EdTech Software Development Company in New York, 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. New York runs on Eastern Time, which is 9.5 hours behind India Standard Time, so the practical daily overlap is your morning India team meeting your end of business day in NY, which we run as an async-first workflow with a fixed live window for standups and reviews.
New York market
New York City is the second largest tech hub in the world, anchored by Wall Street fintech, Madison Avenue media and adtech, and a fast growing health tech and AI cluster. With more than 200,000 tech jobs and over 2,000 AI startups inside the city, demand for custom software, trading platforms, and consumer apps runs deep across finance, media, and retail. Geminate Solutions partners with NYC founders and product teams that need an engineering team to build and ship without the local hiring crunch.
Local signal: New York City captured 30 percent of all US fintech investment in 2024, with the sector reaching 6.71 billion USD in deal value, and the city hosts over 2,000 AI startups employing more than 40,000 AI professionals.
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 New York 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
New York runs on Eastern Time, which is 9.5 hours behind India Standard Time, so the practical daily overlap is your morning India team meeting your end of business day in NY, which we run as an async-first workflow with a fixed live window for standups and reviews.
Your IP, your code
Every Geminate Solutions engagement is covered by a signed NDA and a clear contract assigning full IP ownership of the code to you, and all collaboration runs in fluent business English across daily standups and documentation.
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 New York?
New York 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 New York, 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?
How do working hours line up between a New York team and an India based development partner?
Is offshore software development from India more cost effective than hiring locally in New York?
How do you handle CCPA / CPRA and data protection for New York clients?
Where will our data and code be hosted if we build with you from New York?
How much does EdTech Software Development cost in New York?
Do we own the code?
How long does it take?
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