Handshake Acquires Talentspace

Escalent Acquires C Space and Hall & Partners

April 12, 2023

Data & Analytics

Escalent, a PE-backed data analytics and advisory firm, has acquired C Space (Boston) and Hall & Partners (London) from Omnicom to build a larger global market insights platform. The deal combines complementary customer-insight, community and brand-research capabilities (and proprietary technology) under Escalent — supported by financial sponsor STG — to expand scale and service offerings across major end markets.

Phenom Acquires Tandemploy

February 3, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Phenom acquired Berlin-based HR tech company Tandemploy to enhance its AI-powered Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform and add internal mobility and talent-matching capabilities. The deal establishes a second German office for Phenom and expands its European footprint while transitioning Tandemploy's team, including its co-founders, into Phenom.

Handshake Acquires Cleanlab

January 29, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

Handshake has acquired Cleanlab to integrate Cleanlab’s data-quality, confident learning, and LLM-evaluation research and technologies into Handshake’s talent and AI services. The acquisition positions Handshake to offer stronger data-quality and model-evaluation capabilities to frontier AI labs and enterprise customers, while Cleanlab’s open-source package will remain available under a more permissive Apache-2.0 license.

HR Path Acquires Talent at Work GmbH

January 23, 2025

Consulting

HR Path has acquired Talent at Work GmbH, a German leadership training, coaching and consulting firm, to strengthen its presence in Germany and broaden its leadership development capabilities. The move integrates Talent at Work's expertise into HR Path's global HR consulting and HRIS services, supporting the firm’s expansion across Europe.

BV Investment Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Talent, Inc.

January 14, 2021

Professional Services

BV Investment Partners has made a majority investment in Talent, Inc., a New York–based provider of tech-enabled career services operating brands including TopResume and TopCV. The investment will support Talent's management team and accelerate brand/channel expansion, international growth and M&A opportunities.

TalentNeuron Acquires HRForecast

October 24, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

TalentNeuron, a Leeds Equity portfolio company, has acquired HRForecast, a Munich-based provider of strategic workforce planning and skills management software. The deal combines HRForecast's workforce-planning and internal talent marketplace capabilities with TalentNeuron's global labor market data to create an end-to-end strategic workforce planning platform; HRForecast will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of TalentNeuron.