What Elentra does

Elentra is a cloud-based, integrated SaaS platform purpose-built for health professions education institutions. The platform consolidates learning management, assessment and evaluation, curriculum mapping, clinical experience scheduling, competency-based education tracking, accreditation reporting, and analytics into a single system, accessible via web and native iOS/Android applications. Its technology is differentiated by domain-specific features such as lottery-based clinical placement scheduling, EPA and competency framework tracking, OSCE/DOP assessment support, and curriculum mapping aligned to accreditation standards (LCME, AACOM, CODA, ACPE, ARC-PA, CCE, AAVMC, CAAHEP).

The company serves over 50 institutions across 14 health disciplines including Medicine (graduate and undergraduate), Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Chiropractic, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Optometry, Occupational Therapy, and Podiatry. Notable customers include Queen's University, University of Miami, Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences COMP, University of the Incarnate Word SOM, and Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Through its 2023 acquisition of Skyfactor Benchworks, Elentra also serves hundreds of U.S. nursing schools with data collection and benchmarking tools.

Elentra generates revenue primarily through multi-year institutional subscription contracts on a quote-based enterprise sales motion, supplemented by direct request-info qualification and an event-driven go-to-market concentrated in health professions conferences. The company was founded in 2008 through collaboration between Queen's University, University of Calgary, and UCLA; in 2023, it combined with DaVinci Education (originating from Duke's LCMS+) and acquired Skyfactor Benchworks; in 2024, it was acquired by Achieve Partners, an education-focused private equity firm, with an injection of growth capital. Elentra is headquartered in Ontario, Canada, and operates as a privately held company under Elentra Corp.

Name

Elentra

Legal name

Elentra Corp.

Website

https://elentra.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Elentra is a cloud-based SaaS platform that consolidates curriculum management, assessment, clinical scheduling, competency tracking, and accreditation reporting for over 50 health professions education institutions across medicine, nursing, veterinary, and allied health disciplines.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kingston

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Elentra operates as a subscription-based SaaS platform providing health professions education institutions with an integrated suite of tools. The platform is offered as a cloud-based service with enterprise licensing typically involving institutional contracts. Pricing appears to be quote-based and tailored to institutional size and scope.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Elentra is a cloud-based, integrated SaaS platform purpose-built for health professions education institutions to manage curriculum delivery, assessment and evaluation, clinical experience scheduling, competency-based progression, and accreditation compliance within a single ecosystem. The platform is sold primarily through multi-year enterprise institutional subscriptions with quote-based pricing and is complemented by iOS and Android mobile applications for learners and faculty.

Product overview

Elentra is a unified health professions education platform that consolidates multiple educational functions into a single integrated system. The core Elentra platform includes modules for Dashboard and Calendar (event-based scheduling), Elentra Analytics (data analytics and reporting), Learning Management System (LMS), Clinical Experience Management (rotation scheduling with lottery system), Assessment & Evaluation, Curriculum Management & Mapping, Competency-Based Education (CBE), and Letterflow (academic letter management). The company also offers a dedicated Mobile App for iOS and Android. Through acquisitions, Elentra expanded its portfolio with Benchworks (specializing in Nursing program assessment and benchmarking) and combined with DaVinci Education (originating from Duke University's LCMS+). The platform serves institutions across medicine, veterinary, allied health, and other health professions disciplines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Elentra Health Professions Education Platform Unified, cloud-based SaaS platform for health professions schools integrating curriculum management, assessment and evaluation, analytics, clinical rotation scheduling, competency-based education, and accreditation compliance tools. Sold to medical, veterinary, allied health, nursing, pharmacy, dental, and other health professions institutions via multi-year enterprise subscriptions.
• Elentra Mobile App Native iOS and Android mobile application enabling students, faculty, and preceptors to view schedules, complete assessments, access logbooks, and capture real-time clinical feedback.
• Benchworks Acquired data collection and benchmarking platform initially built for graduate-level Nursing program assessment, now serving hundreds of Nursing schools across the U.S. with assessment and benchmarking solutions.
• DaVinci Education Combined medical education technology platform originating from Duke University School of Medicine's LCMS+, now part of the unified Elentra offering supporting health professions education institutions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces institution costs by consolidating multiple vendor contracts into single platform
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments12 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and foundational.

• DaVinci EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDaVinci Education and Elentra combined to drive transformation in healthcare education. DaVinci Education evolved from Duke University School of Medicine's LCMS+ platform. The combination created a company supporting over 50 institutions.
• Skyfactor BenchworkscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerElentra acquired Skyfactor Benchworks to expand its solutions portfolio and accelerate market leadership in medical and allied health sciences education. Benchworks serves hundreds of nursing schools across the U.S.
• Queen's UniversityfoundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded in 2008 through collaboration between Queen's University, University of Calgary, and UCLA. Queen's University later joined as a cloud customer. Queen's was a founding partner in the original platform development.
• University of CalgaryfoundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the three founding university partners in the 2008 collaboration that established the original Elentra platform.
• UCLAfoundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the three founding university partners in the 2008 collaboration that established the original Elentra platform alongside Queen's University and University of Calgary.
• Duke University School of MedicinefoundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerDuke University School of Medicine introduced LCMS+, which later evolved into DaVinci Education before its combination with Elentra. Duke was a foundational partner in the development of one of Elentra's predecessor platforms.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Anthology (Campus Management): Anthology provides a broad higher-education student information and learning platform that competes for institutional edtech budgets. While broader in scope than Elentra, it overlaps on curriculum, assessment, and analytics functionality for health professions programs.
• D2L (Brightspace): D2L's Brightspace is a major higher-ed LMS competitor to Canvas and an indirect competitor to Elentra's LMS module. D2L serves universities globally and competes for the same institutional procurement budgets as Elentra's core platform.
• Instructure (Canvas): Instructure's Canvas is the leading LMS in higher education and serves many of the same institutional buyers as Elentra. While Canvas is broader and not health-professions specialized, it competes for the LMS budget and increasingly partners with or builds point solutions that overlap Elentra's modules.
• New Innovations: New Innovations provides resident management and graduate medical education (GME) software to teaching hospitals and medical schools. It is a directly comparable specialized platform for medical education administration and accreditation tracking, competing head-to-head with Elentra in medical schools.

Broad incumbents

• Blackboard: Blackboard is a long-established higher-education LMS and edtech incumbent serving thousands of institutions globally. It overlaps with Elentra's LMS module but lacks health-professions specialization, representing a broader-incumbent threat as it expands health-specific features.
• Coursera: Coursera partners with universities to deliver online degree and certificate programs including health-related credentials. While not a direct LMS/curriculum-management competitor, it competes for institutional online-learning budgets and increasingly builds tools adjacent to Elentra's assessment and curriculum modules.
• HealthStream: HealthStream is a public healthcare workforce development and learning platform serving hospitals and health systems. While primarily focused on continuing education and credentialing rather than academic health-professions education, it overlaps with Elentra's clinical training and compliance tooling.
• Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott): Wolters Kluwer's Lippincott division provides health professions education content, assessment tools, and digital learning solutions. It overlaps with Elentra's assessment, curriculum, and learning content modules as a much larger content-and-tools incumbent in the same buyer market.

Emerging players

• ExamSoft: ExamSoft provides secure exam delivery and assessment analytics for higher education, including health professions programs. It competes most directly with Elentra's Assessment & Evaluation module and is a partial-overlap emerging player in the same niche.
• MedBridge: MedBridge provides continuing education and clinical training for healthcare professionals and students. While focused on CE rather than degree-program management, it overlaps with Elentra's clinical training and competency-tracking functionality in allied health disciplines.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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