M&A Deal Summary

HSI Acquires Vado

On November 3, 2020, HSI acquired education company Vado

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is HSI’s 5th transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is HSI’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is HSI’s 2nd transaction in Minnesota.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2020-11-03
Target Vado
Sector Education
Buyer(s) HSI
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Vado

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Vado, Inc. is an e-learning courseware provider specializing in management development, employee business skills, and sexual harassment topics. Vado is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Buyer

HSI

Frisco, Texas, United States
Category Company
Founded 1978
Sector Education
DESCRIPTION

HSI provides a comprehensive set of health and safety solutions to help its customers meet their training and compliance requirements. HSI offers more than 780 training courses for emergency care, workplace safety, health & safety services, and professional responders. HSI also provides hands-on training via 51,300 authorized affiliate instructors and 13,200 third-party training centers in the U.S. and Canada. HSI also offers a proprietary management system platform that tracks customers’ health & safety programs and employee compliance. HSI was founded in 1978 and is based in Frisco, Texas.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 12
Sector (Education) 5 of 7
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 8 of 12
State (Minnesota) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 8 of 11
Year (2020) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-10-06 SOS Intl

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

SOS Intl LLC offers training and compliance solutions for distribution, transmission, generation, and power markets for some of the largest and most critical electric utilities in the world. Highly skilled and experienced subject matter experts track, translate, and train on standards to manage risk and ensure reliability and resiliency of power grids in North America and abroad.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-01-12 ej4

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

ej4 LLC offers an online training curriculum for essential employee business skills and workplace compliance topics. The ej4 catalog of more than 1,500 courses spans subject areas including: employee business skills, workplace compliance, software skills, banking compliance, cybersecurity and career planning. ej4 LLC was founded in 2004 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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