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Sponge

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Sponge is a Bristol-based digital learning company, launched in 2004, with further offices in Berlin and Brussels. It designs custom e-learning, blended programmes and facilitated learning for large employers, typically organisations with more than 10,000 staff. Formats include animation, interactive video, simulations, games and performance support tools, and courses can be translated into more than 200 languages. Topics include compliance, onboarding, leadership and management, sales enablement, and equity, diversity and inclusion. Most custom projects take about 10 to 16 weeks from discovery to delivery. A sister brand, Sponge Compliance, offers more than 400 ready-made compliance microlearning courses and the Spark learning management system (LMS). Prices are not published. Its information security policy says it works in line with ISO 27001:2022, the international standard for information security management, but the site does not claim certification. It has won Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) Learning Awards, including Gold for Learning Provider of the Year in 2019, and Brandon Hall Group awards in several years. The parent company, Sponge Group Holdings Limited (company number 11935701), was incorporated in April 2019.

Video Arts

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Video Arts is a maker of workplace training films and e-learning, founded in a West London house in 1972 by a group including John Cleese and Antony Jay. Its courses use humour and storytelling to teach management, leadership, communication, mental health and wellbeing, customer service, compliance and other workplace skills. The library holds over 1,000 learning assets, including more than 400 microcourses, with a growing range in other languages. Organisations can use it on Video Arts Play, its own learning management system (LMS), or load the courses into their existing platform as Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) packages. It also offers embedded video and an AI coach across the library. Prices are not published. Access is sold as an annual licence that scales with the number of learners, with an onboarding package and a smaller package for small businesses, and a free two-week trial is offered. Video Arts is part of the Tinopolis Group, which it joined in 2008. Its history page lists the Queen's Award for Export to Industry in 1982 and early films such as Meetings, Bloody Meetings, and the site states that it has won over 250 awards.

Confirm (formerly Learning Pool)

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Confirm, formerly Learning Pool, is a workplace learning and performance software company headquartered in Derry, Northern Ireland, and founded in 2006. Its products cover learning, engagement and performance management. They include Learn:Go, a mobile-first learning platform for frontline staff, Learn:Up, a learning management system for growing companies, and the Create authoring tool, formerly Elucidat. It also sells an off-the-shelf course library covering compliance, safety, leadership and skills, Adaptive Compliance courses, artificial intelligence (AI) conversation practice and custom-built content. Customers include frontline employers in retail, hospitality, manufacturing and logistics, fast-growing companies, and enterprise and public sector organisations. Products connect to other systems through the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), Experience API (xAPI) and single sign-on. Published starting prices, based on a 5,000-person company and billed annually, are £12 per user per year for Learn:Go and £10 each for Engage and Perform. Other products are priced on request. Confirm was formed in 2026 when Learning Pool, WorkRamp, WorkStep, Elucidat and Confirm came together under one name. It states that it employs more than 425 people and serves over 26 million learners. It displays International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001:2022 certification, Cyber Essentials and a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 report. Learning Pool Limited has been a certified B Corporation since March 2023.

Coursera for Business

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Coursera for Business is the employee training service of Coursera, a California-based online learning platform launched in 2012. It sells organisations licences to a catalogue that Coursera puts at more than 10,600 courses, 1,400 Specializations and 165 Professional Certificates, plus hands-on labs and short video clips. Content comes from university and industry partners such as Google, IBM and Microsoft, and covers topics including data analysis, generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, Python, cloud computing and project management. Learning is online, with mobile apps, learning paths, skills tracking and progress dashboards. The Teams plan covers 2 to 499 users, while the Enterprise plan, for 500 or more, adds Skill Tracks, AI course-authoring tools, single sign-on and a dedicated customer success manager. The UK Teams page lists £295.18 per licence per year on annual billing, with volume discounts from 25 licences and 25% off for registered non-profits. Enterprise pricing is by quote. Coursera states that over 4,700 companies have partnered with it and that it has combined with Udemy. Coursera, Inc. was founded by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller and is a Delaware public benefit corporation and Certified B Corporation.