2004 founder aaron skonnard keith brown fritz onion bill williams headquarters farmington utah u.s. number of locations 3 offices area served globally key people aaron skonnard ceo products online technical training website www.pluralsight.com pluralsight headquarters farmington utah pluralsight is a privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers it administrators and creative professionals through its website . 1 founded in 2004 by aaron skonnard current ceo keith brown fritz onion and bill williams no longer with the company 2 the company has its headquarters in farmington utah . in september 2014 it stated it uses more than 600 subject matter experts as course authors 3 offers close to 4 000 courses in its catalog 4 has more than 750 000 individual subscribers and more than 6 000 corporate clients . 5 contents 1 history 2 business model 3 venture funding 4 acquisitions 5 partnerships and community involvement 6 references 7 external links history edit pluralsight was founded in 2004 as a classroom training company that involved sending an instructor to a business or training event . by 2007 the company shifted its emphasis to online video training . 2 since 2011 the company has seen rapid growth . it has been named to the inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies ranking as the 9 top education company and the 19 top utah company . 6 business model edit through a subscription business model pluralsight provides online professional tech training to individual and business customers . 5 the company pays its course authors a royalty based on how often their videos are viewed . in 2013 author scott allen became the first of its authors to earn over us 1 million in royalties from his courses . 7 venture funding edit when pluralsight first started all four of its founders contributed us 5 000 each . for the first nine years the company and its founders received no outside funding . 8 as of march 2015 the company has received us 169 million in venture funding . 9 in december 2012 the company raised us 27.5 million in series a funding from insight venture partners . 2 on march 18 2014 it received an additional us 2.5 million in series a funding . 10 on august 27 2014 it received us 135 million in series b funding from insight venture partners iconiq capital and sorenson capital reported at the time to be the largest venture funding round ever received by a utah company . 11 co founder and ceo aaron skonnard stated that after this round of funding the company s valuation had increased from less than us 100 million in 2012 to nearly us 1 billion . 3 acquisitions edit for most of its history pluralsight grew its author base and course catalog from within . starting in 2013 it has acquired a number of e learning and education companies to bolster its technology course offerings and executive leadership . on july 24 2013 it acquired peepcode a provider of open source training to developers for an undisclosed amount . this added about 100 new courses in the open source category to pluralsight s course catalog expanding it beyond its traditional realm of offerings focused mainly on developers who worked on microsoft technologies . 12 13 on august 5 2013 it acquired chicago based trainsignal a company providing training for information technology personnel for us 23.6 million . it absorbed 35 trainsignal employees and maintained its office in chicago as a satellite . 14 15 on october 31 2013 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 . other high profile authors from tekpub including jon skeet and scott hanselman also became pluralsight authors . 16 on april 9 2014 pluralsight announced it acquired digital tutors a company providing training for creative professionals for us 45 million . this acquisition expanded the company s training catalog to more than 3000 titles broadening its topic coverage to all aspects of software design computer programming maintenance and operations . 17 approximately 30 employees from digital tutors joined pluralsight . pluralsight maintained the former digital tutors headquarters in oklahoma city as a satellite office . 18 on november 19 2014 pluralsight announced it had acquired smarterer an online skills assessment platform for us 75 million . based in boston smarterer was founded in 2010 and was backed by google ventures among others . 19 smarterer founder and ceo dave balter stated that his entire 18 person staff would remain with the company . 20 on january 26 2015 pluralsight announced its acquisition of orlando based code school an online training site offering video courses and exercise based lessons related to entry level and intermediate coding and programming . 21 it was reported that the acquisition was for us 36 million . code school s office and its team of 39 full time employees remain open in orlando . 