Thoma Cressey

Investments: Education Portfolio

Current Investments

  • Excelligence Learning Corporation
    Monterey, CA
    Ron Elliott, Chairman
    Kelly Crampton, CEO
    Excelligence is a leading developer, manufacturer and retailer of educational products sold to child care programs, preschools, elementary schools and consumers by catalog, online and through a field sales force. Excelligence serves early childhood professionals, educators, and parents by providing quality educational products and programs for children from infancy to 12 years of age.
  • Plato Learning, Inc.
    Minneapolis, MN
    Vin Riera, President and CEO
    PLATO Learning provides education technology solutions for kindergarten through adult learners, offering curricula for reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and life and job skills. As the first and most innovative educational technology company, PLATO is a proven leader in providing prescriptive, personalized instruction, technology-based teaching tools, and standards-driven assessment and data management to facilitate continuous academic improvement for learners at all levels.
  • Porter & Chester Institute, Inc.
    Wethersfield, CT
    Raymond Clark, President
    A leading postsecondary educational institution, founded in 1946, providing technical, business and health related occupational training through seven campuses in Connecticut and Massachusetts.