Bri Holt

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]

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. US Granted 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.
  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. US Granted 10853062, Brian Holt, "Hyperpiler", published December 1, 2020, issued 2020-12-01, assigned to Holtworks, LLC


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