Spotlight AR Acquires Captivate Collective

Stone-Goff Partners Invests in Spotlight AR

December 8, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Stone-Goff Partners made a growth investment in Spotlight AR alongside the company's founding partners to support expansion of sales and marketing, continued development of its proprietary analyst relations platform, and potential acquisitions. Spotlight AR, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, serves more than 100 clients and has over 125 employees.

Lightcast Acquires Skill Collective

September 4, 2025

Consulting

Lightcast has acquired UK-based consultancy Skill Collective to combine Skill Collective's workforce transformation consulting with Lightcast's global skills intelligence and data platform. Skill Collective will operate as "Skill Collective – a Lightcast Company," continuing consulting engagements while gaining access to Lightcast's taxonomy, labor-market insight, and infrastructure to scale skills transformation for enterprise clients.

Global Acquires Captivate Podcast Hosting Platform

December 20, 2021

Media & Entertainment

Global, the UK media and entertainment group, has acquired podcast hosting, analytics and monetization platform Captivate. The Captivate platform and its founders will be integrated into Global's Global Player and DAX ad stack to expand distribution and monetization options for podcasters.

Publicis Groupe Acquires Captiv8

May 21, 2025

Marketing & Advertising

Publicis Groupe has acquired Captiv8, a leading end-to-end influencer marketing platform, to strengthen its connected influencer and social commerce capabilities. Captiv8 — active in 120 countries with a network of ~15 million creators and AI-powered technology — will be integrated within Publicis Connected Media and combined with Influential and Epsilon to build a large-scale, identity‑powered influencer offering.

Cornerstone Acquires Talespin's Extended Reality Capabilities and Team

March 19, 2024

Software

Cornerstone OnDemand has acquired the extended reality (XR) learning capabilities and a team of specialized experts from Talespin to integrate immersive, AI-powered content authoring and skills analytics into its learning and talent experience platform. The acquisition adds Talespin’s XR experiences, CoPilot Designer no-code authoring tool, and generative AI learning labs to Cornerstone’s content subscriptions to accelerate immersive learning adoption across healthcare, manufacturing, retail and finance customers.

Arc (EagleTree Capital Portfolio) Acquires Touchpoint Markets

July 8, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Touchpoint Markets has been acquired by Arc, a B2B events, data and media platform backed by EagleTree Capital. The acquisition brings Touchpoint’s portfolio of industry brands (including ThinkAdvisor, BenefitsPRO, PropertyCasualty360, GlobeSt, and Credit Union Times) into the Arc network to accelerate growth across events, data/subscription products and lead-generation services.