Venture-backed Visier buys French skills mapping engine Boostrs

• Boostrs technology will enable Visier to provide broader and deeper insights and benchmarks for skills across the talent lifecycle
• Visier has hired 10 Boostrs engineers and data scientists, who will continue to work in Paris and Romania, with the Paris office becoming a Visier satellite office
• Visier’s global workforce now spans France, Germany, the UK, Canada and the US

Visier, a Vancouver-based provider of business intelligence applications focused on workforce analytics, has acquired Boostrs, a Paris-based API-first skills mapping engine. No financial terms were disclosed.

Boostrs technology will enable Visier to provide broader and deeper insights and benchmarks for skills across the talent lifecycle.

“Boostrs has built an incredibly powerful jobs and skills mapping engine that we’re excited to make available to our customers,” said Ryan Wong, co-founder and CEO of Visier, in a statement. “Adding Boostrs to Visier’s technology stack gives our customers an essential linkage for closing the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need to survive and thrive in changing market landscapes.”

In addition to the acquisition of Boostrs technology assets, Visier has hired 10 Boostrs engineers and data scientists, who will continue to work in Paris and Romania, with the Paris office becoming a Visier satellite office. This adds to Visier’s global workforce, which now spans France, Germany, the UK, Canada and the US.

Visier was founded in 2010. The company has more than 25,000 customers in 75 countries around the world, including enterprises like BASF, Bridgestone, Electronic Arts, McKesson, MerckKGaA and Uber.

Last year, Visier closed a $125 million Series E financing led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which joined existing investors Sorenson Capital, Foundation Capital, Summit Partners and Adams Street Partners.