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.
ETS is a nonprofit education company that created and delivers some of the world’s most widely used tests. Its major exams include the GRE, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Praxis for teacher certification. ETS also supports states and agencies with K–12 assessments and large research projects such as the NAEP. The organization delivers more than 50 million tests each year in over 180 countries and is known for its strong research base, extensive publications, and long-standing work in measurement science.
Risepoint is an Online Program Manager (OPM) for colleges and universities. It helps schools launch and grow online degree programs focused on working adults. They provide marketing, enrollment support, and technology while universities keep control of curriculum and teaching. Risepoint supports more than 100 university partners and has helped launch over 25,000 online courses, mainly in fields like nursing, teaching, and business.
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.