Edtech Companies
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.
Udemy
Udemy offers courses to help people build job skills. It hosts more than 250,000 courses across topics like technology, business, and AI. Udemy serves ~82mm learners worldwide and works with over 17,000 organizations through Udemy Business to train employees at scale.
Instructure
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.
MagicSchool AI
MagicSchool AI is an edtech platform that supports K-12 teachers, students, and districts through AI-driven tools and workflows. Their 80+ AI tools are designed to reduce planning time, enhance personalization, and embed generative AI into everyday instructional activities. MagicSchool AI is used by over 6 million educators across 160 countries and easily integrates with existing learning and student management systems like Google Classroom, Canvas & Schoology.
Masterclass
MasterClass offers video courses taught by experts from across business, writing, food, arts, science, and sports. For a monthly subscription fee, customers get access to more than 150 classes with short lessons, class guides, and hands on projects available on web and mobile. The company has over 2 million subscribers and is known for its high-quality production and celebrity instructors.
OverDrive
OverDrive helps libraries and schools lend ebooks, audiobooks, and other media online. Its main services include Libby for public libraries and Sora for K–12 student reading, with added offerings like Kanopy for video and TeachingBooks for literacy support. OverDrive works with more than 92,000 libraries and schools worldwide, offers over 5mm titles, and supports hundreds of millions of digital checkouts each year.
