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.
HackerRank is an upskilling and hiring platform for software engineers, that helps identify and screen candidates through assessments, interview questions and plagiarism detection. They have over 26mm software engineers in their community - including 2,500 companies.
SchooLinks helps students plan for college and their careers. Schools use SchooLinks to track coursework, explore careers, manage college applications, and monitor academic progress.
LearnUpon is a learning management system that facilitates training for employees, customers, and partners. It enables course creation, multiple training portals, automated learning paths, certifications, and includes new AI tools that speed up content creation. LearnUpon is used by over 1,500 businesses worldwide and has supported more than 20mm learners completing over 150mm courses.
Give Campus operates a fundraising and engagement platform specifically for educational institutions like schools and universities. It provides tools for digital giving, volunteer management, and social media advocacy to help development teams reach donors.
Pluralsight is a workforce development company that focuses on technology. They provide online learning, skill assessment, and analytics solutions designed to help individuals and organizations keep pace with technological change. Their learning platform offers expert-led video courses, interactive labs, skill assessments, and AI-driven insights to help learners and enterprises identify skill gaps, measure progress, and upskill in technology domains. Pluralsight has over 23,000 business customers and millions of individual learners worldwide, supporting organizations across industries as they build cloud, data, cybersecurity, and software development capabilities.
Pluralsight Skills - A comprehensive learning platform with thousands of courses, role-based learning paths, hands-on labs, and certification prep in areas like cloud, AI, and DevOps.
Pluralsight Flow - An engineering analytics platform that helps technology leaders measure team productivity, workflow patterns, and software delivery efficiency.
Pluralsight Cloud Labs & Sandboxes - Live, interactive cloud environments that allow learners to practice and experiment in real-time without risking production systems.
Role IQ & Skill IQ - A set of proprietary assessments that benchmark individual and team proficiency levels, helping organizations target specific skill gaps.
Udemy offers courses to help people build job skills. It hosts more than 250,000 courses across topics like technology, business, and AI. Udemy serves ~82mm learners worldwide and works with over 17,000 organizations through Udemy Business to train employees at scale.
Brightwheel is an early childhood education technology company that builds a comprehensive platform for managing childcare centers, preschools, and in-home programs. The platform simplifies administrative tasks and makes billing, payments, family communication and staff management. Administrators can also use their learning and curriculum tools for lesson planning and development milestone tracking.
Kiddom is a K-12 edtech company that provides a digital curriculum and instructional platform to help teachers personalize learning and leverage analytics to monitor student progress. Kiddom partners with curriculum and education organizations to deliver high-quality, standards-aligned instruction through its platform, including - Illustrative Mathematics, EL Education, Core Knowledge Foundation, and CenterPoint Education Solutions. Kiddom also integrates with major education systems like Clever, ClassLink, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams to streamline rostering, single sign-on, and interoperability for schools and districts.
Benchmark Education is a K–12 publisher that specializes in literacy and language arts for both English and Spanish. It offers core curriculum, supplemental materials, reading-intervention programs, and bilingual resources for English language learners. The company also provides educator training, through its digital platform, Benchmark Universe, for instruction and assessment in for K–8 students.
Jenzabar is a higher education Student Information System that manages academic records and administrative tasks. Jenzabar supports student record management, registration, financial aid, academic advising, and enrollment with added tools for reporting and student communications. Jenzabar is used by more than 1,350 campuses, mainly private nonprofit colleges and is widely used to improve student retention and campus operations.
Pursuit is a nonprofit that trains adults for high-paying technology careers. It provides intensive software engineering training followed by career coaching and employer support, with a strong focus on economic mobility.
Passage provides a financial and educational platform to help international students and immigrants access academic opportunities in new countries. It offers financial services, including student loans, alongside guidance on university enrollment and visa requirements.
Renaissance Learning is a K-12 edtech company focused on assessments, practice, instruction, and insights that support learning for students. Renaissance’s products help educators monitor student progress, personalize learning, and improve outcomes using data and research-backed models. Renaissance’s products are used in more than 40% of U.S. schools, and over 100 countries.
Renaissance Learning's products include -
Star Assessments - Adaptive assessments in reading, math, early literacy, and other subjects.
Accelerated Reader - A reading-motivation program with quizzes, metrics, and analytics to encourage independent reading and track comprehension.
Freckle, Lalilo & myON - Various practice platforms and digital libraries that support foundational literacy, mathematics, and student choice in reading.
Nearpod & Flocabulary - Instructional tools for engagement, interactive lessons, and foundational skills across disciplines via classroom-ready resources.
Ignite Reading is a K–12 literacy company that provides daily private tutoring focused on phonics and early reading skills. Each student works with a trained tutor and schools receive reports and support from a literacy specialist. The program has served more than 50,000 students and delivered over 28mm minutes of instruction.
Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that helps elementary students to read through private tutoring. It trains community volunteers and AmeriCorps members to deliver structured literacy support during the school day, with a focus on core skills like phonics, fluency, and comprehension. Reading Partners also scaled its impact through Reading Partners Connects, a digital tutoring platform that extends its proven model.