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.
Meazure Learning provides assessment services to schools and credentialing associations, including - test creation, scheduling, payments, and proctoring through online and hybrid options. Meazure Learning delivers millions of exams each year in more than 100 countries, with a strong focus on security and test taker experience.
Follett School Solutions provides core software and content used in school libraries and classrooms. Its main platform, Destiny, helps schools manage libraries, digital books, and school-issued devices, while Titlewave supports book selection and ordering for librarians. Follett serves more than 80,000 schools and over 35 million students worldwide.
Goalbook is a K–12 special education company that helps special educators write stronger IEPs and plan instruction for students. Goalbook Toolkit gives educators strategies, progress-monitoring tools, and resources aligned to state standards and Universal Design for Learning. Goalbook is implemented in over 1,100 school districts and is used by more than 83,000 teachers.
InquirED builds inquiry based social studies curriculum for elementary and middle schools. Its core product, Inquiry Journeys, helps students learn history, civics, geography, and economics by asking questions, analyzing evidence, reading complex texts, and writing clear claims.
Discovery Education is a K-12 edtech company that builds digital curriculum, immersive content, and instructional tools to help educators deliver engaging, real-world learning experiences. Discovery helps over 4.5 million educators and 45–50 million students worldwide, with resources accessed in over 100 countries. Their immersive learning and virtual field trips are 3D and AR/VR-enabled experiences that deliver real-world explorations to deepen student engagement and retention.
Guild provides education benefits and career skilling to companies. Employees can access degrees, certificates, and training with support from coaches who help them choose programs and stay on track. Over 5mm employees have access to Guild through their employers.
Khan Academy is a nonprofit education organization that provides free learning tools for students around the world. It offers lessons, practice, and videos across math, science, reading, and test prep. The organization also offers Khan Academy Kids and Khanmigo, a widely used AI tutor. Khan Academy serves over 190mm users.
ITHAKA is a nonprofit that helps colleges, libraries, and researchers access and preserve academic knowledge. It runs JSTOR, a widely used digital library, Portico for long term digital preservation, and Ithaka S+R for research and guidance on higher-ed issues. ITHAKA supports more than 14,000 institutions in over 170 countries.
Noodle is a higher-ed Online Program Manager (OPM) that helps universities launch and enroll students in online degree programs. It works with schools on program design, faculty support, marketing, and student recruitment with a focus on graduate education.
ClassWallet is a K–12 finance company that helps over 6,200 schools manage and track education funds. Teachers and staff are able to use the platform to make and track purchases using ClassWallet’s secure digital wallet.
Ello offers an AI reading coach for children in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade to build literacy confidence. The app listens to children read aloud from digital or physical books and provides real-time phonetic feedback. It uses an adaptive learning engine based on the science of reading to match books to a child's skill level.
Flint develops an AI-powered learning platform designed for K-12 students and teachers to create personalized, interactive activities. It provides an AI teaching assistant that automates lesson planning, worksheet generation, and differentiated instruction in over 200 languages.
Symplicity provides a career services and student conduct platform for higher education institutions to manage student life and outcomes. It connects students with job opportunities while helping universities track alumni success and campus safety incidents.
American Reading Company helps K-12 students learn to read and write at or above grade level. It provides a full literacy system that includes curriculum, assessments, classroom books, and teacher support. ARC Core combines reading, writing, science, and social studies. IRLA helps teachers measure reading levels and set clear goals. SchoolPace tracks progress, and programs like 100 Book Challenge build daily reading habits. ARC works with more than 13,000 schools.
Prisms provides a virtual reality learning platform for middle and high school math and science education. It uses immersive simulations to help students visualize complex concepts like algebra and biology through hands-on problem solving. The company focuses on improving STEM proficiency through experiential learning in the classroom.