Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website.
[2] Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams,[3] the company has its headquarters in Draper, Utah.
[4][5][6] Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.
[20] Co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard stated that after this round of funding, the company's valuation had increased from less than $100 million in 2012 to nearly $1 billion.
Starting in 2013, it has acquired a number of e-learning and education companies to bolster its technology, course offerings, and executive leadership.
[24][25] On August 5, it acquired Chicago-based TrainSignal, a company providing training for Information technology personnel, for $23.6 million.
[26][27] On October 31, Pluralsight acquired Tekpub, producer of a series of screencasts on new development technologies, for an undisclosed amount.
Co-founder Rob Conery joined Pluralsight, and continues to produce training videos under its brand.
[28] On April 9, 2014, Pluralsight announced it acquired Digital-Tutors, a company providing training for creative professionals, for $45 million.
This acquisition expanded the company's training catalog to more than 3000 titles, broadening its topic coverage to media and design.
[34] Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based HackHands provides on-demand live assistance for technology learners via video and audio chat, instant messaging, and screen sharing.
On January 12, 2021, Pluralsight announced the acquisition of Next Tech, a San Diego, California provider of cloud-based computing environments, enabling the authoring and hosting of labs in software development, data science, and machine learning for an undisclosed amount.
[49] In 2017, Pluralsight announced partnerships with Microsoft,[50] Adobe,[51] and Oracle,[52] to expand their offerings and course availability.
The program, Google Africa Developer Scholarship, offers all participants free access to Pluralsight's training courses.