LOS ANGELES, February 3, 2022 – Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”) is pleased to announce that it has acquired InFlight, a leading software platform that helps enterprise organizations modernize their business applications and improve talent acquisition and the overall employee experience (“EX”). The company’s solution allows enterprises to extend the life of their existing human capital management (“HCM”) systems and create modern, web-based user experiences that are integrated with their systems of record. InFlight will be merged with Skuid, an existing Marlin portfolio company, significantly enhancing Skuid’s cloud application development platform with a more comprehensive offering for enterprises that are seeking to optimize their people operations with speed and ease.
“This is a game-changer for the future of people operations applications. The combined capabilities of Skuid and InFlight present a much-needed solution for enterprises that want to design, create and deliver impactful apps,” says Ryan Niemann, Skuid CEO. “With the addition of InFlight, enterprise companies can now leverage the differentiated human-centered design approach of Skuid with integrations across HCM applications.”
James La Brash, founder and CEO at InFlight, shares, “We are thrilled to join the Skuid team. InFlight brings new integration capabilities to enterprises using Skuid, while enhancing our own customer offering with low-code UI-building capability. This marks a new era for EX in the HCM market, where enterprises can empower citizen developers and IT teams to quickly and easily improve the digital EX of their existing applications in response to changing employee expectations and market conditions. Providing enterprises with greater agility, Skuid and InFlight will enable them to gain a competitive market advantage.”
“The acquisition presents a rare opportunity to combine two companies in the low-code application development market that have highly-differentiated offerings, yet a shared vision for enhancing the value of existing applications,” said Ryan Wald, a managing director at Marlin. “InFlight allows Skuid to expand its capabilities to address talent acquisition and employee experience applications, which are currently in high demand.”
About Marlin Equity Partners
Marlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with over $8.1 billion of capital under management. The firm is focused on providing corporate parents, shareholders and other stakeholders with tailored solutions that meet their business and liquidity needs. Marlin invests in businesses across multiple industries where its capital base, industry relationships and extensive network of operational resources significantly strengthen a company’s outlook and enhance value. Since its inception, Marlin, through its group of funds and related companies, has successfully completed over 200 acquisitions. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in London. For more information, please visit www.marlinequity.com.
About Skuid
Founded in 2013, Skuid is a low-code, design first, extensible cloud application development platform for rapidly creating and optimizing enterprise applications. The company’s simple-to-use and robust front-end design-and-deploy cloud platform allows customers to connect to disparate data sources, assemble highly complex, made-to-order applications and instantly make changes – all without writing code. Thousands of builders have used Skuid to create custom digital experiences—up to 10 times faster—for millions of users across dozens of countries, dramatically increasing adoption and innovation. The company is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For more information, please visit www.skuid.com.
For additional information, please contact Peter Spasov at (310) 364-0100 or via e-mail at pspasov@marlinequity.com.