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.
Academia.edu is an academic network where over 270M researchers and students upload, share, and discover over 55M scholarly papers. The platform allows users to build academic profiles, track readership analytics, and follow other researchers.
In 2022, the company expanded into publishing through its open-access initiative, Academia.edu Journals.
Cambly helps people learn English through live one-on-one conversations with native speakers. It serves students from all around the world and focuses on flexible, on-demand practice to improve speaking and listening skills.
Thought Industries provides a customer learning platform used by businesses to deliver professional training and certifications. It offers tools for course authoring, e-commerce, and learner analytics to manage external-facing education programs.
MIND Education is a nonprofit that builds math programs to help students understand math deeply, not just memorize steps. Its well known product, ST Math, uses visual puzzles and game-based learning to teach concepts without relying on language, which helps reach more learners.
Collaborative Classroom is a nonprofit that creates research based literacy and social emotional learning programs for K–12 schools. Its core products include SIPPS for phonics and decoding, Being a Reader and Being a Writer for early literacy and writing, Making Meaning for comprehension, and Caring School Community for SEL. Collaborative Classroom has reached over 10 million students and hundreds of thousands of educators.
OnYourMark Education is a national nonprofit that provides virtual literacy tutoring for K–5 students. It uses the Science of Reading to help students build core skills like phonics, decoding, and fluency. Students work with trained literacy tutors in short daily sessions, and schools use assessment data to track progress.
Ensemble Learning is a nonprofit that helps schools serve multilingual learners and English language learners. Ensemble Learning provides professional development, teacher coaching, leadership coaching, and support for dual language programs. The organization has partnered with more than 120 schools and school districts.
Common App is a nonprofit that provides a centralized platform for students to apply to over 1,000 higher education institutions worldwide. It simplifies the application process by allowing students to manage their forms, essays, and recommendations in one place.
Mango Languages offers a digital language learning platform featuring over 70 world languages and dialects for individuals and institutions. Its curriculum uses an intuitive methodology focused on conversation, grammar, and cultural context. The company provides its services to public libraries, schools, and government organizations.
Modern Campus is a content management system and student engagement software for higher education institutions. Its platform helps universities manage catalogs, curriculum, and public websites through a centralized interface.
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.
Brilliant provides an interactive learning platform focused on building problem solving skills in math, science, and computer science. It offers visual lessons that guide students and professionals through complex concepts using hands on challenges.
Cadmus provides a secure online assessment platform for higher education institutions to manage the creation, submission, and grading of student work. The system features a specialized text editor that guides students through academic tasks while tracking engagement to ensure academic integrity. It offers real-time analytics for educators to identify at-risk students and streamline the feedback process.
Nurses Middle College (NursesMC) is a nonprofit charter organization that runs a national network of public high schools focused on nursing and healthcare careers. It combines college prep academics with nursing coursework, free dual college enrollment, industry certifications like CNA or EMT, and clinical internships.
YouLearn provides an AI-powered study platform that transforms educational content into interactive learning materials such as quizzes and summaries. It allows students to upload textbooks, lecture videos, or notes to generate personalized study plans and academic support.