Industry
Where the industry learns
Every company in the industry catalogue that exists to teach, certify or credential, pulled out of the timeline and grouped by what it is: a centre that sells a manufacturer's curriculum, a body that certifies a person, a platform that sells a library, a school that grants a degree. The distinction matters because the entries keep drawing it.
Authorised training centres
Companies that deliver a manufacturer's own curriculum through instructors the manufacturer has certified.
- 1977MicrocampThe pioneering was the audience, not the technology - and it taught on the machines the market reserve built.HQ Campinas · BRActive PT (Portugal) · ES (Spain) · AR (Argentina)
- 1987EPIData-centre training and TIA-942 certification.HQ Singapore · SGActive Global
- 1993Ka SolutionCarries fifteen vendors' official curricula at once, which is a different business from carrying one.HQ São Paulo · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 1995Global KnowledgeEnterprise IT training company, a Cisco Platinum Learning Partner, now part of Skillsoft.HQ Cary, North Carolina · USActive Global
- 1996Fast LaneGlobal IT training company delivering authorised curricula for Cisco, Microsoft, Aruba, NetApp and others.HQ Morrisville, North Carolina · USActive Global
- 2000LAN ProfessionalSao Paulo distributor and authorised training centre for Cabletron, Enterasys, F5 Networks and IronPort.HQ São Paulo · BRActive Mercosur
- 2002InLearnBrazilian authorised training centre for F5 and Fortinet courses.HQ Barueri, São Paulo · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 2003Grupo IHCBrazilian group whose three companies were founded in sequence, each out of the one before.HQ BR (Brazil)Active BR (Brazil)
- 2003ReadyTechVirtual training platform for hands-on laboratories in instructor-led and self-paced delivery.HQ Oakland, California · USActive NL (Netherlands) · SG (Singapore)
- 2005Red EducationTraining is distributed the same way products are, and this is what that looks like.HQ Sydney · AUActive Global
- 2005VersimPolish distributor and authorised training centre for Extreme Networks.HQ Poznań · PLActive BG (Bulgaria)
- 2005QoSTeaching the manufacturer's certification courses since 2006, from inside an integrator.HQ São Paulo · BRActive Latin America
- 2005Grupo BinarioChose one vendor at founding and built a certification pipeline around it.HQ São Paulo · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 2007NTSec GroupBrazilian security integrator headquartered in Brasilia, with branches in eight states and its own academy.HQ Brasília · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 2007FlipsideRan the security event that reached the people conferences usually price out.HQ São Paulo · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 2021QD7Sao Paulo cybersecurity consultancy combining monitoring, incident response and awareness training with LGPD work.HQ São Paulo · BRActive BR (Brazil)
Certification bodies and exam delivery
Organisations whose product is the credential itself, and the companies that administer the examinations.
- 1982CompTIAIts entire value was being owned by nobody, and in 2024 it was bought.HQ Downers Grove, Illinois · USActive Global
- 1989SANS InstituteFounded in 1989 by a former naval ship designer and his wife as a cooperative for exchanging technical information; now the largest security training organisation there is, with its own certification body, its own accredited college, and its own 2020 breach.HQ North Bethesda, Maryland · USActive Global
- 1990PrometricSix owners in thirty-five years, and the layer that deliberately does not write the questions it delivers.HQ Baltimore, Maryland · USActive Global
- 1994Pearson VUEA certification is worth exactly what its verification is worth, and this is where the verification happens.HQ Bloomington, Minnesota · USActive Global
- 2001EC-CouncilThe most required certification in its field, and the most argued about, which are the same fact seen twice.HQ Albuquerque, New Mexico · USActive Global
- 2001KryterionThe same parent that founded Prometric, doing it a second time - and proctoring online fourteen years before everyone had to.HQ Phoenix, Arizona · USActive GB (United Kingdom) · ZA (South Africa) · Asia Pacific
- 2007OffSec (Offensive Security)Gives the tool away and charges for the proof that you can use it.HQ New York · USActive Global
- 2012CredlyVerifies the credential, as its owner verifies the person - and the small company bought the big one's product before the big one bought it.HQ New York · USActive Global
Learning platforms and labs
Libraries, marketplaces and lab environments where the instructor, the university or anyone at all supplies the course.
