Rob Abel

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

VitalSource Technologies LLC provides online textbooks and course materials. It is a platform for institutions, campus stores, publishers and companies to create and deliver educational and training content. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Internet2 is a non-profit, member-driven advanced technology community founded by the nation's leading higher education institutions in 1996. The private company is based in Ann Arbor, MI and has subsidiaries in the United States. Internet2 serves 333 universities, 58 government agencies, 46 regional and state education networks, and through them supports more than 80,000 community anchor institutions, over 1,000 incommon participants, 57 leading corporations working with their community, and 70 national research and education network operators that represent more than 100 countries. Internet2 delivers a diverse portfolio of technology solutions that leverages, integrates, and amplifies the strengths of its members and helps support their educational, research, and community service missions. Internet2's core infrastructure components include the nation's largest and fastest research and education network that was built to deliver advanced, customized services that are accessed and secured by the community-developed trust and identity framework.