Edtech Companies

IXL Learning is a K-12 edtech company that provides comprehensive, adaptive curriculum and assessment solutions used by over 17 million students, including 96 of the top 100 school districts in the United States. IXL emphasizes real-time feedback, personalized learning paths, and analytics to inform instruction and help learners.

IXL's products include —

IXL — Their core product in subjects like math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish.

Instructional Tools & Analytics — Built-in videos, step-by-step lessons, engagement tools, diagnostic assessments, and dashboards that surface insights for teachers, students, and districts.

IXL also owns a portfolio of businesses including ABCya, Education.com, Vocabulary.com, TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers), Rosetta Stone, Wyzant, SpanishDict, and others that expand reach across tutoring, language, practice, and classroom content.

Stride is an education company offering K-12, supplemental, and professional learning products and solutions. The company delivers online, blended, and hybrid learning programs for students of all ages — from full-time virtual schools to tutoring, supplemental content, and adult career training.

K12 Online Schools & Virtual Programs - Full-time virtual public or private school options for K–12 students, delivered via digital curriculum and online instructor support.

K12 Tutoring - One-on-one or small group tutoring across grades and subjects, delivered by qualified teachers.

K12 Learning Hub - Flexible, customizable digital curriculum and skills practice platform for students.

They also offer a variety of services to schools, including a catalog of digital courses, certified instructional support, professional development, and adaptive tools to power virtual and blended learning in schools/districts.

For professional development and adult learners, they operate the following companies - MedCerts, Tech Elevator and Tallo.

McGraw Hill is an educational publisher that provides content and platforms to K-12, higher ed and corporate learning customers. Their products include -

Connect - Delivers personalized learning experiences that connect directly with your learning management system.

ALEKS - Leverages personalized learning to improve learning outcomes for college Math and Chemistry students.

McGraw Hill Go - A digital content solution for higher education that seamlessly integrates with the major learning management systems.

EAB is an education research, advisory, and technology services company that partners with K-12 and higher education institutions to help them improve enrollment, student success, retention, data use, and strategy. They combine deep research and insights with software and consulting to address challenges like marketing, analytics, student pathways, and operations.

Enroll360 — A suite of enrollment management tools for colleges and universities, helping with student recruitment and marketing.

Navigate360 (Higher Ed CRM / Student Success platform) - An AI-powered CRM and student lifecycle platform that supports retention, engagement, advising, and student success interventions.

Edify — A higher education data platform combining data warehousing, analytics, and insights to manage institutional data.

Strategic Advisory & Research Services — Consulting and strategic guidance grounded in their research on institutional trends, best practices, and industry shifts.

Adult Learner & Graduate Enrollment Solutions — Services and tools targeting nontraditional, online, and graduate student recruitment and growth.

Virtual Tours & Digital Engagement Tools — Immersive campus tours and digital engagement experiences to support student recruitment.

Advancement & Alumni Engagement — Tools and advisory to help institutions improve donor relations, fundraising, and alumni giving.

Duolingo is a language learning platform that provides free and paid language courses. They've made a mobile app that is delightful to use and leverages research-backed strategies and gamification to keep its users engaged and improve proficiency.

Their additional products include the Duolingo English Test, Duolingo Math and Duolingo ABC.

Elsevier is a publishing and analytics company focused on science, technology, and medicine, providing content, data, and decision support tools to researchers, clinicians and higher ed institutions. Elsevier is a leading publisher of journals and books and also creates products that enable research discovery, citation analytics, clinical decision support, and institutional benchmarking.

Elsevier also offers —

ScienceDirect — Their platform for accessing journals, e-books, reference works, and scientific literature across disciplines.

Scopus — A bibliographic database that tracks publications, citations, and author/institution metrics.

SciVal — An analytics tool that helps institutions and researchers benchmark performance and measure impact.

ClinicalKey — A clinical decision support tool providing verified, up-to-date medical content for healthcare professionals to inform care.

Mendeley — A reference manager, research network, and document repository that supports collaboration, article sharing, and researcher profiling.

Books, Journals & Reference Works — Traditional scientific and medical content published in both print and digital, serving academic and professional markets.

Amplify is a K-12 education technology company that develops research-based curricula, assessments, and intervention tools used by districts and schools across the U.S. The company emphasizes evidence, alignment to standards, and integrated supports to help teachers deliver high-quality instruction while adapting to student needs.

Amplify CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts) — A K-5 literacy program focused for Science of Reading, integrating knowledge building, phonics, vocabulary, and writing.

mCLASS / mCLASS Intervention — A set of assessment and intervention tools (universal screening, dyslexia support, progress monitoring) that help with targeted instruction.

Boost Reading / Boost Math — Personalized and adaptive supplemental programs that provide practice and remediation in literacy and math.

Amplify Desmos Math — A K-12 math curriculum platform (K-12).

Amplify Science — A K-8 science curriculum with hands-on investigations, literacy integration, and digital resources.

