Penta Global
Plot 47NR27 ICAD III, Mussafah, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Overview
Penta Global's Group of companies provide a diverse range of services to clients in the UAE, Gulf, Africa and South East Asia. We have a mangement team with many years of experience and particular expertise in providing high end field engineering and construction services to Owners and EPC Contractors in the fields of Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Fertilizer and Power. The company initially established itself by providing construction management services for major EPC projects. We provided clients with an inhouse developed piping management system and team of engineers to manage all the piping activities shop and field for major EPC projects. This service has evolved and we now use an integrated approach of our inhouse solution ProTrack and third party softwares to manage EPC projects. Penta has also diversified into pipe fabrication and site erection services. This was a natural progression as the Directors of the Company have a wealth of experience in delivering EPC projects, of which piping fabrication is the backbone. By establishing a permanent facility in Abu Dhabi to undertake these works Penta has taken another step towards becoming a leader in this field.
- Total investments
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- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
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- Active investors
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Sector focus
- Construction
- Industrial Engineering
Investment portfolio
- EdCast
Participated · Series B · Apr 2016
EdCast is an AI-powered Knowledge Cloud that provides unified discovery, personalized learning, and knowledge management for enterprise customers. Its offerings include a Learning Experience Platform (LXP), a Content Marketplace, and MyGuide in-app guides, intelligence and automation for business software. The platform integrates with Google Search, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow, VMware and others to deliver learning in the flow of work. EdCast’s award-winning platform is used by Global 2000 companies and large government organizations, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC, ANZ Bank, Schneider Electric, Jefferson Health, Mars Inc., NASSCOM, and the World Economic Forum. It serves two million paid users and aims to expand its Knowledge Cloud, Content Marketplace, and MyGuide products. The company also plans to continue hiring across sales, marketing, and product engineering to support its customer growth. EdCast’s core product is the Knowledge Cloud platform, which provides AI-powered contextual content and personalized learning in the flow of work across business applications such as Microsoft Office365, ServiceNow, Salesforce and Slack. The company offers a Learning Experience Platform (LXP) and MyGuide in-app guides, intelligence and automation for business software. EdCast operates a ContentExchange marketplace that includes partners like edX.org, Regis Group, Harvard ManageMentor, Mandel Communications and Intuition. The company announced an integration with Box and said it will announce additional integrations in Q1 2019. EdCast reported it has surpassed two million paid users across hundreds of enterprise and public-sector customers, including HPE, Dell EMC, Schneider Electric, ANZ Bank, Jefferson Health and others. The announcement framed the product as supporting a broader enterprise shift to cloud and AI-powered upskilling solutions amid rising corporate demand for training. EdCast builds the EdCast Knowledge Media & Intelligence Network, delivering curated, contextual bite-size insights (SmartBites) and live access to influencers and subject-matter experts. Its platform powers social, mobile and cloud-based informal learning for enterprises, institutions, governments and nonprofits. The company positions itself to enable lifelong learning for individuals, teams and organizations and is targeting workplace millennials while expanding into telecom, banking, media and retail. EdCast counts large enterprise customers and partnerships, including HP (powering HP LIFE), GE, Salesforce and EMC; HP LIFE reaches a knowledge community of over 500,000 users worldwide. The company is a Stanford StartX company advised by visionaries such as Mitch Kapor and Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Financially, EdCast has completed a $16 million Series B following a prior $6 million Series A in late 2014. EdCast builds a Knowledge Cloud and personal learning network that powers online learning portals built on OpenEdX for institutions, enterprises, governments and non-profits. The platform is designed to enable collaboration among educators, students and employers and to scale to millions of learners. The company is pursuing a "multiversity" vision to interconnect hundreds of campuses through public and private hosted clouds to deliver the best curriculum globally. EdCast has announced partnerships including a project with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network linking over 200 institutions and engagement with the Open Education Consortium's 300+ member institutions. Financially, EdCast has just completed a $6 million Series A financing led by SoftBank Capital. The team is led by founder and CEO Karl Mehta, formerly founder & CEO of PlaySpan (acquired by Visa), and the company is based in Mountain View, California.
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