M&A Deal Summary

2U Acquires Trilogy Education Services

On April 8, 2019, 2U acquired education company Trilogy Education Services for 750M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is 2U’s 2nd transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is 2U’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is 2U’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is 2U’s 1st transaction in New York.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2019-04-08
Target Trilogy Education Services
Sector Education
Buyer(s) 2U
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 750M USD
Advisor(s) Morgan Stanley (Financial)

Target

Trilogy Education Services

New York, New York, United States
Trilogy Education Services, Inc. is a workforce accelerator partnered with universities to create and manage skills-based training programs. Trilogy Education Services is based in New York.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

2U

Lanham, Maryland, United States

Category Company
Founded 2008
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees2,961
Revenue 946M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

2U is a provider of cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology and technology-enabled services, 2U provides schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure they need to attract, enroll, educate and support students globally. 2U was founded in 2008 and is based in Lanham, Maryland.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 4
Sector (Education) 2 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 4
State (New York) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 2 of 3
Year (2019) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-06-21 CritiqueIt

Long Beach, California, United States

CritiqueIt, Inc. is a manufacturer of digital annotation tool. Critique It LTI turns any assignment into a peer review environment. If you use an LMS, Critique^It can plugin to provide multi-modal text, audio, video annotation on documents, images, presentations, audio and video files. CritiqueIt, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Long Beach, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-06-29 edX

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

edX is the education movement for restless learners. The company brought over 39 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world, and industry-leading companies onto one online learning platform that supports learners at every stage. edX was formed in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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