- 2004PluralsightFour instructors with 5,000 dollars each flew to offices to teach Microsoft tools in 2004; the 2007 pivot to an online subscription made it a 3.5-billion-dollar company; by August 2024 its lenders owned all of it.HQ Westlake, Texas · USActive Global
- 2004AluraTwo brothers who wanted to be professors opened Caelum in 2004 on the block where they lived; the online platform of 2011 became Alura in 2013, and by 2025 the group they built, Grupo Alun, held FIAP, PM3 and StartSe.HQ São Paulo · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 2006Kyndryl Cloud Uplift (formerly Skytap)Cloud environment platform founded 2006 as Skytap by university researchers, widely used for virtual training labs; now Kyndryl Cloud Uplift.HQ Seattle, Washington · USActive US (United States)
- 2007CloudShareIts founder bought it back from the investors for four dollars, then ran it profitably for a decade.HQ Denver, Colorado · USActive Global
- 2010UdemyBuilt in 2010 by a founder from a Turkish village who had learned online because his school could not teach him; a marketplace of a quarter-million courses in seventy-five languages, absorbed into Coursera in May 2026.HQ San Francisco, California · USActive Global
- 2012CourseraTwo Stanford professors put three courses online in 2011 and each drew more students in weeks than either could teach in a career; in 2026 the company they founded absorbed Udemy and became the largest learning platform there is.HQ Mountain View, California · USActive Global
- 2012edXHarvard and MIT founded it in 2012 so anyone could take their courses free; in 2021 they sold it for 800 million dollars to a company that filed for bankruptcy three years later, with the money parked in a foundation that has barely spoken since.HQ Arlington, Virginia · USActive Global
- 2015StartSeFounded in 2015 in the interior of Minas Gerais with a two-hour online course that cost thirty reais; a year later four former partners of XP Investimentos bought in, and the product became the week-long mission to Silicon Valley.HQ BR (Brazil)Active US (United States)
Schools and research institutes
Institutions that grant degrees or run programmes rather than sell courses.
- 1970FatecState technology faculties offering short applied degrees rather than full engineering courses.HQ São Paulo · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 1976CPqDThe state research centre that survived the privatisation of the state.HQ Campinas · BRActive BR (Brazil)
- 2009Raspberry PiSingle-board computer created to get computing back into teaching, now embedded across networking and lab work.HQ Cambridge · GBActive Global
Also tagged training
Entries carrying the training tag that the sections above do not name.
Where the headquarters and footprints come from
Each card's flag is the founding country, as on the industry timeline; the HQ and the activity line come from the pages below, read on the dates given. A dotted footprint with a question mark is a default, the headquarters country standing in until the footprint is researched.
- Microcamp: Microcamp: moved to Campinas in 1981; reports more than two million students taught in Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Argentina (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- EPI: EPI: Singapore-headquartered (the entry's sourced profile); "EPI, part of TÜV NORD GROUP, is the leading global certification body for data centre facilities, operations, and professionals" (epi-ap.com, read 2026-10-05)
- Ka Solution: Ka Solution: training and consultancy in São Paulo since 1993, two São Paulo locations, the largest official SAP training centre in Latin America by its own account (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- Global Knowledge: Global Knowledge, About us: "Our U.S.-based corporate headquarters is located in Cary, North Carolina"; 15 offices around the world, in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, the UAE, the UK and the US, with partners in Colombia, India and Mexico (read 2026-10-05)
- Fast Lane: CB Insights profile cited by the entry: Fast Lane founded 1996, headquarters Morrisville, North Carolina; Fast Lane's own awards page: ranked among the top 20 IT training companies worldwide every year since 2008, Cisco Learning Partner of the Year in regions including LATAM and Global (read 2026-10-05)
- LAN Professional: LAN Professional (LWS Comércio e Serviços em Informática), Rua Bacaetava 35, Brooklin, São Paulo; distributed Cabletron and Enterasys across Brazil and Mercosur, and from 2005 was the authorised training centre for Brazil and Mercosur for F5 Networks and IronPort (the entry's sourced profile; a historical footprint, the company having ceased trading)
- InLearn: Monitor CNPJ: INLEARN EDUCACAO LTDA, Barueri/SP (the entry's source); the company presents Brazilian delivery of the vendors' courses (inlearn.com.br, read 2026-10-05)
- Grupo IHC: Grupo IHC history published by CYLK: HighCast (2003), inLearn (2008) and CYLK (2010), all Brazilian, serving Brazilian enterprises (the entry's source, read 2026-10-05)
- ReadyTech: ReadyTech, About: "headquartered in Uptown Oakland, with international offices in the Netherlands and data centers in California, Singapore, and Amsterdam"; launched in 2003 (read 2026-10-05)
- Red Education: Red Education: founded in Sydney in 2005; vendor-accredited training across Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, India and the Middle East (the entry's sourced profile; rededucation.com read 2026-10-05)
- Versim: Versim, About us: on the Polish market since 2005, headquartered at ul. Jasielska 10, Poznań; authorised Extreme Networks distributor for Poland (2017) and for Bulgaria (2023) (read 2026-10-05)
