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Acquired by Collibra (United States) on 5 October 2026; trail is now part of Collibra.

Aeon (Switzerland) acquired Aware Health's platform, contracts, customer relationships and core team on 14 September 2026.

Acquired by Bending Spoons (Italy); the acquisition was completed on 4 September 2026.

Acquired by Descartes Systems Group (Canada); the roughly US$120 million acquisition was announced as completed on 1 September 2026.

Acquired by Mollie (Netherlands); the acquisition was completed on 1 September 2026.

Zone Media, maker of ZoneMTA, joined the Dutch-backed Your.Online group; the acquisition was announced on 3 August 2026.

Acquired by Your.Online (Netherlands); the takeover of Zone Media, the developer of WildDuck, was reported as done in August 2026.

Acquired by the Dutch hosting group Your.Online; the acquisition was reported as completed in August 2026.

Acquired by Assent (Canada); the acquisition of IPOINT, the maker of Umberto, was completed on 10 July 2026.

Acquired by SAP (Germany); the acquisition was completed on 6 July 2026.

Acquired by Akamai (United States); the acquisition was completed on 2 July 2026.

Parent PSI Software came under the control of Warburg Pincus (United States) after a public takeover offer; settlement followed in July 2026.

Parent Northern Data came under the control of Rumble (United States); the takeover closed in June 2026 with Rumble holding about 85.2 percent of the shares.

Acquired by Energy Aspects (United Kingdom); the acquisition was completed on 21 May 2026.

Acquired by Panasonic Projector & Display (Japan), which acquired 100% of the shares; announced as completed on 19 May 2026.

Acquired by Coupa (United States); Coupa announced on 12 May 2026 that it has completed the acquisition.

Acquired by HostPapa (Canada); the acquisition was completed on 29 April 2026.

Acquired by Nuix (Australia); the acquisition closed on 20 April 2026, including French foreign direct investment approval.

Acquired by Sectra (Sweden); the acquisition of Oxipit was completed on 15 April 2026.

Acquired by TPG (United States), which bought Optum UK, including EMIS, from UnitedHealth; the acquisition closed on 13 March 2026.

Acquired by Bending Spoons (Italy); the acquisition closed on 10 March 2026.

Rite Ventures (Sweden) gained a majority (50.56 percent) on 6 March 2026; after the mandatory tender offer its stake rose to about 58.9 percent.

Acquired by Canonical (United Kingdom); Golioth has been part of Canonical since 3 March 2026.

Acquired by TrueLayer (United Kingdom); the acquisition was completed on 3 March 2026 after approval by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.

Acquired by RadNet (United States); the acquisition of all outstanding shares was completed on 2 March 2026.

J. Safra Sarasin (Switzerland) completed the purchase of a roughly 71% majority stake in Saxo from Geely, Mandatum and others on 2 March 2026.

Acquired by IFS (jointly controlled by EQT, Sweden, and Hg, United Kingdom); the acquisition was completed in March 2026.

Parent Eventbrite was acquired outright by Bending Spoons (Italy) and the deal closed in March 2026.

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (United States); the acquisition was completed on 11 February 2026.

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (United States); the acquisition was completed on 11 February 2026.

Acquired by Naver (South Korea); Naver completed the takeover on 30 January 2026 and now owns all shares.

Acquired by Collaboration.Ai (US); the acquisition was announced on 8 January 2026.

Taken over by Comitis Capital (Germany) from Afinum and the founders; ownership transferred at the start of 2026.

Netop was carved out of Ativion by Investcorp Technology Partners in December 2025 and now operates as a standalone company based in Munich.

Acquired by Proofpoint (US); the acquisition was completed on 8 December 2025.

Acquired by Rezolve AI (United Kingdom); the acquisition closed on 5 December 2025.

Acquired by Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands); the acquisition was completed on 19 November 2025.

Acquired by Workday (US); the acquisition was completed on 4 November 2025.

Acquired by Workday (United States); Workday announced on 4 November 2025 that it completed the acquisition.

Acquired by Salesforce (United States); the acquisition was completed on 3 November 2025.

Acquired by Zeta Global (US) as part of its purchase of Marigold's enterprise software business; completion reported on 24 November 2025.

Acquired by D-ID (Israel); the acquisition was announced in September 2025 and completed in November 2025.

Acquired by Vector Capital (US); the acquisition completed on 30 October 2025 and Showpad was combined with Bigtincan.

Acquired by Check Point (Israel); the acquisition closed on 22 October 2025.

Taken over through a tender offer by Diana BidCo (CVC, Luxembourg, and founder Siilasmaa); the offer completed on 20 October 2025 with 93.1% of shares secured.

Acquired by Netigate (Sweden); the acquisition was announced on 23 September 2025.

Fully acquired by Nexi (Italy); the transaction for the remaining shares was concluded on 17 September 2025.

Acquired by One Click LCA (Finland); SimaPro and PRé Sustainability became part of the group on 2 September 2025.

Acquired by F5 (United States); the acquisition of CalypsoAI was completed in September 2025 and CalypsoAI is now a wholly owned subsidiary.

Acquired in full by Hello Group (China); the acquisition of happn was completed in September 2025.

Acquired by PDQ (US) in September 2025.

Acquired by Wellhub (US); the acquisition was reported as completed in September 2025.

Acquired by Software Combined (Australia); the change of ownership became official on 1 August 2025.

Acquired by WiseTech Global (Australia); the roughly USD 2.1 billion acquisition was completed in August 2025.

Acquired by Accelo (US); the acquisition was announced on 22 July 2025.

Acquired by Neo Space Group (Saudi Arabia, a Public Investment Fund company); the acquisition was completed on 10 July 2025.

TV4, the owner of TV4 Play, was sold by Telia to Norway's Schibsted Media on 1 July 2025.

