Pluralsight

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.

[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.

In November 2014, the two companies partnered again, giving MSDN subscribers a 12-month access to a selection of Pluralsight's courses.

[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.

Former Pluralsight headquarters in Farmington, Utah