Bri Holt

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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 2020, Mr. Holt was issued a patent entitled Hyperpiler. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Mitroff, Sarah (May 2, 2013). "High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later". VentureBeat.
  2. ↑ Empson, Rip (February 9, 2014). "McGraw-Hill Buys Engrade For ~$50M As It Moves Away From Textbooks, Towards A Future Of SaaS". TechCrunch.
  3. ↑ "Check for bookmarks with SocialMeter". TechCrunch.com. August 19, 2006. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ Strange, Adario (April 4, 2007). "The Truthiness Of Viacom's Lawsuit". Wired.com. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  5. ↑ USGranted 7930391,Brian Holt,"Method and system for determining viewing time of an online video",published April 19, 2011,issued 2011-04-19, assigned to Visible Measures Corp.
  6. ↑ Gannes, Liz (January 2, 2007). "Where to Find Good Video: Vidmeter". GigaOm. Archived from the original on May 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ Strange, Adario (April 5, 2007). "Vidmeter NOT In Bed With MTV". WIRED.
  8. ↑ Pash, Adam (January 17, 2007). "Keep up with online video at Vidmeter". Lifehacker.
  9. ↑ Carl, Bialik (January 5, 2007). "Counting Internet Users Remains a Guessing Game (Paywalled)". WSJ.
  10. ↑ Cashmore, Pete (February 18, 2007). "Vidmeter Tracker: Track Videos on MySpace, YouTube, Metacafe". Mashable.
  11. ↑ Weisenthal, Joseph (January 28, 2008). "Visible Measures Gets $13.5 Million Second Round; Acquires Vidmeter For Video Tracking". PaidContent.org.
  12. ↑ USGranted 10853062,Brian Holt,"Hyperpiler",published December 1, 2020,issued 2020-12-01, assigned to Holtworks, LLC


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