DPG Media (Belgium) took over RTL Nederland, which owns Videoland, for EUR 1.1 billion; the deal took effect on 1 July 2025 after approval by the Dutch competition authority ACM.

Acquired by Bending Spoons (Italy); the acquisition was completed in July 2025.

Acquired by Fortino Capital (Belgium) from the netgo group; the acquisition was announced in July 2025.

Bain Capital (United States) took a controlling stake from Ambienta; Ambienta lists the exit as completed in July 2025.

Acquired by Volaris Group, part of Constellation Software (Canada); the acquisition was completed in July 2025.

Acquired by Fabrick (Italy); the purchase of SCHUFA's 75% stake was completed on 18 June 2025.

Assets of the Mika Health app acquired by Outcomes4Me (United States); the completed purchase was announced on 12 June 2025.

Acquired by Wolters Kluwer (the Netherlands); the acquisition was completed on 11 June 2025, two weeks after the 29 May 2025 announcement.

Acquired by Robinhood (United States); the 200 million dollar purchase of Bitstamp closed on 2 June 2025.

Acquired by Supermetrics (Finland); the acquisition was announced as completed in June 2025.

Goldman Sachs Alternatives (United States) became Trackunit's majority owner in June 2025; Hg stayed on with a minority stake.

Acquired by the KEYENCE Group (Japan); CADENAS became part of KEYENCE in May 2025.

IonQ (United States) acquired a controlling stake in ID Quantique; the acquisition was completed in May 2025.

Marlin Equity Partners (United States) completed a majority growth investment in Didomi in April 2025; the founders and Breega kept minority stakes.

Acquired by Lumine Group (Canada); the purchase was completed on 1 April 2025.

Acquired by Lucid Software (United States); the acquisition was reported as completed in April 2025.

Taken over by investment firm Carlyle (US) through a public takeover offer, completed in April 2025.

Acquired by Perk (formerly TravelPerk, Spain); announced in January 2025 and completed in April 2025.

Parent Learning Technologies Group was taken private by General Atlantic (United States); the acquisition was completed on 31 March 2025.

Acquired by Siemens (Germany); the acquisition of Altair was completed on 26 March 2025.

Acquired by Descartes Systems Group (Canada) for about USD 115 million; the acquisition was completed on 25 March 2025.

Acquired by Bending Spoons (Italy); the acquisition was announced as closed on 20 March 2025.

Parent CCV, of which CCV Shop is a part, was acquired by Fiserv (United States) on 19 March 2025.

Acquired by Fiserv (US); the acquisition was completed on 18 March 2025.

komoot, the developer of Photon, was acquired by Bending Spoons (Italy); the acquisition was completed in March 2025.

SBI Holdings (Japan) became Solaris's majority shareholder in March 2025 with 88.88% of voting rights and consolidates the company.

Merged with jrni (US) and Event Farm in February 2025; Calenso is now part of the jrni group and remains a Swiss subsidiary.

PSG Equity (US) took a majority stake in Checkmk from its founders, managers and business angels; the deal was announced on 26 February 2025.

PSG Equity (Boston, US) took a majority stake in Checkmk; the deal was announced on 26 February 2025.

Nordic Capital (Sweden) completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in Anaqua from Astorg on 25 February 2025.

The STARFACE Group, which includes estos, was acquired in full by Gamma Communications (United Kingdom); Gamma announced completion on 20 February 2025.

Since 20 February 2025 STARFACE Group has been part of Gamma Communications (United Kingdom), which bought the stake held by a Maxburg-advised fund.

Acquired by Bending Spoons (Italy); the acquisition was completed on 4 February 2025 and Brightcove is no longer publicly listed.

PSG Equity (US, Boston) acquired a 60% majority stake in Libraesva in February 2025.

Acquired by Apple (United States); the acquisition, announced in November 2024, was completed in February 2025.

Acquired by Wrike (US, an STG portfolio company); the acquisition was completed on 28 January 2025.

TA Associates (US) took over Nexus AG via a public tender offer; the offer completed on 3 January 2025 with 94.95% acceptance.

Acquired by KeyMark (United States); the acquisition took effect on 31 December 2024 and was announced on 16 January 2025.

Majority stake acquired by EasyVista (France); the transaction closed on 20 December 2024 with over 90% of the shares.

Safing (Portmaster) was acquired by IVPN (Gibraltar) on 3 December 2024; IVPN is taking over operation of Portmaster and the SPN network.

Acquired by Malwarebytes (US); the acquisition was announced on 7 November 2024.

Acquired by BAWAG Group (Austria); the acquisition was completed on 1 November 2024.

Acquired by Fortress Investment Group (United States) at a foreclosure auction; the Curzon purchase was reported as completed in November 2024.

Acquired by IN Groupe (France) from Nets (Nexi); the deal, signed in November 2023, was completed in November 2024.

Parent company Squarespace was taken private by Permira (United Kingdom); the transaction was completed on 17 October 2024.

BIP Capital Partners (Luxembourg) acquired a majority stake in SEP AG, reported in early October 2024; the founders stayed on as minority shareholders.

Acquired by Thoma Bravo (United States); the roughly USD 5.3 billion take-private was completed on 1 October 2024.

Insight Partners (US) acquired a majority stake in Detectify in October 2024; the transaction was finalized that month.

Acquired by Gamma Communications (United Kingdom); the Placetel acquisition was completed on 23 September 2024.

Acquired by HCLSoftware (HCLTech, India) and placed under Actian; the acquisition completed on 12 September 2024.

Verdane (Norway) acquired a majority stake in Eversports; the sellers' legal adviser reports signing on 31 July 2024 and closing on 6 September 2024.

Acquired by Wolters Kluwer (the Netherlands) as part of the Isabel Group accountancy portfolio; the acquisition was completed on 5 September 2024.

The Slovak investment fund Sandberg Capital raised its stake in Daktela to 65 percent in September 2024, becoming the majority shareholder.

