Edtech Startups in Chicago
List of Edtech startups in Chicago
291 Companies
Edovo
Edtech • Social Impact
Edovo is a social impact company that provides fair and honest communication services, educational and
vocational programming, and re-entry preparation for justice-involved people and their loved
ones. Our mission is to help everyone connected to incarceration build better lives.
Otus
Big Data • Edtech
Otus brings the entire school community together on a common technology platform reducing the number of disconnected solutions educators use while providing actionable insight to school leaders.
Black Spectacles
eCommerce • Edtech
Black Spectacles is where architects come to learn how to accomplish their next big thing. We're the only learning platform created entirely for architects. Our simple, easy-to-digest and in-depth video tutorials are taught by architects and designers who work on world-class projects. Our ARE® prep is the only one with the AIA seal of approval.
Packback
Edtech
Packback Questions are online learning communities that help professors encourage, grade, and tie hard metrics around curiosity in their students, all while giving students a safe place to be fearlessly relentlessly curious about what they're learning in class.
BenchPrep
Edtech • Enterprise Web
BenchPrep helps the world's leading education, training, and assessment companies build and deliver best-in-class online learning programs. Customers include ACT, Becker Professional Education, AAMC, CFA Institute, CompTIA, ProLiteracy, HR Certification Institute, Hobsons, McGraw Hill Education, OnCourse Learning, and GMAC.
RedShelf
Edtech
Founded in 2012 and recently named one of the nation’s fastest-growing private businesses by Inc. Magazine, RedShelf is a Chicago-based EdTech company helping to make education both more affordable and more effective by replacing yesterday’s print publications with today’s more dynamic and far less expensive digital content.
Wyzant
Edtech
We believe 1-1 instruction is the most powerful way to unlock “I get it” moments—when eyes light up and confidence is born. With an extensive selection of tutors listed, Wyzant helps more students, in more places, than anyone else. We work hard to make personalized learning accessible and affordable, and we're looking for great minds to join us.
Flatiron School
Consumer Web • Edtech
Flatiron School trains passionate, creative people in code, data science or UX/UI design so that they can launch careers and a life that they love.
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Local EmployeesChicago
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Scholastica
Digital Media • Edtech
Academic publishing done the right way.
Scholastica is the best way to manage the editorial review process for academic journals. It makes it nearly effortless to manage manuscripts, find editors and reviewers, and publish journals online.
Framework Television
Digital Media • Edtech
Framework Television is a post-cable video network teaching skills like design, coding, and development. Amazon Prime, Roku, and Youtube all carry Framework's educational content. Framework members have access to programming and resources to help them gain valuable technical skills.
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1
Local Employees
AwardSpring
Cloud • Edtech
AwardSpring provides a SaaS scholarship management platform to foundations, colleges & universities that's simple, powerful, and easy to use. Our thoughtful, intuitive design simplifies the application process for students and empowers award administrators to focus on what really matters: less paperwork, more awarding.
1 OPEN JOBS
15
Local EmployeesChicago
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eSpark Learning
Edtech • Software
eSpark differentiates in reading and math with activities kids love! Our mission is to re-imagine student learning for all students so it’s student centered; enabling students to succeed in school and life.
ThinkCERCA
Edtech • Kids + Family
At ThinkCERCA, we believe critical thinking is the catalyst for change. We build software to teach critical thinking skills by helping students become better writers.
Screencastify
Edtech • Software
Screencastify is Chrome's most popular screen recorder. Using our famously simple browser extension, you can capture, edit and share screen videos in the blink of an eye. Over 24 million videos were created with Screencastify in 2018 alone.
STRUT Learning
Edtech • Social Impact
We truly put the personal in personalized learning with emotional intelligence technology. We provide self directed learning tools for elementary schools that focus not only on improving academics but emotional intelligence – the skills necessary to be successful in relationships, career, and life.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Casual Dress
Flywire
Edtech • Fintech
At Flywire, global collaboration is at the heart of what we do: Empowering opportunities globally and locally by solving complex payment problems. Our full-service billing, payment, and receivables solutions connect all the entities involved to make transactions faster, more secure, less expensive, and more transparent.
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Local EmployeesDeerfield
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HowToFund
Edtech • Marketing Tech
HowToFund (HTF), previously known as HowDoWe, is a SaaS company that helps schools and nonprofits maximize their fundraising efforts. We build free donation pages that match the look of the organization's website, helping them to raise money for their fundraisers, track incoming donations, automatically send receipts and thank you's, and much more.
Partners with Nonprofits
Open door policy
Team based strategic planning
Group brainstorming sessions
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5
Local EmployeesChicago
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Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Edtech • Fintech
0 OPEN JOBS
50
Local EmployeesChicago
Location
Amerigo Education
Edtech • Kids + Family
Amerigo supports international students at premier U.S. high schools with a focus on excellent academic outcomes. We combine a nurturing boarding environment along with academic and English learning support to prepare students for success in high school, university and beyond.
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Local EmployeesChicago
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Edtech Jobs in Chicago
Software Engineer
Wyzant
Chicago
1 day ago
Below are the sorts of things you’d expect to see under the covers: Back-end: Ruby 2.4+, Go 1.9+, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch. Front-end: Rails 5.x, Vue 2.x, Webpack. Testing: RSpec, Capybara, Selenium, Mocha, Jest. Mobile: Highly rated, native iOS and Android apps. Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, HAProxy.
Senior Scrum Master/Project Manager
BenchPrep
Chicago
1 day ago
BenchPrep is looking for an experienced, organized, and detail-oriented Senior Scrum Master/Project Manager to join our Technology team. As a Senior Scrum Master/Project Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the operations and workflow for all technology teams, including Engineering, UI/UX, QA, Tech Ops, and Data.
You will work very closely with Product Management, Customer Success, and the Executive Strategy team to discuss projects/business objectives, provide capacity and feasibility information, and communicate/delegate projects to various team leads. You would be responsible to provide mentorship and coaching to team members around best practices and principles.
Sales Operations Analyst
Packback
Chicago
2 days ago
Identify areas of revenue growth opportunities through numerous areas such as enterprise sales and customer retention. Share findings and proposals with the leadership team.
Design and implement new processes for the revenue team.
Hold stakeholders accountable to committed actions, which in turn will drive success towards the team’s objectives, and key results.
Work on open-ended questions in order to improve our business model.
Execute reporting of key performance metrics on a daily and weekly basis.
Assist in the sales enablement process to ensure a successful onboarding for our new faculty partners.
Be committed to continued growth and development as an individual in order to keep up in our hyper-growth environment.
Staff Accountant
BenchPrep
Chicago
3 days ago
We are looking for a hardworking, ambitious Staff Accountant to support our growing operations in Chicago. In this role you will support the day-to-day accounting function as it relates to Treasury and A/R, as well as assist the Finance and Accounting team with future growth initiatives and projects.
2D/3D Motion Graphic Artist
Black Spectacles
Chicago
4 days ago
Work within the video production team to create 2D and 3D motion graphics for our video content.
Sketch and outline potential concepts for motion graphics in videos.
Design and animate objects such as buildings and objects. Character animation is not required.
Attend and participate in daily/weekly meetings to review progress and adjust work.
Revise motion graphics based on feedback from Art Director or Production Team.
Maintain up to date knowledge about motion graphics software and techniques.