- QoS: QoS, the professional-services division of Grupo Binario: a Juniper training centre for Latin America, delivering the manufacturer's certification courses since 2006 (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- Grupo Binario: Grupo Binario: created in São Paulo in 2005, implementing networks for the major Brazilian operators, around 160 staff across five branches (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- NTSec Group: NTSec Group: head office in Brasília, branches in eight Brazilian states, close to four hundred specialists (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- Flipside: Flipside privacy policy: Flipside Treinamento Editora e Comércio LTDA, headquartered on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo; Roadsec toured Brazilian cities (the entry's sources, read 2026-10-05)
- QD7: QD7: a São Paulo cybersecurity company positioned around the Brazilian regulatory landscape and the LGPD (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- CompTIA: Wikipedia: CompTIA, headquarters 3500 Lacey Road, Downers Grove, Illinois; certifications issued in over 120 countries (read 2026-10-05)
- SANS Institute: SANS Institute, Contact: 11200 Rockville Pike, Suite 200, North Bethesda, MD 20852; regional offices for EMEA (Swansea), the Middle East and Africa (Dubai) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Japan, Australia, India, Indonesia, Thailand) (read 2026-10-05)
- Prometric: Wikipedia: Prometric, headquarters Baltimore, Maryland; 3,000 test centres in 160 countries; owner EQT Private Capital Asia (read 2026-10-05)
- Pearson VUE: Pearson VUE, Locations: headquarters 5601 Green Valley Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437, USA; offices in Philadelphia, Lehi, Noida, Richmond (Australia), Beijing, Tokyo, Manchester, London and Dubai; About: 5,500 test centres in 180+ countries and territories, nearly 21 million exams a year (read 2026-10-05)
- EC-Council: Wikipedia: EC-Council, headquarters 101 Sun Ave NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico; CEH courses offered in more than 60 countries by 2007 (read 2026-10-05)
- Kryterion: Kryterion: runs from Phoenix, Arizona, with offices in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Asia (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- OffSec (Offensive Security): Wikipedia: Offensive Security (OffSec), headquarters New York City; area served international (read 2026-10-05)
- Credly: Credly by Pearson: 3,700+ certification, assessment and training providers and employers, 200,000 available credentials, 123 million+ credentials earned and managed, 650,000+ shared monthly; founded in New York in 2012 per the entry (info.credly.com, read 2026-10-05)
- Pluralsight: Wikipedia: Pluralsight, headquarters Westlake, Texas; 18,000 corporate clients by 2020 including 70 percent of the Fortune 500; 2,000 employees (2025) (read 2026-10-05)
- Alura (footprint pending research, headquarters shown by default): Alura: born in 2011 as the online platform of Caelum, the São Paulo classroom school founded in 2004; Brazil's largest online technology school (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05); activity beyond Brazil not stated, pending research
- Kyndryl Cloud Uplift (formerly Skytap) (footprint pending research, headquarters shown by default): Wikipedia: Skytap, headquarters Seattle, Washington; founded 2006; acquired by Kyndryl in 2024 (read 2026-10-05); activity beyond the United States not stated, pending research
- CloudShare: CloudShare, About us: 1801 California St, Suite 1050, Denver, Colorado, with an office in Tel Aviv; "100 Number of countries CloudShare operates in"; 500+ enterprise customers (read 2026-10-05)
- Udemy: Wikipedia: Udemy, headquarters San Francisco, California; offices in the United States, Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico and Turkey; courses in sixteen languages (read 2026-10-05)
- Coursera: Wikipedia: Coursera, headquarters Mountain View, California; area served worldwide; 168 million registered learners as of 2024, 40 languages (read 2026-10-05)
- edX: edX terms of service: edX LLC, a 2U, LLC company, 2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 1100, Arlington, VA 22202; edX About: 100 million learners in 190+ countries (read 2026-10-05)
- StartSe: StartSe: Brazilian executive-education company founded in 2015, immersion missions to Silicon Valley, China and Israel, and a campus in Palo Alto opened in 2019 (the entry's sourced profile, NeoFeed August 2020, read 2026-10-05)
- Fatec: The Fatecs are São Paulo state technology faculties run by the Centro Paula Souza, with campuses across the state (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05)
- CPqD (footprint pending research, headquarters shown by default): CPqD: created by Telebrás in Campinas in 1976 (the entry's sourced profile, read 2026-10-05); activity beyond Brazil not stated, pending research
- Raspberry Pi: Wikipedia: Raspberry Pi Foundation, based on Hills Road, Cambridge (the entry's source); the computers are developed in the United Kingdom and sold worldwide (Wikipedia: Raspberry Pi, read 2026-10-05)
- HCLTech: Wikipedia: HCLTech, headquarters Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India; offices in 60 countries (read 2026-10-05)
- Stefanini: Stefanini: "among the top 100 technology companies in the world, with operations in 104 countries"; an older section of the same page says 46 countries, recorded as a discrepancy (stefanini.com, read 2026-10-05)