Acquired by AMD (US); the roughly USD 665 million all-cash acquisition was completed, as announced on 12 August 2024.

Bought by Cerberus funds (United States) together with EBRD and IFC; the purchase of 100% of the shares was completed on 1 August 2024.

Acquired by Renesas (Japan); the acquisition closed on 31 July 2024 (1 August in Japan).

Acquired by Bending Spoons (Italy); the acquisition was announced on 31 July 2024.

Acquired by D2L (Canada); the acquisition was announced on 9 July 2024.

Bridgepoint (UK) became majority investor in LumApps, with the deal closing on 9 July 2024 at a value of about USD 650 million.

Acquired by Visma (owned by Hg, United Kingdom); Visma announced the completed acquisition on 8 July 2024.

Majority stake acquired by funds advised by Bregal Unternehmerkapital (Germany); the transaction was announced on 4 July 2024.

Acquired by D2L (Canada); the acquisition was completed in July 2024.

Acquired by LexisNexis Legal & Professional (RELX, United Kingdom); the acquisition was completed in July 2024.

LG (South Korea) acquired an 80% stake in Athom, maker of Homey, in July 2024; LG plans to buy the remaining 20% within three years.

Acquired by Semrush (United States); the acquisition was reported as completed on 12 July 2024.

Bullhorn (United States) acquired Textkernel from Main Capital Partners on 18 June 2024.

Acquired by DataGuard (Germany); DataGuard announced on 4 June 2024 that it 'has acquired' DPOrganizer, with financial terms undisclosed.

Acquired by BCS HR Software (the Netherlands); the acquisition was reported as completed on 22 May 2024, with the support of Main Capital Partners.

Semrush (US) bought a roughly 57.6% majority stake in Brand24 through its Polish subsidiary Prowly; the agreement was reported on 29 April 2024.

Acquired by ProcessMaker (United States) in April 2024; Workfellow is now part of ProcessMaker.

A 51 percent majority was acquired by SoftBank Corp. (Japan); the transaction took effect on 6 March 2024 and Cubic is now a subsidiary.

Serif, the maker of Affinity, was acquired by Canva (Australia) in March 2024.

Acquired by Qualcomm (United States); according to the company the acquisition was completed in March 2024, via Qualcomm Innovation Center.

Acquired by Octopus Deploy (Australia); the acquisition was announced on 27 February 2024.

Acquired by Volaris Group (Constellation Software, Canada); the acquisition was announced on 26 February 2024.

Acquired by Vencora (Constellation Software, Canada); the public tender offer settled on 22 February 2024 with 99.07 percent of the shares.

Acquired by Visma (United Kingdom, under Hg); the acquisition was reported as completed on 14 February 2024.

EQS Group was taken over through a public offer by Thoma Bravo funds (United States); the offer closed on 2 February 2024 with approx. 98% of the share capital secured.

Simployer (Norway) acquired AlexisHR in February 2024; the acquisition was announced on 13-14 February 2024.

Acquired by Thomson Reuters (Canada) for USD 800 million; the acquisition was reported completed in late February 2024.

Taken private after an acquisition led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (United States); the acquisition concluded with delisting on 23 January 2024.

Acquired by France's Positive Group (formerly Sarbacane); the takeover was announced on 17 January 2024, and Mailingwork joined the group alongside rapidmail.

Majority stake acquired by investor Thoma Bravo (US); announced on 14 December 2023.

Acquired by Contentsquare (France); the acquisition was completed on 7 December 2023.

SUSE was delisted on 13 November 2023 through a merger into an EQT vehicle; EQT (Sweden) remained in control.

Acquired by Keysight (United States); Keysight bought 50.6% of ESI Group on 3 November 2023 and acquired the remainder in January 2024.

Majority acquired by Payten, part of the Asseco Group (Poland); the acquisition of ifthenpay was concluded by November 2023.

Acquired by Kiteworks (US) in November 2023 together with DRACOON; the deal was announced as a merger.

Acquired by EPI (Brussels, Belgium); the acquisition of Currence iDEAL was completed on 31 October 2023.

Acquired by Optum UK, part of UnitedHealth (United States); the takeover of EMIS was completed on 27 October 2023.

Majority stake bought by Innova Capital (Poland); the deal, signed in May 2023, was finalised in October 2023 after regulatory clearances.

Acquired by Cookie Information (Denmark); Piwik PRO says the merger took place in October 2023.

Parent Software AG was taken over by Silver Lake (United States) when its tender offer settled on 28 September 2023; ARIS became a standalone business under the same owner in January 2025.

Parent Commify was taken over by ECI Partners (United Kingdom) in September 2023, in a deal valued at about EUR 300 million; ownership stayed British.

A new Singapore holding (ONLYOFFICE Capital Group Pte. Ltd., incorporated 24 May 2023) was announced in August 2023 as the Latvian company's ultimate beneficiary.

Acquired by Planet Labs (United States); the purchase of Sinergise and Sentinel Hub assets was completed on 4 August 2023.

Acquired by OVHcloud (France) in August 2023.

Acquired by Turkish fintech group Param from Zip (Australia); the acquisition was reported as completed in August 2023.

Absolute Software was taken private by Crosspoint Capital Partners (United States) on 27 July 2023 in a deal valuing it at about US$870 million.

Hg (United Kingdom) took a majority investment in Nomadia in July 2023; management and former majority owners stayed on as investors.

Acquired by TeamSystem (Italian, controlled by US firm Hellman & Friedman); Growens completed the sale of its email business, including Acumbamail S.L., on 13 July 2023.

Acquired by TeamSystem (Italian, controlled by US firm Hellman & Friedman); Growens completed the sale of its email business, including MailUp S.p.A., on 13 July 2023.

Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of the Orange Group (France), acquired 75% minus one share of Voo on 2 June 2023; Nethys keeps the remaining 25%.

Acquired by Volaris Group, an operating group of Constellation Software (Canada); the acquisition was announced as done in June 2023.

