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.
Learning Without Tears is an early childhood education company that builds curriculum to strengthen handwriting, early literacy, and foundational motor skills from Pre-K through grade 5. It is best known for Handwriting Without Tears and has expanded into phonics, reading, writing, and keyboarding using multisensory methods aligned with the Science of Reading.
Teach Plus is a nonprofit that helps experienced teachers lead change in education policy and classroom practice. It runs fellowships and school partnerships that train teachers to work with policymakers, lead professional learning, also improves literacy and math learning.
Discovery Education is a K-12 edtech company that builds digital curriculum, immersive content, and instructional tools to help educators deliver engaging, real-world learning experiences. Discovery helps over 4.5 million educators and 45–50 million students worldwide, with resources accessed in over 100 countries. Their immersive learning and virtual field trips are 3D and AR/VR-enabled experiences that deliver real-world explorations to deepen student engagement and retention.
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.
Degreed is a corporate learning company that helps employees build skills and track their learning through its Learning Experience Platform. Their platform has over 500 customers and over 10mm users - and it focus on skills development means that it can rate users across 50mm individual skills and offers 460,000 learning pathways. Degreed also supports more rigorous learning experiences through its product, Academics.