Knowledge Above Standard Competitors

Connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 450 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 197 million registered learners as of December 31, 2025. Coursera partners with over 375 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including generative AI-powered features like Coach, Role Play, and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Informa champions specialists working in academic and business-to-business markets, connecting people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more. We’re a leading international events, digital services and academic knowledge business, headquartered in the UK and a member of the UK’s FTSE 100 group of public companies. We’re also home to a fantastic, inclusive community of over 14,000 colleagues across 30 countries, and a place where our colleagues have the freedom and flexibility to bring ideas to life, do work that makes a real impact and discover opportunities to grow. Our businesses include Informa Markets, Informa TechTarget, Informa Connect, Informa Festivals and Taylor & Francis, but if you work in one of the specialist markets we serve, you might also know us through our brands. In Pharma, Medical and Biotech, that includes WHX Dubai, CPHI and EBD; in Tech, Enterprise Connect, AI Summit, Black Hat and GDC; in Natural Products, New Hope Network, Vitafoods and Natural Products Expo; in Beauty & Aesthetics, China Beauty Expo and Premier Beauty; in Finance, SuperReturn International, Money20/20, Finovate and IGM; in Research and Advanced Learning, Routledge and F1000; and many more brands in more markets too.