Carnegie Learning Acquires Scientific Learning Corporation
September 14, 2020
An affiliate of Carnegie Learning acquired Scientific Learning Corporation in an all-cash merger valued at approximately $15 million. The acquisition makes Scientific Learning a privately owned subsidiary of Carnegie Learning and is intended to strengthen Carnegie Learning's digital literacy and neuroscience-based literacy product offerings for K-12, clinicians and direct-to-consumer channels.
- Buyers
- Carnegie Learning, Inc.
- Targets
- Scientific Learning Corporation
- Sellers
- Scientific Learning Corporation security holders
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- California, United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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