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.
Panopto offers a video management platform for higher education to record, host, and share lectures and instructional content. It features automated transcription and search tools that allow students to find specific topics within video recordings.
Element451 provides an AI-first student engagement and CRM platform for colleges and universities to manage the entire student lifecycle. It uses AI agents to automate admissions, marketing, and student success workflows such as personalized outreach.
Learning Commons is a nonprofit that builds open AI infrastructure that helps scale teaching. Learning Commons creates open tools like a standards-aligned knowledge graph, AI evaluation rubrics, and curriculum integrations so classroom technology stays grounded in learning science and real teacher needs.
BetterUp is an edtech company that provides personalized coaching for employees and teams. BetterUp’s platform offers private or group coaching, AI-powered guidance, leadership development, and well-being support to help organizations strengthen performance and employee growth.
Passage provides a financial and educational platform to help international students and immigrants access academic opportunities in new countries. It offers financial services, including student loans, alongside guidance on university enrollment and visa requirements.
Pluralsight is a workforce development company that focuses on technology. They provide online learning, skill assessment, and analytics solutions designed to help individuals and organizations keep pace with technological change. Their learning platform offers expert-led video courses, interactive labs, skill assessments, and AI-driven insights to help learners and enterprises identify skill gaps, measure progress, and upskill in technology domains. Pluralsight has over 23,000 business customers and millions of individual learners worldwide, supporting organizations across industries as they build cloud, data, cybersecurity, and software development capabilities.
Pluralsight Skills - A comprehensive learning platform with thousands of courses, role-based learning paths, hands-on labs, and certification prep in areas like cloud, AI, and DevOps.
Pluralsight Flow - An engineering analytics platform that helps technology leaders measure team productivity, workflow patterns, and software delivery efficiency.
Pluralsight Cloud Labs & Sandboxes - Live, interactive cloud environments that allow learners to practice and experiment in real-time without risking production systems.
Role IQ & Skill IQ - A set of proprietary assessments that benchmark individual and team proficiency levels, helping organizations target specific skill gaps.
Udemy offers courses to help people build job skills. It hosts more than 250,000 courses across topics like technology, business, and AI. Udemy serves ~82mm learners worldwide and works with over 17,000 organizations through Udemy Business to train employees at scale.
Savvas Learning Company provides core curriculum, digital tools, and assessments for K-12 schools. Their programs include math, ELA, science, and career readiness through tools like Savvas Realize, Experience Science, and PathMaker. Savvas serves more than 40mm students and works with over 13,000 school districts.
LEGO is a global toy and learning company best known for its brick-based play systems that support creativity, problem solving, and hands-on learning. The company designs physical play sets, digital games, and learning programs used at home, in schools, and through LEGO Education.
MagicSchool AI is an edtech platform that supports K-12 teachers, students, and districts through AI-driven tools and workflows. Their 80+ AI tools are designed to reduce planning time, enhance personalization, and embed generative AI into everyday instructional activities. MagicSchool AI is used by over 6 million educators across 160 countries and easily integrates with existing learning and student management systems like Google Classroom, Canvas & Schoology.
Lakeshore Learning Materials creates classroom materials, furniture, and hands-on learning tools for early childhood and elementary students. Most products are designed in-house by former educators and cover subjects like math, reading, science, social-emotional learning, and special education. Lakeshore serves schools and families through more than 60 retail stores, online sales, and a national school sales team, with a strong focus on safety and classroom quality.
Chegg is an edtech company that started off by providing affordable textbook rentals to college students. It's expanded it's product offering to focus on a direct to student subscription business (6.6 million customers) providing 24/7 homework help across 50+ subjects, including - Flashcards, Practice Questions, Solutions Library and more.
Chegg Skills is a partnership with Guild Education that enables Chegg to provide upskilling and career advancement programs to its customers.
MasterClass offers video courses taught by experts from across business, writing, food, arts, science, and sports. For a monthly subscription fee, customers get access to more than 150 classes with short lessons, class guides, and hands on projects available on web and mobile. The company has over 2 million subscribers and is known for its high-quality production and celebrity instructors.
Ignite Reading is a K–12 literacy company that provides daily private tutoring focused on phonics and early reading skills. Each student works with a trained tutor and schools receive reports and support from a literacy specialist. The program has served more than 50,000 students and delivered over 28mm minutes of instruction.
Lovevery creates play-based learning products for babies and young children. Its main offering is a subscription service that delivers age-based play kits designed to support early brain development from birth to age four. Lovevery also provides parenting content to help families understand how to support learning through play.