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.
Blackbaud is an edtech company that provides a Student Information System for K-12 schools to manage enrollment, billing and student data securely. Additionally, Blackbaud’s fundraising and accounting software (Raiser’s Edge NXT and Financial Edge NXT) is heavily used by nonprofits, schools, and social-impact organizations.
ParentSquare helps schools communicate with families by sending messages, alerts, forms, and payments by text, email, voice, and app, with translation in many languages. After acquiring Remind in 2023, ParentSquare now supports communication for more than 20mm students across the U.S.
Campus is an ACCJC accredited online community college that offers live classes, job-focused programs, and transfer pathways to four-year schools. Students often graduate with low or no debt through Pell Grants.
Risepoint is an Online Program Manager (OPM) for colleges and universities. It helps schools launch and grow online degree programs focused on working adults. They provide marketing, enrollment support, and technology while universities keep control of curriculum and teaching. Risepoint supports more than 100 university partners and has helped launch over 25,000 online courses, mainly in fields like nursing, teaching, and business.
Lakeshore Learning Materials creates classroom materials, furniture, and hands-on learning tools for early childhood and elementary students. Most products are designed in-house by former educators and cover subjects like math, reading, science, social-emotional learning, and special education. Lakeshore serves schools and families through more than 60 retail stores, online sales, and a national school sales team, with a strong focus on safety and classroom quality.
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.
Savvas Learning Company provides core curriculum, digital tools, and assessments for K-12 schools. Their programs include math, ELA, science, and career readiness through tools like Savvas Realize, Experience Science, and PathMaker. Savvas serves more than 40mm students and works with over 13,000 school districts.
Braven is a nonprofit education organization that helps college students develop career skills and secure strong first jobs. Its flagship program, the Braven Accelerator, combines a semester-long course with continued support through graduation. The program provides coaching, skill-building, resume and interview preparation, networking, and connections to employer partners.
Relias is a workforce education company that provides training, compliance, competency, and performance solutions to healthcare providers and organizations. They provide 12,000 healthcare organizations and 4.5 million caregivers with content, analytics, and tools to deliver safer, higher-quality care.
Relias Learning — A learning management and training platform that provides content and tracking across 20+ health professions.
Compliance & Regulatory Training — A library of courses and systems that helps institutions comply with licensure, certification, and regulatory requirements.
Validated Assessments & Competency Management — Tools that help measure skills, knowledge, and job fit, and link assessments to learning and performance.
Staff Onboarding & Role-Based Training — Targeted training paths to bring new staff up to speed.
Continuing Education / CE / CME Programs — Accredited courses for clinicians to maintain licenses and credentials.
Content Libraries & Specialty Domains — A library with thousands of accredited courses in post-acute, behavioral health, long-term care and more.
Zūm provides an AI-driven student transportation platform to modernize school bus logistics for school districts. It uses real-time data to optimize routes, reduce commute times, and provide parents with live tracking of their child’s bus.
D2L is a global edtech company started by John Baker at the University of Waterloo while he was earning an engineering degree. D2L's products are used by 1,400 customers serving over 20 million learners. D2L's premier product is their learning management system, Brightspace, by D2L.
360Learning is an edtech company that provides an AI-powered learning platform that helps over 2,500 organizations build, deliver, and manage internal training, onboarding, compliance, and upskilling.
Its platform supports course authoring, SCORM/xAPI import, skill-based learning paths, and collaborative “Academies.”
Vivvi provides an early learning services for working families. It operates campus-based child care centers and offers home care solutions alongside a specialized curriculum for infants through preschoolers.
Amplify is a K-12 education technology company that develops research-based curricula, assessments, and intervention tools used by districts and schools across the U.S. The company emphasizes evidence, alignment to standards, and integrated supports to help teachers deliver high-quality instruction while adapting to student needs.
Amplify CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts) — A K-5 literacy program focused for Science of Reading, integrating knowledge building, phonics, vocabulary, and writing.
mCLASS / mCLASS Intervention — A set of assessment and intervention tools (universal screening, dyslexia support, progress monitoring) that help with targeted instruction.
Boost Reading / Boost Math — Personalized and adaptive supplemental programs that provide practice and remediation in literacy and math.
Amplify Desmos Math — A K-12 math curriculum platform (K-12).
Amplify Science — A K-8 science curriculum with hands-on investigations, literacy integration, and digital resources.
Amplify ELA & Boost Close Reading — A middle school language arts program focused on reading comprehension, writing, and text analysis.
Amplify Tutoring — Literacy tutoring for students in need of intensive, small-group support.
Spanish / Biliteracy Programs (Amplify Caminos, Boost Lectura, mCLASS Lectura) — literacy instruction and intervention tools tailored for Spanish speakers and bilingual learners.
Turnitin helps schools protect academic integrity. It is best known for plagiarism checking and now also detects AI-generated writing. The company serves more than 16,000 schools and universities in over 180 countries, supporting around 70mm students. Its tools, including Feedback Studio and Gradescope, help educators review originality, give feedback, and better understand how students write.