Standards-aligned formative assessment and item bank for K-12 districts, 118 staff across Austin and Denver
Product site + state business registry
Use cases
Find edtech companies and edtech decision makers
This page is for vendors selling into edtech companies, not for schools choosing software and not for training providers. Every edtech firm is already in your database. What is not in it is whether the product is certified for LTI Advantage, OneRoster or Ed-Fi, whether a VPAT accessibility conformance report exists and how old it is, which education segment it actually sells to, and what its student data privacy posture is. Search on those, and Causo reads the 1EdTech certified product directory, the Ed-Fi Alliance registry, published accessibility reports, state instructional materials adoption lists and filings at SEC EDGAR and Companies House product by product, then shows you the evidence behind every match.
Run your first search2,739 distinct edtech tools accessed by the average US school district in a year
How to find edtech companies by segment, certification or funding stage
3 results for this search. Pick another above to see what it returns.
74 staff in Raleigh, benchmark testing and test coordination sold to district assessment offices
Product site + state instructional materials listing
156 staff in Chicago, K-8 core curriculum and lesson planning sold direct to districts
Careers page + state business registry
Illustrative example. The source types are the ones Causo genuinely reads for this market.
Where the data on edtech companies comes from
- 1EdTech certified product directory, formerly IMS GlobalWhich products hold live LTI Advantage, OneRoster, Caliper Analytics, QTI or Open Badges certification, at which version, and the certification number behind each
- Ed-Fi Alliance certified product registryWhich vendors are badged for the Ed-Fi data standard, against which version, and for which data domains
- VPAT accessibility conformance reports, Section 508, WCAG 2.1 AA and EN 301 549Whether an accessibility report exists for the current release, what standard it claims, what it excludes and when it was issued
- Student Data Privacy Consortium resource registry and the Student Privacy Pledge signatory list retired in 2025Which vendors have signed district data privacy agreements, and which committed to the pledge while it ran
- FTC COPPA actions, FERPA guidance and state laws such as California SOPIPA and New York Education Law 2-dThe student privacy obligations a product carries in US schools, and which vendors have been actioned
- ICO Children’s Code, UK GDPR and Department for Education data protection standards for schoolsWhat a product sold into English schools and trusts has to satisfy before procurement will clear it
- Texas and California instructional materials adoption lists and state approved vendor listsWhich products a state has actually approved for purchase, in which subject and which grade band
- SEC EDGAR Form D, Companies House, Handelsregister and KVKRaises, ownership, group structure and filed accounts for vendors on either side of the Atlantic
- Crunchbase and PitchBookFunding stage, round date, investors and acquisition or roll-up activity
- Greenhouse, Lever and IndeedA first integrations, accessibility or district success hire as a buying trigger
- Plus many moreNo fixed provider list. If the answer lives somewhere else, the agents read that instead.
Ask anything about an edtech company
Every result is a starting point, not an endpoint. Ask a follow-up about any edtech company on your list in plain English and the agents go back out and read for it, then answer with the sources they used.
Are they actually certified, or just standards compatible?
AnswerCertified. The directory lists a current OneRoster 1.2 and LTI Advantage certification against the product, and the Ed-Fi badge covers version 5.
SourcesCertified product directory + Ed-Fi registry
Do they have a VPAT, and how current is it?
AnswerYes. An accessibility conformance report against WCAG 2.1 AA, dated March, covering the web application and naming the mobile client as out of scope.
SourcesVendor accessibility page + the published conformance report
Which education segment do they really sell to?
AnswerK-12 districts. Every published case study is a district, pricing is quoted per student per year, and both open roles are district success managers.
SourcesCase studies, pricing page and job boards
Why you can’t filter edtech companies by certification or segment
2,739distinct edtech tools accessed by the average US school district in a yearLearnPlatform by Instructure, EdTech Top 40, June 2024
1,123edtech companies identified across the UK, turning over about £6.5bn a yearEdTech Innovation Hub, on the DfE market assessment, 2026
40+US states with student privacy laws that apply to edtech providersFuture of Privacy Forum, April 2025
An edtech company is not a hidden business. It is usually venture backed, it has a marketing site, it announces its rounds and it posts jobs, so it sits in Apollo, ZoomInfo and Crunchbase like any other software vendor, and pulling a list of several thousand of them takes about a minute. Finding them is free. Qualifying them is the entire job, and education is unusual in how much of the qualifying evidence is published in public registers and how little of it is a field anywhere. No contact record says whether a product holds a live LTI Advantage, OneRoster, Caliper or QTI certification in the 1EdTech certified product directory, or an Ed-Fi Alliance badge and against which version, which is the first thing a rostering, SIS or content partner checks. None says whether a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template or WCAG conformance report exists for the current release, which in US public education frequently decides whether a purchase order can be raised at all. None carries student data privacy posture: the COPPA and FERPA obligations a product takes on, whether it has signed district data privacy agreements, or what the UK Children’s Code and the Department for Education’s standards demand of anything sold into English schools. And none separates the segment, so a K-12 rostering vendor, a university admissions platform and a workplace compliance course library all sit under one label that reads "education technology, 90 employees, Boston". That evidence lives in certification registries, accessibility conformance reports, district privacy agreement registries, state adoption lists and company filings. It is public, it is dated, and it is not a checkbox.