Acquired by DNV (Norway) through a public tender offer; the offer was completed in June 2023 and DNV then held more than 90 percent of the shares.

Fully acquired by Zucchetti (Italy); the deal was completed around 30 June 2023 and reported on 4 July 2023.

Acquired by Pango (US); the acquisition was announced on 8 May 2023.

Acquired by Zoom (US); the purchase of 100% of Workvivo was completed on 21 April 2023.

Acquired by Trimble (US); the acquisition was completed on 3 April 2023.

Part of dogado and thus of group.one (Sweden); the acquisition of group.one and dogado by Cinven and Ontario Teachers' under joint control was completed in April 2023.

dogado was acquired by Cinven and Ontario Teachers' (joint control) from Triton-advised funds in April 2023 and merged with group.one (Sweden); the acquisition was completed.

Acquired by Learneo (United States); the acquisition was announced on 5 April 2023 and reported as completed by Learneo's legal adviser in May 2023.

Acquired by Learneo (United States); the acquisition was announced on 5 April 2023 and reported as completed by Learneo's legal adviser in May 2023.

Taken over by private equity firm Charlesbank (United States); the buy-out was completed in April 2023.

one.com (now group.one) came under joint control of Cinven (United Kingdom) and Ontario Teachers' (Canada) in April 2023 with the completed combination with dogado.

Part of dogado and thus of group.one (Sweden); the acquisition of group.one and dogado by Cinven and Ontario Teachers' under joint control was completed in April 2023.

Acquired by Global Payments (US); the merger closed on 24 March 2023.

Siilo (now Doctolib Connect) was acquired by Doctolib (France) on 2 March 2023.

Acquired by Via Transportation (United States); Via confirmed the completed acquisition of Citymapper in March 2023.

Bridgepoint (United Kingdom) became Equativ's new majority shareholder, as the company itself confirmed on 27 February 2023.

Acquired by Veracross (United States); the acquisition was announced as completed in February 2023.

Merged into Your.Online after acquisition by Total Webhosting Solutions, backed by Strikwerda Investments (Netherlands); announced in February 2023.

Acquired by Total Webhosting Solutions (Strikwerda Investments, Netherlands); the two combined as Your.Online in February 2023.

Acquired by Total Webhosting Solutions (Netherlands), which became Your.Online in February 2023; the acquisition was reported as completed in February 2023.

Majority stake sold to private equity firm FSN Capital (Norway); the agreement was announced on 5 January 2023.

Visma (owned by Hg, United Kingdom) acquired a majority stake in Moloni; the transaction was completed in January 2023.

Majority stake sold to QNTM Group, a portfolio company of Altor (Sweden); the deal was reported on 19 December 2022.

Acquired by Keywords Studios (Ireland); the acquisition was completed on 16 December 2022.

Acquired by Nosto (Finland); the acquisition closed on 15 December 2022.

Parent company Equans was acquired by France's Bouygues from ENGIE, with closing on 4 October 2022; Icomera remained under French ownership.

Apollo Funds (US) took over about 85% of Ingenico from Worldline on 3 October 2022; the remaining c. 15% was scheduled to transfer on 1 January 2023.

Acquired by Thales (France); the acquisition of S21sec and Excellium was completed in October 2022.

Audax Private Equity (United States) took a controlling stake; a deal register lists the transaction as closed on 30 September 2022.

Recruitee and Javelo acquired kiwiHR on 15 September 2022 and formed the Tellent group, in which US growth-equity firm PSG is the majority shareholder.

Elvaston Capital (Germany) acquired an 80 percent majority stake in ABRA Software in September 2022; the founders stayed on.

Acquired by FE fundinfo (United Kingdom); the acquisition was finalised in September 2022 and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange became an investor in FE fundinfo.

Parent Avast merged with NortonLifeLock (United States) to form Gen Digital; the merger was completed in September 2022.

Acquired by Exact Group (Netherlands, owned by US firm KKR); the acquisition was announced in September 2022.

A consortium led by Accel-KKR (US) completed its public tender offer for Basware on 10 August 2022 (about 96.2% of shares).

mementor, the company behind somnio, was acquired by ResMed (United States); the acquisition closed on 1 August 2022.

Acquired by CHEQ (Israel) in August 2022; Ensighten is now part of CHEQ.

Acquired by ABC Fitness Solutions (United States); the acquisition was completed in August 2022.

Taken private by Thoma Bravo (US) funds via a public cash offer; the offer closed on 3 August 2022 with about 95.8% acceptances.

Taken over by private equity firm GRO Capital (Denmark), which became the majority shareholder of Netigate in August 2022.

ADTRAN Holdings (United States) became ADVA's majority shareholder when the business combination closed on 15 July 2022.

Acquired by GoTo (US); GoTo's intent to acquire was announced in July 2022 and the acquisition was completed in 2022.

Acquired by AMCS Group (Ireland); the acquisition took effect on 30 June 2022.

Grupa Pracuj (Poland) completed the acquisition of 100% of softgarden on 27 June 2022 for about EUR 117.6 million, mainly from Investcorp.

Main Capital Partners (Netherlands) took a majority position in Synetics, the maker of i-doit, in June 2022.

Acquired by Fotoware (Norway); the deal was announced as completed in June 2022 and the product is now Fotoware Alto.

Evidos, the company behind Signhost, was acquired by US-based Entrust in June 2022; Signhost has since operated as an Entrust solution.

Acquired by DoorDash (United States); the acquisition of Wolt was completed on 31 May 2022.

Suunto was sold by Amer Sports to the Chinese technology company Liesheng; the transaction was completed on 6 May 2022.

Acquired by Vercom (Poland); the agreement was announced on 28 April 2022.

Acquired by Cognism (UK); the acquisition was announced on 27 April 2022.

Acquired by Press Ganey (United States); the acquisition closed on 26 April 2022.

