Operating Company Education

IXL Learning

San Mateo, California, United States

At IXL Learning, we develop an award-winning personalized learning platform used by more than 17 million students worldwide. IXL provides a comprehensive K-12 curriculum with individualized guidance and real-time analytics, and it operates a family of education brands including Rosetta Stone, TeachersPayTeachers, Education.com, Wyzant, Vocabulary.com, SpanishDictionary.com, and ABCya.

Focus Areas
K-12 Curriculum Publishing, Personalized learning platforms, Language learning
Website
ixl.com

Tracked deals

10

10 tracked deals across 2020-2025.

Recent pace

0

0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

9 buyout · 1 divestiture

IXL Learning Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 6 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 6 years for IXL Learning. 1 2020 2 2021 2 2022 1 2023 2 2024 2 2025

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning has acquired Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, a Monterey-based creator of PreK–8 workbooks and instructional resources. The acquisition expands IXL's content offerings and strengthens its reach into print and digital K–8 curriculum resources and subscription services for teachers and families.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    MyTutor
    Industry
    Education
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning has acquired U.K.-based one-on-one tutoring provider MyTutor; terms were not disclosed. The deal is IXL's first acquisition of a company headquartered outside the United States and expands its tutoring capabilities and European presence, adding MyTutor's network used by hundreds of thousands of families and a large portion of U.K. secondary schools.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Carson Dellosa Education
    Seller
    Guardian Capital Partners
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning has acquired Carson Dellosa Education, the market-leading publisher of K–8 supplemental educational products, workbooks, and classroom resources. The purchase, from Guardian Capital Partners, expands IXL's print product portfolio and complements its digital K–12 learning platforms to offer a broader mix of physical and digital resources for teachers, students, and families.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning has acquired Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com to expand its portfolio of language and literacy products, strengthening its position in education technology. The acquisition brings widely used online reference platforms (serving roughly 40 million monthly users) into IXL's family of brands, including Rosetta Stone and Vocabulary.com.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Teachers Pay Teachers
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning, the San Mateo–based developer of personalized learning products, has acquired Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), the world’s largest marketplace of educator-created content. The acquisition expands IXL’s portfolio of education brands and enhances its ability to connect PK–12 educators and schools with teacher-created instructional resources and subscription offerings.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Emmersion
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning, the San Mateo-based education technology company, has acquired Emmersion, a Lehi, Utah-based developer of AI-powered language assessments. The deal expands IXL's language and literacy offerings by integrating Emmersion's automated speaking, writing and placement assessments into IXL's portfolio of products including Rosetta Stone and Vocabulary.com.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Curiosity Media
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning, the San Mateo–based education technology company, has acquired Curiosity Media, the maker of SpanishDict, inglés.com and Fluencia. The deal expands IXL's language-learning portfolio—complementing Rosetta Stone and other assets—and aims to accelerate Curiosity Media's growth and reach.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Rosetta Stone Languages
    Seller
    Cambium Learning Group
    Industry
    Education

    Cambium Learning Group has agreed to sell Rosetta Stone’s Languages division to IXL Learning in a divestiture intended to streamline Cambium’s K‑12 portfolio and allow IXL to expand its personalized learning offerings to include Rosetta Stone’s language products. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Wyzant
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning has agreed to acquire Wyzant, the Chicago-based online tutoring marketplace, in a deal expected to close in Q1 2021. The acquisition brings Wyzant’s network of tens of thousands of tutors into IXL’s K–12 personalized learning platform to expand one-on-one mentoring and broader learning capabilities; Lazard served as exclusive financial advisor to Wyzant.

  • Buyer
    IXL Learning
    Target
    Vocabulary.com
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    IXL Learning announced on March 10, 2020 that it has acquired Vocabulary.com, a personalized vocabulary and literacy platform. The deal expands IXL’s K-12 offering by adding Vocabulary.com's adaptive vocabulary instruction and content used by schools, teachers and students worldwide.

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