Bri Holt
Bri Holt | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Internet Entrepreneur, Inventor |
| Known for | Founding Engrade and Vidmeter |
Bri Holt is an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding Engrade, a Santa Monica-based education technology startup. Holt founded Engrade in 2003 as a high school student trying to build a way for his own teachers to share students' grades online. Engrade was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education in January 2014.
In 2006, Holt founded SocialMeter, the first social media analytics service. In 2007, SocialMeter was acquired by AdaptiveBlue, a startup backed by venture capital firm Union Square Ventures.
In 2007, Holt pioneered the new field of viral video analytics, patenting a method for determining Internet video viewing time. Holt founded Vidmeter, an online video analytics platform, later acquired by Visible Measures in January 2008.
In 2020, Holt was issued a patent entitled Hyperpiler.
In 2025, Holt developed a knowledge graph query language called Memelang.
References
- ↑ Mitroff, Sarah (May 2, 2013). "High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later". VentureBeat.
- ↑ Empson, Rip (February 9, 2014). "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. August 19, 2006. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
- ↑ Strange, Adario (April 4, 2007). "The Truthiness Of Viacom's Lawsuit". Wired.com. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
- ↑ US Granted 7930391, Brian Holt, "Method and system for determining viewing time of an online video", published April 19, 2011, issued April 19, 2011, assigned to Visible Measures Corp.
- ↑ Gannes, Liz (January 2, 2007). "Where to Find Good Video: Vidmeter". GigaOm. Archived from the original on May 19, 2014.
- ↑ Strange, Adario (April 5, 2007). "Vidmeter NOT In Bed With MTV". WIRED. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
- ↑ Pash, Adam (January 17, 2007). "Keep up with online video at Vidmeter". Lifehacker.
- ↑ Carl, Bialik (January 5, 2007). "Counting Internet Users Remains a Guessing Game (Paywalled)". WSJ.
- ↑ Cashmore, Pete (February 18, 2007). "Vidmeter Tracker: Track Videos on MySpace, YouTube, Metacafe". Mashable.
- ↑ Weisenthal, Joseph (January 28, 2008). "Visible Measures Gets $13.5 Million Second Round; Acquires Vidmeter For Video Tracking". PaidContent.org.
- ↑ US Granted 10853062, Brian Holt, "Hyperpiler", published December 1, 2020, issued December 1, 2020, assigned to Holtworks, LLC
- ↑ Holt, Bri (March 1, 2025). "Memelang v3". Retrieved March 3, 2025. https://memelang.net/
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