Brisbane office studying platform Go1 has acquired five-year-old rival British content material curation startup Anders Pink.

The deal went via late final yr for an undisclosed sum amid as a part of Go1’s push into the European market after additionally buying Swiss-French edtech Coorpacademy, which delivers French and German language content material.

It was a busy yr for Go1, which doubled its valuation to A$2.8 billion after $100 million elevate final July.

Anders Pink companions with a number of office studying content material creators, together with Go1, to make automated suggestions to customers on what to review subsequent to enhance their job abilities.

North America is Go1’s largest market, however CEO Andrew Barnes now has his deal with constructing out the European enterprise.

“The acquisition accelerates our means to ship and uncover the world’s finest studying content material for people, groups and organisations, serving to them obtain their studying targets,” he mentioned.

“Go1’s imaginative and prescient is to have interaction a billion learners and this represents an necessary milestone on this journey”.

In 2022, the corporate signed greater than 65 partnerships globally, reaching practically 10 million learners. Buyer numbers doubled, year-on-year.

Anders Pink has round 1 million learners utilizing its platform, with a shopper base that features Spotify, Scania and Hitachi. It integrates with a number of studying platforms and studying administration system suppliers together with Degreed, Docebo, D2L Brightspace, Fuse and Totara.

It was cofounded serial entrepreneur Stephen Walsh , who beforehand based Kineo, BuzzSumo. alongside his former Kineo MD, Steve Rayson. Anders Pink Managing Director Michelle Hazelton mentioned the strategic focus of the 2 firms aligned.

“Go1 and Anders Pink have a shared objective to curate the world’s finest studying content material, in any studying platform, for the world’s main organisations,” he mentioned.

“By the acquisition, we’re gaining the power to drive larger market affect at important scale.”

Go1’s backers embody Sydney edtech funding fund 5 Sigma, AirTree, Blue Cloud, Madrona, Salesforce Ventures, SoftBank Imaginative and prescient Fund 2, Larsen Ventures, Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger International, Steve Baxter’s TEN13, Microsoft’s enterprise fund M12, SEEK and Y Combinator.

The Brisbane startup beforehand raised US$200 million (A$273m) in a Sequence D in July 2021 and has now raised round US$400 million.