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On December 16, 2019, it was announced that the company would acquire Linux Academy. The company asserted that the acquisition would make it "the largest cloud computing training library in the world".
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and related technologies. Most of the courses offered prepare students to take certification exams for the three major cloud providers (
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In July 2016, Ant Stanley left A Cloud Guru, leaving Melbourne brothers Sam and Ryan to run the business.
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A Cloud Guru raised $ 7 million in funding in July 2017, and an additional $ 33 million in April 2019.
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in April 2021. The acquisition of both Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru by the
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in a deal that valued the company at more than $ 2 billion.
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is an online learning platform that specializes in teaching
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Index

Vista Equity Partners
Founder(s)
CEO
e-learning
acloudguru.com
cloud computing
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services
London, United Kingdom
Vista Equity Partners
Pluralsight
Vista Equity Partners
Pluralsight
private equity firm
rollup
Pluralsight
Vista Equity Partners
"A CLOUD GURU LTD - Officers (free information from Companies House)"
"The last fourteen months"
"A Cloud Guru raises $ 7 million in its first round of funding"
"A Cloud Guru raises $ 33M growth equity round led by Summit Partners to scale its leading online cloud training platform for enterprises and cloud professionals"
"Austin IT company A Cloud Guru acquires Fort Worth-based tech firm"
Austin American-Statesman
Gannett
"A Cloud Guru Acquires largest competitor, Linux Academy"
The Australian
News Corp Australia
"Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru to Accelerate Solving the Single Biggest Challenge in IT Today: The Growing Cloud Skills Gap"
Pluralsight

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