SterlingBackcheck, a background screening company, acquired Cleveland, Ohio-based EmployeeScreenIQ, a provider of employment background checks and substance abuse screening services.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The company now operates as EmployeeScreenIQ, a SterlingBackcheck Company.

SterlingBackcheck has 3,000 employees in 10 offices located in five countries; EmployeeScreenIQ counts approximately 80 employees.

The merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs and La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in June acquired a majority interest in SterlingBackcheck. Goldman Sachs and CDPQ replaced Calera Capital, a private equity firm based in San Francisco and Boston.