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.
Sketchy
Sketchy helps medical and health science students learn complex topics using visual stories and memory techniques. It is widely used across medical schools to prepare for exams like the USMLE, and supports programs in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and physician assistant training. More than 400,000 students have used Sketchy.
Academia
Academia.edu is an academic network where over 270M researchers and students upload, share, and discover over 55M scholarly papers. The platform allows users to build academic profiles, track readership analytics, and follow other researchers.
In 2022, the company expanded into publishing through its open-access initiative, Academia.edu Journals.
Outschool
Outschool offers live online classes for children ages 3 to 18. Families can choose from thousands of small-group classes and tutoring sessions across academics, arts, and life skills, taught by vetted independent teachers. Outschool serves more than 1mm learners in over 180 countries and has a large database of classes.
Edlink
Edlink provides an API that connects education applications with school data systems, including learning management and student information systems. It turns complex integrations into a single set of endpoints to simplify data synchronization for roster, assignment, and grade data. This service currently supports more than 120 companies across 4,000 educational institutions.
Learning Without Tears
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.
