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.
Panopto offers a video management platform for higher education to record, host, and share lectures and instructional content. It features automated transcription and search tools that allow students to find specific topics within video recordings.
Curriculum Associates is a K–12 education company known for i-Ready, an assessment and instruction program for reading and math. i-Ready provides teachers with data about student needs, and provides online lessons that adjust to each learner. The company also offers Ready instruction books, Magnetic Reading, BRIGANCE for early childhood and special education, and tools to support multilingual learners. Curriculum Associates serves about 17 million students and more than 1 million educators nationwide.
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.
Nerdy provides live online tutoring and classes through brands like Varsity Tutors. It offers private tutoring, small-group classes, and test prep with added AI tools for personalization. Nerdy supports ~ 5mm students across more than 1,100 school districts.
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.