Data & Analytics Buyout Acquisitions in 2026

Experian has acquired AtData, an email intelligence and data company that provides real-time email insights and identity signals. The deal adds AtData’s dataset of over 10 billion email addresses and real-time identity signals to Experian’s data, analytics and decisioning platforms to strengthen identity, fraud prevention, and marketing capabilities.

Deutsche Börse Group agreed to acquire General Atlantic’s remaining 20% minority stake in ISS STOXX for approximately €1.1 billion, payable in two tranches in Feb–Mar 2026. The buyout gives Deutsche Börse full ownership of the data, analytics and index business, intended to increase operational agility and simplify execution of its growth strategy within the group.

Model ML has acquired Captide, a financial data platform that converts global corporate filings into LLM-ready documents and structured data. The deal expands Model ML's AI workflow capabilities by adding disclosure intelligence—used by Big 4 firms, consultants and major financial institutions—to enable its agents to reliably retrieve, reason over, and cite corporate filings.

Rep Data, a New Orleans–based market research and data quality provider backed by Mountaingate Capital, has acquired ReDem, an AI-driven in-survey data quality SaaS. The acquisition combines Rep Data's Research Defender pre-survey fraud prevention with ReDem's real-time in-survey scoring to deliver an end-to-end approach to detect bots, AI-assisted respondents and other low-quality responses; ReDem will continue to be available as a standalone product.

Morningstar, Inc. completed its $365 million acquisition of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) from the University of Chicago, adding CRSP Market Indexes and historical research data to Morningstar Indexes. The deal expands Morningstar's index and data capabilities—bringing benchmarks tied to more than $3 trillion in U.S. equities—and preserves a continued relationship with Vanguard to use the CRSP indexes for several Vanguard funds.

Paris-based data science firm Ekimetrics has acquired Actable, a New York–based specialist in AI-powered customer analytics, as part of its "Elevate" plan to become a global leader in large-scale managed data and AI solutions. The deal strengthens Ekimetrics' customer analytics and marketing/sales AI capabilities and accelerates its expansion in North America; Actable will continue operating within Ekimetrics while its technology is progressively integrated into the Ekimetrics platform.

Abrigo has acquired Journey Technology Solutions, a banking data, strategy, and analytics firm, to strengthen its data aggregation, reporting, and behavioral analytics capabilities for community financial institutions. The acquisition expands Abrigo's ability to deliver role-based dashboards and actionable intelligence to banks and credit unions without requiring complex data stacks or large in-house analytics teams.

Intentsify has acquired Salutary Data, a U.S. provider of curated B2B contact and company intelligence, to strengthen its identity layer by pairing intent signals with verified human identity. The acquisition enhances Intentsify's data validation and identity resolution capabilities and expands its unified data ecosystem for advertising, sales, and marketing activation.

Gamebeast has acquired RTrack, a Roblox-focused market research and analytics platform, and will integrate RTrack's research products and AI-augmented Deep Aware system into the Gamebeast dashboard. The acquisition is intended to broaden Gamebeast's market intelligence and research capabilities for developers, enterprise teams, advertisers, and investors operating on Roblox.

ScanmarQED has acquired MMM Labs, a U.S.-based startup that provides multi-engine marketing mix modeling (MMM) capabilities, to integrate its technology into ScanmarQED's PulseQED platform. The deal combines MMM Labs' speed and multi-engine flexibility with PulseQED's enterprise governance and scalability to offer marketers access to multiple open-source and proprietary MMM engines through a single interface.

Minitab, a global data analytics and process-improvement software provider, has acquired Scytec, the maker of DataXchange, to add real-time machine data collection and shop-floor monitoring capabilities to its analytics portfolio. The deal expands Minitab's end-to-end manufacturing data capabilities—connecting machine-level operational data with quality analytics, OEE monitoring, and real-time SPC.

Amplitude, Inc. has acquired InfiniGrow, an AI marketing analytics company, to expand its AI-driven analytics capabilities into marketing and revenue use cases. The acquisition—terms undisclosed—will integrate InfiniGrow’s attribution, forecasting, and what‑if scenario modeling into Amplitude’s platform to help marketers measure, forecast, and optimize how campaigns translate into revenue.

Dublin-based travel booking company Hostelworld acquired Richmond-founded event data firm OccasionGenius for $12 million in a deal that closed in October. Hostelworld will integrate OccasionGenius' event database into its app and Social Pass feature while OccasionGenius will retain its name and team and continue servicing existing clients.

Zelis, a Boston-based healthcare payments technology company, has acquired Rivet, an AI-enabled revenue cycle analytics provider. The acquisition brings Rivet's analytics and dashboards into Zelis' platform to improve claims payment transparency, reduce denials and administrative burden for providers, and enhance payer-provider collaboration.

Verana Health has acquired oncology-focused COTA (COTA Healthcare) in a transaction supported by a $52 million equity commitment from existing backers. The merger expands Verana's real-world data and analytics capabilities into oncology and gives the combined firm access to more than 95 million patients and over 20,000 contributing clinicians, broadening its offering to biopharma customers across clinical trials and outcomes research.

OneSix, a Chicago-based data and AI consultancy, has acquired CTI Data, a Burlington, Massachusetts data governance and analytics consulting firm founded in 1994. The deal expands OneSix’s governed Snowflake analytics and responsible AI capabilities; financial terms were not disclosed. Novistra Capital served as exclusive advisor to CTI Data and OneSix added Frank Farrall to its board.

Vanda has acquired all outstanding capital stock of Exante Data Inc., merging Exante into Vanda to create a combined macro analytics and data platform. Financial terms were not disclosed; financing support was provided by FPE Capital and Santander, and Exante founder Jens Nordvig will become President of the combined company and join the board as Vanda accelerates development of its "Vanda Analytics" product and AI-driven solutions.

DoiT (DoiT International) has acquired SELECT, a Toronto-founded data platform optimization company focused on Snowflake, integrating SELECT into its Cloud Intelligence platform as "PerfectScale for Snowflake." The deal—part of DoiT's $250 million AI investment strategy—will extend FinOps automation into the data layer and retains SELECT's team and customer contracts; financial terms were not disclosed.

Microsoft has acquired Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform, to integrate autonomous data-preparation and ingestion capabilities into Microsoft Fabric and OneLake. The Osmos team will join Microsoft's Fabric engineering organization to help automate data transformation and accelerate AI- and analytics-ready workflows; financial terms were not disclosed.