
Penguin Random House Holdings
320 Front Street West, Suite 1400, Toronto, ON, M5V 3B6, Canada
Overview
Penguin Random House Canada is the Canadian division of Penguin Random House, the world’s most global trade book publisher which was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 53% and 47%, respectively. Penguin Random House comprises the adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa, and Penguin’s trade publishing activity in Asia and Brazil; DK worldwide; and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial’s Spanish-language companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially and creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors. In Canada, Penguin Random House Canada is comprised of Penguin Canada and Random House of Canada, trade publishers and distributors of books from their sister imprints in the U.S. and the U.K.
- Total investments
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- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
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Sector focus
- Books
- Publishing
Investment portfolio
- FlatWorld
Participated · Equity · Jan 2014
Flat World Education provides education content and software for higher education institutions, including an e-book publishing platform. Its platform gives more than 1 million students access to expertly authored textbooks in 77 countries. Founded in 2007 and led by president James Rianhard and CEO Christopher Etesse, the company supports innovative courses and degree programs. It recently announced a development partnership with Brandman University to offer an online, competency-based BBA delivered entirely on a mobile device. The company received $9.5m in financing and will use the funds to grow operations. Flat World is based in Washington, D.C.
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