Global Spec

GlobalSpec was founded in 1996 with a 40 million dollar investment from Warburg Pincus and claimed to have over 7,000,000 registered users. Globalspec was acquired by IHS earlier in 2014. In 2016, IHS sold to IEEE-The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. On July 31, 2020, San Francisco-based Compare Networks Inc. bought Globalspec.