Who's Funding Education Technology?

• ABCyas was acquired by IXL Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Acclaim was acquired by Credly (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Acrobatiq was acquired by VitalSource (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Actively Learn was acquired by Achieve3000 (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Advantages School International was acquired by ASSIST (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Aries System was acquired by Elsevier (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• BVirtual was acquired by Examity (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Base Capital was acquired by Lumni (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Bask was acquired by Brainly (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Bloc was acquired by Thinkful (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• CCME School was acquired by Pharos Capital (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Cambrium Learning Group was acquired by Veritas Capital (Amount Paid: $14.50 per share; News Link)

• Campus Vacations was acquired by Verve (Amount Paid: $7,000,000; News Link)

• Capital Education Group was acquired by Catapult Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• CatchOn was acquired by Education Networks of America (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Chalk & Wire was acquired by Campus Labs (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Chalkup was acquired by Microsoft (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Cirrus Group was acquired by Procare Software (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• ClearScholar was acquired by Civitas Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Cobb Pediatric Therapy Services was acquired by The Stepping Stones Group (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Codemonkey was acquired by TAL Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Cognition Education Group was acquired by Corwin Publishing (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Cohuborate was acquired by Boxlight (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Conceptua Math was acquired by Activate Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Constructive Media was acquired by Sandbox (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Council for Adult and Experiential Learning was acquired by Strada Education Network (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• CritiqueIt was acquired by 2U (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• DIY.co was acquired by LittleBits (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• DeVry University was acquired by Palm Ventures (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Designation was acquired by Flatiron School (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Digital Measures was acquired by Watermark (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Discovery Education was acquired by Francisco Partners (Amount Paid: $120 million for majority stake; News Link)

• ECS Learning Systems was acquired by Asteria Education (Amount Paid: Financed with $4 million loan; News Link)

• EOS Education was acquired by Boxlight Corporation (Amount Paid: $300,000; News Link)

• Economic Modelling LLC was acquired by Strada Education Network (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Edbacker was acquired by LivingTree (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Edmodo was acquired by NetDragon (Amount Paid: $137.5 million (only $15 million of this cash); News Link)

• Embibe was acquired by Reliance (Amount Paid: $180 million (strategic investment); News Link)

• Evan-Moor Corporation was acquired by Lincoln Learning Solutions (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Firehose Project was acquired by Trilogy Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Fishtree was acquired by Follett (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Flipgrid was acquired by Microsoft (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• General Assembly was acquired by Adecco Group (Amount Paid: $412 million; News Link)

• GitHub was acquired by Microsoft (Amount Paid: $7.5 billion; News Link)

• Gradescope was acquired by TurnItIn (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Grovo was acquired by Cornerstone (Amount Paid: $24,000,000; News Link)

• Hack Reactor was acquired by Galvanize (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• HackEd was acquired by SecureSet Academy (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Heritage Education Funds was acquired by Knowledge First Financial (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Infobase Holdings was acquired by Centre Lane Partners (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Intellitots was acquired by Founding Years (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Interfolio was acquired by Insight Venture Partners (Amount Paid: $110 million; News Link)

• JMH Consulting was acquired by Education Dynamics (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• JobTrack was acquired by Trilogy Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Kendall College was acquired by National Louis University (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Kids' Adventures was acquired by Springboard Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Knovation was acquired by ACT (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• KnowRe was acquired by Daekyo (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Learning House was acquired by Wiley Educational Services (Amount Paid: $200,000,000; News Link)

• Lifeshare USA was acquired by Catapult Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Lightsail Education was acquired by Agile Investment (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Lingo Venture was acquired by Babbel (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• LookUp was acquired by Boomwriter Media (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• MGHL Consulting's item generation technology was acquired by ACT (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• MissionU was acquired by WeWork (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Mondo Publishing was acquired by Carnegie Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Montessorium was acquired by Higher Ground Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• MyON was acquired by Renaissance Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• MyON was acquired by Francisco Partners (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• National Research Center for College and University Admissions was acquired by ACTivate Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• New Media Consortium was acquired by Educause (Amount Paid: $55,000; News Link)

• NextTier Education was acquired by Follett (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Northcentral University was acquired by National University (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• NovoEd was acquired by Devonshire Investors (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• OnCourse Learning was acquired by Bertelsmann (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Orbis was acquired by Grand Canyon Education (Amount Paid: $362.5 million; News Link)

