Lynda

Lynda, an online learning platform, offers educational training courses in the fields of business, software, technology, and creative skills. It offers courses in the areas of 3D/animation, audio/music, business, CAD, design, developer, education and e-learning, photography, information technology, marketing, video, and web to individual, corporate, nonprofit, government, library, higher education, and K-12 subscribers through its instructional video tutorials. Lynda provides a basic and premium membership and German, French, and Spanish-language content for its courses. It offers its courses through mobile applications and individual memberships. Lynda's enterprise members include Fortune 500 companies, advertising agencies, media companies, U.S. colleges and universities, state governments, and various branches of the U.S. military, business customers that include corporate and nonprofit clients, and academic customers that include K-12 and higher education, and U.S. House of Representatives, NASA-JPL, CIA, FAA, USPS, and the executive office of the President of the United States, and cabinet-level departments that include the Department of Defense and State Department. Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman founded it in 1995. Lynda has its headquarters in Carpinteria in California with satellite offices throughout in the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of LinkedIn Corporation.

Shveta Mujumdar

Vice President, Corporate Development

2 past transactions

Compilr

Acquisition in 2014
Compilr is a web-based, interactive online code editor. It allows you to work in popular interpreted languages such as PHP, Ruby, Javascript and Python, as well as compiled languages such as C++, C+, Java, .Net and Objective-C. Users can choose to start projects from scratch or import them from GitHub, the most popular source control repository on the web. Compilr brings the familiar look and feel of an IDE to the browser. In addition, Compilr also has an educational tool for real-time code playback with interactivity and audio. A student can watch an author write code in real-time, pause it and interact with the code!

video2brain

Acquisition in 2013
video2brain has been Europe’s premier source for video training since 2002. They produce English-, German-, French-, and Spanish-language courses on a wide variety of topics, working with some of the best trainers in the world. The English-language team is spread out all over the globe, from San Francisco and San Jose to Austin and New York, from Brighton and London back over to Vienna and their home office in Graz, Austria, a student city in the Austrian Alps.
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