Payscale Acquires Datapeople

Paylocity Acquires Grayscale Labs

April 11, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

Paylocity announced it has acquired Grayscale Labs to strengthen its AI-powered recruiting capabilities, especially for high-volume hiring organizations. The acquisition will integrate Grayscale’s recruiting automation technology into Paylocity’s human capital management platform to help employers engage candidates earlier and move faster through recruiting workflows.

Workday Acquires HiredScore

February 27, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Workday has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HiredScore, an AI-powered talent orchestration company focused on recruiting and internal mobility. The combined offering is intended to integrate Workday’s talent products with HiredScore’s responsible AI technology to improve talent acquisition and talent lifecycle outcomes. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of Workday’s fiscal year 2025 (ending April 30, 2024), subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

Payscale Acquires Agora Solutions

November 15, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Payscale, the Seattle-based provider of compensation data, software and services, has acquired Agora Solutions Inc., a provider of dynamic offer communications, total rewards and employee pay portals. The acquisition brings Agora's people-analytics and total-rewards communication capabilities into Payscale's platform to expand its pay-transparency and total-rewards offerings for employers.

HireRoad Acquires PeopleInsight

August 22, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

HireRoad, a Strattam Capital–backed provider of cloud-native talent management software, has acquired PeopleInsight, a workforce/HR analytics SaaS provider. The deal adds PeopleInsight's multi-source people analytics and data-unification capabilities to HireRoad's platform to accelerate analytics functionality for mid-market customers and expand HireRoad's global offerings.

PRO Unlimited Acquires PeopleTicker

January 12, 2021

Staffing & HR

PRO Unlimited, a global contingent workforce management provider, has acquired PeopleTicker, a compensation-data and market-rate intelligence firm. The acquisition integrates PeopleTicker's data science and global rate intelligence into PRO's VMS, MSP and RatePoint SaaS offerings to strengthen PRO's contingent workforce management platform and deliver expanded benchmarking and rate-intelligence capabilities to enterprise clients.

Francisco Partners Acquires Majority Stake in PayScale

April 25, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Francisco Partners has made a majority growth investment in PayScale, Inc., valuing the Seattle-based SaaS compensation data and analytics provider at an enterprise value of $325 million. Warburg Pincus is exiting its investment as part of the transaction, and the capital will be used to support PayScale’s product innovation and growth.