Figures as of August 2026.
Apollo vs ZoomInfo vs Causo for edtech company leads
| Apollo / ZoomInfo | Buying a list | Causo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building a list of edtech companies | Covered well | Cheap and plentiful | Same list in a minute, and not the point |
| Filtering on "1EdTech certified for OneRoster" | No such field | No such field | Read from the certified product directory |
| Whether a VPAT or WCAG report exists, and its date | Not tracked | Date the list was compiled | Read from the accessibility report at search time |
| Student data privacy posture and signed district agreements | Not held | Not held | Read from privacy agreement registries and state law scope |
| K-12 versus higher education versus corporate learning | One "education technology" label | One category tag | Read from case studies, pricing and open roles |
| State approved vendor or adoption list status | No such field | No such field | Read from the state’s published adoption list |
| Reaching the head of partnerships or the CTO | Often a shared generic address | Often bounced | Named role, verified address |
Frequently asked questions.
Start from the certification register rather than a contact database. The 1EdTech certified product directory, run by the body formerly called IMS Global, publishes which products hold live LTI Advantage, OneRoster, Caliper Analytics, QTI and Open Badges certifications, at which version, with a certification number against each. The Ed-Fi Alliance publishes an equivalent registry of badged products for the Ed-Fi data standard. Causo reads both alongside the vendors’ own integration and developer documentation, so an edtech company can be qualified on what it is certified to do rather than on what its marketing site claims.
Because certification is not a firmographic. Contact databases are assembled from what companies publish about themselves: professional profiles, funding rounds, tech stacks and hiring pages. EdTech companies produce all of those, so they are covered well and easy to list. What no such database records is whether a product holds a current OneRoster or LTI Advantage certification, whether an Ed-Fi badge exists and for which version, or the date either changed. That evidence sits in the 1EdTech and Ed-Fi registers, which are public but are not database fields.
A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template is the standard form a software vendor completes to describe how its product conforms to accessibility standards such as Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA. The completed document is an Accessibility Conformance Report. In US public education it is frequently procurement-blocking: many districts, state systems and universities will not raise a purchase order without a current one. For a vendor selling into edtech companies, whether a report exists, what release it covers, what it excludes and how old it is separates a partner that can be resold into public education from one that cannot.
Read the product rather than the label. Industry classifications flatten a K-12 rostering vendor, a university admissions platform and a workplace compliance course library into one "education technology" category, which is why segment is the criterion most often got wrong. The reliable signals are published case studies and named customers, the pricing unit (per student, per seat or per institution), the standards a product supports such as OneRoster and Ed-Fi for K-12 or LTI for higher education, and the job titles a company is currently hiring. Causo reads those and reports the segment with the evidence attached.
In the United States, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act governs data collected from under-13s, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act governs education records held on behalf of schools, and more than 40 states have passed their own student privacy laws, including California’s SOPIPA and New York Education Law 2-d. Many districts also require a signed data privacy agreement, and those agreements are catalogued in the Student Data Privacy Consortium resource registry. In the UK, products sold into schools have to satisfy UK GDPR, the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design Code and the Department for Education’s data protection standards. The Student Privacy Pledge, which nearly 500 companies signed, was retired by the Future of Privacy Forum in April 2025.
Yes. The sources differ by country, so Causo uses the local equivalents. In the UK that means Companies House, the ICO Children’s Code, Department for Education digital and data standards and Crown Commercial Service framework listings. Across the EU it means the Handelsregister, KVK and other national registries, plus EN 301 549 and the European Accessibility Act in place of Section 508. In Australia it means ASIC company records and the state and territory education department vendor arrangements. The 1EdTech and Ed-Fi certification registers are international and apply everywhere.
To edtech companies. The reader is a vendor selling into education technology firms: cloud and infrastructure, content and curriculum licensing, assessment engines and item banks, SIS and rostering integration partners, accessibility and translation suppliers, and channel partners in education markets. Schools, nurseries and independent education providers are a different market with different registers, and so are employer-funded corporate training providers, which are service businesses rather than product companies. Causo covers those separately.
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