Rick Johnson

Blackboard, Inc. provides software applications and related services to the education industry. The firm offers recruitment, student success, and consulting services. Its services are utilized by academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, and universities. The company was founded by Michael L. Chasen, Daniel E. Cane, Stephen Gilfus and Matthew L. Pittinsky in 1997 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

MetaMetrics, Inc. engages in development of scientific measures of academic achievement and complementary technologies. It offers training, resource measurement, and customized consulting services. The company was founded by A. Jackson Stenner and Malbert Smith III in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Lohika Systems, Inc. provides software engineering services to technology companies. It specializes in web and enterprise applications, cloud technology, mobile applications and quality assurance engineering services. The company was founded by Nataliya Riabokon, Volodymyr Riabokon and Lonhyn Jasinskyj in 2001 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

MarkLogic Corp. provides enterprise NoSQL database platform. Its services include architecture validation and evaluation service, center of excellence service, marklogic deployment accelerator for hadoop and marklogic mentorship services. The company was founded by Paul Carsten Pedersen and Christopher Lindblad in 2001 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Cardinal Venture Capital is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000.The Firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Lumen Learning LLC develops digital course materials that replace expensive textbooks. It helps educational institutions to reduce textbook costs, reinvigorate pedagogy, and improve student success using open educational resources and learning analytics. The firm?s courses include biology, economics, sociology and mathematics. The company was founded by Kim Thanos and David Wiley in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

TL Ventures Inc (TL Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. founded in 1988 by Robert Keith. The firm is headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides financial, organizational, and legal support to the open source geospatial community. The non-profit company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The foundation is an independent legal entity that allows community members to contribute code, funding, and other resources.

HelioCampus, Inc. develops business-intelligence platform for education services. It offers student analytics, financial analytics, and advancement analytics. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Pamlico Capital Management LP (Pamlico Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Frederick W. Eubank II, Watts L. Hamrick III and Scott Bullock Perper. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

AEFIS, Inc. is a web-based assessment management platform that facilitates the collection and application of real-time assessment data. It provides SaaS solution platform. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. provides private education to preschools, elementary, and middle schools. It also operates as an accredited private online school, offering programs for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The firm also offers summer camp programs including sports and games, swimming, field trips, arts and crafts, science, and nature. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in West Chester, PA.

Safari Books Online LLC operates as an online library for technology, digital media and business professionals. The company was founded by Timothy F. O'Reilly and is headquartered in Sebastopol, CA.

Part of Advance Publications, Inc., Vericite, Inc. provides software services to the educational sector. Vericite was acquired by Turnitin LLC, part of Advance Publications, Inc. from April 30, 2019 on February 09, 2018.

Appvance, Inc. develops mobile web applications performance solutions. It offers training and support, application performance certification, integration development, and on-site and online training services to large enterprises worldwide. The firm's solutions include performance & load testing, app pen testing and IoT services testing. The company was founded by Frank Cohen in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Ellucian Co. LP engages in the provision of higher education software and services. It offers a portfolio of cloud-ready technology solutions and services to colleges and universities, such as enterprise resource planning and student information systems; constituent relationship management; and integration and analytics. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Instructure, Inc. is an education technology company, which develops software technology for institutes. The firm specializes in learning management systems, education platform, employee engagement, and corporate learning. It develops, delivers, manages, and tracks engaging academic and employee development programs. The company was founded by Devlin Daley and Brian C. Whitmer on September 18, 2008 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Penn Foster Education Group, Inc. provides distance learning courses. The firm offers coaching and support to students through academic, professional and personal support from its faculty, student services team and online student community. The company was founded by Thomas J. Foster in 1890 and is headquartered in Scranton, PA.

McGraw-Hill Education, Inc. publishes and distributes educational content, software and services. The firm operates through four segments: Higher Education, K-12, International and Professional. The higher education segment relates to the development of product across all disciplines, the K-12 segment relates to content development and the international segment relates to locally developed products or adaptations and translations of existing higher education, K-12 and professional products in both digital and print format. The professional segment relates to new titles and revisions, similar to the higher education segment, and include activities related to the creation of the actual product. The company was founded by James Hill McGraw in 1888 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Academic Merit LLC engages in providing e-learning services. It specializes in literacy, writing, professional development, assessment and reading. The company was founded by Ogden Morse and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Software & Information Industry Association, Inc. operates as a business association for the software and information industry. The firm investigates and prosecutes companies accused of using software or content illegally. It provides services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Online Learning Consortium, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides online learning services to professional development instructions and educators. It offers consulting services, signature conferences and networking events, professional development, and research and publications. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newburyport, MA.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Pearson Education, Inc. publishes educational and professional books. Its brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Confluence is a technology solutions provider that specializes in helping the investment management industry solve complex data challenges. The private company is based in Pittsburgh, PA, and has subsidiaries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The American company offers a range of services, from portfolio analytics to compliance and regulatory solutions, using the latest technology to meet the evolving needs of their clients. Confluence was founded in 1998 by Yorgo Bougás.

Aberdeen Content LLC engages in the provision of intent-based marketing and sales solutions. It also offers advices and solutions for the technology driven value chain, businesses and technology executives. The company was founded by by Peter S. Kastner in 1988 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Tennessee Community Ventures LLC (Tennessee Community Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Eric Satz. The firm is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Express KCS, Inc. provides advertising production, pre-media and digital production services. It offers media-related back office functions, including creative design, advertising production, copy development and editing, multimedia publishing, image editing, packaging prepress, metadata management and manipulation, premedia, and Web-based technology solutions. The company’s solutions include creative production, print ad production, rich media, adaptation and transcreation, packaging, imaging, video post production, editorial services and digital editions. The firm was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Milford, CT.

OneMarketData LLC provides data management solutions. The firm?s products include onetick time-series tick database, onetick event stream processing and onetick cloud. Its solutions include quantitative research, algo trading, market surveillance, backtesting strategy software service, transaction cost analysis, managed content, enterprise data warehousing, best Ex and MiFID II. The company was founded by Leonid Frants in 2004 and is headquartered in Hoboken, NJ.

Panopto, Inc. develops video capture and management software to corporate and academic institutions. It creates software that enables businesses and academic institutions to import, record, share, and view searchable video presentations in minutes from any device. The company was founded in 2007 by Eric Burns, William L. Guttman and William L. Scherlis and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

SureLogic, Inc. develops source code analysis tools for java developers. It provides source code diagnostics, refactoring, technology integration, developer training, and software supply chain consulting. The company was founded by William L. Scherlis in 2006 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Nth Degree Software, Inc. provides software solutions. It designs, develops, markets and supports publication planning and cost modeling software packages. The company was founded by Dennis J. Heindl in 1999 and is headquartered in Greendale, WI.

Confluence Technologies, Inc. provides investment data management automation solutions. Its services include implementation, training, consulting, custom development, business support, technical support, performance reporting outsourcing service (PROS), price distribution and index reporting. The company was founded by Mark S. Evans in 1991 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.