Edtech Companies

Navigate360 provides a comprehensive safety platform for K-12 schools and districts to manage emergency preparedness and student wellbeing. Its tools include threat assessment software, behavioral health screenings, and active shooter response training.

Articulate is an edtech company that provides tools for creating and delivering online courses and training. Its main offering, Articulate 360, includes Storyline for customizable, interactive course authoring and Rise for fast, responsive course creation. Articulate also offers Reach, a platform for distributing training to employees and tracking learner progress. Articulate is widely used by businesses and training teams to build professional e-learning content at scale.

2U is an education company that operates as an Online Program Manager (OPM), partnering with nonprofit colleges and universities to design, deliver, and support online degree and non-degree programs.

In 2021, 2U acquired edX ( ~$800mm). edX was founded in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make high-quality university courses accessible worldwide. At the time of the acquisition, edX had over 39 million global learners and offered more than 3,000 courses across its partner institutions. edX continues to provide free and paid courses, boot camps, professional certificates, and full undergraduate and graduate degrees.

In 2024 2U completed a Chapter 11 restructuring and now operates as a privately held company.

Panorama Education is a K-12 education technology company that helps schools and districts collect, analyze, and act on data around student well-being, academic performance, behavior, attendance, and school climate. They work with over 2,000 districts, and support more than 15 million students.

Panorama Student Success — An MTSS / RTI platform that integrates data from assessments, behavior logs, attendance and surveys to support intervention planning, progress monitoring, and student support in a unified system.

Panorama Solara — A customizable, secure AI system built on a school district's data and workflows that helps create smarter interventions, insights, and educator capacity.

Clever is an edtech company that provides a secure, single sign-on and data-integration platform connecting K–12 schools, teachers, and students to thousands of digital learning applications. Clever serves more than 110,000 schools and 95 of the largest 100 U.S. districts, with roughly 60% of American students logging in monthly through its platform. The company’s core product streamlines identity management and rostering by automating account provisioning and enabling one-click access to learning tools—reducing administrative burden and improving security for districts and app partners. Acquired by Kahoot! in 2021, Clever operates as a cornerstone of K-12 digital infrastructure, positioning itself as the trusted “identity layer” for education by making access to learning safe, simple, and scalable.

Teachstone helps improve teaching quality in early childhood and K–12 classrooms. It is best known for CLASS, a research-based tool that measures teacher student interactions and guides coaching and professional learning. Schools and programs use CLASS Online and MyTeachstone to run observations, support teachers, and improve classroom practice. More than 700,000 educators have used CLASS, and it is required in Head Start programs and many state quality systems.

WestEd is a nonprofit research and service organization that helps schools, districts, and state agencies improve education from early childhood through adulthood. It conducts large scale research, program evaluations, and professional learning, then turns findings into practical guidance for classrooms and systems.

Presence connects school districts with licensed clinicians such as speech therapists, occupational therapists, and counselors, and supports therapy and evaluations through its secure teletherapy tools. Presence works with more than 10,000 schools across 47 states and has delivered over 6mm teletherapy sessions.

Solution Tree is a K–12 professional learning company that helps schools improve teaching and student outcomes. It is best known for its Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work model and provides coaching, workshops, conferences, and education books for teachers and school leaders. Each year, Solution Tree works with thousands of educators across North America and publishes hundreds of professional learning resources.

Littera Education helps school districts run and measure tutoring. Its platform combines a tutoring management system with virtual tutoring services so districts can schedule sessions, track participation, connect to assessment data, and see real academic progress.

Reach Out and Read is a national nonprofit that builds early literacy into pediatric care. Doctors and nurses give young children free books during child visits and coach families on reading at home. The program reached about 4.8 million children and distributed roughly 9 million books, with strong focus on low-income families.

Abre is a K–12 data platform that brings school district systems into one place. Schools use Abre to combine student, academic, and operational data, then view it through dashboards designed for staff and families. The platform supports attendance tracking, MTSS workflows, behavior and wellness data, and CTE progress. Abre serves more than 215 school districts across 33 states.

EdVoice is a nonprofit that works to change state education policy for students from low income communities. EdVoice focuses on lobbying lawmakers and the Governor’s office to pass evidence based laws, with a strong emphasis on early literacy, the Science of Reading, and teacher quality. The organization also produces research through its affiliated institute and mobilizes a large parent and educator network to support policies that reduce achievement gaps.

ETS is a nonprofit education company that created and delivers some of the world’s most widely used tests. Its major exams include the GRE, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Praxis for teacher certification. ETS also supports states and agencies with K–12 assessments and large research projects such as the NAEP. The organization delivers more than 50 million tests each year in over 180 countries and is known for its strong research base, extensive publications, and long-standing work in measurement science.

Degreed is a corporate learning company that helps employees build skills and track their learning through its Learning Experience Platform. Their platform has over 500 customers and over 10mm users - and it focus on skills development means that it can rate users across 50mm individual skills and offers 460,000 learning pathways. Degreed also supports more rigorous learning experiences through its product, Academics.