LearnPro Group adds RiVR products and staff
LearnPro Group has acquired immersive training products and technologies from RiVR, adding new virtual reality and video-based learning tools across emergency services, healthcare, defence, industrial and other safety critical sectors.
LearnPro Group announced that the deal includes RiVR Link, described as a Classroom in a Box video-based training solution, alongside RiVR Fire Investigate and RiVR Crime Scene Investigate.
A team of nine specialists responsible for developing and operating the products has joined LearnPro Group as part of the acquisition.
The team is led by Bradley Woodward and will continue to work from its existing site in Southam, Warwickshire, within LearnPro Group’s global business operations.
LearnPro Group expands immersive training range
The acquisition adds the RiVR platform to LearnPro Group’s XVR simulation suite and broadens the group’s scenario-based learning offer.
RiVR’s technologies are used across the UK, North America, Asia and Australasia.
The products combine video with virtual reality and augmented reality environments built from real world burns, crime scenes and high risk scenarios.
The material states that these environments allow learners to practise decision making, evidence gathering and operational procedures in controlled settings.
RiVR Link is described as a tool that allows users to build video-based learning in an agile way.
Leaders outline the deal
LearnPro Group CEO Costi Karayannis said: “RiVR has earned a reputation for producing exciting immersive training tools and content to support a range of use cases across emergency, health, public and other high-risk settings.
“By bringing these innovations into LearnPro Group, we’re accelerating our mission to provide the most advanced, flexible, and impactful learning ecosystem available today.”
RiVR’s Bradley Friend Woodward added: “Joining LearnPro Group allows us to take the technologies we’ve built to the next level.
“This partnership gives our team the resources, reach, and strategic alignment we need to accelerate innovation and deliver even greater value to customers.
“It’s an exciting next step.”
The deal was supported by Elucid Partners’ Paul Turner and James Barraclough, who acted as sell-side corporate finance advisers to RiVR.