Hg (UK) agreed in April 2022 to take a majority stake in LucaNet; the existing shareholders retained a substantial minority.

Acquired by PDFTron (now Apryse), owned by Thoma Bravo (US) since 2021; announced on 5 April 2022.

Acquired by Go1 (Australia); the takeover was reported in April 2022.

Advent International (United States) became majority shareholder in April 2022; Crédit Mutuel Arkéa stayed on as a minority shareholder.

Acquired by Visma (United Kingdom, via Hg); the takeover was reported as completed at the end of April 2022.

CANAL+ Group (France) completed its acquisition of 70% of SPI International, the owner of Film1, on 18 March 2022.

Acquired by SS&C Technologies (United States); the acquisition was completed on 16 March 2022.

Acquired by Visa (United States); Visa announced on 10 March 2022 that the Tink acquisition was completed.

Acquired by Moody's (United States); the acquisition of kompany was completed on 1 March 2022.

Fortino Capital (Belgium) acquired a majority stake in Bonitasoft (now Ofelia) from existing investors in March 2022.

Otto Group (Germany) became majority shareholder of Medgate Holding in March 2022.

Acquired by US-based Course Hero (renamed Learneo in late 2022); the acquisition was reported as completed in March 2022.

Parent Inspired Thinking Group (United Kingdom) came under majority control of Bridgepoint (United Kingdom) in March 2022; the transaction was completed.

Acquired by Canva (Australia); the acquisition was closed and announced on 2 February 2022.

Bridgepoint (United Kingdom) took over a 60% stake in PTV Group from Porsche SE on 31 January 2022; Porsche SE retained 40%.

Acquired by Belden (US); Belden's SEC filing dates the acquisition to 17 January 2022, publicly reported in March 2022.

Acquired by Storytel (Sweden) from KKR; the acquisition was completed on 7 January 2022.

Acquired by Kape Technologies (United Kingdom); the acquisition closed on 15 December 2021.

Acquired by Auctane (United States, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company); the transaction completed on 14 December 2021.

Acquired by fuboTV (United States); the acquisition was completed on 8 December 2021.

Acquired by Sinch (Sweden) through its purchase of Pathwire; the acquisition was completed on 7 December 2021.

Majority stake acquired by Keensight Capital (France); the deal was announced on 6 December 2021.

Acquired by Dr. Flender Holding (Germany); the purchase of 100 percent of the shares was completed in December 2021.

Parent Pathwire (including Mailjet) was acquired by Sinch (Sweden); Mailjet officially became part of Sinch in December 2021.

Parent group MessageMedia was acquired by Sinch (Sweden); the deal closed on 5 November 2021, and ClickSend is a MessageMedia sub-brand.

Bought out by private equity manager IK Partners (United Kingdom) through its IK IX fund; the investment has been held since November 2021.

Acquired by FreshBooks (Canada); the acquisition was announced on 7 October 2021.

Acquired by Lightspeed (Canada); the acquisition closed on 1 October 2021.

Acquired by Foxit (China); the acquisition of eSign Genie, the basis of Foxit eSign, was announced as completed in October 2021.

92.5 percent majority acquired by Worldline (France); the acquisition was completed on 30 September 2021.

Fully acquired by Panasonic (Japan), which already held 20%; the acquisition was completed on 17 September 2021.

Cybot (Cookiebot) merged with Germany's Usercentrics in September 2021 and has since been part of the Usercentrics group.

Formed as a 50/50 joint venture of Comcast and ViacomCBS/Paramount (US), announced on 18 August 2021; the service launched on 20 September 2022.

Acquired by Sony (Japan) from AT&T/WarnerMedia; the acquisition was completed on 9 August 2021.

Acquired by Commify (United Kingdom) in August 2021; the sell-side adviser lists the deal as completed.

Acquired by Newfold Digital (United States); the acquisition was announced as completed on 12 August 2021.

Bluetab, the developer of Truedat, was acquired by IBM (US); the acquisition was announced on 15 July 2021.

PrimeKey, the developer of EJBCA, completed its merger into Keyfactor (United States) on 1 July 2021 and now operates under the Keyfactor brand.

Acquired by Nexi (Italy); the merger of Nets Topco 2 into Nexi took effect on 1 July 2021.

Parent group Nets merged into Nexi (Italy) on 1 July 2021, placing Paytrail under Italian control.

Part of Nexi (Italy) since the merger with its parent Nets, which became effective on 1 July 2021.

IdoSell (Poland), part of the MCI group, became the majority shareholder of Shoprenter in July 2021.

The Riverside Company, a US private equity firm, acquired a majority stake in June 2021; the deal was reported on 25 June 2021.

Acquired by Grafana Labs (United States); the acquisition was announced as completed on 17 June 2021.

Majority stake acquired by Nasdaq (United States); the acquisition was completed in June 2021 and Fortum keeps a minority stake.

Acquired by Cisco (US); the acquisition closed on 3 May 2021.

Oakley Capital (United Kingdom) acquired a controlling stake in May 2021; the deal was announced on 7 June 2021 and merged Afterbuy with DreamRobot as ECOMMERCE ONE.

Acquired by Idera (United States), majority-owned since 2021 by Partners Group (Switzerland); the acquisition was completed in May 2021.

Square (now Block, US) acquired a majority ownership interest in TIDAL; the deal closed on 30 April 2021.

Acquired by Sweden's Lime Technologies; the agreement was announced on 27 April 2021.

AppLovin (US) announced on 22 April 2021 that it had completed its acquisition of Adjust; Adjust continues to operate under its own brand.

froglogic, the maker of Squish, was acquired by Qt Group (Finland) on 13 April 2021.

Acquired by Hyland (United States); Hyland announced completion of the acquisition on 8 April 2021.

Acquired by Exact (Netherlands), which KKR (US) has majority-owned since 2019; the acquisition was reported in April 2021.

