Vector Capital is a private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses. It works in partnership with management to navigate companies through transitions in their business. As private investors, the firm spin out non-core businesses from corporations, buy founder-owned companies, and fix balance sheets through recapitalizations. As a public investor, it takes strategic stakes in undervalued companies. It bridges both worlds by taking public companies private, when appropriate. Vector Capital is highly selective, choosing to invest in only a handful of opportunities each year. Its approach is rigorous and deeply analytical, with an emphasis on business fundamentals, such as financial performance, competitive positioning, and product strategy. Vector Capital was founded in 1997 and is based in San Francisco. It currently manage over $2 billion in equity capital.

Vector Capital

Platinum Equity is a private equity investment firm that focuses on leveraged buyout investments of established companies. It specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, public-to-private transactions, and buyouts.

Platinum Equity

Next Wave Partners is a transformational growth investor.  Since 2007, they’ve been investing institutional funds into UK private companies, working hand in hand with their portfolio management to drive sustainable growth in shareholder value.

Next Wave Partners

SEMCAP is a growth impact equity investor and value creator led by Buck Buckley and Cyrus Vandrevala, both serial entrepreneurs and investors. SEMCAP targets private companies that are accelerated further by seminal trends and long-term industry trends driven by technology, social transformation and regulatory transition. SEMCAP has teams in Health, Education, and Food & Nutrition and an SDG-aligned impact methodology embedded within the investment process.

SEMCAP

Fiduciary Co-Investment Partners operates as an investment firm.

Fiduciary Co-Investment Partners

Altamont Capital Partners is a private investment firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area with more than $2.5 billion of assets under management. The firm is focused on investing in middle-market businesses where it can partner with leading management teams to help its portfolio companies reach their full potential. The firm’s principals have significant experience building business success stories across a range of industries, including consumer, restaurants and multi-unit, financial services, healthcare, industrials, and business services. The Palo Alto, California-headquartered company was founded in 2011 by Jesse Rogers, Keoni Schwartz, and Randall Eason.

Altamont Capital Partners

McGraw-Hill Education

With more than 90 million users globally, busuu is the world's largest social network for language learning.  Through a website and mobile apps, the business offers free and premium paid-for access to interactive courses for 12 languages. Uniquely, the platform encourages collaborative learning by offering users the unique opportunity to learn the language and practice their listening, writing, reading and speaking with assistance from a rapidly growing community of native speakers. In this way, every busuu user is both student of a foreign language and tutor of their own ‘mother tongue’. busuu was founded by Bernhard Niesner and Adrian Hilti in early 2008, with a vision to enable everyone in the world to learn a second language.  Based in London, busuu offers an integrated, cross-channel platform which is constantly evolving to meet the demands of an increasingly mobile world population.  Winner of 'Best Education Start‐up' at The Europas TechCrunch Awards in 2011 and CeBIT Innovation Award in 2010. The company now also offers corporate language training solutions for large international companies around the world. The company is named after the busuu language of Cameroon. According to an ethnological study from the 1980s, Busuu is spoken by only 8 people.

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.

Unigo’s consumer site has 1.8 million registered users and receives 14 million unique visitors per year.  The site provides personalized matches with 6,500 colleges, 700,000 college reviews, 3.6 million scholarships, 90,000 internships and 3.3 million study materials.  Unigo’s investors include McGraw-Hill Ventures, Dow Jones Ventures / News Corp, and The Gates Foundation.  Unigo licenses college data and reviews to many mainstream media brands including The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, and ABC News.  Unigo also created curriculum and tutoring services with McGraw-Hill Education taught in high schools across the country.  At b2e.unigo.com, Unigo provides enrollment and market research services directly to colleges and universities.    Each year, Unigo reaches more than 50% of all college-bound students and provides services to approximately 9 million consumers.  The company has received awards and recognitions from Facebook, the Webby Awards, the White House, the Viacom / Get Schooled Foundation and more.

McGraw-Hill Education provides learning solutions. It offers ibooks and mobile applications in the areas of science, mathematics, social studies, reading, languages, arts, music, college and career readiness, engineering, and professional development; and digital solutions, including online learning systems, e-books, digital curriculum, adaptive learning programs, and hybrid or blended learning solutions. The company also offers webinars and resources for K-12 educators. It offers its products and services in the areas of elementary and secondary education; advanced placement, honors, and electives; adaptive learning; intervention; supplemental education; adult basic education; and professional development.

McGraw Hill Education

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EdTech: K-12

Businesses providing education delivery solutions such as learning management systems (LMS), and tech solutions for data analytics, administration, and other services to educational institutions.

Businesses delivering curriculum-based learning, particularly relating to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to educational institutions and individual students.

Mostly for-profit corporations running state-funded, tuition-free schools as an alternative to traditional public schools.

Businesses providing extra-curricular education relating to the arts, hobbies, and life skills, and entities providing college and career guidance.

Businesses delivering English language arts (ELA) education, and language learning and literacy support to educational institutions and individual students.

Platforms providing students with after-school tutoring support on an individual or group basis.

Businesses delivering early childhood education, special education, and social-emotional learning (SEL) programs to educational institutions and individual students.

Entities providing professional development resources and tools for teachers, and those providing testing and assessment solutions to educational institutions and educators.

Platforms providing student-parent-teacher-school communication and networking solutions, and those providing search, reference, and marketplace solutions.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for EdTech: K12 solutions

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