• Out of the Blue Enterprises was acquired by 9 Story Media Group (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• PaperRater.com was acquired by Barnes & Noble Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Pathgather was acquired by Degreed (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Paytronage was acquired by Lumni (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Penn Foster was acquired by Bain Capital (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Performance Matters was acquired by PeopleAdmin (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Progress Testing was acquired by Key Data Systems (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Prologic Technology Systems was acquired by Frontline Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Pythonroom was acquired by Tynker (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Quad Learning was acquired by Wellspring International Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Qwizdom was acquired by Boxlight (Amount Paid: $2,500,000; News Link)

• Rapt Media was acquired by Kaltura (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Rate My Professors was acquired by Cheddar (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Reasoning Mind was acquired by Weld North Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Renaissance Learning was acquired by Francisco Partners (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• SANTILLANA USA was acquired by VIsta Higher Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• School Loop was acquired by Think3 (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Socrative was acquired by Showbie (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Sokikom was acquired by Jumpstart World (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Specdrums was acquired by Sphero (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Star Academy was acquired by NOLA Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Steve Spangler Science was acquired by Really Good Stuff (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• StudyBlue was acquired by Chegg (Amount Paid: $20,800,000; News Link)

• The Learning Experience was acquired by Golden Gate Capital (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• UniversityNow was acquired by National University (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Vatterott Educational Centers was acquired by Education Corporation of America (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Vericite was acquired by TurnItIn (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Weld North Education was acquired by Silver Lake (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Workbench was acquired by Google (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• WriteLab was acquired by Chegg (Amount Paid: $15 million; News Link)

• Wuhan Haoxiaozi Robot Technology was acquired by Tarena International (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Zulama was acquired by EMC School (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• adult education materials of HMH was acquired by Paxen Publishing (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• AcademicWorks was acquired by Blackbaud (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Adtalem Global Education was acquired by Cogswell Education LLC (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Apex Learning was acquired by Education Growth Partners (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• ApplyYourself, AppReview, Connect, Radius, and Retain CRM was acquired by Campus Management Corp (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Authentica Solution was acquired by BrightBytes (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Big University was acquired by K12 Inc (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• BrainMaps was acquired by Scientific Learning Corp (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Cegment was acquired by CampusLogic (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• ChildCare Education Institute was acquired by Excelligence Learning Corporation (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Chromatik was acquired by TakeLessons (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Citelighter was acquired by Sylvan Learning (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• ClassMessenger was acquired by LivingTree (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• CloudLabs was acquired by Udacity (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Cogeon was acquired by Chegg (Amount Paid: $15,000,000; News Link)

• College for Financial Planning was acquired by Kaplan Inc (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Curriculum Associates was acquired by Iowa State University (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Curriculum Associates was acquired by Berkshire Partners (Amount Paid: $145,000,000; News Link)

• Data 180 was acquired by Interfolio (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Digital Media Arts College was acquired by Lynn University (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• EAB was acquired by Vista Equity Partners (Amount Paid: $2,580,000,000; News Link)

• Earnest was acquired by Navient (Amount Paid: $155,000,000; News Link)

• EasyCampus LMS was acquired by iContracts (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• EdifyAssess was acquired by Silverback Learning (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Educlipper was acquired by Participate Learning (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Edumate was acquired by Volaris Group (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Edurite was acquired by BYJU's (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Edusight was acquired by Nelson (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• First Tutors was acquired by Varsity Tutors (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Flatiron School was acquired by WeWork (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Frontline Education was acquired by Thomas Bravo (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• GetSmarter was acquired by 2U (Amount Paid: $103,000,000; News Link)

• Globaloria was acquired by Carnegie Learning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Gojima was acquired by Telegraph Media Group (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Gradstaff was acquired by University Ventures (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Great Lakes Educational Loan Services was acquired by Nelnet (Amount Paid: $150,000,000; News Link)

• Homer was acquired by Speakaboos (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• IS3D was acquired by ExploreLearning (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• IT'S ABOUT TIME was acquired by Activate Learning (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Impero Software was acquired by Investment Technology Partners (Amount Paid: $36,300,000; News Link)

• Intellus Learning was acquired by Macmillan Learning (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Intrepid Learning was acquired by VitalSource (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• ItemLogic was acquired by Certica Solutions (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• JR3 Websmart was acquired by Harris School Solutions (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• JumpStart was acquired by NetDragon (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• LiveText was acquired by Taskstream-Tk20 (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Looksharp was acquired by WayUp (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• MBS Textbook Exchange was acquired by Barnes & Noble Education (Amount Paid: $174,200,000; News Link)

