Bri Holt Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Sarah. Mitroff. High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later. VentureBeat. May 2, 2013.
  2. News: Rip. Empson. McGraw-Hill Buys Engrade For ~$50M As It Moves Away From Textbooks, Towards A Future Of SaaS. TechCrunch. February 9, 2014.
  3. News: Check for bookmarks with SocialMeter . August 19, 2006 . TechCrunch.com . June 7, 2020.
  4. News: The Truthiness Of Viacom's Lawsuit . April 4, 2007 . Wired.com . June 7, 2020 . Adario . Strange.
  5. US. 7930391. Granted. Method and system for determining viewing time of an online video . April 19, 2011. 2011-04-19. 2007-05-03. Brian Holt. Brian Holt. Visible Measures Corp..
  6. News: Gannes . Liz . January 2, 2007 . Where to Find Good Video: Vidmeter . GigaOm . https://web.archive.org/web/20140519040657/https://gigaom.com/2007/01/02/where-to-find-good-video-vidmeter/ . 2014-05-19.
  7. News: Strange . Adario . April 5, 2007 . Vidmeter NOT In Bed With MTV . WIRED . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402174931/https://www.wired.com/2007/04/vidmeter_not_in/ . 2015-04-02.
  8. News: Adam. Pash. Keep up with online video at Vidmeter. Lifehacker. January 17, 2007.
  9. News: Bialik. Carl. Counting Internet Users Remains a Guessing Game (Paywalled). WSJ. January 5, 2007.
  10. News: Pete. Cashmore. Vidmeter Tracker: Track Videos on MySpace, YouTube, Metacafe. Mashable. February 18, 2007.
  11. News: Joseph. Weisenthal. Visible Measures Gets $13.5 Million Second Round; Acquires Vidmeter For Video Tracking . PaidContent.org. January 28, 2008.
  12. US. 10853062. Granted. Hyperpiler. December 1, 2020. 2020-12-01. 2019-07-02. Brian Holt. Brian Holt. Holtworks, LLC.

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