Please answer the following question: Blackboard Inc. is an enterprise technology company with corporate headquarters in Washington D.C. that is primarily known as a developer of education software in particular Blackboard Learn its flagship learning management system. Founded by Michael Chasen Matthew Pittinsky Stephen Gilfus and Daniel Cane in 1997 Blackboard became a public company in 2004 and continued operating publicly until Providence Equity Partners purchased the company in 2011. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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