London (UK), July 2019 - Degreed, a leading workforce learning and skill-tracking platform, has announced it raised $35 million in equity funding from existing investors Owl Ventures, Jump Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, and GSV Accelerate, along with new investor Alliance Bernstein. Degreed also closed a $40 million venture debt facility with Alliance Bernstein Growth Stage Capital.

London (UK), July 2019 - Dedicated to developing new topics, alongside managing existing content, MicroLearn's Creative team have created nine brand new courses to be released in July 2019. The additions increase the size of their off-the-shelf catalogue to over 150 titles.

Bournemouth (UK), July 2019 - Unicorn LMS 8.5 brings improvements to many existing features, with enhanced form functionality with new fields and email options, as well as introducing better ways to report on them. Unicorn continues to update eCreator, making it even easier to design content. There have been improvements to My Team Activity for tracking Team activity progress. This release also sees the introduction of the Qualification Portlet enhancing the Qualification functionality of the LMS.

Paris (F), July 2019 - Cegos, a worldwide provider in training and development, and Leapest, an EdCast company that offers a B2B marketplace for training resources, have signed a partnership agreement. Through this new partnership, the business buyers on Leapest marketplace will now have access to Cegos' eLearning catalog on soft skills (including HTML5 training modules). This premium content will be available to Leapest customers worldwide.

Karlsruhe (GER) / New York, NY (USA), July 2019 - time4you GmbH has yet another award to celebrate. This time, the company was awarded second place in the IELA, the International E-Learning Award 2019. The prize is awarded annually to the most successful applications, solutions, and products in the following categories: eLearning, Blended Learning, and Mobile Learning.

London (UK), June 2019 - JLG Industries, an OshKosh Company, a designer and manufacturer of lift and access equipment, has engaged thousands of learners by upgrading to a scalable, flexible Totara Learn solution.

Haymarket (AU), June 2019 - Blue Prism, specialists in robotic process automation (RPA), has made DDLS, an Australian provider of corporate IT training, their newest training partner in Australia. With the arrival of the fourth industrial revolution, RPA is one of the foundation pillars for enterprise digital transformation as it hurtles towards a hyper-connected economy.

Barcelona (E), June 2019 – Talentsoft, a European provider in learning and human capital  management software, has announced the integration of Microsoft Graph data connect with its application to disrupt the way organizations handle HR and talent management. By integrating Graph data connect, the tool that analyses all data from Microsoft Office 365, Talentsoft goes further in creating opportunities and building successful teams while respecting employee privacy.

Nottingham (UK), June 2019 - The online learning company Learning Pool has announced the acquisition of HT2 Labs, the Oxfordshire-based learning innovation company best known for its market-leading Learning Locker and Curator products. The acquisition complements and strengthens Learning Pool's own portfolio of innovative technology, whilst further expanding its domestic and international operations with offices near Oxford, UK and Boston, MA, USA.