Pluralsight Acquires Digital-Tutors.

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Farmington - PLURALSIGHT acquired Oklahoma City-based Digital-Tutors, an online training resource for creative professionals. The $45 million acquisition--Pluralsight's fourth in eight months--marks the company's debut in the creative space. Digital-Tutors had more than 1,500 creative skills courses, which will double Pluralsight's catalog of more than 1,400 developer- and IT-oriented courses.

Pluralsight experienced triple-digit growth in 2013 and is on trajectory to do the same in 2014. In the last eight months, the company acquired three other online learning platforms: PeepCode. a provider of open-source developer courses; Tekpub, a screencast publisher for developers; and TrainSignal, an IT training company that came to Pluralsight in a $23.6 million deal. The Digital-Tutors purchase is Pluralsight's largest to date.

"Bringing Digital-Tutors on board has positioned Pluralsight as a complete solution for professional technology and creative skills training," says Pluralsight CEO and co-founder Aaron Skonnard. "In the competitive e-learning space, where sites like Lynda.com have brought...