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HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons. It is an online platform that gives everyone the opportunity to learn from experts all over the world. HowNow's live online video classes mean that teachers and students can interact with one another as if they were in the same room. The company has more than 400 experts teaching in 33 countries.

Smashcut is an education technology and content company that has built a next-generation learning platform designed for video-centric, collaborative education. Smashcut partners with education brands to develop and deliver customized online programs. The company was founded in 2016 by Daniel Blackman, co-founder of Howcast and a former executive at Google, YouTube, and Barnes & Noble.com.

Business intelligence company currently focused on education. Proprietary software converts data into natural language for "everyday users," either as narrative text-based reports or as personalized videos. Early traction includes paid partnerships with some of the most significant players in education, including ETS, the College Board and NWEA, as well as major school systems, including Oakland Unified School District, Long Beach Unified and Green Dot Public Schools.

Smart Sparrow owns and operates an e-learning platform, which enables students and professionals to create an e-learning courseware. It allows customers to create courseware on various subjects, including digital literacy, computer sciences, engineering, finance, marketing, medicine, orientation, sciences, and soft skills, as well as training courses. Smart Sparrow serves various institutions locally and internationally. Ariel Shoham, Dror Ben-Haim, Shaowei Ho, and Zack Belinson founded it on December 29, 2010, with its headquarters in Surry Hills in Australia with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

Lumerit Education is focused on helping students from around the world achieve their goals and prepare for life, leadership, and a career, all while earning a college degree. Their Lumerit Scholar program is addressing a comprehensive change in methodology for earning a bachelor’s degree. They have served more than 11,000 students in all 50 states and in 23 countries. Lumerit academic advisors draw from thousands of different credit sources to develop customized degree and course progression plans that take into account learning styles, goals, available time, costs, major, and other important life situations. Lumerit Education was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Secondmind is on a mission to help automotive innovators design cleaner cars, and achieve greater sustainability through machine learning. Underpinned by years of award-winning, practical machine learning research and technology, developed by a world-class team of researchers, data scientists and machine learning engineers, Secondmind is helping Automotive manufacturers navigate the increasing complexity of engineering design in its transition to electrification. Secondmind was founded in 2016 and is backed by leading venture funds including Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge, and Cambridge Innovation Capital, among others.

Credly is helping the world speak a common language about people’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Thousands of employers, training organizations, associations, certification programs, and workforce development initiatives use Credly to help individuals translate their learning experiences into professional opportunities using trusted, portable, digital credentials. Credly empowers organizations to attract, engage, develop, and retain talent with enterprise-class tools that generate data-driven insights to address skills gaps and highlight opportunities through an unmatched global network of credential issuers. Unleash the workforce.

Integrated Analytic brings decades of experience in the global financial markets and technology to provide unique guidance using vast real world experience and complex data and statistical analysis capabilities. Our unique expertise in the financial and IT fields enables Integrated Analytic to provide proven solutions that empower our clients to improve performance and resolve complex issues.

Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights. Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.

Sudiksha Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a social entrepreneurship initiative by a group of young professionals who use entrepreneurship skills and innovation to bring about a revolution in the educational standards of schools in India. Sudiksha is a social laboratory that works towards designing, training and researching various facets of education.

The SPARK Schools model combines highly engaging classroom teaching, individual instruction in the Learning Lab, partnership with families and the community, and dedicated professional development for teachers and school leaders to facilitate student achievement. SPARK Schools students prepare for university and successful careers by excelling academically, practicing creative thinking skills, and demonstrating core values that emphasize cooperative citizenship and love of learning.

Multi Holding is a Brazilian multinational and world leader in the market of language teaching, information technology and vocational education. Since its founding, the company has provided school organizational services, highly qualified teaching material and specialized trainings for the Pedagogical, Marketing, Administrative and Commercial departments. Through this effort, standardization of work is maintained in all units, in Brazil and abroad. The company is formerly owned by Martins family until it was acquired by Pearson in 2013.

Acuris powers business growth for financial and professional services firms worldwide. Through subscription-based digital services and a wide range of industry-leading events, we provide unique, high-value content that enables our customers to make the decisions based on high quality research and analysis. Acuris’ sector specialists and expert analysts interpret data and intelligence to deliver fresh insights that create business opportunities for our customers. We’re trusted by many of the world’s principal advisory firms, investment banks, law firms, hedge funds, private equity firms and corporates, who rely on our brands to help them understand specialist markets.

BioBehavioral Diagnostics Company manufactures and markets the Quotientâ„¢ ADHD System, a tool that aids in the objective and accurate assessment of ADHD symptoms. They are dedicated to providing physicians, parents and patients with high-value information to guide personalized strategies and to enhance quality of life for patients with ADHD.

Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

In early 2008 an expert tutor and a designer began exploring the use of interconnected instructional videos to help confused math students. Acquired by Pearson in mid 2013, Virtual Nerd's technology and expansive library of instructional content is now available to millions of teachers and students around the world. Virtual Nerd's patent-pending tutorial system presents users with in-context information, hints, and links to supporting tutorials, synchronized with videos, each 3-7 minutes long. In this non-linear system, users are free to take whatever path through the material best serves their needs.

Learning Catalytics is the complete solution for managing the interactive classroom. Our cloud-based technology enables instructors to engage students with authentic formative assessments in real time, and rich data analytics are used to drive student interactions.

IndiaCan Education is a vocational training company formed as a joint venture between the two firms Educomp and Pearson in 2009.

Based in San Francisco, Scoot & Doodle creates web and mobile products that facilitate human interaction and connected learning, helping friends and classmates practice and strengthen visual creative thinking and collaboration -- core skills needed to make them the innovators and problem solvers of tomorrow. Scoot & Doodle on Hangouts, the company’s first, award winning product, is the most popular premier app inside Google+ Hangouts and has been called “a revolutionary digital tool” by USA Today. Scoodle Jam, a social collaboration app for iPad, launched on the App Store in December 2013 and was featured upon launch in Apple’s New & Noteworthy section. The app offers an innovative space for teens to socialize, collaborate and get creative together, one-on-one with their Facebook friends.

Nook Media spun out from Barnes & Noble in 2012. Nook Media is a subsidiary of [Barnes & Noble](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/barnes-noble). Microsoft invested in early 2012 and owns 16.8% and Pearson at the end of 2012 owns a 5% stake. The nook is an electronic book reader produced by Barnes & Noble and runs on the Android platform. The nook will compete with the Amazon Kindle, iPad, Google's Nexus 7, Kobo, Sony Reader, and other readers. It is has Wi-Fi connectivity, a six inch E Ink display, and a separate, 7" and 9" color touchscreen that serves as the primary input device. The device also has a MicroSD slot for extra storage. Some nooks have a user replaceable battery and a memory card slot as well.

EmbanetCompass is the largest provider of technology-enabled services to traditional non-profit postsecondary educational institutions seeking to launch online degree programs across degree levels and disciplines. Its comprehensive outsourced solution includes all of the services necessary to develop an online program, including program strategy, design and development, academic services, marketing and student recruitment, program and student services, and technology services. Academic partners retain complete control over admissions decisions, instruction and financial aid, and confer all degrees. EmbanetCompass's top priority in partnering with an institution is to offer the highest quality services to protect and enhance the academic partner's brand and reputation.

Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI) is owned by Bertram Capital and is the world leader in indie book publishing. ASI’s leading self-publishing imprints—AuthorHouse, AuthorHouse UK, iUniverse, Palibrio, Trafford Publishing and Xlibris—have helped more than 150,000 authors self-publish, promote and bring to market more than 190,000 new titles. Through strategic alliances with leading trade publishers, ASI is making it possible to develop new literary talent efficiently and provide authors with a platform for bringing their books to market. Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, ASI’s global reach includes imprints developed specifically for authors in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

GlobalEnglish offers Business English solutions designed to improve the communication and collaboration that drive high performance in a global economy. Without Business English proficiency, global teams are unable to operate successfully across borders, and efficiency and profitability suffer. GlobalEnglish offers an innovative, cloud-based suite of Business English solutions specifically designed to produce immediate productivity and performance gains enterprise-wide. In blending the latest technology innovations with research on how adults effectively acquire language, GlobalEnglish provides a comprehensive solution: formal and informal Business English learning, instant on-the-job support for business tasks in English, enterprise collaboration, mobile productivity, adaptive Business English assessments, and the ability to measure usage and proficiency improvements across the company. GlobalEnglish experts located throughout the world help companies maximize the value of their investment through custom analysis and recommendations, coordinated program deployment, and ongoing support in 15 languages. Headquartered in Brisbane, California, GlobalEnglish has partnered with more than 500 of the world's leading corporations and enterprises, including BNP Paribas, Capgemini, Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline, Hilton, John Deere, Procter & Gamble, and Unisys. GlobalEnglish had been acquired by Pearson PLC (UK:PSON), the world's largest education and publishing company in 2012 and got bought out by its management in 2016. For more information visit www.GlobalEnglish.com.

Certiport® prepares individuals with current and relevant digital skills and credentials for the competitive global workforce. These solutions are delivered by more than 12,000 Certiport Centers worldwide and include the official Microsoft Office certification program, the Microsoft Technology Associate certification program, the Adobe® Certified Associate certification program, the CompTIA Strata™ IT Fundamentals, the Autodesk® Certified User certification program, the Intuit® QuickBooks Certified User certification program and the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³® ).

