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.
Frontline Education is a K–12 school administration software company that helps schools manage staffing, student services, and day-to-day operations. Its platform supports hiring, absence management, time tracking, special education reporting, student information, and more. Frontline is used by more than 12,000 organizations and over 80,000 schools, supporting more than 4 million daily active users.
MathWorks is an edtech company that develops mathematical computing tools used across engineering, science, data analysis, and education. The company is best known for MATLAB and Simulink, which support numerical computing, algorithm development, modeling, and simulation.
Its products are widely used for research, prototyping, embedded system design, and teaching. MathWorks offers additional toolboxes for AI, data science, control systems, signal processing, and modeling workflows.
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is an education company that delivers online math classes, advanced math textbooks and math games for motivated students. AoPS curriculum is designed and taught by former math and science Olympians and is used by students to prepare for math competitions.
Imagine Learning is a K–12 education company that provides core curriculum, supplemental programs, and assessment tools for literacy, math, science, and online courses. Its programs include Imagine Language & Literacy, Imagine Math, Imagine Reading, Edgenuity courseware, and core curriculum like Imagine IM and EL Education. The company serves 18mm students and 2mm teachers in more than half of U.S. school districts.
Docebo is a cloud-based learning technology company that provides enterprise learning management and training solutions for employees, customers, and partners. Based out of Toronto, Docebo has more than 3,900 customers worldwide. Docebo’s platform is used across industries such as technology, manufacturing, finance, and professional services to manage compliance, onboarding, and skill development at scale.
HMH is a K–12 education company that provides curriculum, assessments, and intervention programs for schools. Its programs include Into Reading, Into Math, Into Science and Into Literature, with MAP Growth assessments now integrated after its NWEA acquisition. HMH also supports students with solutions like READ 180 and Math 180. The company serves more than 50mm students and 4mm educators worldwide and is used in over 90 percent of U.S. K–12 schools.
UWorld is a test prep company best known for helping students prepare for high stakes exams in medicine, nursing, law, and finance. It uses exam style practice questions with detailed explanations to build deep understanding and critical thinking. More than 90% of medical students use UWorld, and over 2mm learners worldwide rely on its tools. Its products prepare students for exams, including - USMLE, NCLEX, bar exams, CPA, CFA, SAT, and ACT.
Edmentum is an education technology and publisher focused on K–12 learning solutions, providing digital curriculum, assessments, and virtual learning programs. Their products reach over 5 million students in over 100 countries. The company emphasizes personalized and standards-aligned learning through cloud-based platforms that support intervention, credit recovery, college and career readiness, and full-time virtual schooling.
Edmentum also offers –
Exact Path – An adaptive assessment and individualized learning path solution that personalizes instruction in math, reading, and language arts. Exact Path is widely adopted for intervention and acceleration across school districts.
Study Island – A standards-based practice and formative assessment program used for test readiness, skill reinforcement, and classroom practice in K–12.
EdOptions Academy (formerly Apex Learning Virtual School) – A fully accredited virtual school that provides original credit, credit recovery, and advanced coursework, often used for alternative pathways, summer school, or full-time online learning.
Courseware / Apex Courses – A catalog of standards-aligned digital courses for grades 6–12 that support original credit, credit recovery, and blended learning models.
Calvert Learning – A complete curriculum for grades K–5, designed for virtual and blended learning environments, with an emphasis on project-based learning.
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.
Great Minds is a PK–12 curriculum developer best known for its products; Eureka Math, Wit & Wisdom for ELA, and PhD Science.
Macmillan Learning is a higher-education publisher of textbooks and digital course tools for college students and instructors. Its main products include Achieve, a digital learning system with built-in assessments and tools, and iClicker for in-class polling and participation. The company also publishes well-known textbooks across science, social science, and writing.
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) is a publishing and education company focused on academic, professional, and instructional content that gets distributed in both print and digital formats. The company’s solutions include books, journals, online learning tools, assessment/learning platforms, and institutional services.
WileyPLUS — An online teaching and learning platform that integrates textbooks with digital media, adaptive assignments, assessments, analytics, and instructor tools.
Knewton Alta — Adaptive courseware designed to adjust content to individual students’ needs, especially in STEM.
zyBooks — Interactive STEM eTextbooks with animations, embedded assessments, and active learning features designed to replace textbooks.
Wiley Online Library / Wiley-Blackwell — A portfolio of journals, eBooks, reference works, and scholarly content in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and more.
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.
KnowBe4 is a cybersecurity company focused on “human risk” management, offering a platform that trains employees to recognize and resist social engineering, phishing, and related threats. Their platform uses analytics, simulations, automation, and behavior monitoring to help organizations reduce vulnerabilities tied to human error.
KnowBe4 also offers —
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Security Awareness Training / Simulated Phishing (KMSAT / KSAT)** —Their core product with training, phishing tests, remediation, dashboards, reporting, and user risk scoring.
PhishER / PhishER Plus — Security orchestration tools to help incident response teams triage, manage, and respond to reported phishing emails.
SecurityCoach — A module that provides real-time coaching and feedback to users when risky behaviors are detected (e.g. clicking links, unsafe actions).
Compliance Plus — Tools for managing compliance training, policy delivery, tracking, acknowledgment, and audit readiness workflows.
Instructure is a global education technology and the creator of Canvas, a learning management system (LMS) used by K-12, higher ed, and companies. The company focuses on creating cloud-based software that improves teaching, learning, and training through tools for course management, communication, and data analytics. Instructure also acquired -
Mastery (formerly MasteryConnect) - An assessment platform designed for K-12 that easily integrates with Canvas. Mastery is used by over 14,000 school districts.
Parchment - Likely the largest credentialing platform, Parchment started by facilitating transcript management and verification for universities. At the time they were acquired by Instructure, Parchment had over 15,000 customers.