Pluralsight to acquire London's A Cloud Guru

Pluralsight Inc., a technology workforce development and training platform company based in Draper, has agreed to acquire A Cloud Guru. Based in London, A Cloud Guru is a cloud skills development platform that has served 2.5 million learners and over 4,500 organizations with technology training.

The acquisition is expected to close later this year, subject to customary closing conditions, and follows Vista Equity Partners’ recent acquisition of Pluralsight. Terms were not disclosed.

“Technology is the No.1 differentiator for all businesses and the technology skills of your team is what determines success or failure. Nowhere is that more apparent than with cloud technologies,” said Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight. “To meet the needs of our customers and best support their cloud transformations, we are determined to deliver the most comprehensive solution for driving cloud maturity at scale. With the acquisition of A Cloud Guru, we can now provide an all-in-one solution to accelerate the cloud skill development journey for large enterprise customers and individual learners.”

“By combining the power of A Cloud Guru’s leading certification courses, hands-on labs and sandboxes, exams and quizzes with the existing library of Pluralsight Skills cloud courses and hands-on learning experiences, the joint organization will now be better positioned to meet the market demand for cloud skill development,” Pluralsight said in a release.

“ACG and Pluralsight were founded to solve the same problem — closing the technology skills gap by democratizing access to technical education. Within our shared missions, we’ve taken different but complementary approaches. Both approaches have proven to resonate strongly with customers who want depth and breadth in tech education,” said Sam Kroonenburg, co-founder and CEO of A Cloud Guru. “I am excited by the next phase of our mission in which, together, we will build the next-generation platform for hands-on learning across all of technology.”