4 on july 9 2015 pluralsight announced its acquisition of hackhands for an undisclosed amount . 22 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 . the hackhands acquisition marked pluralsight s seventh deal in less than two years . 23 partnerships and community involvement edit in october 2012 microsoft and pluralsight announced a partnership making pluralsight courses available to msdn subscribers and through its dreamspark bizspark websitespark and engineer excellence programs . 2 24 the customized pluralsight starter subscription consisted of several visual studio 2012 courses . in november 2014 the two companies partnered again giving msdn subscribers a 12 month access to a selection of pluralsight s courses . 25 in may 2013 pluralsight launched a free programming coding bootcamp for kids ages 10 and up to help teach coding in school . 26 in 2014 pluralsight partnered with the state of utah s office of economic development to offer utah k 12 teachers a free one year subscription to their training library . utah governor gary herbert valued the donation between us 5 million and us 10 million . 27 28 29 pluralsight also partnered with launchcode in november 2014 to help candidates secure jobs in technology by offering one year of free access to the pluralsight course library . 30 in december 2014 the company supported the hour of code movement by hosting an hour of code for a week . more than 200 students across the state participated . 31 references edit pluralsight llc private company information businessweek . businessweek . retrieved 2014 09 12 . a b c d perez sarah . developer training platform pluralsight raises 27.5 million from insight venture partners to expand its online catalog techcrunch . techcrunch . a b kim eugene . pluralsight is worth almost a billion dollars business insider . business insider . a b perez sarah 2015 01 26 . online learning service pluralsight acquires code school for 36 million . tech crunch . a b karol gabrielle . pluralsight raises 135m to help grow enterprise customer base fox small business center . fox business network . pluralsight layton ut . inc. magazine . retrieved 2014 09 12 . lacy sarah 2013 07 08 . lessons from the first millionaire online teacher . pandodaily . rawle christopher 2015 02 04 . the rise of pluralsight . beehive startups . pluralsight crunchbase . crunchbase . mar 18 2014 pluralsight funding round series a crunchbase . retrieved 2014 09 12 . kolodny lora 2014 08 27 . e learning co. pluralsight raises 135m in record round for utah . the wall street journal . perez sarah . developer training platform pluralsight acquires peepcode to expand into open source content techcrunch . techcrunch . retrieved 2014 09 12 . learn to code company pluralsight acquires 2 competitors for 23m . venturebeat . retrieved 2014 11 26 . carr david 2013 08 05 . pluralsight buys trainsignal broadens it training lineup . informationweek . lowe scott . trainsignal acquired by pluralsight in 23.6 million deal siliconangle . silicon angle . retrieved 2014 09 12 . deamicis carmel 2013 10 30 . developers are becoming jacks of all trades . pandodaily . retrieved 2014 11 21 . pluralsight course library . pluralsight . retrieved 2014 09 13 . shieber jonathan 2014 04 09 . pluralsight buys digital tutors for 45 million to add media software training . techcrunch . castellanos sara 2014 11 19 . skills test software startup smarterer acquired for 75m . the business journals . balter dave 2014 11 20 . i sold my google backed startup for 75 million yesterday and i m scared to death . inc. o connell ainsley 2015 01 27 . pluralsight continues its acquisition spree dropping 36 million on code school . fast company . kokalitcheva kia . this company is adding on demand help to win the online education race . fortune . retrieved 30 july 2015 . weber harrison . pluralsight snaps up hackhands to offer budding coders real time support . venturebeat . retrieved 30 july 2015 . harry brian 2012 10 11 . msdn subscribers worldwide get pluralsight starter subscription brian harry s blog site home msdn blogs . msdn . askilsrud cathrine 2014 11 12 . new msdn e learning benefit pluralsight training . channel 9 . carney michael 2013 05 09 . pluralsight turns philanthropic launches free coding bootcamp in utah public schools . pandodaily . get a skills with a free year of online education . state of utah . metcalf dan . the davis clipper pluralsight a tech business magnet for davis county . the davis clipper . retrieved 2014 09 12 . pluralsight opens new headquarters launches goed initiative . 2014 08 04 . gallagher jim 2014 11 07 . pluralsight teams with launchcode . st. louis post dispatch . mills glen 2014 12 08 . governor herbert teams up with high tech industry to develop the next 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