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.
Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that helps elementary students to read through private tutoring. It trains community volunteers and AmeriCorps members to deliver structured literacy support during the school day, with a focus on core skills like phonics, fluency, and comprehension. Reading Partners also scaled its impact through Reading Partners Connects, a digital tutoring platform that extends its proven model.
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.
Chess.com is the premier platform for learning and playing chess. It offers live games, daily games, lessons, videos, puzzles, and AI-powered analysis. Chess.com has a large global community of over 150M members playing approximately 10mm games per day.
Teaching Strategies supports early childhood learning from birth through age eight. It offers The Creative Curriculum for game based instruction, GOLD for tracking child development, professional development for teachers, and family engagement tools like ReadyRosie. The company serves over 4mm children each year in more than 240,000 classrooms worldwide.
Teachstone helps improve teaching quality in early childhood and K–12 classrooms. It is best known for CLASS, a research-based tool that measures teacher student interactions and guides coaching and professional learning. Schools and programs use CLASS Online and MyTeachstone to run observations, support teachers, and improve classroom practice. More than 700,000 educators have used CLASS, and it is required in Head Start programs and many state quality systems.