Amplify ELA & Boost Close Reading — A middle school language arts program focused on reading comprehension, writing, and text analysis.

Amplify Tutoring — Literacy tutoring for students in need of intensive, small-group support.

Spanish / Biliteracy Programs (Amplify Caminos, Boost Lectura, mCLASS Lectura) — literacy instruction and intervention tools tailored for Spanish speakers and bilingual learners.

Grammarly is a writing assistance and communications platform that helps its 40 million daily users improve clarity, correctness, tone, and style. Grammarly integrates with over 500,000 applications and websites to deliver real-time suggestions and writing support.

Grammarly has free and paid plans for individual users, but is widely integrated in businesses and institutions through its enterprise plans. It's common for students to use Grammarly as a writing coach to help improve their writing quality and clarity.

KnowBe4 is a cybersecurity company focused on “human risk” management, offering a platform that trains employees to recognize and resist social engineering, phishing, and related threats. Their platform uses analytics, simulations, automation, and behavior monitoring to help organizations reduce vulnerabilities tied to human error.

KnowBe4 also offers — ** Security Awareness Training / Simulated Phishing (KMSAT / KSAT)** —Their core product with training, phishing tests, remediation, dashboards, reporting, and user risk scoring.

PhishER / PhishER Plus — Security orchestration tools to help incident response teams triage, manage, and respond to reported phishing emails.

SecurityCoach — A module that provides real-time coaching and feedback to users when risky behaviors are detected (e.g. clicking links, unsafe actions).

Compliance Plus — Tools for managing compliance training, policy delivery, tracking, acknowledgment, and audit readiness workflows.

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.

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) is a publishing and education company focused on academic, professional, and instructional content that gets distributed in both print and digital formats. The company’s solutions include books, journals, online learning tools, assessment/learning platforms, and institutional services.

WileyPLUS — An online teaching and learning platform that integrates textbooks with digital media, adaptive assignments, assessments, analytics, and instructor tools.

Knewton Alta — Adaptive courseware designed to adjust content to individual students’ needs, especially in STEM.

zyBooks — Interactive STEM eTextbooks with animations, embedded assessments, and active learning features designed to replace textbooks.

Wiley Online Library / Wiley-Blackwell — A portfolio of journals, eBooks, reference works, and scholarly content in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and more.

Edmentum is an education technology and publisher focused on K–12 learning solutions, providing digital curriculum, assessments, and virtual learning programs. Their products reach over 5 million students in over 100 countries. The company emphasizes personalized and standards-aligned learning through cloud-based platforms that support intervention, credit recovery, college and career readiness, and full-time virtual schooling.

Edmentum also offers –

Exact Path – An adaptive assessment and individualized learning path solution that personalizes instruction in math, reading, and language arts. Exact Path is widely adopted for intervention and acceleration across school districts.

Study Island – A standards-based practice and formative assessment program used for test readiness, skill reinforcement, and classroom practice in K–12.

EdOptions Academy (formerly Apex Learning Virtual School) – A fully accredited virtual school that provides original credit, credit recovery, and advanced coursework, often used for alternative pathways, summer school, or full-time online learning.

Courseware / Apex Courses – A catalog of standards-aligned digital courses for grades 6–12 that support original credit, credit recovery, and blended learning models.

Calvert Learning – A complete curriculum for grades K–5, designed for virtual and blended learning environments, with an emphasis on project-based learning.

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.

Coursera was started by Stanford professors and was originally created as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). It's since grown to over 183 million registered users, serving individual learners as well as higher ed institutions and employers. Their core business is still focused on individual learners, where they offer subscriptions, certificate programs and degrees.

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.

PowerSchool is a K-12 education technology company with over 18,000 customers and used by over 60 million students in over 90 countries. PowerSchool has an entire suite of products, but their two core products are -

PowerSchool SIS — A student information system that maintains student records, attendance, grading, scheduling, enrollment, and state reporting.

Schoology Learning — A learning management system that supports curriculum delivery, assignments, collaboration, and assessments.

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.

Anthology is an edtech company that builds software and tools designed for students, institutions (K-12, higher education, government) and companies. There are over 150 million people using an Anthology product across 80 countries. Their product suite is robust.

Blackboard Learn - Anthology's Learning Management System, is one of the largest learning management systems in higher education. Anthology merged with Blackboard during the fall of 2021.

Anthology Student - Their Student Information System, which is widely deployed across higher education.

Instructure is a global education technology and the creator of Canvas, a learning management system (LMS) used by K-12, higher ed, and companies. The company focuses on creating cloud-based software that improves teaching, learning, and training through tools for course management, communication, and data analytics. Instructure also acquired -

Mastery (formerly MasteryConnect) - An assessment platform designed for K-12 that easily integrates with Canvas. Mastery is used by over 14,000 school districts.

Parchment - Likely the largest credentialing platform, Parchment started by facilitating transcript management and verification for universities. At the time they were acquired by Instructure, Parchment had over 15,000 customers.

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.