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.
Duolingo is a language learning platform that provides free and paid language courses. They've made a mobile app that is delightful to use and leverages research-backed strategies and gamification to keep its users engaged and improve proficiency.
Their additional products include the Duolingo English Test, Duolingo Math and Duolingo ABC.
Elsevier is a publishing and analytics company focused on science, technology, and medicine, providing content, data, and decision support tools to researchers, clinicians and higher ed institutions. Elsevier is a leading publisher of journals and books and also creates products that enable research discovery, citation analytics, clinical decision support, and institutional benchmarking.
Elsevier also offers —
ScienceDirect — Their platform for accessing journals, e-books, reference works, and scientific literature across disciplines.
Scopus — A bibliographic database that tracks publications, citations, and author/institution metrics.
SciVal — An analytics tool that helps institutions and researchers benchmark performance and measure impact.
ClinicalKey — A clinical decision support tool providing verified, up-to-date medical content for healthcare professionals to inform care.
Mendeley — A reference manager, research network, and document repository that supports collaboration, article sharing, and researcher profiling.
Books, Journals & Reference Works — Traditional scientific and medical content published in both print and digital, serving academic and professional markets.
Curriculum Associates is a K–12 education company known for i-Ready, an assessment and instruction program for reading and math. i-Ready provides teachers with data about student needs, and provides online lessons that adjust to each learner. The company also offers Ready instruction books, Magnetic Reading, BRIGANCE for early childhood and special education, and tools to support multilingual learners. Curriculum Associates serves about 17 million students and more than 1 million educators nationwide.
Quizlet creates digital study tools used by students in K-12 and higher education. It offers flashcards, practice questions, and study modes that help learners review and retain material - including AI tools that turn notes into study guides and walk students through concepts step by step. Quizlet has over 60mm monthly active users.