Recap 📰

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CareerShift 🔍, a career discovery and research tool supporting students in their early-stage search and networking efforts, has been acquired by Springshare 📖, a leading SaaS platform purpose-built to transform how libraries manage all their operations.

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So, Why ❔

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Adding CareerShift to the Springshare platform opens up new collaboration opportunities for libraries and career services.

Summarized by Springshare’s CEO Slaven Zivkovic, “the CareerShift platform is an incredibly helpful and valuable tool for job seekers and is already used at hundreds of college and university career services offices. The platform also holds great potential with our public libraries – vibrant community hubs – to assist librarians as they seek to help patrons with career and company research.

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Some Thoughts:

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Working alongside the CareerShift and Springshare teams to close this transaction highlighted just how vital collaboration and the right buyer-seller fit are in any M&A deal.

It was great partnering such visionary teams, and I’m excited to see the growth opportunities this acquisition will unlock for both groups.

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Justin Downey, Co-Founder + Partner at Clearpact

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Some love:

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What’s the real barometer to judge a job well done? Feedback from someone who’s done it 100x. So, here’s some we got from our legal counsel. I had the pleasure of working with Justin and the Clearpact team on a recent transaction.

I was blown away by their ability to think strategically and handle the “in the trenches” work that comes with a complex M&A deal. They were polished, pragmatic, and a joy to work with on the deal team. They were the driving force in getting to a smooth closing, and their efforts on their client’s behalf were herculean.

I would recommend them without qualification to anyone pursuing a strategic opportunity.

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Ryan Wertman, Co-Founder at GrowthCounsel