Global Education & Technology Group, Ltd. is a test preparation services provider for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and a provider of educational courses and related services in China. The company provides test preparation services for IELTS on a nationwide basis in China. As of June 30, 2010, its learning center network consisted of 66 directly operated and 226 franchised learning centers; including 118 Global test preparation learning centers, 69 of which are franchised in 59 cities. Founded in 2001, Global Education obtained hundreds of millions of funding from SAIF Investment in September 2006. It went public on the New York Stock Exchange on October 8, 2010. In December 2011, Global Education merged with Pearson.

TQ Holdings Ltd. provides vocational and technical education and training services to governments, institutions and corporations around the world.

Knewton's mission is to personalize learning for the world. Teachers, schools, and education companies around the world use Knewton to power digital course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. Knewton provides students with tailored recommendations for exactly what to study, teachers with analytics to better support each student, and publishers with content insights to develop more effective digital products. Knewton was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York City, London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai. Knewton has been recognized globally as a “Technology Pioneer” (World Economic Forum in Davos) and several times as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in education (Fast Company).

Connections Education is an accredited provider of high-quality, highly accountable virtual education for students in grades K-12, and online learning solutions to educational institutions globally. Through tuition-free public schools, full-time and private school programs, and turnkey online courses for bricks and mortar schools, Connections Academy delivers superior, personalized education for students, accessible anywhere. The combination of certified teachers, a proven curriculum, technology tools, and community experiences creates a supportive and successful online learning opportunity for families and children who want an individualized approach to education. Through its Connections Academy business, the company operates online or ‘virtual’ public schools in 21 states in the US—serving more than 40,000 students in the current school year. These virtual charter schools are accredited and funded by the relevant state and are free to parents and students who choose a virtual school in place of a traditional public institution or other schooling options.

STARK Verlag publishes exam preparation books. STARK Verlag is a publishing house , which specializes in teaching aids for students as well as teaching materials and concepts for teachers.

Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights. Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.

The market leader in products and services to bolster student performance, persistence and retention. More than 1,000 universities, colleges and schools turn to SMARTHINKING for on-demand, online tutoring.

Schoolnet offers instructional improvement education software to increase student achievement, teacher quality and operational efficiency.

Education Development International engages in providing educational qualifications and assessment services. The company also supplies specialist online assessment services for schools. Aside from that, Education Development International offers English language qualifications that include English for business, and spoken English for industry and commerce.

Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights. Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.

TutorVista Global Pvt. Ltd. (TutorVista) is a global education services company. It is located at 4, Service Road, Domlur Layout, Bangalore-560071. India. TutorVista was acquired by Pearson Education in Jan 2011.

TutorVista Global Pvt. Ltd. (TutorVista) is a global education services company. It is located at 4, Service Road, Domlur Layout, Bangalore-560071. India. TutorVista was acquired by Pearson Education in Jan 2011.

Wall Street English is the world’s leading English language training network delivering English language learning to adults and is recognised as a leading blended learning platform that provides a premium lifestyle experience to its students. WSE’s success is underpinned by a strong brand, a track record of growth and innovation over its 46-year history. In 2016 the business served 180,000 learners through 70 corporate owned centres in China, nine corporate owned centres in Italy and 321 franchised centres across 28 territories.

Melorio operates as a vocational education company in the UK. The company provides training courses for the IT, construction, and healthcare industries,.

Medley is a leading macro policy research service for the world’s top hedge funds, asset managers, banks and institutional investors.

TutorVista Global Pvt. Ltd. (TutorVista) is a global education services company. It is located at 4, Service Road, Domlur Layout, Bangalore-560071. India. TutorVista was acquired by Pearson Education in Jan 2011.

Intellipro is an interactive content company that develops, markets, and supports software applications and publishing tools for academic, professional, and corporate use.

Pearson eCollege was founded in 1996 as Real Education, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. That year, Real Education launched its first online campus for the University of Colorado—still one of our prominent Educational Partners. Today, institutions around the world deliver their fully online, distance learning programs using the Pearson learning platform. eCollege joined the Pearson family in 2007, signaling Pearson's commitment to technology-powered education. Pearson eCollege is now a leading global provider of integrated education technology, content, academic services and support that powers some of the most successful online programs.

ELLIS specializes in English language learning and instruction, providing a comprehensive suite of products aimed at a wide range of learners from children to adults. The company offers over 1,500 hours of interactive instruction, supported by resources in more than 45 native languages. In addition to its digital offerings, ELLIS also provides an extensive library of print materials designed to reinforce the teaching and learning of English, making its educational tools accessible and effective for diverse audiences.

