Cornerstone Immerse

Acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand · 2024

Cornerstone Immerse was an Enterprise VR Training company founded in 2015 and based in Santa Monica, United States. It was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in 2024.

Formerly Talespin; CoPilot platform uses AI-powered virtual humans for leadership, communication, and empathy training at PwC, Accenture, Deloitte.

Big-4-consulting standard for soft-skills VR; rebrand under Cornerstone OnDemand expanded distribution reach across HR-software channels.

cornerstoneondemand.com Enterprise VR Training

United Statesacquired

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Total raised

Undisclosed

no public funding on record

Headcount

51-200

approximate · public range

Headquarters

Santa Monica

United States

Founded

2015

11 years active

Status

Acquired

by Cornerstone OnDemand

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Funding history

Total raised

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Rounds tracked

No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.

How they make money

B2B SaaSPattern

Cornerstone Immerse is an immersive-learning module sold inside Cornerstone OnDemand's broader B2B SaaS talent platform, monetized through enterprise subscriptions. The immersive piece — VR soft-skills simulations and the generative-AI Immerse Companion for role-play and coaching — is offered as part of, or an add-on to, Cornerstone's wider learning and HR suite, which serves thousands of enterprise customers. Buyers are large organizations' HR and learning functions; revenue is recognized as recurring subscription fees, typically bundled into existing Cornerstone agreements. The avatar technology came largely from Cornerstone's 2024 acquisition of Talespin. Structurally, this is classic enterprise SaaS economics — high-margin, recurring revenue with low marginal cost per added seat — with the immersive layer riding the distribution of a platform that already reaches a huge installed base. That distribution is the model's biggest advantage: Cornerstone can attach immersive learning to contracts it already holds rather than selling a new product cold. The flip side is that immersive is a feature within a sprawling suite, not a standalone line, so it can be under-resourced or treated as a sales differentiator more than a deployed product. The economics scale with overall platform subscriptions and seat counts, which means the immersive piece succeeds or fades inside the larger Cornerstone business rather than on its own.

Cornerstone Immerse

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Founder backgrounds

Kyle Jackson

Stephen Fromkin

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