Acquired by Xero (New Zealand); the acquisition was completed around 1 April 2021.

TA Associates (US) took a majority investment in Unit4 from Advent; the agreement was announced on 22 March 2021.

Acquired by France's Sarbacane Group (now Groupe Positive); the acquisition was announced on 16 March 2021.

Worldline (France) took a 60 percent stake in PAYONE on 1 March 2021 once the contribution of its German and Austrian business closed; DSV Group kept 40 percent.

Unit4 was bought out by private equity firm TA Associates (US); the buy-out was announced in March 2021.

Acquired by Bridgeline Digital (United States); the acquisition of WooRank was completed in March 2021.

TA Associates (US) took a majority stake; the agreement was announced on 15 February 2021 and Melchers retains a significant minority interest.

Marlin Equity Partners (United States) took a majority-control stake; Marlin reported the investment as completed on 15 February 2021.

Acquired by TeamSystem (Italy), which is controlled by Hellman & Friedman (United States); the purchase of 100% of Software Del Sol was completed in February 2021.

Majority-owned by PSG Equity (US) following the merger with Sympa, reported in February 2021.

Acquired by Volaris Group, part of Constellation Software (Canada); the acquisition was announced on 21 January 2021.

Acquired by NortonLifeLock (now Gen Digital, US); the acquisition was completed on 8 January 2021.

Acquired by Impero, an Investcorp portfolio company (Bahrain-based Investcorp); the acquisition was announced on 6 January 2021.

Acquired by Constellation Software (Canada); the purchase of Topicus.com B.V. completed on 5 January 2021.

Acquired by Global Compute Infrastructure (US, backed by Goldman Sachs); the acquisition was completed in January 2021.

Acquired by NortonLifeLock, now Gen Digital (United States); announced in December 2020 and completed in January 2021.

Acquired by NortonLifeLock, now Gen Digital (United States); announced in December 2020 and completed in January 2021.

Acquired together with Klantenvertellen by eKomi (Germany) in January 2021.

Acquired by Shop Apotheke Europe (Netherlands); the acquisition of smartpatient (MyTherapy) was completed in January 2021.

Acquired by Atos (France); the acquisition was completed on 18 December 2020, with the Swiss part closing in 2021.

Rancher Labs (maker of K3s) was acquired by SUSE on 1 December 2020; SUSE was controlled by EQT (Sweden) at the time.

Rancher Labs, originator of Rancher Desktop, was acquired by SUSE, owned by EQT (Sweden), with the deal closing on 1 December 2020.

Rancher Labs was acquired by SUSE on 1 December 2020; SUSE was then owned by EQT (Sweden).

Acquired by Rockwell Automation (United States); the acquisition closed in December 2020.

SAP (Germany) completed its acquisition of Emarsys from Vector Capital in November 2020; terms were not disclosed.

Acquired by Visma (United Kingdom, under Hg); the acquisition was reported as completed on 26 October 2020.

Alfresco, the lead sponsor behind Activiti, was acquired by Hyland (United States) in October 2020.

Acquired by Hyland (United States); the acquisition was completed on 22 October 2020.

Acquired by Celonis (Germany, Munich); the takeover of Integromat, now Make, was announced on 14 October 2020.

Acquired by SALTO Systems (Spain); the purchase of Gantner from Ardian was completed in October 2020.

Acquired by Exact (Netherlands), which is majority-owned by KKR (US); the acquisition was announced on 24 September 2020.

Afinum (Germany) took a stake in Threema in September 2020; the founders kept a substantial holding.

Providence Strategic Growth (US) completed a majority investment in Sympa on 25 August 2020.

Parent RIB Software was taken over by Schneider Electric (France); the public takeover offer settled on 10 July 2020.

Acquired by Silver Lake (US); the acquisition was announced on 8 July 2020.

Hitachi (Japan) acquired 80.1% of ABB's Power Grids business, completed on 1 July 2020; the resulting joint venture is headquartered in Switzerland.

Morningstar (United States) completed its takeover of Sustainalytics in July 2020 and became sole owner, having held 40% since 2017.

Acquired by Facebook (United States, now Meta); the completed acquisition was announced on 18 June 2020.

Acquired by WatchGuard Technologies (United States); the acquisition was completed in June 2020.

In June 2020 Vitruvian Partners (United Kingdom) and management bought all outstanding shares from non-active shareholders, alongside a capital injection.

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS, the developer of enaio, became a subsidiary of Kyocera Document Solutions (Japan) as of 15 April 2020 and continues to operate independently.

Axcel (Denmark) took a majority stake in SuperOffice on 14 April 2020, buying from the founder's family, Visma and key employees.

Acquired by Investcorp (Bahrain); the acquisition was completed in 2020, and Investcorp sold Avira on to NortonLifeLock in January 2021.

Acquired by private-equity firm Marlin Equity Partners (US); the acquisition was announced as completed on 5 March 2020.

Acquired by OpenText (Canada); the acquisition closed on 24 December 2019 and Carbonite became a wholly owned subsidiary.

Parent Carbonite was acquired by OpenText (Canada) on 24 December 2019, putting MailStore under Canadian ownership.

Acquired by Cohen Media Group (United States); the purchase of Curzon Cinemas, Artificial Eye and Curzon Home Cinema was completed in December 2019.

Providence Equity Partners (United States) took a EUR 200 million majority investment in Smartly.io in December 2019; the founders retained a significant stake.

Majority interest acquired by private equity firm OpenGate Capital (US); announced on 5 November 2019.

Acquired by Mailgun (US, backed by Thoma Bravo) in October 2019.

Privacy One Group (System1, US) became the majority shareholder of Surfboard Holding, Startpage's parent; announced in late September 2019, completed in October 2019.

Acquired by Sanoma (Finland); the acquisition of Iddink Group, which includes Magister, was completed on 13 September 2019.

