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.
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.
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.
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.
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.