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In 2016, began to broadcast courses on their Apple TV application. On April 9, 2015, LinkedIn announced its intention to buy in a deal valued at $1.5 billion, which officially closed on May 14, 2015. On January 14, 2015, announced it had raised $186 million in financing, led by investment group TPG Capital. In 2013, received its first outside investment, raising $103 million in growth equity from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity, with additional contributions from Meritech Capital Partners. By 2004, there were 100 courses, and in 2008, the company began producing and publishing documentaries on creative leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs. In 2002, the company began offering courses online. LinkedIn Learning was founded as in 1995 in Ojai, California, as online support for the books and classes of Lynda Weinman, a special effects animator and multimedia professor who founded a digital arts school with her husband, artist Bruce Heavin.