Investment for e-assessments platform provider Inspera
Learning News | Inspera |
Inspera has received growth capital investment to the meet surge in demand for e-assessments.
Browsing news: Acquisitions and financial
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Anthology and Blackboard to merge
Learning News | London |
Two leaders in the edtech market, Blackboard and Anthology, are to merge to create a global provider of education software and solutions.
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€12 million investment leads training platform to new countries
myskillcamp | Brussels |
Belgian-based training platform, myskillcamp is growing their area of operation by expanding into the UK, Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, thanks to the investment of €12 million by five investment agencies.
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Valamis acquires TWM: interview with Jussi Hurskainen
Learning News | London |
Valamis has acquired career mobility software provider, TWM; Valamis CEO, Jussi Hurskainen, joins Learning News to talk about the acquisition and career mobility applications.
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Eagle Point Software acquires UK-based KnowledgeSmart
Learning News | Acquisitions |
Eagle Point and provider of architecture, engineering and construction software has acquired KnowledgeSmart, a provider of skills gap analysis and benchmarking services for AEC firms.
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WBT Systems announces acquisition by Advanced Solutions International
WBT Systems | Nashua, United States |
WBT Systems and Advanced Solutions International (ASI), two leading global providers of products and services for associations and non-profits today announced the signing of an agreement for ASI to acquire WBT Systems. WBT Systems’ flagship learning platform TopClass LMS, will join ASI’s portfolio of subscription (SaaS) products and services.
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Cornerstone to be acquired by Clearlake for over $5 Bn
Learning News | Market latest |
Talent management software provider, Cornerstone OnDemand, is to be acquired by private equity firm, Clearlake Capital, for $5.2 Billion.
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Docebo reports 2021 Q2 results: record revenue $25 Million up over 70%
DOCEBO | Toronto, Canada |
Docebo has reported record revenues for the last quarter adding over $10 Million in annual recurring revenue for the three months ending 30 June.
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Open LMS Half-Year Results Show More Than 20% New Sales Growth and Over 100 New LMS Customers
Open LMS | Indianapolis, IN |
Half-year results from Open LMS show 20% new sales growth rate, the fastest in the company’s history, and a total of nearly 1,700 SaaS LMS customers globally.
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Why synchronous learning is the latest thing in elearning
eLearning WMB | Maidenhead |
How the latest learning management systems allow for elearning to blend in with the classroom.
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Acquisitions and investment in the learning sector
Learning News | London |
July saw a host of acquisitions and investment in the learning sector. Fuse, Capita, Filtered, Learning Technologies Group, Articulate, OpenSesame, QA, Valamis and The Working Manager are just a few of those active over the last month. Learning News has the latest.
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Fuse merges intelligent search and predictive performance support to unlock knowledge-in-the-flow
Fuse Universal | London, UK |
Learning tech provider announces acquisition and strategic partnership as it creates new category with hyper-accessible knowledge in the flow.
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LTG to acquire GP Strategies
Learning Technologies Group | London, United Kingdom |
Agreement to acquire GP Strategies reflects LTG’s ambition to create a leading workforce transformation business focused on learning and talent.
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QA acquires Circus Street
Learning News | London |
QA has completed the acquisition of Circus Street, a provider of digital skills including ecommerce, data analytics and digital marketing skills.
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Articulate Raises $1.5 Billion
Learning News | Articulate |
Articulate has raised $1.5 Billion in Series A Round led by General Atlantic, with participation from Blackstone Growth and ICONIQ Growth.
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Kortext raises £15m to accelerate platform development roadmap
Learning News | Kortext |
Kortext, the UK’s market leading, university focussed, digital teaching and learning platform, announces that it has finalised additional investment funding from dmg ventures and Paul Zwillenberg, CEO of DMGT will join the Kortext Board.
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Pluralsight to acquire A Cloud Guru
Pluralsight |
Pluralsight has agreed to acquire A Cloud Guru; targets growing cloud skills gap.
