Pluralsight agrees to buy Colorado company

Pluralsight Inc., a Farmington-based enterprise technology skills platform developer and marketer, has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire GitPrime, based in Durango, Colorado. GitPrime is a developer-productivity platform. Pluralsight will pay $170 million in cash for GitPrime and the acquisition was expected to close last week.{mprestriction ids="1,3"}

“The integration of GitPrime with our leading technology skills platform is a win for our customers and will greatly expand the Pluralsight platform to provide even more value to technology leaders and developers,” said Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight. “Marrying Pluralsight’s skill measurement and skill development capabilities with GitPrime’s developer productivity capabilities provides technology leaders with the most complete platform to improve efficiencies and speed up product development to deliver their digital transformation strategies. The GitPrime team has built something incredible that solves a long-standing problem. I’m excited to welcome them to Pluralsight and integrate their platform so that technology leaders can more fully control their tech-driven futures.”

GitPrime is connected to every major code repository in use today, including GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab and others, Skonnard said. As a result of this broad coverage, GitPrime captures data around virtually every developer code commit, providing a clear and unbiased view of the application of their skills in real time. 

“I’m extremely proud of what the GitPrime team has accomplished to date for engineering teams and leaders,” said Travis Kimmel, co-founder and CEO of GitPrime. “With Pluralsight’s powerful platform, global reach and presence in the world’s largest companies, we are thrilled to join forces and further enhance the way companies build and create software using today’s most valuable skills.”

Pluralsight was founded in 2004 by Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion and Bill Williams. The company employs about 1,100.{/mprestriction}