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PowerSchool and EAB to Acquire Hobsons’ Products
On February 18, 2021, the edtech world learned that parts of Hobsons were about to be dismantled and sold to two companies. Naviance and Intersect products will soon be part of the PowerSchool portfolio, an acquisition marked at $320 million, while Starfish will be transferred to EAB for about $90 million. In one of our…
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Campus Management and Edcentric are purchased by Veritas Capital
Campus Management and Edcentric have very little product overlap, but they complement each other in that they are positioned to help higher education institutions improve their overall efficacy in providing platforms that could potentially respond to the institutions’ needs in regard to robust organizational systems.
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Possible Sale of Ellucian: Brief History of One of the Biggest HigherEd Tech Company
With the recent news that “TPG and Leonard Green & Partners are gearing up to sell Ellucian Software”, we wanted to have a closer look at its history, its market share and its positioning in the HigherEd market. Not only is Ellucian a large HigherEd player, but it is also the largest HigherEd technology company…
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PowerSchool acquires Schoology: the K-12 landscape is changing
On October 24, it was announced that PowerSchool signed an agreement to acquire Schoology. Let’s have a closer look at this soon-to-be purchase transaction to see how the companies will benefit from this acquisition. First, let’s outline the profiles of PowerSchool and Schoology. Founded in 1997, PowerSchool is known to offer a comprehensive K-12 student…
