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LinkedIn to acquire employment engagement platform Glint

October 08, 2018

LinkedIn agreed to acquire employment engagement and retention platform Glint. The acquisition extends LinkedIn’s offerings to include visibility into the overall health and productivity of the people within an organization, as well as recruitment strategies.

Glint is based in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in London, UK, and Lincoln, Neb. The firm has more than 300 customers globally using its enterprise-grade, AI-driven platform. Its client firms include United, Intuit and Commercial Bank of Dubai.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. However, TechCrunch reported Glint raised nearly $80 million — including rounds of $27 million and $20 million in the last two years — and was valued at about $220 million in its last round, according to PitchBook. 

“We believe that Glint has uncovered a modern HR best practice that every company should do: Regularly gather employee feedback on work, culture and leadership, and give leaders the tools they need to translate those insights into action,” Dan Shapero, VP of LinkedIn careers, learning and talent solutions, wrote in a blog post today.

Glint will operate as a team within LinkedIn, which plans to integrate the teams functionally over the next 12 to 18 months. Glint CEO and founder Jim Barnett will report to Shapero. All Glint executives will continue to report to Barnett with the exception of HR, finance, information security and legal, who will join the functional teams at LinkedIn.

“Our insights into people success, along with LinkedIn’s insights into the broader workforce, will be a powerful combination that can help customers attract, develop, and retain the best talent,” Barnett wrote in a separate blog post.