Update: Jeez – sorry about the multiple typos (mistakenly showed in thousands instead of millions). Fixed now.
Pitchbook – a database service for M&A, private equity and venture capital – listed in Hot Topics what they saw as the top ten most valuable ed tech companies based on public valuations ((Note that estimates are as of the end of 2014.)). The definition of startup is a little loose, as one company (D2L) was founded in 1999 and public companies are excluded.
Below are the market valuation estimates, to which I have added the year each company was founded along with the total funding by each company in parentheses, according to Crunchbase data.
Company (year founded, funding total) Market Valuation
- Pluralsight (2004, $169m) $1.0 billion
- Instructure (2008, $79m) $554 million
- Lynda.com (1995, $289m) $456 million
- Coursera (2012, $85m) $367 million
- Open English (2006, $120m) $350 million
- Craftsy (2010, $106m) $339 million
- D2L (1999, $165m) $330 million
- Lumos Labs (2005, $68m) $265 million
- Clever (2012, $44m) $247 million
- Edmodo (2008, $88m) $236 million