Graham Holdings

Graham Holdings is a diversified company with a focus on education and media, comprising various subsidiaries. Its operations span several sectors, including educational services, television broadcasting, online and print news, home health and hospice care, and manufacturing. The company is organized into seven reportable segments: Kaplan International, Higher Education, Supplemental Education, Television Broadcasting, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Automotive. Kaplan International is the primary revenue driver, offering higher education, test preparation, language instruction, and professional training. Additionally, the television broadcasting segment contributes significantly to the company's overall revenue. Graham Holdings is committed to delivering quality products and services to students, viewers, and customers across its diverse operations.

Tim O'Shaughnessy

CEO, President and Board Member

21 past transactions

Reach Mobile

Venture Round in 2022
Reach Mobile is a no-contract wireless service provider that emphasizes social impact while offering access to the largest and most reliable 4G LTE networks in the United States. The company allows users to check phone compatibility with a simple mobile IMEI check, facilitating a smooth transition to its services. Reach Mobile offers affordable plans starting at $20 for 1GB of data, which includes unlimited talk and text. The company's offerings are designed to provide low-cost mobile plans without sacrificing coverage or value, ensuring that customers can find a pricing plan that fits their needs. Through its commitment to digital connectivity, Reach Mobile aims to enhance access to telecommunications for a broader audience.

Stride Funding

Series A in 2021
Stride Funding (AlmaPact Inc.) is a mission-driven company focused on enabling debt-free lives for students, by supplementing student loans with flexible income sharing agreements. Unlike student loans that lock students into a single rigid payment, Stride’s payments rise and fall with a student’s income so that payments are always affordable. The company has been recognized as a visionary leader by FinTech analysts for its efforts on income protection and career support. Stride was created by students, for students, aiming to change student lives for the better. The company has been recognized by Harvard and MIT as a top new venture. Stride has received venture investments from GSV Accelerate, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures and Pear VC; and its strategic investors include Strada Education. Its advisors include serial entrepreneurs, Doug Levin and Tina Sharkey. Fund your Future, Find your Stride!

Leaf Group

Acquisition in 2021
Leaf Group Ltd. (NYSE:LFGR) is a diversified Internet company that builds platforms across its marketplace (Society6, Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair, Deny Designs) and media (Livestrong.com, eHow, Hunker, Sapling, Techwalla, LeafTV) properties to enable communities of creators to reach passionate audiences in large and growing lifestyle categories. In addition, Leaf Group’s content studio and diverse advertising offerings help brands and publishers find innovative ways to engage with their customers. For more information about Leaf Group, visit www.leafgroup.com.

Podsights

Venture Round in 2021
Podsights is a company that specializes in analytics, reporting, and attribution for podcast advertising. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, it offers a platform that provides podcast publishers and advertisers with actionable data and insights. This enables users to effectively target content for their audiences and measure the performance of their advertising campaigns. The platform eliminates the need for outdated methods, such as emailing download numbers and audio files, by providing modern reporting tools that deliver real-time downloads, air checks, and placement transcripts. Podsights aims to transform podcast advertising from guesswork into a data-driven practice, serving the needs of publishers, advertisers, and podcast aggregators.

Framebridge

Acquisition in 2020
Framebridge, Inc. specializes in custom framing solutions for art and photographs, offering a streamlined online service that prioritizes customer experience. Founded in 2014 and based in Washington, D.C., the company allows users to select from a curated range of contemporary frame styles, upload images, or send physical items for personalized framing. The expert team at Framebridge handcrafts frames to meet each customer's specifications, ensuring high-quality results. Finished products are shipped directly to consumers, typically arriving within days and ready to hang. Pricing is transparent and based on the size of the framed item, starting at $39 and including free shipping. Framebridge operates manufacturing facilities in Richmond, Kentucky, and Lanham, Maryland, and has attracted investments from notable firms and individuals in the retail and technology sectors.

Serial Box

Series A in 2020
Serial Box is an entertainment company that provides serialized entertainment for readers and listeners. The company creates short, immersive stories that you can listen to or read. They produce completely original series and tell official new stories around story worlds like BBC's Orphan Black and characters like Marvel's Black Panther and Jessica Jones. Serial Box is designed for consumption on smartphones in either an audiobook or e-book format, users can read or listen to each weekly episodic installment. It produces original fiction with a focus on science fiction, fantasy, mystery, crime, and thrillers. The users can use the Serial Box mobile app to access both audio and text and even toggle between them. Serial Box was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States

Clyde's Restaurant Group

Acquisition in 2019
Clyde's Restaurant Group is a restaurant providing fine dining services. Clyde’s Restaurant Group is comprised of thirteen restaurants and entertainment venues including eight Clyde’s locations, Old Ebbitt Grill, The Hamilton, 1789 Restaurant, The Soundry, and The Tombs.

Framebridge

Series C in 2019
Framebridge, Inc. specializes in custom framing solutions for art and photographs, offering a streamlined online service that prioritizes customer experience. Founded in 2014 and based in Washington, D.C., the company allows users to select from a curated range of contemporary frame styles, upload images, or send physical items for personalized framing. The expert team at Framebridge handcrafts frames to meet each customer's specifications, ensuring high-quality results. Finished products are shipped directly to consumers, typically arriving within days and ready to hang. Pricing is transparent and based on the size of the framed item, starting at $39 and including free shipping. Framebridge operates manufacturing facilities in Richmond, Kentucky, and Lanham, Maryland, and has attracted investments from notable firms and individuals in the retail and technology sectors.

