Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Interplay Learning is a private Austin-based workforce-development and e-learning company that provides immersive online, 3D-simulation, AI, and VR training for skilled trades and industrial workforces. Its platform helps employers, educators, and individuals develop job-ready skills in weeks rather than years.
Primary product
Interplay Learning’s immersive skilled-trades learning platform, including Interplay Academy, Interplay Achieve, online courses, 3D simulations, VR training, apprenticeship services, and related learner-engagement services.
Founded
2016
Headquarters
1717 W 6th St, Suite 405, Austin, Texas 78703, United States
Team size
51-200
Work style
Remote
Industry
E-Learning Providers
Sub-industry
Immersive workforce training, vocational education, skilled-trades training, and learning technology
Offices
Business model
Stage
Growth-stage / private equity-backed
Total raised
$44.5M
Latest round
Growth investment / Private Equity Round · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$20M
Growth investment / Private Equity Round
Sep 2024 · Goldman Sachs Alternatives
Apr 2023 · ECMC and Masco Ventures
Feb 2021 · Owl Ventures and S3 Ventures
May 2019 · S3 Ventures
Oct 2016 · Central Texas Angel Network
Leadership
CEO and Co-Founder
John Pumpelly
Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations
Vice President, Marketing
Heather Granato
Senior Vice President, Customer Success & Services
Head of Learner and Business Outcomes
Olivier Cuvillon
Executive Director, GTM Development
Investor and Advisor; former EVP of Strategy
The company emphasizes mission-driven workforce development, better careers and lives, customer impact, immersive learning, and community outreach. Public hiring signals describe a remote-first or distributed workforce, while third-party employer data indicates relatively strong work-life ratings compared with compensation and career-development ratings.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public salary signals include approximately $68,676 annually for a mid-market account executive, $110,967 for a senior marketing manager, and $112,413 for a senior account executive. These are third-party estimates rather than official company ranges.
Benefits
Pricing
Public evidence indicates a mix of individual subscriptions and custom-priced business, enterprise, education, and workforce-development contracts; exact current pricing was not publicly available in the researched sources.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $1M-$10M annually; one third-party estimate reports $6.9M.
Estimated monthly visits
105K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Interplay Learning acquired Industrial Training International as part of a growth investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The acquisition expands the company into industrial maintenance, crane, and rigging training but also adds integration and execution complexity.
SourceThird-party company data reported approximately 184 employees and year-over-year headcount decline of about 4.4%, or 10 employees. This is a potential contraction signal, although the underlying data is not an official company disclosure.
SourceA senior international-business-development employee publicly announced leaving after eight years. This is an individual departure, not evidence of a broad reduction in force.
SourceInterplay Learning · Jun 2025
The companies announced an integration allowing multifamily operators to connect technician training information with HappyCo work-order and property-operations workflows.
Interplay Learning · Apr 2025
John Pumpelly joined as chief financial officer, bringing technology and software-industry finance experience.
PR Newswire / Interplay Learning · Mar 2025
Interplay launched or expanded Interplay Achieve with industrial-maintenance and crane-and-rigging content for education and workforce-development programs.
Interplay Learning · Jan 2025
The company announced expanded industrial-maintenance learning, combining ITI’s instructor-led and simulation expertise with Interplay’s online, AI, and VR platform.
Interplay Learning · Sep 2024
Interplay announced a $20 million growth investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives and the acquisition of Industrial Training International, expanding into industrial maintenance, crane, and rigging training.
18 jobs at Interplay Learning