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1 case as defendant.
Liminex, Inc. d/b/a GoGuardian — Company profile
Overview. Liminex, Inc., which does business as GoGuardian, is a private K-12 education technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered at 2030 East Maple Avenue, El Segundo, California. Founders include Advait Shinde, Aza Steel, and R. Todd Mackey; Rich Preece became CEO in April 2024, with Shinde moving to Executive Chairman. It is not publicly traded. Private-equity firm Sumeru Equity Partners has been the majority shareholder since its 2018 investment, with Tiger Global Management taking a $200 million stake in August 2021 at a reported valuation above $1 billion. Third-party trackers put headcount in the roughly 500–550 range (Crustdata, GraphIQ); GoGuardian has publicly cited 25 million-plus student users and 1.8 million educators. Revenue figures are not publicly disclosed.
Products / operations. GoGuardian is an operating company selling subscription SaaS to schools and districts. Core product lines include GoGuardian Admin (web filtering and activity monitoring), GoGuardian Teacher (classroom management and screen monitoring), GoGuardian Beacon (student safety/self-harm alerting), GoGuardian Fleet and DNS (device and network filtering), and a Parent App. Through acquisitions it added the Pear Deck Learning ecosystem — Pear Deck, Pear Assessment (formerly Edulastic), Pear Deck Tutor (formerly TutorMe), and Pear Practice.
Litigation posture. GoGuardian is an operating company defending against patent suits, not a patent asserter. The tracked data show 1 case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff. The single case, Kajeet, Inc. v. Liminex, Inc. d/b/a GoGuardian (2:18-cv-00643, C.D. Cal., Western Division, filed January 25, 2018), was a patent infringement action filed in a relatively neutral venue — not an Eastern District of Texas NPE venue.
Notable context. Kajeet, itself an operating company selling safe-mobility solutions for children, asserted the '371 and '559 patents against GoGuardian's products after a June 2017 notice letter, and filed parallel suits against other filtering vendors (Mobicip, Qustodio). The parties filed a notice of settlement in April 2018, and the case did not proceed to judgment. No other litigation appearances are recorded for Liminex/GoGuardian in this database.
Kajeet filed suit against Liminex d/b/a GoGuardian in the Central District of California, asserting U.S. 8,712,371 and U.S. 8,667,559. A notice of settlement was filed April 9, 2018, and the court set an Order to Show Cause regarding settlement; the narrative did not confirm the final dismissal entry.