Case Study: Learning Pool achieves automated open-source license compliance and investor confidence with Mend SCA

Learning Pool keeps investors happy by ensuring compliance with open source software license policies

Learning Pool is an education-technology company serving 1,500 customers and 5.1 million users with an online learning platform and more than 400 staff across the UK and North America. As it pursued another round of venture funding, investors raised concerns about open source license compliance; Learning Pool’s manual checks were time-consuming, error-prone and insufficient to reassure stakeholders, so the company needed an automated, reliable way to detect and enforce license policies.

Learning Pool chose Mend SCA and rapidly integrated it into its CI/CD pipeline (GitHub → CircleCI → Mend), where scans run on each commit, block builds that include disallowed licenses (e.g., GPLv3) and alert teams. The SaaS solution required only a small agent, delivered fast results, expanded to vulnerability detection and remediation, and provided easy policy enforcement and a quick return on investment — giving Learning Pool the compliance assurances investors sought.

Learning Pool

Mark Lynch

Product Officer