Learning Pool (Marlin Portfolio) Acquires WorkRamp

Marlin Equity Partners Completes Majority Growth Investment in Learning Pool

June 16, 2021

Education

Marlin Equity Partners has agreed to a majority growth investment in Learning Pool, acquiring the shareholding of Carlyle Cardinal Ireland to support the eLearning provider's continued organic and inorganic growth. The investment will back product and geographic expansion, additional acquisitions and hiring (Learning Pool currently has ~260 employees and plans to add 100 more), while Learning Pool's management has reinvested alongside the transaction.

Learning Pool (Marlin Equity Partners) Acquires People-Analytix

October 11, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Marlin Equity Partners announced the acquisition of Switzerland-based People-Analytix AG, an AI-driven employee skills management platform, which will be merged into Learning Pool, a Marlin portfolio company. The deal adds People-Analytix's multilingual skills ontology and AI capabilities to Learning Pool's eLearning and talent development offerings to better identify skills gaps and match employees to jobs, projects and learning.

Learning Pool (Marlin portfolio company) Acquires Elucidat

October 23, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Learning Pool, a Marlin Equity Partners portfolio company, has acquired Elucidat Ltd., a cloud-based elearning authoring platform. The deal combines Learning Pool's analytics and platform capabilities with Elucidat's scalable, AI-assisted content authoring to expand Learning Pool's end-to-end learning product suite and accelerate growth following its recent WorkRamp acquisition.

Learning Pool Acquires True Office Learning

January 6, 2022

Education

Learning Pool, a Marlin Equity Partners portfolio company, has acquired True Office Learning, a New York–based adaptive compliance eLearning and behavioral intelligence provider. The deal expands Learning Pool's governance, risk and compliance (GRC) capabilities and bolsters its North American footprint by adding True Office's adaptive compliance technology and content.

Learning Pool Acquires Remote Learner to Accelerate US Expansion

December 17, 2020

Software

Learning Pool, a PE-backed learning technology group, has acquired Remote Learner, a Denver-based LMS specialist, to grow its North American presence and add capability to its portfolio. Remote Learner — which has around 35 staff and 300+ customers including Indeed and Royal Caribbean — will be led by Dr. Page Chen as CEO and join the Learning Pool Group board.

WorkRamp Acquires The Enablement Squad

May 18, 2022

Education

WorkRamp, the San Francisco–based learning platform, has acquired The Enablement Squad, an online community for enablement professionals. The acquisition is intended to accelerate WorkRamp's community-building efforts and expand resources, events, and programming for enablement and training leaders.