• Meta was acquired by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Motion Math was acquired by Curriculum Associates (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• My Learning Collaborative Solution was acquired by Epiphany Learning (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• MyON was acquired by Francisco Partners (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Pathsource was acquired by AcademixDirect (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Platform was acquired by Instructure (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Plum Analytics was acquired by Elsevier (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Princeton Review was acquired by ST Unitas (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Questar was acquired by Education Testing Service (Amount Paid: $127,500,000; News Link)

• Quintessential School Systems was acquired by Harris School Solutions (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Ravenna Solutions was acquired by Education Brands (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• RepVisits was acquired by Hobsons (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Rourke Educational Media was acquired by Carson-Dellosa (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Sangha was acquired by Edlio (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Scholantis was acquired by Edlio (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• School Improvement Network was acquired by Frontline Education (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• SchoolMint was acquired by Hero K12 (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Student Brands was acquired by Barnes & Noble Education (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Studienkreis GmbH was acquired by IK Investment Partners (Amount Paid: $85,450,000; News Link)

• Teachers-Teachers was acquired by Frontline Education (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• TechShop was acquired by Tech Shop 2.0 (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Thrivist was acquired by Ingram Content Group (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Triumph Learning was acquired by School Speciality (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• TutorVista was acquired by Byju's (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Unbound Concepts was acquired by Certica Solutions (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Verba was acquired by VitalSource (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Viking Code School was acquired by Thinkful (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• Wall Street English was acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia and CITIC Capital (Amount Paid: $300,000,000; News Link)

• West Corporation was acquired by Apollo Global Management (Amount Paid: $5,200,000,000; News Link)

• Workplace Answers was acquired by EverFi (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Worldstrides was acquired by Eurazeo and Primavera Capital Group (Amount Paid: $500,000,000; News Link)

• Yik Yak was acquired by Square (Amount Paid: $1,000,000; News Link)

• Zenbanx was acquired by SoFi (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• bepress was acquired by Elsevier (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• eSchool Data was acquired by IO Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• eduCLIMBER was acquired by Illuminate Education (Amount Paid: Unknown; News Link)

• gWhiz was acquired by Higher Learning Technologies (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• refMe was acquired by Chegg (Amount Paid: unknown; News Link)

• Adapt Courseware was acquired by Fulcrum Labs (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Alexander Street Press was acquired by Proquest (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Apollo Education Group was acquired by Apollo Management Group (Amount Paid: $1,100,000,000; News Link)

• AskOnline was acquired by Upswing (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Astute Technology was acquired by Echo360 (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Atypon was acquired by John Wiley & Sons (Amount Paid: $120,000,000; News Link)

• Baker & Taylor was acquired by Follett (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Bitmaker was acquired by General Assembly (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• BrightWave Group was acquired by Capita (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC was acquired by Guardian Capital Partners (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Carvajal Education was acquired by PRISA (Amount Paid: $19,500,000; News Link)

• Chalkable was acquired by Powerschool (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Classbook was acquired by Follett (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Commonwealth Medical College was acquired by Geisinger Health Systems (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Compass Learning was acquired by Edgenuity (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Curriculet was acquired by Waterford Institute (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Decision Science Labs was acquired by Schoolzilla (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Dev Mountain was acquired by Capella Education (Amount Paid: $20,000,000; News Link)

• DevBridge was acquired by Bloc (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Digital Me was acquired by City & Guilds (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Duck Duck Moose was acquired by Khan Academy (Amount Paid: $1; News Link)

• Educuity was acquired by Certica Solutions (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Eduventures was acquired by National Research Center for College & University Admissions (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Ergopedia was acquired by Pasco Scientific (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Excent Corporation was acquired by Frontline Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• ExitCertified was acquired by Avnet (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• FinalSite was acquired by Bridge Growth Partners (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Fronteer was acquired by Blackboard (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• GL Education was acquired by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Gibbon was acquired by Degreed (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Glion Institute of Higher Education and Les Roches International School of Hotel Management was acquired by Eurazeo (Amount Paid: $384,000,000; News Link)

• Gradible was acquired by CommonBond (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Hackbright Academy was acquired by Capella Education (Amount Paid: $18,000,000; News Link)

• Haiku Learning was acquired by Powerschool (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Higher One was acquired by Providence Equity Partners (Amount Paid: $260,000,000; News Link)