Acquired by Ricoh (Japan); the acquisition was completed on 6 August 2019 and DocuWare continues as a standalone subsidiary.

Acquired by private equity firm KKR (United States) from Vector Capital; KKR announced the acquisition as completed on 3 July 2019.

Acquired by private equity firm KKR (United States) from Vector Capital; KKR announced the acquisition as completed on 3 July 2019.

Parallels came under KKR (US) ownership when KKR acquired Corel from Vector Capital in July 2019.

Thoma Bravo (United States) became the majority investor; Cority announced completion of the investment on 2 July 2019.

The UK investor Hg, already the largest shareholder of Visma (the parent of Dinero), increased its stake in Visma to about 63% in May 2019.

The UK investor Hg, already the largest shareholder of Visma (the parent of e-conomic), increased its stake in Visma to about 63% in May 2019.

The UK investor Hg, already the largest shareholder of Visma (the parent of SpeedLedger), increased its stake in Visma to about 63% in May 2019.

The UK investor Hg, already Visma's largest shareholder, increased its stake to about 63% in May 2019 by buying Cinven's remaining stake.

Acquired by EPAM Systems (United States); the acquisition of 100 percent closed on 30 April 2019.

Eurowag (Czech Republic) bought a 70% stake in Sygic in April 2019; Wikipedia states it acquired the remaining 30% in 2024.

Acquired by Bridgestone (Japan); the purchase of TomTom Telematics, now Webfleet, was completed in April 2019 for EUR 910 million.

EQT (Sweden) completed its acquisition of SUSE from Micro Focus on 18 March 2019 at an enterprise value of USD 2.535 billion.

SUSE, the developer behind Rancher Desktop, was sold by Micro Focus to the investor EQT (Sweden); the deal closed on 15 March 2019.

Micro Focus (United Kingdom) sold SUSE to EQT (Sweden); SUSE announced on 15 March 2019 that the acquisition was complete.

Acquired by EQT (Sweden) from Micro Focus; the acquisition completed on 15 March 2019.

SUSE was sold by Micro Focus to EQT (Sweden); the deal closed on 15 March 2019.

Acquired by KKR (US) from Apax-advised funds; the agreement was announced on 26 February 2019 and the deal completed in 2019.

SUSE, which develops Harvester, was bought from Micro Focus by EQT (Sweden) in March 2019 for US$2.535 billion.

SUSE, the company behind K3s, was acquired by EQT (Sweden) from Micro Focus; the sale completed in March 2019.

Acquired by the Sixth Cinven Fund (United Kingdom); the fund held one.com (later group.ONE) from February 2019.

Carlyle (United States) acquired a majority stake in SER Group (now Doxis) in January 2019; the deal had been cleared by the antitrust authorities.

Acquired by Idera (US); the acquisition was announced on 23 January 2019.

Acquired by DigiCert (United States); the purchase of the QuoVadis Group from WISeKey was completed on 17 January 2019.

Acquired by Lionbridge (United States); the acquisition was announced as completed on 16 January 2019.

Acquired by MCS Solutions, part of Nemetschek (Germany); the deal was announced and completed in January 2019.

Nordic Capital acquired a majority of Board International in January 2019; the founders stayed on as significant shareholders.

Acquired by Alibaba (China); the acquisition of data Artisans (now Ververica) was confirmed and paid in January 2019.

Acquired by Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands) in November 2018.

Acquired by Hexagon (Sweden); Bricsys was fully consolidated into Hexagon on 23 October 2018.

Parent Sky plc was taken over by Comcast (United States); Comcast completed its first purchase of Sky shares on 9 October 2018 and its offer went unconditional.

Acquired by Siemens (Germany); Siemens announced on 1 October 2018 that the Mendix acquisition had closed, eight weeks after the announcement.

Digium, the company behind Asterisk, was acquired by Sangoma (Canada); the acquisition was completed in September 2018.

Majority acquired by EQT (Sweden); the company dates the buy-out to September 2018, following the agreement announced in July 2018.

Acquired by 1&1 IONOS, part of United Internet (Germany); control passed on 17 August 2018.

Acquired by Diligent Corporation (United States); the acquisition was completed in August 2018 and Brainloop became Diligent's continental European hub.

Acquired via KeyDrive by CentralNic (United Kingdom); the acquisition was completed in August 2018.

Acquired by Nice S.p.A. (Italy); the purchase of the entire share capital of Fibar Group was reported as completed in July 2018.

Acquired by Recruit Holdings (Japan); the acquisition was completed on 21 June 2018.

InfoCert (Italy) completed the acquisition of a 51% majority stake in AC Camerfirma on 3 May 2018 through a capital increase.

Acquired by Tripadvisor (US); the acquisition was reported on 20 April 2018 and had just closed.

Xavier Niel's NJJ and Iliad (France) together acquired 64.5% of eir; the takeover was completed in early April 2018 after European Commission approval.

Acquired by Eventbrite (United States); the acquisition was reported as completed on 19 April 2018.

Acquired by AU Optronics (Taiwan); the acquisition was completed in March 2018 and ComQi continues as a separate business group.

Fully acquired by Visual China Group (China); the deal closed on 26 February 2018.

Acquired by OpenText (Canada); the acquisition was completed on 14 February 2018.

Acquired by KUKA, a Midea (China) subsidiary since January 2017; the acquisition took place in December 2017.

Providence Equity Partners (United States) acquired MTG's Baltic broadcasting and pay-TV business, later home to Go3; the acquisition was completed on 18 October 2017.

In October 2017 Norway's LINK Mobility Group bought ComVision, the company behind SMSAPI; SMSAPI is now a brand of LINK Mobility Poland.

Marlin Equity Partners (US) first invested in Medius in August 2017 and has held the majority since; Advent's 2022 stake is a minority.

In August 2017 SolarWinds MSP (United States) acquired SpamExperts; since the July 2021 spin-off it belongs to N-able, also in the United States.

