Bri Holt
Bri Holt is an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding Engrade, a Santa Monica-based education technology startup. Mr. Holt founded Engrade in 2003 as a high school student trying to build a way for his own teachers to share students' grades online.[1] Engrade was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education in January 2014.[2]
In 2006, Mr. Holt founded SocialMeter, the first social media analytics service.[3]. In 2007, SocialMeter was acquired by AdaptiveBlue, a startup backed by venture capital firm Union Square Ventures.[4]
In 2007, Mr. Holt pioneered the new field of viral video analytics, patenting[5] a method for determining Internet video viewing time. Mr. Holt founded Vidmeter, an online video analytics platform, later acquired by Visible Measures in January 2008.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
In 2018, Mr. Holt registered the Holtdex Fund hedge fund with the SEC, no details on the fund are disclosed.[12]
References
- ^ Mitroff, Sarah (2013-05-02). "High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later". VentureBeat.
- ^ Empson, Rip (2014-02-09). "McGraw-Hill Buys Engrade For ~$50M As It Moves Away From Textbooks, Towards A Future Of SaaS". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Check for bookmarks with SocialMeter". TechCrunch.com. 2006-08-19. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- ^ Strange, Adario (2007-04-04). "The Truthiness Of Viacom's Lawsuit". Wired.com. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- ^ US Granted 7930391, Brian Holt, "Method and system for determining viewing time of an online video", published 2011-04-19, issued 2011-04-19, assigned to Visible Measures Corp
- ^ Gannes, Liz (2007-01-02). "Where to Find Good Video: Vidmeter". GigaOm.
- ^ Strange, Adario (2007-04-05). "Vidmeter NOT In Bed With MTV". WIRED.
- ^ Pash, Adam (2007-01-17). "Keep up with online video at Vidmeter". Lifehacker.
- ^ Carl, Bialik (2007-01-05). "Counting Internet Users Remains a Guessing Game (Paywalled)". WSJ.
- ^ Cashmore, Pete (2007-02-18). "Vidmeter Tracker: Track Videos on MySpace, YouTube, Metacafe". Mashable.
- ^ Weisenthal, Joseph (2008-01-28). "Visible Measures Gets $13.5 Million Second Round; Acquires Vidmeter For Video Tracking". PaidContent.org.
- ^ "SEC FORM D". SEC.gov. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
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