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.
InquirED builds inquiry based social studies curriculum for elementary and middle schools. Its core product, Inquiry Journeys, helps students learn history, civics, geography, and economics by asking questions, analyzing evidence, reading complex texts, and writing clear claims.
Littera Education helps school districts run and measure tutoring. Its platform combines a tutoring management system with virtual tutoring services so districts can schedule sessions, track participation, connect to assessment data, and see real academic progress.
LEGO is a global toy and learning company best known for its brick-based play systems that support creativity, problem solving, and hands-on learning. The company designs physical play sets, digital games, and learning programs used at home, in schools, and through LEGO Education.
BetterUp is an edtech company that provides personalized coaching for employees and teams. BetterUp’s platform offers private or group coaching, AI-powered guidance, leadership development, and well-being support to help organizations strengthen performance and employee growth.
InStride partners with companies to offers degrees and training programs to their wmployees. It provides access to more than 2,500 academic programs, supports employees with coaching, and simplifies tuition assistance for companies.
ApplyBoard is an education company that helps students study abroad. They connect students, recruitment partners, and over 1,500 institutions worldwide to simplify the study-abroad process. Their platform supports applications, document verification, language testing, and other services to facilitate admissions.
WestEd is a nonprofit research and service organization that helps schools, districts, and state agencies improve education from early childhood through adulthood. It conducts large scale research, program evaluations, and professional learning, then turns findings into practical guidance for classrooms and systems.
Noodle is a higher-ed Online Program Manager (OPM) that helps universities launch and enroll students in online degree programs. It works with schools on program design, faculty support, marketing, and student recruitment with a focus on graduate education.
Goalbook is a K–12 special education company that helps special educators write stronger IEPs and plan instruction for students. Goalbook Toolkit gives educators strategies, progress-monitoring tools, and resources aligned to state standards and Universal Design for Learning. Goalbook is implemented in over 1,100 school districts and is used by more than 83,000 teachers.
Bottom Line is a nonprofit organization that helps students from low-income backgrounds get into college, stay enrolled, and graduate. Its core work is 1 on 1 advising, starting in high school and continuing through college, with support for applications, financial aid, academic progress, and career planning. Bottom Line also offers virtual advising through its Bluprint program to reach more students.
Ello offers an AI reading coach for children in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade to build literacy confidence. The app listens to children read aloud from digital or physical books and provides real-time phonetic feedback. It uses an adaptive learning engine based on the science of reading to match books to a child's skill level.
American Reading Company helps K-12 students learn to read and write at or above grade level. It provides a full literacy system that includes curriculum, assessments, classroom books, and teacher support. ARC Core combines reading, writing, science, and social studies. IRLA helps teachers measure reading levels and set clear goals. SchoolPace tracks progress, and programs like 100 Book Challenge build daily reading habits. ARC works with more than 13,000 schools.
Cambium Assessment is a K–12 company that provides online tests for school districts and states. It supports large-scale testing across core subjects and has delivered more than 131mm online tests and is used by over 30mm families.
Degreed is a corporate learning company that helps employees build skills and track their learning through its Learning Experience Platform. Their platform has over 500 customers and over 10mm users - and it focus on skills development means that it can rate users across 50mm individual skills and offers 460,000 learning pathways. Degreed also supports more rigorous learning experiences through its product, Academics.
Panorama Education is a K-12 education technology company that helps schools and districts collect, analyze, and act on data around student well-being, academic performance, behavior, attendance, and school climate. They work with over 2,000 districts, and support more than 15 million students.
Panorama Student Success — An MTSS / RTI platform that integrates data from assessments, behavior logs, attendance and surveys to support intervention planning, progress monitoring, and student support in a unified system.
Panorama Solara — A customizable, secure AI system built on a school district's data and workflows that helps create smarter interventions, insights, and educator capacity.