Acquired by BlackFin Capital Partners (France); the agreement was announced in July 2017.

Acquired by ENGIE Ineo, a subsidiary of France's ENGIE; the acquisition was announced on 30 May 2017.

Acquired by Panasonic (Japan); Panasonic bought 57.01% and took control on 27 April 2017, and held 100% by 19 July 2017.

Acquired by Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands); the acquisition was completed on 6 April 2017.

Acquired by GoDaddy (United States) through its purchase of Host Europe Group, completed on 3 April 2017.

Its parent Host Europe Group, which includes 123-reg, was acquired by GoDaddy (United States) in April 2017.

DomainFactory's parent group Host Europe Group was acquired by GoDaddy (United States); GoDaddy announced completion of the acquisition in early April 2017.

Acquired by GoDaddy (United States) from Cinven; the Host Europe Group deal, announced in December 2016, was completed in April 2017.

Acquired by Wangsu Science & Technology (China), which bought KDDI's stake; the acquisition was completed in March 2017.

Acquired by Wix (Israel); the acquisition closed on 22 February 2017.

Acquired by Tucows (Canada); the acquisition closed on 20 January 2017.

Parent KUKA came under control of China's Midea; per AidData the takeover completed on 6 January 2017 (94.55% stake).

Acquired by M3 (Japan); the acquisition of the Vidal Group was completed in November 2016.

VTech (Hong Kong) completed the acquisition of 100% of Snom on 21 November 2016; Snom became an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of VTech.

Taken over by a Chinese consortium led by Kunlun; the acquisition of Opera Norway AS closed on 3 November 2016. Kunlun now indirectly owns about 71%.

Acquired by Visma (Norway); the acquisition was completed in November 2016.

Parent Mobyt came under about 82% ownership of HgCapital (United Kingdom) in November 2016; the acquisition was completed.

Tunisie Telecom (Tunisia) acquired a 65.4% majority stake in GO through a public offer; the share transfer and payment were completed on 23 August 2016.

A consortium of Silver Lake (US) and AltaOne took control of Cegid through a public takeover bid announced on 18 April 2016.

Acquired by HMS Networks (Sweden); the acquisition of eWON was completed on 5 February 2016.

Acquired by Nemetschek (Germany); the purchase of 100% of the shares was concluded in early 2016 and Solibri was consolidated as of 1 January 2016.

Acquired by United Internet (Germany); the purchase of all home.pl shares was completed on 30 December 2015.

Acquired by Kyocera Document Solutions (Japan); the acquisition was completed on 3 November 2015 and Ceyoniq became a wholly owned subsidiary.

Player.pl's parent TVN passed to Scripps Networks Interactive (United States); the takeover was completed in July 2015.

Acquired by Visma (Norway); the acquisition was completed in May 2015.

Visma (Norway) acquired a majority stake in SpeedLedger from HgCapital in May 2015; Visma itself was then jointly controlled by HgCapital, KKR and Cinven.

Dovecot Oy merged with Open-Xchange in March 2015 and became a subsidiary of the German Open-Xchange group; the three Dovecot founders received shares in Open-Xchange.

Acquired from Apax (United Kingdom) by Xavier Niel's NJJ Holding (France); the takeover was completed on 23 February 2015.

Acquired by Germany's KUKA; the public tender offer was completed on 15 December 2014 (91.8% of shares tendered).

Acquired by Carbonite (United States); the acquisition was completed in December 2014.

Acquired by BSkyB (later Sky plc, United Kingdom); the purchase of Sky Italia from 21st Century Fox was completed on 13 November 2014.

Acquired by Nemetschek (Germany); the acquisition was concluded on 31 October 2014.

Acquired by Dassault Systèmes (France); the acquisition of Quintiq was completed on 9 September 2014 for approximately 250 million euros.

Acquired by Rakuten (Japan); the acquisition of 100% of the shares was completed on 11 March 2014.

Part of Vodafone (United Kingdom) since its takeover of Kabel Deutschland, which was finalised on 29 January 2014.

Taken private by Vista Equity Partners (United States); the acquisition of Misys, the predecessor of Finastra, completed in June 2012.

Wuaki.tv, the predecessor of Rakuten TV, was acquired by Rakuten (Japan) in June 2012; Rakuten announced the deal as already completed.

Egmont (Denmark) bought the remaining 50 percent of TV 2 from A-pressen in January 2012 and became sole owner.

Parent TV 2 Gruppen came under the sole control of Egmont (Denmark) in January 2012 when Egmont bought A-pressen's 50% stake.

Acquired by Trimble (United States); in July 2011 Trimble took 99.46 percent of the shares through a public tender offer and bought out the remainder in February 2012.

Acquired by ING Direct (ING Group, Netherlands); the public takeover bid closed on 18 August 2008 with 91.21 percent of shares tendered.

Acquired from HgCapital by Belden (United States); the acquisition of Hirschmann Automation and Control was completed on 26 March 2007.

Acquired by Nemetschek (Germany), which bought a 54.3 percent stake on 31 December 2006 and then bid for the remaining shares in early 2007.

Acquired in October 2006 by GeoTrust Japan (GMO Internet Group, Japan), which renamed itself GlobalSign K.K. in 2007.

Nemetschek (Germany) took a roughly 79 percent majority stake in SCIA International in February 2006; management and employees retained about 21 percent.

Taken over by Hexagon (Sweden); by October 2005 Hexagon had acquired 71.3 percent of the shares through its public offer, followed by delisting in 2006.

Acquired by SanomaWSOY (Finland); the acquisition of Malmberg was completed on 9 November 2004.

Bertelsmann (Germany) became majority shareholder of RTL Group, which controls Groupe M6, through a 2001 share swap with GBL; the swap was announced in early February 2001.

In July 2000 Deutsche Telekom (Germany) bought a 51% stake in Slovak Telecom in its privatisation; the group has held 100% since 2015.