Infobase Acquires Purple Briefcase to Expand Firsthand Career Engagement Platform

Infobase Acquires Firsthand

January 12, 2021

Education

Infobase has acquired Firsthand, a career mentoring and alumni engagement platform, and will merge it into its Vault brand to create an integrated employer-branding and career-readiness offering. Infobase — a portfolio company of Centre Lane Partners — expects the combination to fuse Vault's career content and rankings with Firsthand's engagement tools to expand capabilities for students, alumni and employers.

Vault-Firsthand Acquires CareerEco

July 5, 2022

Education

Vault-Firsthand, an Infobase company based in New York, acquired CareerEco, a virtual recruiting and events platform, to integrate its scalable self-service virtual events technology across Vault-Firsthand’s education and employer customers. The deal is intended to enable cross-selling, expand virtual/hybrid recruiting capabilities, and enhance career services offered to universities, employers, and jobseekers.

Northlane Capital Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Infobase

June 15, 2022

Education

Northlane Capital Partners has made a majority investment in Infobase, a New York–based provider of cloud-based educational content and learning platforms. Centre Lane Partners and Infobase management retain significant continued equity, and NCP will support Infobase's growth and M&A initiatives to expand its position in K–12, higher education and corporate learning markets.

Infobase Acquires Hoonuit Professional Development & Training Platform

July 7, 2020

Education

Infobase, a Centre Lane Partners portfolio company, has acquired Hoonuit's Professional Development and Training Platform, including more than 1,600 courses and extensive video content. The purchase adds capability for professional development, micro-credentials, and learning delivery to Infobase's Learning Ecosystem while allowing Hoonuit to refocus on its analytics and data-management offerings.

Infobase Acquires Omnigraphics

January 19, 2022

Education

Infobase, a Centre Lane Partners portfolio company, has acquired Omnigraphics, a Detroit-based publisher of authoritative health and reference content. The acquisition expands Infobase's editorial capabilities and adds Omnigraphics' health, disability, teen health, teen finance and diversity reference collections to Infobase's library and classroom-focused product portfolio.

Think Research Corporation Acquires MDBriefCase Group Inc.

January 18, 2021

Healthcare Services

Think Research Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of MDBriefCase Group Inc., a provider of online continuing medical education (CME) and learning management services for clinicians. The transaction consideration includes approximately C$24.0M in common shares and C$1.3M in cash; MDBriefCase shareholders include funds affiliated with Persistence Capital Partners and Jason Flowerday.