# Litmos

> Litmos is a subscription learning platform for organizations that need to train employees, customers, partners, volunteers, and frontline workers without turning learning operations into a second IT department. Its cloud LMS combines course delivery, authoring, automation, analytics, integrations, mobile access, external training commerce, ready-made content, and embedded AI. Founded in New Zealand in 2007 and now owned by Francisco Partners, Litmos competes in the crowded corporate learning market on fast deployment, administrative simplicity, and the ability to serve internal and external audiences from one platform.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Rich Chetwynd (Founder), Dan Allen (Co-founder and developer), Nicole Fougere (Co-founder and marketing lead)
- **Team size:** Approximately 230 employees (supplied company estimate)
- **Products:** Litmos LMS, Litmos Training Content, Content Authoring, Litmos AI, Data and Integrations
- **Notable:** Bootstrapped from launch in 2007 to acquisition by CallidusCloud in 2011., Expanded to customers and learners across 150 countries., Recognized by Training Industry as a 2025 Top Learning Management System company.

## Products & services

- **Litmos LMS** — Cloud learning management for delivering, assigning, tracking, certifying, and reporting on training across internal and external audiences.
- **Litmos Training Content** — Ready-to-deploy course libraries covering compliance, leadership, communication, wellbeing, safety, and other workplace topics.
- **Content Authoring** — Built-in responsive course creation, including AI-assisted outlines, module drafts, assessments, and SCORM-compatible publishing.
- **Litmos AI** — Embedded tools for content generation, intelligent recommendations, knowledge assistance, video assessment, playlists, tagging, and workflow automation.
- **Data and Integrations** — Reporting, dashboards, APIs, and connectors for HRIS, CRM, collaboration, identity, commerce, and workflow systems.
- **Expert Services** — Implementation, consulting, managed administration, administrator enablement, and technical account management.
- **External Training and eCommerce** — Multi-audience portals, customer and partner education, certification, and tools for selling courses online.

## Achievements

- Bootstrapped from launch in 2007 to acquisition by CallidusCloud in 2011.
- Expanded to customers and learners across 150 countries.
- Recognized by Training Industry as a 2025 Top Learning Management System company.
- Named a G2 Corporate LMS Leader and Course Authoring Leader in Winter 2026 categories.
- Named an eLearning Industry Top Extended Enterprise LMS for 2026.
- Supports more than 100 out-of-the-box connectors alongside open APIs.
- Provides mobile and offline learning with multilingual platform support.
- Returned to standalone operation after Francisco Partners completed its acquisition from SAP in 2022.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Litmos appointed enterprise software executive Eric Vermillion as CEO; transition CEO Michelle Benfer remained on the board.
- **2026** — Litmos repositioned its core offer as a learning acceleration platform focused on capability building in the flow of work.
- **2026** — Received multiple Winter 2026 G2 Leader recognitions and an eLearning Industry Top Extended Enterprise LMS designation.
- **2025-10** — Partnered with American Medical Compliance to add more than 450 healthcare compliance courses.
- **2025-10** — Partnered with SIMTICS to add more than 200 simulation-based healthcare learning modules.
- **2025-10** — Published a case study on The Trevor Project's use of Litmos and Salesforce to scale volunteer crisis-counselor training.
- **2024-07** — Released the Litmos AI Assistant, designed to answer questions from content licensed inside each customer's LMS environment.
- **2022-08** — Francisco Partners completed its acquisition of Litmos from SAP, returning the business to standalone operation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.litmos.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/litmos
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/litmos
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LitmosLMS
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/litmoslms/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Litmos

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Last updated: 2026-08-16