Lightcast, a global leader in labor market intelligence, has acquired UK-based Rhetorik in a move that strengthens its position in the market by combining demand-side signals with deeply curated supply-side data to power workforce planning, talent acquisition, sales prospecting, and more.
Key Highlights of the Acquisition
- Lightcast now delivers unmatched visibility into the global labor market, serving clients across staffing, human resources, marketing and sales, investment banking, education, and government.
- The acquisition reinforces Lightcast’s commitment to trusted data, offering a reliable alternative in a market where many providers take shortcuts.
- Rhetorik’s privacy-by-design architecture, built to comply with the world’s strictest regulatory standards, ensures the company’s data practices are transparent and compliant.
- The integration of Rhetorik’s dataset, which covers 46 languages and 164 countries, enables Lightcast to provide unmatched global person and company-level data.
The acquisition was made after evaluating numerous global B2B professional data providers, with Lightcast selecting Rhetorik for its superior data accuracy, commitment to data subject rights, robust security, and strict compliance with global privacy regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, and DPA.
Benefits of the Acquisition
- Enhanced global dataset: The acquisition unlocks new market opportunities by extending current use cases and supporting new ones.
- Increased precision: Rhetorik’s dataset provides unmatched visibility into the global labor market, enabling clients to make more informed decisions.
- Improved data quality: The integration of Rhetorik’s dataset ensures that Lightcast’s data is accurate, up-to-date, and compliant with global regulatory standards.
Lightcast CEO Chris Kibarian stated, “Rhetorik stood out not just for the scale of its data, but for the precision, transparency, and compliance with which it’s curated. This partnership gives our customers even more confidence in the intelligence they rely on to make critical decisions.”
Rhetorik’s Dataset Highlights
- Professional Contact Data:
- 800M+ professional profiles with up to 26 parameters, such as contact information, work experience, seniority, and industry
- 1.3B+ work experiences for customer targeting, talent outreach, and audience enrichment
- 60M+ employee contacts across 50M+ roles to enhance prospecting, recruiting, and marketing personalization
- Company Intelligence:
- 280M+ company records
- 250M+ office locations
- 12+ years of financials to support TAM/SAM analysis and uncover new market opportunities
- Technographics covering 18,000+ technology products in 180+ categories to assess market maturity and inform go-to-market strategies
Lightcast operates in more than 30 countries, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and India. The acquisition reinforces Lightcast’s commitment to trusted data, offering a reliable alternative in a market where many providers take shortcuts.
About Lightcast and Rhetorik
Lightcast is the global leader in labor market intelligence, empowering smarter decisions for businesses, education institutions, and governments. With the world’s most comprehensive database-spanning over 2.5 billion job postings, career profiles, and government sources, Lightcast delivers unparalleled insight into skills, jobs, companies, profiles, and workforce trends.
Rhetorik provides ai-powered B2B data intelligence that equips organizations with comprehensive, accurate, and compliant insights on companies and professionals.
