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Professional Aptitude Council is a San Francisco, CA-based company in the Education sector.
The Cleveland Institute of Music is a private music conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
iTutorGroup is a global online education platform that changes the way people learn and thus democratizes access to education. With more than 5,000 teaching consultants in 60 countries around the world, iTutorGroup is the largest online education platform that provides real-time interactive language training and easy access to experts on-demand through tens of millions of classes annually. The company was founded in 2004 by brothers Dr. Ming Yang and Dr. Eric Yang, and has grown to include offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Silicon Valley. In its first round of funding, in 2012, iTutorGroup raised $15 million in investment capital from QiMing Venture Partners and CyberAgent. In February 2014 iTutorGroup announced a $100 million round of funding led by Alibaba Group alongside, SBI Group, Temasek Holdings and returning investors. In 2015, iTutorGroup closed its series C equity fundraising amounting to approximately $200 million. The investment values iTutorGroup at over $1 billion, and attracted marquee new investors, including GIC, Singapore’s sovereign fund; the Russia-China Investment Fund (RCIF); Goldman Sachs; and Silverlink Capital LP. Existing investor Temasek also participated in this round.
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas is responsible for investing funds under its stewardship and for delivering benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature. TRS is a defined benefit plan, with retirement benefits determined by a pre-established formula. The trust fund is sustained principally by three sources -- contributions by members during their working careers, contributions by the state and investment revenues. TRS was founded over 80 years ago. With assets at $151 billion, the Trust is the largest public retirement system in Texas in both membership and assets. It is the sixth largest public pension plan in the U.S. and is among the 20th largest in the world. The agency serves more than 1.5 million people. Over 1 million are public and higher education members and over 400,000 are retirement recipients and beneficiaries. As of FY 2017, pension benefits totaling nearly $10 billion were paid to retirees and their beneficiaries.
Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 30,000 students. As a preeminent research and teaching institution, the ...