Bri Holt is an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding

Engrade Engrade was an educational technology company that provides online learning management system and educational assessment products to K-12 school districts. Engrade was founded in 2003 and later acquired by McGraw-Hill Education in January 2014.Emp ...

, a Santa Monica-based education technology startup. Holt founded Engrade in 2003 as a high school student trying to build a way for his own teachers to share students' grades online. Engrade was acquired by

McGraw-Hill Education McGraw Hill is an American education science company that provides educational content, software, and services for students and educators across various levels—from K-12 to higher education and professional settings. They produce textbooks, ...

in January 2014. In 2006, Holt founded SocialMeter, the first social media analytics service. In 2007, SocialMeter was acquired by AdaptiveBlue, a startup backed by

venture capital Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in ...

firm

Union Square Ventures Union Square Ventures (USV) is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm has backed more than 130 startups, including Twitter, Etsy, Stripe, Coinbase, Zynga, Tumblr, Stack Overflow, Meetup, Kickstarter, MongoDB, ...

. In 2007, Holt pioneered the new field of viral video analytics, patenting a method for determining Internet video viewing time. Holt founded

Vidmeter Vidmeter was a viral video analytics service that launched in 2007. The site tracked the top 100 Internet videos across multiple Internet video websites such as YouTube and Vimeo. During the lawsuit Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. ...

, an online video analytics platform, later acquired by Visible Measures in January 2008. In 2020, Holt was issued a patent entitled Hyperpiler. In 2025, Holt developed a

knowledge graph In knowledge representation and reasoning, a knowledge graph is a knowledge base that uses a Graph (discrete mathematics), graph-structured data model or topology to represent and operate on data. Knowledge graphs are often used to store interl ...

query language A query language, also known as data query language or database query language (DQL), is a computer language used to make queries in databases and information systems. In database systems, query languages rely on strict theory to retrieve informa ...

called Memelang. https://memelang.net/

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