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LTG invests in open source Moodle market
Learning News | London |
Interview with Piers Lea from LTG and Phill Miller from Open LMS, one of the Moodle-related learntech companies acquired by LTG in 2020.
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Interview with Peter Salzer, Global Knowledge
Learning News | London |
An extended interview with Peter Salzer, Executive Chairman, Global Knowledge, discussing how GK has coped during the pandemic, about the global IT and business skills market and about GK's intention to merge with Skillsoft.
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LTG expands mid-enterprise learning and talent software offering with acquisition of Bridge
Learning Technologies Group | London, United Kingdom |
The acquisition of Bridge will expand Learning Technologies Group’s capabilities in the mid-enterprise market.
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LTG expands Diversity and Inclusion offer with acquisition of PDT Global
Learning Technologies Group | London, United Kingdom |
Highly complementary acquisition expands the capabilities and reach of LTG’s existing Diversity and Inclusion business, Affirmity.
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Kallidus expands HCM offering with acquisition of Sapling
Learning News | London |
Learning News in discussion with Kallidus CEO, Rob Caul, on the acquisition of people operations platform, Sapling.
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Learning Technologies Group expands performance management offering with acquisition of Reflektive
Learning Technologies Group | London, United Kingdom |
Acquisition of agile performance management software, Reflektive, will expand PeopleFluent’s capabilities with enhanced engagement and analytics tools.
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Learning Pool acquires Remote Learner as part of ambitious US expansion plan
Learning Pool |
Learning Pool today announced the acquisition of Remote Learner, the Denver, Colorado based LMS specialist and learning technology company.
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Open LMS Expands Global Moodle Offering with Acquisition of eThink Education
Open LMS | Indianapolis |
Deal continues period of optimal growth for Open LMS in eLearning market for education and corporate sectors
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Former Saba Studio Business acquired by BestatDigital
Learning News | Brighton, UK |
The former Saba Studio business, previously part of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., has been acquired by BestatDigital Ltd., a privately owned digital learning and communications company. As part of the transaction, the former Saba Studio team of approximately 60 employees and self employed consultants will transition to the new company.
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Learning Technologies Group to acquire eCreators
Learning Technologies Group | London, United Kingdom |
Agreement to acquire eCreators reinforces Learning Technologies Group’s strategic position as the world’s leading commercial Moodle provider.
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PeopleFluent Adds New Talent Development and Internal Mobility Capabilities Through Acquisition of Patheer
PeopleFluent | Raleigh, North Carolina |
Additional talent experience tools, now available as PeopleFluent Talent Mobility, will help employers close critical skills gaps and design modern career paths.
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Learning Pool delivers strong annual results supporting customers through changing work practices
Learning Pool |
E-learning group, Learning Pool, today announced strong financial results for the year ending 30 April 2020 (FY20). The group maintained its growth trajectory and, following the strategic acquisition of HT2 Labs earlier in the year, successfully demonstrated the continuing value of online learning for clients through the uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Resulting revenues in the twelve-month period were up 32% to £18.1m.
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Five V purchases Totara ownership interest
Totara |
Totara today announced that its owners have entered into a purchase agreement with Sydney private equity firm Five V Capital, under which Five V will acquire a majority ownership interest in Totara. The operations and management of Totara will remain unchanged with Richard Wyles continuing as Chief Executive Officer.
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Business Secretary urged to investigate Hiscox Insurance over non-payment of Covid-19 claims
Media Zoo | London |
Learning and communications agency, Media Zoo, is urging the Secretary of State for Business to investigate Hiscox over non-payment of business interruption policy claims.
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Learning Technologies Group to acquire Blackboard’s Open LMS for $31.7 million
Learning Technologies Group | London, UK |
Agreement to acquire Blackboard’s Open LMS business reinforces Learning Technologies Group’s position as a strategic partner for an extensive range of clients
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Sponge joins forces to power up digital learning
Sponge | Plymouth, UK |
Award-winning custom digital learning company, Sponge, has been acquired by Aliter Capital to form part of the private equity firm’s corporate training group. The company will play a strategic role in supporting Aliter’s goal to establish a major new force in the learning technology market.
