Tracked deals
96
96 tracked deals across 2017-2026.
Tracked deals
96
96 tracked deals across 2017-2026.
Buyer mix
Mixed buyer set
61 pe · 61 strategic
Top trend
Volume peaked in 2021
22 tracked deals announced in 2021.
Primary Insight
| Buyer (recurring) | Deal pattern shown in Colorado | Example targets |
|---|---|---|
| Bow River Capital | Growth equity majority positions and recapitalizations | TrackVia, meQuilibrium |
| PE-backed acquirers | Add-on acquisitions to expand capability | Nutrislice, The Receptionist |
| Platform-builders | Combine technologies into broader suites | iCapital + Hexure |
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Illustrative buyers pulled from tracked transactions on this page. This table is capped and intentionally non-exhaustive.
| Buyer | # Deals | Focus | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow River Capital | 4 | Denver-based alternative asset manager with a Software Gr... | PE |
| Vista Equity Partners | 3 | Global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise ... | PE |
| ASG | 2 | Buys, builds, and operates vertical SaaS companies (verti... | Strategic (PE-backed) |
| Accel-KKR | 2 | Technology-focused private equity firm that invests in so... | PE |
| Alpine Investors | 2 | People-driven private equity firm investing in software a... | PE |
| Bow River Capital (Software Growth Equity Fund) | 2 | Private alternative asset manager with a Software Growth ... | PE |
| Bow River Capital (Software Growth Equity Team) | 2 | Private alternative asset manager focused on lower-middle... | PE |
| Periscope Equity | 2 | Chicago-based private equity firm investing in founder-ow... | PE |
| RippleWorx | 2 | Cloud-based talent development and people-analytics SaaS ... | Strategic (PE-backed) |
| Serent Capital | 2 | Private equity firm that invests in high-growth B2B softw... | PE |
Last 9 years
Supporting Data
Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity team completed a majority buy-out of TrackVia, a Denver-based enterprise compliance lifecycle management cloud platform for the federal government and commercial organizations. The investment is intended to accelerate TrackVia’s product and AI innovation, scale operations and infrastructure, and expand staffing.
iCapital entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hexure, a provider of digital and AI-powered sales automation solutions for insurance, financial services, and wealth management. The combined platform is intended to create an end-to-end annuity and insurance “operating system,” integrating Hexure’s FireLight and ForeSight technologies with iCapital’s alternatives and structured investments platform.
Gryphon Investors completed a majority investment in HRSoft, a Denver-based enterprise compensation management software provider. Existing investor Bow River Capital retained a minority stake, and HRSoft’s executive team (led by CEO Joe Poxson) continued to manage the business.
Libera, a GovTech-native case management and vocational rehabilitation SaaS provider backed by Tideshift Capital Group, acquired CiviCore from Neon One. CiviCore is a Denver-based provider of cloud case management, data analytics, mentoring, and grant tracking for state and local government and non-profit organizations.
On January 15, 2026, private equity firm Accel-KKR acquired Nutrislice, a Broomfield, Colorado–based provider of digital menus, ordering, and signage solutions for restaurants. Financial terms were not disclosed; the deal gives Accel-KKR a foothold in the food‑tech / restaurant software market and provides Nutrislice with capital and operational support to accelerate growth.
Sign In Solutions has acquired The Receptionist, a Denver-based visitor management provider with more than 5,500 customers across 35 countries. The undisclosed-term deal is an add-on to Sign In Solutions' PE-backed platform (formed with backing from PSG Equity) to integrate The Receptionist's service model and expand visitor management, GRC and workplace security capabilities.
Proven Optics has acquired brightfin to combine Proven Optics' IT financial management capabilities with brightfin's technology expense management solutions, and appointed Joel Martins as CEO of the combined organization. The deal (backed by majority investor Silversmith Capital Partners and with prior growth investment from ServiceNow) expands the platform's ServiceNow-native capabilities, customer support, and AI-enabled functionality for enterprise and public-sector customers.
EETech Group has acquired Datasheets.com from SiliconExpert Technologies, Inc. The acquisition brings Datasheets.com's extensive electronic component datasheet database into EETech's portfolio to enhance search, parametric capabilities, and integration across EETech's engineering-focused platforms.
Ooma, Inc. (NYSE: OOMA) signed a definitive agreement to acquire FluentStream Corp. in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $45 million, subject to customary working capital adjustments. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Ooma’s fiscal year 2026, pending regulatory approvals and standard closing conditions.
