With Small Add-On To Its $135 Million Raise, Lynda.com Rival Pluralsight Takes Odd Approach To VC

While LinkedIn took one major online education company off the market today by acquiring lynda.com for $1.5 billion, another online learning company with a valuation close to billion-dollar status was making an unusual move of its own. Pluralsight announced it had raised $5 million from a venture firm, Felicis Ventures, and a broker dealer, GSV Advisors. The money isn’t eye-popping. But for a company with more than $160 million raised to date and a post-money valuation of more than $900 millio...