Ascend Learning Acquires Clover Learning

Ascend Learning Acquires Laudio

September 9, 2025

Healthcare Services

Ascend Learning has acquired Laudio, an AI-enhanced frontline leader operations platform, to expand its healthcare workforce management and leadership capabilities. The acquisition integrates Laudio’s leader operations tools into Ascend’s learning and workforce solutions to better support frontline managers and improve employee engagement and patient experience.

Accenture Acquires Ascendient Learning

May 6, 2025

Education

Accenture has acquired Ascendient Learning, a recently formed IT-training company (an amalgamation of Accelebrate, ExitCertified and Web Age Solutions) from Alpine Investors. The acquisition—bringing nearly 75 professionals into Accenture—expands Accenture’s LearnVantage capabilities in instructor-led training, vendor certifications and customized upskilling/reskilling solutions.

Ascend Learning Acquires StaffGarden

October 22, 2024

Healthcare Services

Ascend Learning has acquired StaffGarden, a cloud-based clinical talent development and compliance platform trusted by over 800 hospitals, to expand its healthcare workforce development capabilities. The acquisition will integrate StaffGarden's digital clinical ladder and competency-management tools into Ascend Learning's portfolio to help health systems address retention and professional development challenges.

Clover Imaging Group Acquires Phoenix Direct

July 21, 2022

Logistics & Distribution

Clover Imaging Group has acquired all operating assets of Phoenix Direct, LLC, a Duluth, Georgia–based eCommerce fulfillment and marketing services provider. The deal expands Clover's capabilities into end-to-end DTC fulfillment, customer service, and marketing to complement its returns management, asset renewal and redistribution platform as part of a diversification and growth strategy.

ACS Group Acquires The Ascent Services Group

December 1, 2019

Staffing & HR

ACS Group (formerly American Cybersystems) acquired The Ascent Services Group, a national IT and life sciences consulting and staffing firm, in a transaction that closed in December 2019. The acquisition — from Ascent's financial sponsor Sycamore Hill Capital Partners — expands ACS Group's geographic footprint and strengthens its IT and life-sciences staffing capabilities as ACS pushes toward the $1 billion revenue milestone.

Acendre Acquires ICS Learning Group

May 20, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Acendre, a provider of secure cloud-based talent management software, has acquired ICS Learning Group, a Pasadena, Maryland-based provider of e-learning solutions and the Asentia LMS. The acquisition integrates ICS’s LMS and custom courseware capabilities into Acendre’s talent management platform to offer a unified, end-to-end SaaS solution for regulated industries.