PartnerOne has completed its acquisition of Mortgage Cadence, a provider of cloud-based digital lending solutions used across the mortgage lifecycle. The deal moves Mortgage Cadence into PartnerOne’s “Acquire. Invest. Grow.” ecosystem to support long-term investment and to accelerate innovation, including AI-driven automation and loan origination workflow improvements.
Bow River Capital's Software Growth Equity Team has completed a majority recapitalization of meQuilibrium, merging the company with RippleWorx to create a market-leading human capital management firm focused on workforce mental health and performance. The combined business will be dual‑headquartered in Denver and Boston, with meQuilibrium founder Jan Bruce leading and RippleWorx CEO Steve Foster serving as Chairman and Head of Revenue Growth.
Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity Team made a significant growth equity investment and majority recapitalization in meQuilibrium and concurrently merged its portfolio company, RippleWorx, into meQ. The transaction combines meQ’s workforce resilience and mental-health platform with RippleWorx’s talent-development and AI-driven people analytics to accelerate product capability, global scale, and go-to-market in HCM SaaS.
Flexential, a U.S.-based data center and colocation provider, raised additional primary equity via a continuation vehicle and strategic investment led by GI Partners’ GI Data Infrastructure team with participation from funds managed by Hamilton Lane. Combined with prior funding from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, Flexential’s total primary equity raised reaches roughly $1 billion to accelerate site acquisition, secure power commitments, and advance over 110 MW of data center projects while scaling its FlexAnywhere platform.
DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) has acquired AgileATS, an applicant tracking system purpose-built for government contractors and employers hiring security-cleared professionals, for an estimated $2.0 million (up-front $1.5M plus $0.5M contingent on performance). The acquisition integrates AgileATS into DHI's ClearanceJobs brand to deliver an end-to-end, AI-powered recruiting solution and expand the company's addressable market in the GovTech/cleared talent space.
PSTrax, a Littleton, Colorado–based SaaS platform for inventory and asset management used by fire, EMS, law enforcement and military agencies, received a strategic growth investment from Level Equity with Growth Street Partners remaining as a minority investor. The capital will accelerate PSTrax's product development roadmap, deepen integrations, and expand the company's reach across first responder and public safety customers.
Bow River Capital's Software Growth Equity team completed a majority recapitalization of Topia, a Denver-based SaaS platform for global mobility management and remote work compliance. The investment will support Topia's product and technology roadmap, including AI-enabled R&D and analytics, to scale the company's global offering to enterprise clients.
WorkBoard has acquired Quantive, combining two leading enterprise OKR and strategy-execution platforms to accelerate AI capabilities, product innovation, and market share. Quantive customers will be migrated to the WorkBoard platform and some Quantive investors will take observer seats on WorkBoard's board.
Kinective, a banking operations platform provider, has acquired Epic River, a provider of eSignature, eNotary and Remote Online Notary technology serving banks and credit unions. The acquisition integrates Epic River's eNotary capabilities into Kinective's document workflow and eSignature offerings to accelerate digital loan closings and expand Kinective's market leadership in financial-institution eSignature solutions.
Roku entered into an agreement to acquire Frndly TV, a Denver-based subscription streaming service offering live TV, on-demand video, and a cloud-based DVR. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter, subject to customary closing conditions, with a total purchase price of $185 million in cash.
Foundation Source, the Fairfield, Connecticut-based provider of philanthropic technology and services, has acquired Giving Place, a family-office giving platform, from Give (a TIFIN Company). The deal, completed April 21, 2025, expands Foundation Source’s SaaS capabilities for private foundations and family offices; terms were not disclosed.
Sky Camp Ventures, a subsidiary of Flight Camp Ventures, has acquired Mobisoft and rebranded the business as MiO to expand and accelerate development of its mobile inventory ordering platform. The acquisition aims to scale the SQL-based MOBI4/MiO product across new end markets (convenience, grocery, automotive, healthcare), invest in product innovation, and pursue additional acquisitions and growth capital.
Agiloft has acquired Screens, a generative-AI contract review and redlining startup, to integrate Standards-based AI contract review playbooks into its Data-first Agreement Platform. The acquisition expands Agiloft's CLM capabilities by adding community-driven AI playbooks and automated redlining to speed review, standardize compliance and surface contract-market data.
EQS Group has acquired the ethics and compliance business division from OneTrust, including the Convercent platform. The acquisition adds Convercent’s ethics, whistleblowing, policy management and analytics capabilities and retains the employees supporting the solution—strengthening EQS’s compliance software footprint, particularly in the United States.
