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.
Duolingo is a language learning platform that provides free and paid language courses. They've made a mobile app that is delightful to use and leverages research-backed strategies and gamification to keep its users engaged and improve proficiency.
Their additional products include the Duolingo English Test, Duolingo Math and Duolingo ABC.
Pearson is one of the largest education companies in the world providing services for PK-12, higher ed, corporate learning and professional development. Pearson participates in almost every part of the educational system - creating content, distributing and verifying knowledge. In K-12 Pearson is providing alternative schools to students through Pearson Online Academy and Connections Academy.
Crimson Education helps high school students prepare to apply to the world’s top universities. The company offers personalized plans, mentoring for projects or research, plus support with essays and applications. It also runs Crimson Global Academy, an online high school offering A-Levels and AP courses. Crimson students have earned more than 10,000 offers to leading universities, including over 1,300 Ivy League offers and hundreds to Oxford and Cambridge.
Grammarly is a writing assistance and communications platform that helps its 40 million daily users improve clarity, correctness, tone, and style. Grammarly integrates with over 500,000 applications and websites to deliver real-time suggestions and writing support.
Grammarly has free and paid plans for individual users, but is widely integrated in businesses and institutions through its enterprise plans. It's common for students to use Grammarly as a writing coach to help improve their writing quality and clarity.
Tutor Me Education provides tutoring for K-12 schools. It places educators in a small group or private sessions that align with classroom instruction, with a strong focus on closing learning gaps and supporting special education needs.