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.
Macmillan Learning is a higher-education publisher of textbooks and digital course tools for college students and instructors. Its main products include Achieve, a digital learning system with built-in assessments and tools, and iClicker for in-class polling and participation. The company also publishes well-known textbooks across science, social science, and writing.
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.
UWorld is a test prep company best known for helping students prepare for high stakes exams in medicine, nursing, law, and finance. It uses exam style practice questions with detailed explanations to build deep understanding and critical thinking. More than 90% of medical students use UWorld, and over 2mm learners worldwide rely on its tools. Its products prepare students for exams, including - USMLE, NCLEX, bar exams, CPA, CFA, SAT, and ACT.
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is an education company that delivers online math classes, advanced math textbooks and math games for motivated students. AoPS curriculum is designed and taught by former math and science Olympians and is used by students to prepare for math competitions.
KnowBe4 is a cybersecurity company focused on “human risk” management, offering a platform that trains employees to recognize and resist social engineering, phishing, and related threats. Their platform uses analytics, simulations, automation, and behavior monitoring to help organizations reduce vulnerabilities tied to human error.
KnowBe4 also offers —
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Security Awareness Training / Simulated Phishing (KMSAT / KSAT)** —Their core product with training, phishing tests, remediation, dashboards, reporting, and user risk scoring.
PhishER / PhishER Plus — Security orchestration tools to help incident response teams triage, manage, and respond to reported phishing emails.
SecurityCoach — A module that provides real-time coaching and feedback to users when risky behaviors are detected (e.g. clicking links, unsafe actions).
Compliance Plus — Tools for managing compliance training, policy delivery, tracking, acknowledgment, and audit readiness workflows.