Daniel Cane is a founder of

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and

CourseInfo CourseInfo LLC, one of the two companies forming Blackboard Inc. was founded in 1997 by Daniel Cane and Stephen Gilfus while at Cornell University. They joined together to officially form the partnership known as CourseInfo and developed the ...

LLC. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of Modernizing Medicine.

Biography

Cane grew up in

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, attended

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and graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

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in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the undergraduate business program at Cornell University Department of Applied Economics and Management. In 1997, during his senior year at Cornell, he co-founded

CourseInfo LLC CourseInfo LLC, one of the two companies forming Blackboard Inc. was founded in 1997 by Daniel Cane and Stephen Gilfus while at Cornell University. They joined together to officially form the partnership known as CourseInfo and developed the ...

, a small

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company focused on the development of a new

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. In 1998, ''CourseInfo LLC'', founded by Cane and Stephen Gilfus, and ''Blackboard LLC'', founded by

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and Matthew Pittinsky merged to form Blackboard Inc. The first line of e-learning products was branded Blackboard CourseInfo, but the CourseInfo brand was dropped in 2000. In February 2009, Cane left Blackboard to found Kadoo, a web service that gives users 10GB of free space to upload and share photos, videos, files or other digital assets. The site owner retains control over their file space in the cloud. Cane created a social-sharing platform based on the concepts of relationship context searching. The Kadoo platform enabled the person sharing the information to control who had access and revoke permissions after the fact. Kadoo raised $5M in VC and was sold to 3Sixty Enterprises. In July 2011 Blackboard was purchased for $1.6 Billion by

Providence Equity Partners Providence Equity Partners L.L.C. is a specialist private equity firm, private equity investment firm focused on media, communications, education, technology investments across North America and Europe. The firm specializes in growth-oriented pri ...

. Cane is currently the CEO and co-founder of South Florida-based Modernizing Medicine, a healthcare IT company. Co-founded by Cane and Chief Medical Officer Michael Sherling, M.D., the company has had five rounds of financing, the most recent round occurring in May 2017 with a $231 million investment by

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. Since founding the company in 2010, Cane's company raised a total of nearly $300M in funding and hired almost 800 employees. In 2019, the company relocated their headquarters in Boca Raton, Fl to the 'old IBM campus' where the PC was first invented. Cane has been invited to speak at forums in Florida and other U.S. states, and in 2013 participated in The Human Experience, the first

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. At the

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headquarters in New York, he was a panel member at the

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's Civil Society Forum: “Building Partnerships in the Field of Education through Science, Technology and Innovation.” He has also spoken on South Florida Technology Alliance CEO panels and other local technology events.

Awards

*EY Entrepreneur of the Year (2015) *Florida Business Ambassador Award *

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Excalibur award (2013) *Top Power Leader in Healthcare, South Florida Business Journal (2013) *Health Care Innovation Hero in Medicine, Palm Beach County Medical Society Services (2013) *Ultimate CEO Award, ''

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'' (2013) *2012 Governor's Innovators in Business Award - Governor's Innovators Under 40 (2012) *Entrepreneur Award, Best Startup, South Florida Business Journal (2011) *Elected Vice chairman of the Board of Trustees FAU (2013)

References

External links

www.blackboard.comwww.modmed.com
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