• Hivebench was acquired by Elsevier (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• InOpen Technologies was acquired by Next Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Interactive Achievement was acquired by PowerSchool (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• International School of Europe Group was acquired by Inspired (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• LTS Education Systems was acquired by K-12 Inc (Amount Paid: $20,000,000; News Link)

• Lawroom was acquired by EverFi (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• LeYa Educacao was acquired by Escala Educacional (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• LeapFrog was acquired by VTECH (Amount Paid: $72,000,000; News Link)

• LearnSprout was acquired by Apple (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Learners Edge was acquired by L Squared Capital Partners (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Lexmark was acquired by Apex Technology (Amount Paid: $3,600,000,000; News Link)

• LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft (Amount Paid: $26,000,000,000; News Link)

• LivingTree was acquired by Dean Drako (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• LoudCloud Systems was acquired by Barnes & Noble (Amount Paid: $17,900,000; News Link)

• Makewaves was acquired by City & Guilds (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Manch was acquired by Toppr (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Mimio was acquired by Boxlight Corporation (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• MyChild was acquired by Brightwheel (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• New York Code and Design Academy was acquired by Strayer Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Ning was acquired by Unknown (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Open Study was acquired by Brainly (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• OpenEd was acquired by ACT (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• PAR (Framework) was acquired by Hobsons (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Papers was acquired by Readcube (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Participate Learning was acquired by VIF International Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Performance Matters was acquired by Weld North (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Pili Pop Labs was acquired by Unique Heritage Media (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Promoversity was acquired by Barnes & Noble Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• QuickEdmin was acquired by Ray Business Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• QuickLessons was acquired by Affero Labs (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Quiklabs was acquired by Google (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• RCL Benziger was acquired by Kendall Hunt Publishing (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Rainbow Early Education was acquired by Quad C (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Ranku was acquired by John Wiley & Sons (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Really Good Stuff, Inc was acquired by Excelligence Learning (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Red Marbles was acquired by Jouve (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Redbird Advance Learning was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Roberts and Company was acquired by Macmillan Learning (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Rustici Software was acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• SRB Education Services was acquired by PowerSchool (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• SSRN was acquired by Elsevier (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• School Website was acquired by Final Site (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Schoolie was acquired by Great Schools (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Sequoia Retail Systems was acquired by Blackboard (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Smart was acquired by FoxConn (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Starter League was acquired by Fullstack Academy (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Startup Weekend Education was acquired by Techstars (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• SteamTrax was acquired by Polar3D (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• SunGuard K-12 was acquired by PowerSchool (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• TIENET was acquired by PowerSchool (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• TalentBuddy was acquired by Udemy (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• TeacherGaming (MinecraftEDU) was acquired by Microsoft (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• TeacherMatch was acquired by PeopleAdmin (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Teachscape was acquired by Frontline Technologies (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• The Alpha School System was acquired by Volaris Group (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• The Centris Group was acquired by Frontline Technologies (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• The Foundry was acquired by Reclaim Hosting (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Think Through Learning was acquired by Imagine Learning (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Toca Boca was acquired by Spin Master (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Train Simple was acquired by Pluralsight (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• WebAssign was acquired by Cengage (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Wobo was acquired by Follett (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Words and Numbers was acquired by Wisewire (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• WriterKEY was acquired by Macmillan Learning (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Xiamen NetinNet Software was acquired by China Distance Education Holdings Limited (Amount Paid: $32,600,000; News Link)

• Xolvr was acquired by Next Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• Zaption was acquired by Workday (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• e3Learning was acquired by City & Guilds Group (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• eSPED.com was acquired by Frontline Education (Amount Paid: Undisclosed; News Link)

• 100Marks was acquired by Embibe (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• 3M's library division was acquired by Bibliotheca (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Acatar was acquired by The Learning House (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Affero Lab was acquired by Bertelsmann (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Affero Lab was acquired by World Bank IFC (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• AllClasses.com was acquired by Noodle (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Always Prepped was acquired by Alma (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Amplify was acquired by Joel Klein and other Amplify execs (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Bearface Instructional Technologies was acquired by Perceivant (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• BlikBook was acquired by Civitas Learning (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Blue Canary was acquired by Blackboard (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Boundless was acquired by Valore (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Brooks Institute was acquired by gphomestay (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Career Partner GmbH was acquired by Apollo Education (Amount Paid: $105,000,000; News Link)

