Lightcast Acquires Skill Collective

Lightcast Acquires Simply, UK Workforce Analytics Firm

October 1, 2025

Data & Analytics

Lightcast has acquired Simply (Simply Get Results), a UK-based workforce analytics and skills intelligence provider, and will integrate the Simply team into its Skill Collective consulting arm. The acquisition expands Lightcast's consulting capabilities and global reach in skills-driven workforce planning by combining Simply's data-driven workforce planning services with Lightcast's labor market intelligence platform.

Lightcast Acquires Rhetorik to Expand Global People and Company Intelligence

July 8, 2025

Data & Analytics

Lightcast has acquired UK-based Rhetorik to expand its people, company, and labor market intelligence by integrating Rhetorik’s privacy-first contact and company data. The acquisition strengthens Lightcast’s data capabilities across recruiting, sales, marketing, education, and government, with Rhetorik CEO Meredith Amdur joining Lightcast as a Strategic Advisor.

Lightcast Acquires UK Talent Intelligence Provider Stratigens

August 27, 2024

Data & Analytics

Lightcast, a provider of global labor market data backed by KKR, has acquired UK-based talent intelligence firm Stratigens. The acquisition adds Stratigens' data science team and profiles data to Lightcast's labor market analytics capabilities and expands its presence in Europe; Stratigens founder Alison Ettridge will join Lightcast as Director of Global Talent Intelligence.

Multiverse Acquires Searchlight

April 8, 2024

Software

EdTech company Multiverse has acquired Searchlight, a California-based talent intelligence and skills assessment platform that uses AI to match candidates and close skills gaps. The acquisition will integrate Searchlight's bias-free AI and talent intelligence into Multiverse's apprenticeship and upskilling platform to accelerate AI-driven skills diagnosis and training delivery.

Lightcast Acquires Gazelle

April 12, 2023

Data & Analytics

Lightcast, a KKR-backed labor market data and analytics provider, has acquired Montreal-based business intelligence platform Gazelle (Gazelle.ai). The acquisition will integrate Gazelle's company-level predictive AI and business data into Lightcast's labor analytics products to expand capabilities for economic developers, commercial real estate brokers, and corporate sales teams; financial terms were not disclosed.

Talent Systems Acquires Spotlight

January 21, 2021

Media & Entertainment

Talent Systems, a Caltius Equity Partners portfolio company headquartered in Los Angeles, has acquired Spotlight, the leading UK online casting platform founded in 1927. The acquisition is Talent Systems' fourth strategic buy since 2017 and is intended to strengthen its market position and product offerings for casting directors, agents and performers worldwide.