Edtech Companies

Give Campus operates a fundraising and engagement platform specifically for educational institutions like schools and universities. It provides tools for digital giving, volunteer management, and social media advocacy to help development teams reach donors.

Brightwheel is an early childhood education technology company that builds a comprehensive platform for managing childcare centers, preschools, and in-home programs. The platform simplifies administrative tasks and makes billing, payments, family communication and staff management. Administrators can also use their learning and curriculum tools for lesson planning and development milestone tracking.

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.

Newsela is a K-12 edtech company that serves millions of learners and teachers by offering thousands of standards-aligned texts, videos, and activities across ELA, social studies, and science. Their content is available at multiple reading levels and easily integrates with real-time assessment and instructional insights. Adopted by ~90% of U.S. schools and tens of millions of students, Newsela has become a widely used platform for engaging literacy and knowledge-building. Their platform also includes tools for writing feedback, teacher dashboards, and growing subject-specific expansions, such as STEM through its acquisition of Generation Genius. Newsela acts as a comprehensive instructional content and assessment layer, helping educators engage students with current, differentiated content and track growth across key literacy and knowledge domains.

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.