LRN Corp.

Leeds Equity Partners focuses on investment across the knowledge sector including education, training, business services and information services and software. Within education, the firm seeks investment opportunities related to preschool/pre-K, K-12, postsecondary, at-risk and special education, testing/assessment and instructional materials. Their interests within the training field include business skills, professional certification, regulation and compliance training and testing/assessment. Within the business services, they seek to invest in opportunities related to business-to-consumer information and services, business-to-business and professional publishing, professional information databases and research, human resources/business process outsourcing, consulting/staffing and logistics and distribution. Within information services and software, they focus on local software, enterprise software, technology services and sales, marketing and CRM.^^The firm invests in established companies that address high stakes challenges, have differentiated products and services, provide measurable outcomes, and have minimal intermediation by third parties. They partner with premier management teams and provide them access to world-class resources and patient capital to foster long-term value creation in businesses.^

Founder at LRN Corp.

SOFTBANK Capital Partners focuses on investments in high growth technology-based businesses that stand to benefit from the rapid deployment and adoption of broadband and mobile technologies. The firm targets investments in 3 general sectors including content, applications and technology-based services. They invest across all stages of a company's lifecycle; however, most of their investments are made in companies at or near revenue with commercially available technologies. SOFTBANK Capital Partners seeks to invest in companies with experienced management teams. Their objective is to own a significant minority interest in each of their portfolio companies and hold one or more board seats.