Talent Garden, the international community of digital innovators, consolidates the digital education market with the acquisition of one of the largest European digital business schools: Hyper Island.
After having established itself by bringing the coworking model to Italy, which has always been interpreted in its value of networking and development of skills beyond space, Talent Garden has also grown significantly in the world of digital education aimed at students, professionals and large European companies. . With this operation, it further strengthens its focus on digital education, which becomes 80% of the business.
Hyper Island, with more than 25 years of history in digital education, headquartered in Sweden, also present in the UK, Singapore, Brazil and North America and Asia Pacific, is a business school specializing in digital education with an offer of accredited education programs , part-time and full-time (Masters), as well as intensive courses aimed at executives of large companies, with a view to training that increases the levels of knowledge and understanding of digital culture, transformation technologies and how these influence the conception, execution, processes and collaboration with customers and business models.
At the closing of the transaction, scheduled for early December, Talent Garden will acquire control of 54% of Hyper Island, with the option to rise to 100% in the coming years.
Talent Garden, which in recent years has been able to demonstrate the ability to evolve in its e-learning platform strategy and to continue to grow even “stand alone”, with the acquisition of Hyper Island expands in terms of geographical footprint passing from 8 to 12 markets, consolidating the “nordics” market and opening up to the UK (both London and Manchester) as well as the global presence of Singapore, Brazil and North America and Asia Pacific and doubling the team reaching 250 employees. A new structural dimension that lays the foundations to give an even more effective execution to the industrial plan for the next three years.
A European player whose leadership in Education is confirmed in the numbers: 50 million revenues expected in 2022, 20,000 professionals from large companies trained per year, 5,000 students entered the job market with 98% placement rates and more than 4,500 supported startups and digital innovators. Active partnerships with more than 150 large companies around the world for reskilling and upskilling plans. In addition, a distributed geographical presence where Italy is worth 35%, the Nordics 35% and the remaining 30% distributed between Spain, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria, Singapore and Brazil.
In this context, the Talent Garden Group has developed a complete training offer which is divided into three main segments:
- Business to Consumer: Training courses in the world of digital work and professional learning for students and professionals
- Business to Business: digitalization training programs for large companies with upskilling and reskilling programs
- Business to Government: professional courses subsidized by governments for updating the skills of citizens and workers
Davide Dattoli, founder and President of Talent Garden: “Education is the great social and economic challenge of our century, since our origins we have looked at the value of communities, focusing on digital training as a lever to generate new talents and help companies in the digital transformation. Today in the meeting with Hyper Island our project takes a new leap of scale. In an extremely crucial but also fragmented market, we are even more ready to act as aggregators and game changers to raise the level of training for the benefit of the many workers, current and future, who live in the time of digital transition “and adds:” A role and a mission that grows in opportunities but also in complexity and to manage it strategically and effectively we have defined a new governance with the important entry of Irene Boni as Chief Executive Officer. Thanks to her proven experience in digital and integration management, Irene will work alongside Lorenzo Maternini and mine as well as all of our management, ensuring the best execution of the Group’s growth strategy “.
Irene Boni, new CEO of Talent Garden: “I am thrilled to join Talent Garden, a dynamic company strongly committed to impact on people and organizations. Having had the privilege of experiencing the digital transformation potential firsthand, I am convinced that my contribution takes on even more significance in this moment when the vision of the founders is preparing to express its full potential. Talent Garden has the opportunity to grow significantly in the world of European digital education by helping talents to train and large companies to benefit from the digitization process, which is certainly technological, but even more a theme of people “.