• Chatmapper was acquired by Learnbrite (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Classmate was acquired by Harris School Solutions (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Classroom 24-7 was acquired by Rizk Ventures (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Clio Online was acquired by Bonnier Business Press (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Code School was acquired by Pluralsight (Amount Paid: $36,000,000; News Link)

• Cognitive Kid was acquired by Fingerprint (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Collegefeed was acquired by After College (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Courseload was acquired by Unizin (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Double Line Partners was acquired by Cross Street LLC (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Ellucian was acquired by TPG Capital (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Epigeum was acquired by Oxford University Press (Amount Paid: $16,600,000; News Link)

• Ex Libris was acquired by ProQuest (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Excelligence was acquired by Brentwood Associates (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• First Class was acquired by Kuepa (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• FirstLeap was acquired by TAL Education (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Gaokaopai was acquired by TAL Education Group (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• GradesFirst was acquired by The Advisory Board Company (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Hackhands was acquired by Pluralsight (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Helix Education's LMS was acquired by Ellucian (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Hibernia College UK was acquired by TES Global (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• InfoSnap was acquired by PowerSchool (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Inigral (Uversity) was acquired by TargetX (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Iron Yard was acquired by Apollo Education Group (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Kaplan Higher Education campuses was acquired by Education Corporation of America (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Langrich was acquired by EnglishCentral (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Launchpad Toys was acquired by Google (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Learning Express was acquired by EBSCO (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Learning Matters was acquired by Education Week (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Learning Objects was acquired by Cengage Learning (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• LendLayer was acquired by Affirm (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• LexisNexis was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing (Amount Paid: $2,080,000; News Link)

• Lynda.com was acquired by LinkedIn (Amount Paid: $1,500,000,000; News Link)

• MakerSquare was acquired by Hack Reactor (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Market Motive was acquired by Simplilearn (Amount Paid: $10,000,000; News Link)

• McGraw-Hill Education's testing business was acquired by Data Recognition Corporation (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Media Core was acquired by Work Day (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• MeeGenius was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Mobile Makers Academy was acquired by Hack Reactor (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• MyLibrary was acquired by Proquest (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• National Geographic was acquired by 21st Century Fox (Amount Paid: $725,000,000; News Link)

• Neodemia was acquired by Gutenberg Technology (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Newsflo was acquired by Elsevier (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Next University was acquired by Open English (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Nivel Siete was acquired by Blackboard (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• OASIS was acquired by Proquest (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Online Marketing Institute was acquired by Popexpert (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Overdrive was acquired by Rakuten (Amount Paid: $410,000,000; News Link)

• Pathbrite was acquired by Cengage Learning (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Pearson's Family Entertainment Network was acquired by Sandbox Partners (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Pleolabs was acquired by XSEED Education (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Popforms was acquired by Safari Media (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• PowerSchool was acquired by Vista Equity (Amount Paid: $350,000,000; News Link)

• ProctorCam was acquired by Pearson VUE (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Promethean was acquired by NetDragon (Amount Paid: $130,000,000; News Link)

• Quipper was acquired by Recruit Holdings, (Amount Paid: $39 million; News Link)

• Remote Learner UK was acquired by Blackboard (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• SIPX was acquired by Proquest (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Scholastic Corp (its ed-tech business) was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Amount Paid: $575,000,000; News Link)

• SchoolWires was acquired by Blackboard (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• SchoolYard was acquired by inRESONANCE (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Scribble Press was acquired by Fingerprint (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• SharpSchool was acquired by West Corporation (Amount Paid: $19,000,000; News Link)

• Smart Tuition was acquired by Blackbaud (Amount Paid: $190,000,000; News Link)

• Software Craftsmanship Guild was acquired by The Learning House (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Starfish Retention Systems was acquired by Hobsons (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Student Sync was acquired by Level Data (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• The Economist was acquired by The Agnelli Family (Amount Paid: $730,000,000; News Link)

• The Financial Times was acquired by Nikkei (Amount Paid: $1,300,000,000; News Link)

• UClass was acquired by Renaissance Learning (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• UP Global and the Startup Weekend franchise was acquired by Techstars (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Unijobs was acquired by TES Global (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Urban Planet Mobile was acquired by Sibling Group (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• Versifit Technologies was acquired by Atomic Learning (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• WeeJee Learning was acquired by Principled Technologies (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• X-Ray Analytics was acquired by Blackboard (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)

• bab.la was acquired by Oxford University Press (Amount Paid: undisclosed; News Link)