SpokenLayer

Series A in 2019
SpokenLayer is a New York-based company that specializes in converting printed content into audio format, allowing users to listen to articles through mobile devices, the web, or in vehicles. Founded in 2012, the company offers a self-guided API for clients to submit their written content, which is then narrated using suitable voice talent. SpokenLayer is recognized as a leading provider of voice content for virtual assistants and connected devices, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. In addition to transforming written stories into audio, the company also produces, distributes, and monetizes voice experiences, helping advertisers and brands engage audiences through smart speakers. The company is supported by several notable investors, including Beasley Media Group and Guardian Media Group Ventures.

Rize

Seed Round in 2018
Rize builds customer-centric financial applications for fintechs, incumbents, and non-financial brands. Our patent-pending Synthetic Account technology seamlessly integrates checking, saving, and individual brokerage with one flexible platform.

Intersection

Venture Round in 2017
Our mission is to improve daily life in cities and public spaces. At Intersection, we are at the forefront of the smart cities revolution. With award-winning products like Link, the largest and fastest free public Wi-Fi network in the world, Intersection connects the digital and physical worlds, enhancing people’s journeys through their cities and offering brands the opportunity to drive more relevant and engaging advertising, rooted in real-world location and physical context. We believe that by joining the digital and physical worlds we can help people get the most out of the cities around them. Our products live in public locations, where people engage with them every day, delivering connectivity, information, and content that elevate the urban experience. Intersection was formed from the merger between Titan, the largest municipal out-of-home advertising company, and Control Group, a leader in technology and design innovation in physical spaces. Together, these companies created a unique and powerful combination of expertise in cities, media, technology, and design, with scale, experience, and resources to connect the digital and physical worlds as never before. The first product of that collaboration was LinkNYC—widely recognized as among the most successful smart city technologies on the planet. And we’re just getting started…

WinView Games

Series B in 2017
WinView Games is an ad-supported app that is 100% free to play. The games covered by WinView - for sports fans of MLB, NBA and NFL - are produced in a live studio by a team of producers based on what is happening in real time. WinView’s portfolio of 40 foundational patents covers the synchronization of the second-screen with TV broadcasts and commercials and the optimum methods of monetizing sports-based games of skill, among other types of programming content.

Hoover Treated Wood Products

Acquisition in 2017
Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc. supplies pressure-impregnated kiln-dried lumber and plywood products.

Gimlet

Series A in 2015
Gimlet Media Inc. is a digital media company based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in the production of narrative podcasts. Founded in 2014, Gimlet focuses on creating high-quality audio content that engages listeners and fosters a deeper understanding of various subjects. The company operates a platform that allows users to share, subscribe to, and download its podcast episodes, thereby enhancing audience reach for brands and storytellers. In February 2019, Gimlet Media became a subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A., further integrating its innovative storytelling approach within the broader digital audio landscape.

Dekko

Acquisition in 2015
Group Dekko, a Garrett, IN-based manufacturer of electrical solutions for applications across three business lines

HomeHero

Series A in 2015
HomeHero, Inc. is a non-medical home care agency based in Santa Monica, California, offering a variety of services tailored to individual families. Founded in 2013, the company provides personal care, companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, transitional care, care management, medication management, transportation, and assistance with activities of daily living. HomeHero also specializes in safe transition home programs, facilitating secure rides and transitions for patients returning from the hospital. Additionally, the company features The HomeHero Collaborative, a care management platform designed to connect health systems with home care services. HomeHero serves families in major California cities, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Orange County, and partners with innovative health systems to enhance home care programs.

OpBandit

Angel Round in 2014
OpBandit, Inc. specializes in developing tools designed to optimize content for publishers and online producers. Based in Washington, D.C., the company focuses on tracking custom attributes in content experiments to identify trends and enhance audience engagement through effective story promotion. By minimizing guesswork, OpBandit enables publishers to better understand their audience's interests and discover which content variations yield significant results. Since April 2015, OpBandit has operated as a subsidiary of Vox Media, Inc.

D2L

Series B in 2014
D2L Corporation, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Kitchener, Canada, specializes in cloud-based learning solutions for various sectors, including higher education, K-12, healthcare, government, and enterprises. Its primary offering, Brightspace, is an integrated online learning platform designed to enhance the educational experience by providing tools that foster engagement and accessibility. Brightspace includes a range of features such as learning object management, course recommendation tools, adaptive learning capabilities, and online grading solutions, all aimed at supporting both learners and educators. The platform also offers mobile applications and resources to help students manage their academic activities effectively. D2L serves over 700 clients and more than 8 million learners globally, striving to make quality learning experiences accessible and impactful across diverse educational landscapes.

Joyce/Dayton

Acquisition in 2014
Joyce/Dayton is a manufacturer based in Moraine, Ohio, specializing in heavy-duty lifting and positioning equipment. The company's diverse product portfolio includes jacks, actuators, speed reducers, electric cylinders, motor switches, electronic limit switches, and variable speed positioning systems. Joyce/Dayton focuses on providing reliable solutions for various applications, catering to industries that require robust lifting systems and precise positioning equipment.

Forney Corp

Acquisition in 2013
Forney Corp specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and servicing of front-end combustion components. The company caters to various industries, including electric utilities, chemical processing, pulp and paper, and cement. Its product offerings include igniters, flame detectors, duct burners, and burner management systems, which are essential for efficient and safe combustion processes. Through its comprehensive range of combustion solutions, Forney Corp supports the operational needs of its diverse clientele.

Celtic Healthcare

Acquisition in 2012
Celtic Healthcare provides homecare, hospice, and virtual care services.
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