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.
Scholastic is a global education and publishing company best known for children’s books, school book fairs, and literacy programs. It publishes popular titles for kids and teens, offers book clubs, runs nearly 90,000 school book fairs each year, and provides classroom and supplemental learning materials across 130 countries.
Newsela is a K-12 edtech company that serves millions of learners and teachers by offering thousands of standards-aligned texts, videos, and activities across ELA, social studies, and science. Their content is available at multiple reading levels and easily integrates with real-time assessment and instructional insights. Adopted by ~90% of U.S. schools and tens of millions of students, Newsela has become a widely used platform for engaging literacy and knowledge-building. Their platform also includes tools for writing feedback, teacher dashboards, and growing subject-specific expansions, such as STEM through its acquisition of Generation Genius. Newsela acts as a comprehensive instructional content and assessment layer, helping educators engage students with current, differentiated content and track growth across key literacy and knowledge domains.
Carnegie Learning is a K-12 education company known for its research based approach to teaching math, reading, and languages. Their main product is MATHia, an AI-powered math program that adapts to each student’s needs, along with their full math curriculum for K–12 schools. They also offer reading and language programs like Fast ForWord, literature tools, and world language courses through EMC School. Beyond curriculum, they provide teacher training and tutoring to help schools improve student results. Carnegie Learning supports more than 5.5 million students and teachers across the States and Canada.
ClassDojo is a K–8 education company that helps supports classroom management - allowing teachers to better connect with families and build a stronger classroom community. It offers tools for behavior tracking, classroom updates, messaging (with automatic translation), student portfolios, and new AI features like an assistant for teachers and a reading coach. ClassDojo is used in more than 95 percent of United States K–8 schools and reaches over 51 million teachers, students, and families each month across 180 countries.
ClassLink is a K–12 edtech company that provides identity and access management for students and staff. ClassLink has built up a network of over 6,000 single sign-on integrations - which helps schools better monitor product usage and improve data security. There are over 23 million users in over 3,000 school systems using ClassLink.
Panopto offers a video management platform for higher education to record, host, and share lectures and instructional content. It features automated transcription and search tools that allow students to find specific topics within video recordings.
Colibri Group is a professional-education company that delivers licensing, continuing-education, and career-advancement programs for regulated industries and licensed professionals. Colibri has over 5 million professionals and partners and educates more than 1 million professionals across real estate, healthcare, financial services, teacher education, valuation & property services, and accounting.
Vector Solutions provides training, safety, and compliance tools for schools, public safety, and other regulated industries. It offers learning management systems for professional development and required training, along with tools for safety reporting, risk management, and workforce readiness. Vector Solutions serves more than 24,000 organizations and serves ~22mm users worldwide.
GoGuardian is a K–12 education technology company. GoGuardian Admin is a web filtering tool that focuses on online safety. GoGuardian Teacher is used by over 1.9mm teachers to create personalized learning environments. GoGuardian Beacon focuses on student safety by providing teachers and administrators with alerts and early intervention students to prevent students from self-harm or harming others Across its entire product suite, GoGuardian is used in over 10,000 schools - impacting 25mm students and 2mm educators.
Udacity is an online education company focused on providing job-relevant, skills-based learning primarily in fields like data science, AI, programming and autonomous systems. Their programs emphasizes project-based learning, industry partnerships, and credentials (_i.e._ Nanodegrees) to help learners prepare for or advance in careers. While they originally started as a MOOC, they've moved towards structured career-oriented programs.
Age of Learning is an edtech company that provides digital learning apps and experiences for over 50M children. Its programs include ABCmouse Early Learning Academy, My Math Academy, and My Reading Academy, which provide early childhood and elementary learning in literacy and math.
CodePath provides free computer science courses and career support for college students from different backgrounds. It partners with more than 700 universities to offer short, intensive programs in software engineering, mobile development, cybersecurity, and technical interviews.
Primer designs, operates, and supports K-8 microschools. It runs its own schools and also provides a backend platform that helps educators launch and manage microschools by handling operations, compliance, and systems.
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.
BrainStation provides digital skills training and certifications in areas like AI, data science, and product management. It offers bootcamps and certificate courses for professionals seeking career transformation.