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Farmington, Utah-based Pluralsight recently announced an agreement to buy Durango, Colorado-based developer productivity platform GitPrime for $170 million in cash. Pluralsight is essentially an enterprise technology skills platform that delivers a unified and an end-to-end learning experience for businesses across the globe. Pluralsight offers members with on-demand access to a digital ecosystem of learning tools like Pluralsight IQ, directed learning paths, expert-authored courses, interactive labs, and analytics.
What is GitPrime? GitPrime is connected to every major code repository being used today including GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and others. And due to this broad coverage, GitPrime is able to capture data around virtually every developer code commit. Plus it provides a clear and unbiased view of the application of their skills in real-time. Plus GitPrime provides deep and analytical insights around the efficiency and performance of software development teams.
GitPrime also helps organizations of any size use data to debug their development processes so engineers are able to spend less time waiting on others and more time working on what matters. Customers use GitPrime to keep a pulse on the health and productivity of their teams. And GitPrime aggregates data from git repos, ticketing systems, and pull requests and transforms them into easy-to-understand insights and reports.
Pluralsight was founded by CEO Aaron Skonnard, content advisor Fritz Onion, and Keith Sparkjoy. And GitPrime was launched by CMO Ben Thompson and CEO Travis Kimmel.
“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 Skonnard in a statement. “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.”
Pluralsight enables technology leaders to benchmark the talent of their teams, empower team members to develop new skills and measure the proficiency of their team members through Skill and Role IQ. And with the addition of GitPrime, they now have visibility into the application of those skills and the results they produce. Combined, Pluralsight and GitPrime are going to create an entirely new way to measure and improve developer productivity and performance — which solves an age-old problem that plagued technology leaders for decades.
“I’m extremely proud of what the GitPrime team has accomplished to date for engineering teams and leaders,” added Kimmel. “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.”
GitPrime participated in Y Combinators Winter 2016 class and the company raised over $10 million in funding. Pluralsight went public last year. And this was Pluralsight’s first acquisition since going public.
