Tracked deals
5
5 tracked deals across 2023-2025.
Operating Company
Business Services
Lightcast
Moscow, Idaho, United States
Global labor market intelligence provider offering labor-market and skills data, software, and consulting for businesses, education institutions, and governments (formerly Emsi Burning Glass).
- Focus Areas
- Labor market intelligence, Workforce analytics, Skills intelligence
- Website
- lightcast.io
Recent pace
0
0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.
Deal mix
Buyout
5 buyout
Lightcast Acquisition Volume by Year
Last 3 years
Supporting Data
Recent Transactions
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October 1, 2025
- Buyer
- Lightcast
- Target
- Simply (Simply Get Results)
- Industry
- Data & Analytics
- Location
- England, United Kingdom
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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September 4, 2025
- Buyer
- Lightcast
- Target
- Skill Collective
- Industry
- Consulting
- Location
- England, United Kingdom
- Type
- Buyout
Lightcast has acquired UK-based consultancy Skill Collective to combine Skill Collective's workforce transformation consulting with Lightcast's global skills intelligence and data platform. Skill Collective will operate as "Skill Collective – a Lightcast Company," continuing consulting engagements while gaining access to Lightcast's taxonomy, labor-market insight, and infrastructure to scale skills transformation for enterprise clients.
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- Buyer
- Lightcast
- Target
- Rhetorik
- Industry
- Data & Analytics
- Location
- Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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August 27, 2024
- Buyer
- Lightcast
- Target
- Stratigens
- Industry
- Data & Analytics
- Location
- Wales, United Kingdom
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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April 12, 2023
- Buyer
- Lightcast
- Target
- Gazelle
- Industry
- Data & Analytics
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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