EdTech Software Development Company in Austin, built to ship.
Learning breaks when the tech does. A frozen video mid-lecture or a quiz that drops a student's answers erodes trust fast, so we build learning management systems, live classroom platforms, and mobile learning apps for schools, universities, coaching institutes, and education startups that stay steady when an entire cohort logs in at once. We design them to scale. Austin runs on US Central Time, which is 10.5 hours behind India Standard Time, so the live daily overlap is short and sits at your early morning against our evening, which we structure as an async-first delivery model with a fixed overlap window for standups and reviews.
Austin market
Austin has become one of the top five venture capital cities in the United States, with a fast moving scene spanning enterprise software, semiconductors, space and defense, clean energy, and health tech. The pull of companies like Tesla, Oracle, and a deep space cluster around Texas keeps demand high for custom software, data platforms, and connected products. Geminate Solutions works with Austin startups and scaleups that want to move fast and need an engineering partner to extend their build capacity.
Local signal: Austin startups raised roughly 8 billion USD in venture capital in 2025, a record that placed the city among the top five US metros for VC, with funding driven by AI, space, defense, energy, and advanced manufacturing.
4.9★
Client rating across 24+ projects
250K+
daily active users on apps we built
10M+
requests per minute handled
50+
products shipped worldwide
The problem
It works all term, then falls over on exam morning.
Education traffic is not steady, it is a wall. Thirty thousand students open the same login screen inside the same four minutes, and the part that breaks first is almost never the part anyone load-tested. It is session storage, or the connection pool, or a video CDN that was fine at a hundred concurrent streams and is not fine at ten thousand.
An outage during an exam is not a bad afternoon. It is a rescheduled paper, a support queue full of parents, and a procurement conversation next year where somebody asks whether the platform can be trusted at all.
We have shipped this
We run an EdTech platform serving 250,000+ daily active users, and an exam platform that holds 10M+ requests a minute at peak. The login storm is a problem we have already solved in production, not one we would be learning on your build.
What we build
EdTech Software Development for Austin teams, end to end
Learning management systems with course creation, enrollment, progress tracking, and certification
WebRTC live classrooms with screen share, whiteboard, hand-raise, and recording
Cross-platform mobile learning apps with offline content and push notifications
Adaptive testing, timed exams, randomized question banks, and auto-grading
Student, teacher, parent, and admin portals with role-based access
FERPA and COPPA-ready student data handling with audit logs and consent workflows
Your time zone
Austin runs on US Central Time, which is 10.5 hours behind India Standard Time, so the live daily overlap is short and sits at your early morning against our evening, which we structure as an async-first delivery model with a fixed overlap window for standups and reviews.
Your IP, your code
Geminate Solutions starts every Austin engagement with an NDA and a contract that transfers complete IP and source code ownership to you, and the entire team collaborates in clear business English from kickoff through delivery.
Priced in USD
Transparent, milestone-based, scoped on a free call. No hidden costs and no lock-in.
EdTech
The decisions edtech software development actually turns on
Platforms with a synchronised user base and a hard, immovable deadline.
The load curve is a spike, not a wave
An exam starts at ten o'clock and every student arrives in the same sixty seconds. Ordinary autoscaling reacts too slowly to help, so capacity has to be provisioned ahead of a known event. We run an exam platform at more than ten million requests a minute, and the engineering that matters is all in that first minute.
A failure during an assessment is not recoverable
A dropped answer during an exam cannot be apologised for later. Answers are saved as they are given rather than on submit, the client survives a refresh, and the server is authoritative about elapsed time so a slow connection cannot cost a candidate marks.
Minors change the data rules
Consent, retention, what may be shown to a parent, what a teacher may see about a student and what a student may see about themselves. These are product decisions with legal weight, and they belong in the permission model rather than in the interface.
Accessibility is not optional in education
Screen reader support, keyboard-only navigation, captioning and extra-time accommodation are frequently procurement requirements and often statutory. They are cheap when designed in and close to a rebuild when retrofitted.
Compliance in United States
How does EdTech Software Development stay compliant with CCPA / CPRA in Austin?
Austin companies build under a sector and state patchwork led by California's CCPA and CPRA, overseen by the California Privacy Protection Agency, alongside state AGs and the FTC. We design every edtech engagement to respect those rules from day one, not as a checklist bolted on at the end. There is no single federal privacy law, so we map your build to the states you operate in, plus HIPAA for health data or PCI DSS for payments where they apply.
Who regulates you
the California Privacy Protection Agency, alongside state AGs and the FTC. regulated US products often need HIPAA, SOC 2, or PCI DSS controls, which we scope into the architecture rather than retrofit.
Where your data lives
You pick the hosting region. When residency rules or a United States contract require it, we deploy inside your jurisdiction and you hold the cloud accounts.
What you own
100% of the source code and IP, transferred under contract, with an NDA and a data processing agreement signed before anything is shared.
Proof we can do this at scale: the products we have shipped run at 250K+ daily active users and have handled 10M+ requests per minute, across 50+ products rated 4.9 stars over 24+ client projects. Security and data handling are part of how we build, not an afterthought.
FAQ
EdTech Software Development in Austin, answered
Can you integrate with existing LMS tools like Moodle or Canvas?
How do you handle video for thousands of concurrent students?
How do you protect student data and meet FERPA or COPPA rules?
What is the working hour overlap between Austin and an India based software team?
How does offshore development with an India based partner compare on cost to hiring engineers in Austin?
How do you handle CCPA / CPRA and data protection for Austin clients?
Where will our data and code be hosted if we build with you from Austin?
How much does EdTech Software Development cost in Austin?
Do we own the code?
How long does it take?
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