Edtech Companies

Discovery Education is a K-12 edtech company that builds digital curriculum, immersive content, and instructional tools to help educators deliver engaging, real-world learning experiences. Discovery helps over 4.5 million educators and 45–50 million students worldwide, with resources accessed in over 100 countries. Their immersive learning and virtual field trips are 3D and AR/VR-enabled experiences that deliver real-world explorations to deepen student engagement and retention.

Guild provides education benefits and career skilling to companies. Employees can access degrees, certificates, and training with support from coaches who help them choose programs and stay on track. Over 5mm employees have access to Guild through their employers.

HopSkipDrive is a transportation company that helps schools move students who can’t be easily served by regular buses, including special education and McKinney-Vento students. It uses vetted CareDrivers for safe, flexible rides and gives districts tools to plan and track routes. The company has completed more than 1.7mm safe rides and works with over 1,000 school districts and agencies across 14 states.

Securly is a K–12 education technology company focused on student safety. It helps schools monitor online activity, manage classroom devices, and spot signs of self-harm, bullying, or violence using AI with human review. Securly supports more than 20mm students across over 20,000 schools and is used by about one in five U.S. public school districts.

ClassWallet is a K–12 finance company that helps over 6,200 schools manage and track education funds. Teachers and staff are able to use the platform to make and track purchases using ClassWallet’s secure digital wallet.

Element451 provides an AI-first student engagement and CRM platform for colleges and universities to manage the entire student lifecycle. It uses AI agents to automate admissions, marketing, and student success workflows such as personalized outreach.

Chegg is an edtech company that started off by providing affordable textbook rentals to college students. It's expanded it's product offering to focus on a direct to student subscription business (6.6 million customers) providing 24/7 homework help across 50+ subjects, including - Flashcards, Practice Questions, Solutions Library and more.

Chegg Skills is a partnership with Guild Education that enables Chegg to provide upskilling and career advancement programs to its customers.

Khan Academy is a nonprofit education organization that provides free learning tools for students around the world. It offers lessons, practice, and videos across math, science, reading, and test prep. The organization also offers Khan Academy Kids and Khanmigo, a widely used AI tutor. Khan Academy serves over 190mm users.

Chess.com is the premier platform for learning and playing chess. It offers live games, daily games, lessons, videos, puzzles, and AI-powered analysis. Chess.com has a large global community of over 150M members playing approximately 10mm games per day.

MasterClass offers video courses taught by experts from across business, writing, food, arts, science, and sports. For a monthly subscription fee, customers get access to more than 150 classes with short lessons, class guides, and hands on projects available on web and mobile. The company has over 2 million subscribers and is known for its high-quality production and celebrity instructors.

Presence connects school districts with licensed clinicians such as speech therapists, occupational therapists, and counselors, and supports therapy and evaluations through its secure teletherapy tools. Presence works with more than 10,000 schools across 47 states and has delivered over 6mm teletherapy sessions.

Crucial Learning is a professional development company that helps people build communication, leadership, and productivity skills. Their courses include Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Crucial Influence, Getting Things Done, The Power of Habit, and tools for teamwork and behavior insights. The company has trained more than 2 million people worldwide, and nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 use their programs to improve workplace performance.

Follett School Solutions provides core software and content used in school libraries and classrooms. Its main platform, Destiny, helps schools manage libraries, digital books, and school-issued devices, while Titlewave supports book selection and ordering for librarians. Follett serves more than 80,000 schools and over 35 million students worldwide.

Epic! is a digital reading platform for children ages 12 and under that helps schools and families build strong reading habits through easy access to books. The platform offers over 40,000 books, audiobooks, and educational videos, with tools for teachers to assign reading and track progress.

Learning Commons is a nonprofit that builds open AI infrastructure that helps scale teaching. Learning Commons creates open tools like a standards-aligned knowledge graph, AI evaluation rubrics, and curriculum integrations so classroom technology stays grounded in learning science and real teacher needs.