Sector
Lifestyle & Learning

Location
Dallas, TX

Employees
40

Revenue
$110 Million

Web Site
www.voyagerlearning.com

Voyager Expanded Learning
Dallas-based Voyager Expanded Learning is the leading provider of extended-time reading intervention and adventure-based programs in America's public schools. Following two years of research and a year of field-testing, Voyager began a national rollout in September of 1997. In less than three years, Voyager's research-based learning systems were operating in more than 1,000 of the nation's largest school districts across forty-five states.

A team of more than 150 public school educators, researchers, and curriculum writers now comprise the Voyager organization. Voyager's three key content partners for its reading and adventure-based curricula are the Smithsonian Institution, Discovery Channel, and NASA.

Rob Holmes, Founding Partner for Black Knight Partners, LP, contributed to the start-up funding and business development of the company in 1995 and continues to manage a group of early stage investors in the company.

Results: Sold shares to return 17x original investment.