learning management system that facilitates training for employees, customers, and partners. It enables course creation, multiple training portals, automated learning paths, certifications, and includes new AI tools that speed up content creation. LearnUpon is used by over 1,500 businesses worldwide and has supported more than 20mm learners completing over 150mm courses.
Renaissance Learning is a K-12 edtech company focused on assessments, practice, instruction, and insights that support learning for students. Renaissance’s products help educators monitor student progress, personalize learning, and improve outcomes using data and research-backed models. Renaissance’s products are used in more than 40% of U.S. schools, and over 100 countries.
Renaissance Learning's products include -
Star Assessments - Adaptive assessments in reading, math, early literacy, and other subjects.
Accelerated Reader - A reading-motivation program with quizzes, metrics, and analytics to encourage independent reading and track comprehension.
Freckle, Lalilo & myON - Various practice platforms and digital libraries that support foundational literacy, mathematics, and student choice in reading.
Nearpod & Flocabulary - Instructional tools for engagement, interactive lessons, and foundational skills across disciplines via classroom-ready resources.
Relias is a workforce education company that provides training, compliance, competency, and performance solutions to healthcare providers and organizations. They provide 12,000 healthcare organizations and 4.5 million caregivers with content, analytics, and tools to deliver safer, higher-quality care.
Relias Learning — A learning management and training platform that provides content and tracking across 20+ health professions.
Compliance & Regulatory Training — A library of courses and systems that helps institutions comply with licensure, certification, and regulatory requirements.
Validated Assessments & Competency Management — Tools that help measure skills, knowledge, and job fit, and link assessments to learning and performance.
Staff Onboarding & Role-Based Training — Targeted training paths to bring new staff up to speed.
Continuing Education / CE / CME Programs — Accredited courses for clinicians to maintain licenses and credentials.
Content Libraries & Specialty Domains — A library with thousands of accredited courses in post-acute, behavioral health, long-term care and more.
Scholastic is a global education and publishing company best known for children’s books, school book fairs, and literacy programs. It publishes popular titles for kids and teens, offers book clubs, runs nearly 90,000 school book fairs each year, and provides classroom and supplemental learning materials across 130 countries.
Brightwheel is an early childhood education technology company that builds a comprehensive platform for managing childcare centers, preschools, and in-home programs. The platform simplifies administrative tasks and makes billing, payments, family communication and staff management. Administrators can also use their learning and curriculum tools for lesson planning and development milestone tracking.
Vivvi provides an early learning services for working families. It operates campus-based child care centers and offers home care solutions alongside a specialized curriculum for infants through preschoolers.
Primer designs, operates, and supports K-8 microschools. It runs its own schools and also provides a backend platform that helps educators launch and manage microschools by handling operations, compliance, and systems.
D2L is a global edtech company started by John Baker at the University of Waterloo while he was earning an engineering degree. D2L's products are used by 1,400 customers serving over 20 million learners. D2L's premier product is their learning management system, Brightspace, by D2L.
BrainStation provides digital skills training and certifications in areas like AI, data science, and product management. It offers bootcamps and certificate courses for professionals seeking career transformation.
Carnegie Learning is a K-12 education company known for its research based approach to teaching math, reading, and languages. Their main product is MATHia, an AI-powered math program that adapts to each student’s needs, along with their full math curriculum for K–12 schools. They also offer reading and language programs like Fast ForWord, literature tools, and world language courses through EMC School. Beyond curriculum, they provide teacher training and tutoring to help schools improve student results. Carnegie Learning supports more than 5.5 million students and teachers across the States and Canada.
HopSkipDrive is a transportation company that helps schools move students who can’t be easily served by regular buses, including special education and McKinney-Vento students. It uses vetted CareDrivers for safe, flexible rides and gives districts tools to plan and track routes. The company has completed more than 1.7mm safe rides and works with over 1,000 school districts and agencies across 14 states.
Udacity is an online education company focused on providing job-relevant, skills-based learning primarily in fields like data science, AI, programming and autonomous systems. Their programs emphasizes project-based learning, industry partnerships, and credentials (_i.e._ Nanodegrees) to help learners prepare for or advance in careers. While they originally started as a MOOC, they've moved towards structured career-oriented programs.