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.
Littera Education helps school districts run and measure tutoring. Its platform combines a tutoring management system with virtual tutoring services so districts can schedule sessions, track participation, connect to assessment data, and see real academic progress.
SchoolMint provides strategic enrollment management software to help school districts and charter networks attract, enroll, and retain students. Its platform manages the full enrollment lifecycle, including applications, lotteries, registration, family communications, and behavior tracking, with analytics that help leaders understand demand and plan programs.
EdVoice is a nonprofit that works to change state education policy for students from low income communities. EdVoice focuses on lobbying lawmakers and the Governor’s office to pass evidence based laws, with a strong emphasis on early literacy, the Science of Reading, and teacher quality. The organization also produces research through its affiliated institute and mobilizes a large parent and educator network to support policies that reduce achievement gaps.
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.
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.