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.
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.
Chegg is an edtech company that started off by providing affordable textbook rentals to college students. It's expanded it's product offering to focus on a direct to student subscription business (6.6 million customers) providing 24/7 homework help across 50+ subjects, including - Flashcards, Practice Questions, Solutions Library and more.
Chegg Skills is a partnership with Guild Education that enables Chegg to provide upskilling and career advancement programs to its customers.
ParentSquare helps schools communicate with families by sending messages, alerts, forms, and payments by text, email, voice, and app, with translation in many languages. After acquiring Remind in 2023, ParentSquare now supports communication for more than 20mm students across the U.S.
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.
Jenzabar is a higher education Student Information System that manages academic records and administrative tasks. Jenzabar supports student record management, registration, financial aid, academic advising, and enrollment with added tools for reporting and student communications. Jenzabar is used by more than 1,350 campuses, mainly private nonprofit colleges and is widely used to improve student retention and campus operations.