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Panopto Announces Record-Breaking Growth
Panopto | London |
Panopto, a leading enterprise video platform provider, announced recently that it has accelerated the rapid year-over-year growth the company has produced annually since its founding in 2007.
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EdApp announces $4.25M investment
EdApp |
Corporate training platform EdApp has secured $4.25 million in a funding round led by its existing backer SafetyCulture.
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Degreed Raises $75 Million to Enhance Career-long Learning and Upskilling
Degreed | London, UK |
Degreed will use the capital to further their ability to measure and build the skills of the global workforce
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Kallidus announces H1 2019 financial results
Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |
Kallidus, the award-winning learning and talent management provider, are pleased to announce new customer license sales for the first 6 months are up by 66% from the same period last year.
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Corruption, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion Focus from Engage in Learning
Engage in Learning | Gloucester, UK |
A new programme from the e-learning supplier, Engage in Learning, examines the impact on organisations of Part Three of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 - and the Act’s implications for employees.
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CDC Group, University Ventures and Savannah invest combined $12m into UNICAF
UNICAF |
CDC Group plc, University Ventures and Savannah today announce that they will invest a combined $12m into UNICAF. The investment will support the roll-out of UNICAF’s higher education learning centres across African cities, including finalising the establishment of a university campus in Malawi.
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Global Demand for Saba Cloud Drives Record Business Results in Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2016
Saba Software | London, United Kingdom |
Saba, a global leader in cloud-based intelligent Talent Management solutions, has announced record Q2 new customer cloud bookings for the second quarter of fiscal 2016 (November 30, 2015). During the second quarter, Saba also unveiled new product innovations in talent management and saw continued growth of its prominent portfolio of global customers.
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Capita acquires e-learning company Brightwave
Capita |
Capita has today announced the acquisition of Brightwave, an e-learning company that specialises in designing learning solutions to improve performance in businesses.
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Unicorn Training announces record year
The Access Group | London |
Unicorn Training, one of the UK’s longest established and most respected online learning companies, has reported record sales and growth of a third in 2015.
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Venture capital firm Klass Capital acquires Seeweb’s shares in Docebo
DOCEBO | Athens, Georgia, USA |
Last February, cloud elearning provider Docebo raised $3m in growth equity from Canada based Venture Capital firm Klass Capital to accelerate the growth of its SaaS enterprise elearning platform and fuel expansion into the North American market. After only four months, Klass Capital decided to acquire Seeweb’s shares in Docebo.
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Fuse Universal Raises $10million Growth Capital Investment
Fuse Universal | London |
Fuse Universal announces $10million growth capital investment to disrupt the global learning technology market. Education Growth Partners invests $10million to bolster traction in Corporate and Higher Education markets, expand sales and services operations in London, Cape Town and New York and accelerate the product roadmap.
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UK Budget: Workforce training still out of the picture
Filtered |
Marc Zao-Sanders, co-founder of Filtered.com, shares his views on last week's pre-election Budget.
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Saba Provides Update on Trading of Common Stock Pending Completion of Acquisition by Vector Capital
Saba Software | Bracknell, UK |
Saba reports that it is moving forward to complete its announced merger with a group of investors led by Vector Capital.
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Saba Agrees to Be Acquired by Vector Capital
Saba Software | Bracknell, UK |
Strong Partner to Support Saba’s Expansion of Intelligent Talent Management Platform
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Saba Provides Company and Restatement Update
Saba Software | Bracknell, UK |
Bracknell, UK, December 15, 2014 – Saba (OTC Pink: SABA), a global leader in cloud-based intelligent talent management solutions, today provided an update on the Company and its progress on the restatement.
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Saba Provides Selected Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Metrics
Saba Software | Bracknell, UK |
Record New Cloud Bookings Drive Over 100% Year-Over-Year Growth in the Fourth Quarter.
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Atlas sees robust growth in 2013, outperforming the industry
Atlas |
Atlas, the leading international oil and gas learning technologies company, has released its financial results for 2013, showing an increase in revenues.
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