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Accenture Acquires Award Solutions

November 25, 2024

Telecommunications

Accenture has acquired Award Solutions, a Plano, Texas-based provider of training and consulting services in advanced wireless and network technologies, including 5G, IoT, cloud, AI and network virtualization. The Award Solutions team of 29 employees will join Accenture LearnVantage to expand the company's training content and capabilities for network leaders, operations engineers and IT professionals.

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.

upGrad Acquires Talentedge; Sekhsaria Family Office Takes Stake in upGrad

April 7, 2022

Education

upGrad has completed the acquisition and integration of Talentedge through a near-100% share-swap, folding Talentedge’s higher-education and professional-learning business into the upGrad group. Talentedge was valued at INR 205 Crore (~$27M) in the transaction and the Sekhsaria Family Office (former 100% owners of Talentedge) took a stake in upGrad at a post-transaction upGrad valuation of $2.0 billion. Talentedge will continue to operate under its own brand within upGrad and is projected to cross INR 150 Crore (~$20M) in gross revenue in the coming year.

Accenture Acquires YSC Consulting

August 9, 2022

Consulting

Accenture has acquired YSC Consulting, a U.K.-headquartered leadership and CEO advisory firm, to strengthen its C-suite, board and leadership-transformation capabilities. The YSC team of more than 200 employees will join Accenture's Talent & Organization / Human Potential group; the business was acquired from Graphite Capital for undisclosed terms.

Accenture Acquires Headspring Consulting Practice

December 1, 2021

IT Services

Accenture has acquired the consulting practice of Headspring, a cloud-native platform engineering and modernization firm based in Austin, Texas. The deal brings approximately 90 Headspring cloud experts into Accenture Cloud First to expand Accenture's platform engineering and cloud-native capabilities; terms were not disclosed.

Accenture Acquires SKS Group

February 16, 2023

Consulting

Accenture has completed its acquisition of SKS Group, a Germany-based consulting firm that helps banks across Germany, Austria and Switzerland modernize technology and meet regulatory requirements using SAP S/4HANA. Approximately 500 SKS Group professionals join Accenture Technology; financial terms were not disclosed.