Chancery Student Management Solutions is the leading provider of student information management solutions and support for K-12 schools and districts. Chancery solutions offer accurate real-time information on more than thirteen million students to one million educators every day. Built to address the challenges faced by today's districts, Chancery SMS is uniquely aligned to meet the reporting requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. With more than 15 years of industry firsts and 18,000 installations customized to meet the needs and budgets of diverse schools and districts throughout North America, Chancery is the educational community's most trusted and proven partner.

National Evaluation Systems, Inc. (NES(R)) is an educational testing company that develops and administers customized teacher certification testing programs and other assessment programs in higher education. Their work covers assessments in more than one hundred content fields, professional teaching skills, and the basic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics.

AGS publishes assessments and curriculum materials for US school psychologists, teachers and students. It has a particular focus on supporting students who are at-risk or performing below grade level, including those whose first language is not English. These areas are attracting new attention and funding with the US federal requirement under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that all students achieve 'Adequate Yearly Progress' towards mandated state standards in reading, math and science.

Dominie Press is an independently owned supplemental publishing company serving the K-8 education market. Dominie Press currently publishes about 2,300 titles in a variety of niches.

LessonLab offers a wide variety of software and program development services to improve classroom teaching methods. It enables teacher to study videotaped classroom sessions to improve their own performance. The company works with various partner organizations such as states, large school districts, public and private sector providers of teacher professional development services, textbook publishers, and universities to build standards-based teacher-learning programs. It also enables teacher to study videotaped classroom sessions to improve their own performance. LessonLab was founded by Jim Stigler in January 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California. The company currently operates as a subsidiary of Pearson Education.

LessonLab offers a wide variety of software and program development services to improve classroom teaching methods. It enables teacher to study videotaped classroom sessions to improve their own performance. The company works with various partner organizations such as states, large school districts, public and private sector providers of teacher professional development services, textbook publishers, and universities to build standards-based teacher-learning programs. It also enables teacher to study videotaped classroom sessions to improve their own performance. LessonLab was founded by Jim Stigler in January 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California. The company currently operates as a subsidiary of Pearson Education.

LessonLab offers a wide variety of software and program development services to improve classroom teaching methods. It enables teacher to study videotaped classroom sessions to improve their own performance. The company works with various partner organizations such as states, large school districts, public and private sector providers of teacher professional development services, textbook publishers, and universities to build standards-based teacher-learning programs. It also enables teacher to study videotaped classroom sessions to improve their own performance. LessonLab was founded by Jim Stigler in January 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California. The company currently operates as a subsidiary of Pearson Education.

FEN is an online platform that offers family education services for its users. The platform offers its users with advice on family-related topics. In addition, it provides its users with reference material, facts, and features to assists in its users’ children’s homework. Furthermore, it provides its users with teaching resources to assist its users in educating their children. FEN was founded in 1990 and is based in Boston.

NCS is the largest commercial processor of student assessment tests for kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12) education in the US, scoring some 40 million tests a year across the US. It is involved at all stages of the process, from test design to delivery, processing and reporting results. NCS is also the largest single provider of student curriculum, instructional and financial management software to schools. These tools help teachers and administrators to keep attendance records, grades, test scores and to manage state curriculum requirements. It has software in some 40,000 of the 110,000 schools in the US and has been adding thousands of new schools a year to its client base. It is responsible for large amounts of school data, including managing the schedules of over 16 million students. NCS is making extensive use of electronic and Internet-based technologies to extend its market penetration and offer innovative products and services to its customers in the education field. For example, NCS's ParentCONNECTxp software product connects parents and teachers, enabling parents to become more involved in their child's academic and classroom performance.

FEN is an online platform that offers family education services for its users. The platform offers its users with advice on family-related topics. In addition, it provides its users with reference material, facts, and features to assists in its users’ children’s homework. Furthermore, it provides its users with teaching resources to assist its users in educating their children. FEN was founded in 1990 and is based in Boston.

Blackboard Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise technology and solutions tailored for the education sector, serving higher education, K-12, corporate, and government organizations. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a range of products designed to enhance teaching and learning experiences. Its flagship platform, Blackboard Learn, supports academic objectives, while Blackboard Collaborate facilitates interactive and mobile learning. Blackboard's offerings also include solutions for assignment integrity, data analytics, program assessment, and student support services. Additionally, Blackboard Connect provides a mass notification service to enhance communication within educational institutions. The company's innovative tools aim to improve engagement, accessibility, and institutional performance, impacting millions of students and educators globally.