Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires Pivot Interactives
Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education, a world edtech firm backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (along with its associates, “Clearlake”), introduced it has acquired Minneapolis, MN-based Pivot Interactives SBC. Led by a workforce of science academics, practitioners, and college students, Pivot Interactives develops dynamic cloud-based actions and labs that actively interact college students within the genuine exploration of actual scientific phenomena. Phrases weren’t disclosed.
The acquisition of Pivot Interactives helps Discovery Schooling’s mission to arrange learners for tomorrow by creating progressive lecture rooms related to right now’s world. Pivot Interactives will complement Discovery Schooling’s different profitable digital companies supporting science training, which embody Discovery Education’s K-12 platform, Mystery Science, the Science Techbook series, and STEM Connect.
Pivot Interactives is Discovery Schooling’s second acquisition this month, having additionally acquired DoodleLearning.
“Discovery Schooling empowers academics and evokes college students worldwide by digital content material delivered on our platform,” stated Discovery Schooling Chief Government Officer Scott Kinney. “Not like different digital interactives available on the market, Pivot Interactives explores ideas utilizing real-life experiments, not animations, permitting academics to incorporate phenomena-based studying at any stage of the training cycle. By means of our acquisition of Pivot Interactives, Discovery Schooling is now higher positioned to broaden our affect by offering our companion faculty techniques entry to phenomena-based, energetic studying instruments.”
Peter Bohacek, Chief Government Officer of Pivot and physics trainer, and Matthew Vonk, Chief Science Officer for Pivot and physics professor, based Pivot Interactives by creating a library of interactive video-based actions funded partly by a grant from the Nationwide Science Basis. The co-founders started working with their very own college students to develop direct measurement movies that enable academics and college students to interrupt out of classroom constraints.
Now, academics worldwide are utilizing Pivot Interactives to interact over 1 million college students with phenomena and science practices. Underneath the Discovery Schooling household of companies, Pivot Interactives’ award-winning platform will proceed innovating to revolutionize science training.
“We’re thrilled to be becoming a member of the Discovery Schooling household,” stated Mr. Bohacek. “Again in 2012, I started to experiment with integrating interactive video into my classroom observe. The outcomes have been so promising, I used to be compelled to proceed to discover develop the potential of interactive video and that led to the founding of Pivot Interactives. I’m enthusiastic about this subsequent chapter and the chance to scale the affect of those sources.”
“The Pivot Interactives workforce shares Discovery Schooling’s mission to arrange all learners for future success, and I imagine that as a part of Discovery Schooling we will likely be in a fair higher place to enhance science training throughout the nation and world wide,” stated Mr. Vonk. “Echoing Peter’s sentiments, we’re excited to hitch Discovery Schooling.”
For extra details about Discovery Schooling’s award-winning digital sources {and professional} studying companies, go to www.discoveryeducation.com, and keep related with Discovery Schooling on social media by Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Discovery Schooling
Discovery Schooling is the worldwide edtech chief whose state-of-the-art digital platform helps studying wherever it takes place. By means of its award-winning multimedia content material, tutorial helps, and progressive classroom instruments, Discovery Schooling helps educators ship equitable studying experiences partaking all college students and supporting greater educational achievement on a world scale. Discovery Schooling serves roughly 4.5 million educators and 45 million college students worldwide, and its sources are accessed in over 100 international locations and territories. Impressed by the worldwide media firm Discovery, Inc., Discovery Schooling companions with districts, states, and trusted organizations to empower academics with main edtech options that assist the success of all learners. Discover the way forward for training at www.discoveryeducation.com.
About Clearlake
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an funding agency based in 2006 working built-in companies throughout personal fairness, credit score, and different associated methods. With a sector-focused method, the agency seeks to companion with administration groups by offering affected person, long-term capital to companies that may profit from Clearlake’s operational enchancment method, O.P.S.® The agency’s core goal sectors are know-how, industrials, and shopper. Clearlake at the moment has over $72 billion of belongings beneath administration, and its senior funding principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The agency is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with associates in Dallas, TX, London, UK and Dublin, Eire. Extra data is accessible at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.
