Microsoft Corporation acquired Flipgrid, a transaction announced in June 2018.
Flipgrid operates in Microsoft Education, is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Flipgrid is a video-based social learning platform that helps students build communication and social-emotional skills, used in 180 countries by more than 20 million users from pre-kindergarten through Ph.D. Microsoft acquired it for Microsoft Education and made it free for schools.
Bring social-emotional and communication-skill learning to Microsoft Education and offer the platform free to schools.
We're thrilled to see the impact Flipgrid has had in social learning thus far and look forward to helping them continue to thrive as part of the Microsoft family.Eran Megiddo, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.