I was surfing around for information on different LMS system, apps, add-ons, tools and APIs and stumbled across this list/book of “Vendors of Learning Management and E-Learning Management and learning products” by Don McIntosh. It’s a fairly exhaustive list of the top vendors, course authoring tools, LMS, LCMS, ELMS, as well as changed and discontinued products. There’s even some discussion with linked articles on movements. It’s a very interesting resource for research purposes if only to compile the many different scattered LMS-related resources out there.
http://www.trimeritus.com/vendors.pdf
More importantly, it lead me to amazing and interesting discussion on reclaiming innovation:
http://www.educause.edu/visuals/shared/er/extras/2014/ReclaimingInnovation/default.html
These are both great reading/skimming material from a venture perspective.