Top Hat

Top Hat is a student engagement platform for higher education. Founded in 2009 by two students who set out to fix higher education, the company began in a small apartment near the University of Waterloo and now employs more than 400 people across North America. Its stated mission is affordable, equitable higher education that transforms lives.

The company's flagship product, the Top Hat student engagement platform, is described as the leading such platform in higher education. It builds tools intended to make education more engaging, accessible and effective for every student. The platform serves more than 750 institutions and is used in partnership with thousands of educators, reaching millions of students.

Internally, employees are known as "Top Hatters". The culture is organised around what the company calls the Five Cs: Relentlessly Curious, Community First, Customer Obsessed, Call Our Shots & Hit Them, and Change Makers. The company says it values unique talents and perspectives and expects continuous evolution.