Acquisition stories

ExecOnline buys Teamraderie to link professor-led leadership courses with team sessions that help firms turn AI training into measurable workflow change.

Aryza buys Toronto-based Umbrella Tech to add voice AI, speech analytics and autonomous agents to its collections and recoveries software.

Vertiv snaps up BMarko Structures to bring structural fabrication in-house, as AI-driven demand pushes faster and more custom data centre builds.

Dynatrace agrees to buy Bindplane to expand telemetry pipelines, aiming to cut ingest costs and give customers greater control over observability data.

Celerity adds IBM automation specialist Ranger4 as BGF-backed group deepens AI and cost-efficiency offer across hybrid IT.

Gresham renames acquired enterprise data platform Opus EDM, keeping it separate from Prime EDM and planning AI features for 2026.

Abacus unveils a single global brand after its merger with Medicus IT, uniting financial and healthcare cybersecurity under one banner.

AppViewX acquires AI identity start-up Eos and appoints its co-founder Archit Lohokare as Chief Executive, targeting non-human identity security.

Mastercard to acquire stablecoin platform BVNK in a deal worth up to USD $1.8 billion, deepening its push into on-chain payments.

US fintech Ramp is buying Stockholm-based Billhop to plug its AI finance platform into Billhop's European payments rails and licences.

Komerz snaps up Glassbox in move valuing the group at USD $330m, bolstering its Creative Commerce offer across global markets.

Stake raises USD $8m and buys UMoveFree and Lighthouse to build an AI-driven renter network spanning search, leasing, rewards and banking.

Syndigo has snapped up Taggstar, folding its real-time social proof messaging into a wider product data cloud for retailers and brands.

Delinea acquires StrongDM to fuse privileged access management with JIT runtime controls, targeting AI-era human and machine identities.

Delinea acquires StrongDM to create a unified, just-in-time identity security control plane for AI-driven and hybrid cloud environments.

Delinea acquires StrongDM to fuse privileged access tools with just‑in‑time authorisation, tackling AI‑driven identity and access risks.

MSCI is buying Compass Financial Technologies to deepen its multi-asset and crypto index capabilities and expand bespoke benchmark services.

ECI acquires Drypowder to embed AI-driven AR and digital payments into its ERP platforms for construction and building materials users.

Avalara snaps up Versori to speed AI-driven connector development and scale real-time tax compliance integrations across thousands of systems.

Opollo buys Propensity Partners to fuse inbound and outbound marketing into a single demand engine for B2B tech, security and FinTech firms.