ago 2005 as simpletuition january 2015 2015 01 as valore headquarters boston massachusetts u.s. key people geoffrey willison ceo website www.valore.com valore is an american company that provides an online textbook marketplace and open source college textbooks that is based in boston . 1 contents 1 history 2 services provided 3 news coverage 4 references 5 external links history edit valore inc. formerly simpletuition inc. is the boston based parent company of valorebooks 2 an online textbook marketplace and boundless a provider of openly licensed digital courseware . 3 the company was founded in 2005 with the launch of its first product simpletuition an online student loan comparison engine . the simpletuition product is now operated by lending tree . the company has launched a number of additional products including smarterbucks a rewards program that helps pay down any student loan . smarterbucks was sold to gradifi in 2015 . 4 in 2012 to address the high cost of textbooks the company acquired valorebooks an online marketplace whose tagline claims that it saves students up to 90 % on the cost of textbooks . in 2015 the company acquired boundless which offers affordable digital textbook replacements leveraging openly licensed content . the name valore means value in italian . valore is venture backed and investors 5 include atlas venture flybridge capital partners and north hill ventures . services provided edit valore inc. currently provides the following services valorebooks student textbook purchase and rental marketplace aggregates sellers of textbooks to allow students to find affordable prices on textbooks they need for the semester valorebooks student textbook sellback marketplace aggregates buyers of textbooks to give students an instant quote on textbooks they want to sell back valorebooks merchant solutions programs designed to help campus bookstores and textbook retailers buy and sell more textbook inventory boundless digital textbook alternative affordable openly licensed content meant to replace traditional textbooks news coverage edit recent coverage of valore inc. in the news valore named to inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies for second year in a row . valore number 1060 on the 2015 inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies . valorebooks mentioned in forbes article 7 ways to pay less for textbooks boundless featured in inc. s roundup of best places to learn critical skills references edit valore acquires digital textbook publisher boundless . 7 april 2015 . retrieved 8 april 2015 . pr newswire http www.prnewswire.com news releases simpletuition acquires valorebooks textbook marketplace 169157496.html . missing or empty title help . pr newswire http www.xconomy.com boston 2015 04 06 valore acquires boundless the netflix of education publishing . missing or empty title help . pr newswire http www.prnewswire.com news releases gradifi acquires smarterbucks 300196239.html . missing or empty title help valore about the team http www.valore.com our team . missing or empty title help external links edit official website valorebooks website valorebooks merchant solutions website boundless website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title valore company & oldid 741879335 categories american websiteseducation financehidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlspages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 september 2016 at 06 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view