Turnitin

Turnitin is your partner in education with integrity. Turnitin’s originality checking and authorship investigation services ensure academic integrity, promote critical thinking, and help students improve their authentic writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 140 countries. Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K., Utrecht, Netherlands, Melbourne, Australia, Seoul, Korea and throughout Latin America. 65 billion web pages crawled. 845 million archived student papers 170 million journal articles

Ross Devor

Investor

Melissa Lipscomb

CFO and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs

5 past transactions

Ouriginal

Acquisition in 2021
Ouriginal is the company that delivers cutting-edge technology in the field of text-matching and plagiarism prevention. Their software helps enhance the potential of students to think originally, saves time for teachers when evaluating assignments, and assists businesses in preserving their reputation.

ExamSoft

Acquisition in 2020
ExamSoft provides computer-based testing solutions for exam takers and exam administrators internationally. It offers SofTeach, an online item banking and exam building tool for academic institutions, licensing bodies, and academic certifications. The company also provides SofTest that enables exam takers to take their exams on any computer, including their own laptop; and SoftScore and PrintX scoring and analysis solutions. In addition, it offers Flex-Site, a modular system that enables flexible and robust exam design, automatic delivery and retrieval, and post-exam scoring and analysis. The company’s solutions are used by professional administrators/managers, professors, teaching assistants, technology professionals, and academic librarians. ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida

Gradescope

Acquisition in 2018
Gradescope enables instructors to grade paper-based assignments online in half the time, for free. Their product has already been used to grade over 3 million pages of work belonging to over 30,000 students at over 100 schools. The company's mission is to enable data-driven education for teachers and students while being backwards compatible with paper. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

VeriCite

Acquisition in 2018
VeriCite provides originality checking tools that provide tight integrations into LMS workflows and a smooth customer experience. VeriCite offers educators an easier way to turn conversations about academic integrity into positive teaching moments. With VeriCite at your side, you’ll have a reliable solution for assessing originality that’s easier to use, easier to integrate and easier on the budget.

LightSide Labs

Acquisition in 2014
LightSide Labs develops technology for automated revision assistance and classroom support. Its software can instantly evaluate student writing. It can grade an essay on multiple rubric scales and highlight the writer’s strongest and weakest passages on each dimension. Independent research has repeatedly shown this technology is as accurate as human graders, looking for features that human graders look for like content mastery, style choices, and genre awareness.
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