MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Culture Amp, the world's leading employee experience platform, announced today that it has acquired cultural values recognition company, Disco. Disco helps companies recognize and celebrate values-driven work, foster team appreciation and improve company culture across distributed teams.
Together the two companies will accelerate their shared vision of creating a better world of work by helping people feel more connected, valued, and engaged at a critical time for organizations.
The acquisition continues to enhance Culture Amp's end-to-end employee experience platform, as it empowers companies to transform employee engagement, develop high performing teams, and retain talent.
"Values are at the heart of powerful cultures. Disco has pioneered a wonderfully simple yet powerful way of recognizing them every day," said Didier Elzinga, CEO and co-founder of Culture Amp. "Critical to creating a better world of work is improving how we work. This acquisition allows us to expand the tools available to our customers to recognize their values at work, to bolster our flow of work and integration expertise, and to drive meaningful change and deeper insights across organizations."
Jeremy Vandehey, former CEO of Disco, now a Director of Product at Culture Amp, added, "We are incredibly excited to join forces with Culture Amp and to have the opportunity to help thousands of companies enable values-driven work, build engagement, and foster team appreciation. That is why we founded Disco and we see an opportunity to rapidly accelerate what we set out to do by being part of Culture Amp."
"Culture Amp has been a great partner as we continue scaling our team engagement programs," said Chris Low, Canva's Head of Vibe. "We've also been using Disco to foster a continued sense of community and celebration, particularly while we're all working remotely. Celebrating kudos and sharing the success of others is a huge part of Canva's values-driven culture."
About Culture Amp
Culture Amp revolutionizes how over 25 million employees across 4,500 companies create a better world of work. As the global platform leader for employee experience, Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, develop high performing teams, and retain talent via cutting-edge research, powerful technology, and the largest employee dataset in the world. The most innovative companies across the globe, such as Salesforce, Unilever, PwC, KIND, SoulCycle, and BigCommerce depend on Culture Amp everyday.
Culture Amp is backed by 10 years of innovation, leading venture capital funds, and offices in the U.S, U.K, and Australia. Culture Amp is recognized as one of the world's top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative workplace companies by Fast Company.
Learn more about how Culture Amp can help you create a better world of work at cultureamp.com.
About Disco
Disco helps thousands of companies celebrate and digitize their culture and values through real-time recognition in the flow of work. Founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Jeremy Vanderhey, Justin Vanderhey and Joseph Estrada, Disco is an essential app in Slack and Microsoft Teams that helps employees feel more appreciated for their work while streamlining HR workflows and culture programs. Disco gives employee experience and people managers powerful reporting to identify employees driving and/or disconnecting from the culture.
Disco is backed by top investors and advisors including General Catalyst, All Turtles and Slack, delivering a transformational employee engagement platform that fosters daily employee engagement & adoption. Learn more at values.justdisco.com.
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