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Yuanfudao is China's leading platform for live online courses targeting primary and secondary school students. It delivers comprehensive curricula covering English, Mathematical Olympiad, and full-subject secondary programs through sessions led by nationally recognized teachers. Founded in 2012, the service enables home-based tutoring with interactive online features for students across the country.

UK-listed Pearson is a testing and educational provider. Pearson's primary operations are in assessment and qualification testing and higher education, but they also provide English education and testing, virtual learning, prehiring testing and screening, and upskilling/reskilling. The company divested noncore businesses, including the Financial Times, The Economist, and publishing house Penguin, and is now focused on being an educational resource and testing provider.

New Oriental Education & Technology is a prominent private education provider in China, offering a wide array of educational services. These include overseas test preparation and consulting services, high school academic tutoring, nonacademic tutoring, and intelligent learning systems and devices. Additionally, the company holds a 57% ownership stake in East Buy, a leading player in the livestreaming e-commerce market.

Duolingo Inc is a technology company that develops a mobile learning platform to learn languages and is the top-grossing app in the Education category on both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Its products are powered by sophisticated data analytics and artificial intelligence and delivered with class art, animation, and design to make it easier for learners to stay motivated master new material, and achieve their learning goals. Its solutions include the Duolingo Language Learning App, Super Duolingo, Duolingo English Test: AI-Driven Language Assessment, Duolingo For Schools, Duolingo ABC, and Duolingo Math. It has four predominant sources of revenue; time-based subscriptions, in-app advertising placement by third parties, and the Duolingo English Test, and In-App Purchases.

TAL Education Group is a smart learning solutions provider in China. It operates a few business lines including enrichment learning, high school academic tutoring, learning technology, and content solutions. Among those business lines, TAL focuses on enrichment learning and content solutions.

Laureate Education Inc is an international community of universities. The company provides higher education programs and services to students through an international network of licensed universities and higher education institutions. Its geographical segments include Peru and Mexico.

Graham Holdings Company is a diversified holding company with operations spanning educational services, television broadcasting, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive dealerships, and other businesses. The Company's education activities are conducted through Kaplan, whose services include academic preparation programs for international students, English-language programs, exam preparation, and career and academic advisement. These services are provided to students, schools, and colleges, both domestically and outside the United States. It operates through seven reportable segments: Kaplan International, Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan Supplemental Education, Television Broadcasting, CSI, Manufacturing and Automotive, with key revenue coming from the Education and Automotive segments.

Guild is a Denver-headquartered education platform partnering with major U.S. employers to deliver upskilling programs for their workforce. It provides access to online courses, bootcamps, and associate degrees from partners including Coursera and Simplilearn, targeting career advancement in tech, healthcare, and business fields. Walmart, Disney, and Lowe's utilize Guild's services to support employee tuition assistance. The platform features AI-driven career coaching and progress tracking tools. Launched in 2015, Guild has expanded to serve over 2,000 organizations across North America.

Adtalem Global Education is a Chicago-headquartered provider of postsecondary education in healthcare, business, and technology fields. It oversees institutions like Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, DeVry University, and Becker Professional Education, enrolling students in nursing, medical, accounting, and IT programs across the United States, Caribbean, and Brazil.

Grand Canyon Education Inc is a publicly traded education services company dedicated to serving colleges and universities. GCE's university partner is Grand Canyon University, an Arizona non-profit corporation that operates a comprehensive regionally accredited university that offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, emphases, and certificates across nine colleges, both online and on the ground at its campus in Phoenix, Arizona, and at four off-site classroom andlaboratory sites. The Company generates all of its revenue through service agreements with its university partners.

FibraEduca Management SC invests in real estate opportunities in the education sector. The company seeks investment opportunities in the education sector with administrative efficiency to generate returns to investors.

GoStudent is a Vienna-headquartered online tutoring platform operating in 15 European countries with virtual classrooms for primary through college students in math, languages, and sciences. Tutors deliver one-on-one video sessions using integrated whiteboards and screen sharing, booking over 400,000 lessons monthly.

Stride Inc is an American online educational company. It offers alternative programs to traditional on-campus schooling. It also operates state-funded virtual charter schools around the United States. The educational programs for K-12 students are usually monitored by parents and provide virtual classroom environments where teachers meet with students online, by phone, or in-person. The company's contractual agreements with various school districts to offer its curriculum programs provide a majority of the company's revenue. The company lines of business are Managed Public School Programs, Institutional and Private Pay Schools and Other.

East Buy Holding Ltd is a live-streaming platform that focuses on selecting premium products for customers. The company operates in three reportable segments: Private Label Products and Livestreaming E-Commerce, College Education, and Institutional Customers. The majority of its revenue comes from private label products and the direct e-commerce segment, i.e., direct online commerce with private label products sold to individual customers and providing commission services.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc provider of early education and child care, family care solutions, and workforce education services that help working families and client employees personally and professionally. It provides services under multi-year contracts with employers that offer early education and child care, back-up care, and educational advisory services as part of their employee benefits package. The company has three business segments; full-service center-based child care, backup care, and educational advisory services. The majority of the revenue is generated by full-service center-based child care, which includes traditional center-based child care and early education services. Other services provided by the company include in-home child and elder care, and Others.

Eruditus Executive Education is a Singapore-headquartered platform partnering with universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, UC Berkeley, NUS, and HKUST to deliver online and blended executive programs. Founded in 2010, it has offices in six countries and offers courses in multiple languages including Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin to participants from over 80 countries.

Age of Learning is a Glendale-headquartered education technology company offering digital programs for children. Its ABCmouse Early Learning Academy provides comprehensive curricula for ages 2-8, while My Math Academy and My Reading Academy deliver adaptive math and literacy instruction. Over 50 million children worldwide have completed more than 11 billion activities on its platforms.

Outschool is an online learning marketplace linking children aged 3-18 with independent teachers for live virtual classes. San Francisco-headquartered and founded in 2015, it hosts over 140,000 classes weekly in subjects from robotics to Shakespeare across 200 countries. Teachers include certified educators and specialists delivering small-group sessions via Zoom, with parental controls for scheduling.