Public Company Software

Cornerstone OnDemand

Santa Monica, California, United States

Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy is the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform—helping organizations identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and deliver multimodal learning experiences.

Focus Areas
AI-powered workforce agility platform, Human capital management (HCM) software, Learning management systems (LMS)

Tracked deals

4

4 tracked deals across 2020-2024.

Recent pace

0

0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Addon

2 addon · 2 buyout

Cornerstone OnDemand Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 3 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 3 years for Cornerstone OnDemand. 1 2020 2 2022 1 2024

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.
    Target
    SkyHive Technologies Holdings Inc.
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Buyout

    Cornerstone OnDemand acquired the workforce skills intelligence capabilities and team from SkyHive Technologies Holdings Inc., integrating SkyHive's AI-powered skills platform and labor-market data into Cornerstone Galaxy. The deal expands Cornerstone's reskilling and talent-intelligence capabilities, adding predictive labor-market insights, automated job architecture management, and domain experts to accelerate customers' skills-based workforce transformation.

  • Buyer
    Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.
    Target
    SumTotal
    Seller
    Skillsoft
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Addon

    Cornerstone OnDemand, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has completed its acquisition of SumTotal from Skillsoft, combining two learning and talent SaaS platforms. The deal expands Cornerstone's capabilities and vertical expertise in regulated industries while bringing SumTotal's customers and technology into Cornerstone's portfolio as an add-on to the PE-backed platform.

  • Buyer
    Cornerstone OnDemand, Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.
    Target
    EdCast
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Addon

    Cornerstone OnDemand, a cloud-based talent management software provider backed by Clearlake Capital, has completed its acquisition of EdCast, a learning experience platform (LXP) provider. The deal combines Cornerstone's LMS and talent management capabilities with EdCast's AI-powered skills engine and content marketplace to create a unified, platform-agnostic people growth experience for customers worldwide.

  • Buyer
    Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.
    Target
    Saba Software
    Seller
    Vector Capital
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Buyout

    Cornerstone OnDemand agreed to acquire Saba Software, a cloud-based talent management provider and Vector Capital portfolio company. The deal was announced in February 2020 for approximately $1.395 billion (cash and stock at signing) and completed in April 2020, with Vector Capital confirming a sale value of about $1.295 billion. The acquisition expands Cornerstone’s people-development and learning portfolio by integrating Saba’s learning, performance and recruiting capabilities.

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