Veralto Corporation (NYSE: VLTO) has acquired the holding company that owns TraceGains for $350 million (subject to customary post-closing adjustments). TraceGains is a cloud-based SaaS provider of food and beverage compliance, traceability, and product development workflow solutions (2024 revenue just over $30M, >95% recurring). The acquisition expands Veralto's Product Quality and Innovation offerings (complementary to its Esko business) to accelerate growth and drive cross-sell synergies.
Luminate Capital Partners has acquired AbsenceSoft, a Golden, Colorado–based SaaS provider of leave and accommodations management, from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Bow River Capital. The investment will support AbsenceSoft's continued growth, product innovation, and expansion of its market-leading absence and accommodation lifecycle platform.
Lofty, an AI-powered real estate platform and US subsidiary of Moatable, Inc., has acquired Firepoint, a real estate CRM used by teams and agents. The acquisition will transition Firepoint customers to Lofty's unified, AI-enabled platform with support and training from Lofty's customer success team.
HarperDB, a distributed systems database platform, has received a significant growth investment from Serent Capital to support product and go-to-market scaling. Serent — a growth-focused private equity firm — will provide hands-on operational resources to help HarperDB expand its infrastructure software and cloud offerings.
365 Retail Markets has acquired Denver-based Impulsify, Inc., adding the company's grab-and-go retail management system and self-service kiosks to 365's suite of unattended retail technologies. The deal expands 365's reach into the hospitality and multifamily markets and combines complementary SaaS, payment processing and POS hardware capabilities to accelerate growth across new end markets.
Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity (SGE) Team has made a majority-controlled platform investment in Accelo to accelerate the development and global growth of its cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) SaaS, including the V4.0 launch, UX improvements, and AI capabilities. Charles Chen of Level Equity will remain on Accelo’s board following the transaction.
Warburg Pincus and TA Associates signed an agreement to sell Procare Solutions to Roper Technologies, Inc. for a total enterprise value of $1.86 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
BillingPlatform, an enterprise revenue lifecycle management SaaS provider, secured a $90 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital to accelerate product development, go-to-market expansion and market leadership. FTV Capital joins existing institutional investor Columbia Capital as minority investors; the funding will support BillingPlatform's continued expansion into large enterprise verticals and new markets.
Webscale has acquired edge-native computing firm Section (Section.io) and integrated its technology to launch CloudFlow, an AI/ML-driven Kubernetes orchestration platform designed for smart distributed computing and cloud cost optimization. The acquisition brings Section’s engineering team into Webscale (including Section’s former CTO now Chief Product Officer) and expands Webscale’s cloud-native capabilities for ISVs, ecommerce and enterprise customers.
MCO (MyComplianceOffice) has acquired Fairwords, an AI-powered communications compliance software provider. The acquisition will integrate Fairwords' real-time communications monitoring, training, analytics and archiving capabilities into MCO's integrated surveillance suite to strengthen digital communications compliance for regulated enterprises.
GiveCampus, the fundraising platform for educational institutions, has acquired Community Funded, a provider of giving-day and crowdfunding technology. The deal—GiveCampus's first acquisition—expands its product capabilities and integrates Community Funded’s customer success, support, product and engineering teams to broaden social fundraising services for K–12 and higher-education customers; GiveCampus completed the acquisition following a $50 million growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners.
Lithuania-based PVcase has acquired U.S.-based Anderson Optimization to integrate the two companies' solar project design and siting software platforms. The acquisition aims to reduce data-transfer risk, speed up utility-scale solar project design workflows and bring Anderson Optimization's U.S. capabilities to European markets.
OfficeSpace Software, a Vista Equity Partners-backed workplace management platform, has acquired Greetly, a customizable visitor management (digital receptionist) solution. The acquisition adds visitor check-in, notifications, badge printing, and related data insights to OfficeSpace’s hybrid workplace platform to help IT, real estate, facilities, and HR teams optimize office strategy.
CloudHesive, an AWS Premier Partner backed by Strattam Capital, has acquired fellow AWS Premier Partner Eplexity to broaden its managed services, Amazon Connect/CCaaS, and application modernization capabilities. The deal is an add-on acquisition that expands CloudHesive’s U.S. footprint (adding a Denver office) and strengthens its contact center, AI/ML, and cloud migration offerings.
OrderMyGear (OMG), a Susquehanna Growth Equity–backed provider of online store and pop-up solutions for group commerce, has acquired BrightStores, a long-standing company‑store e-commerce platform for promotional product distributors. The transaction combines complementary online store technology to expand OMG’s configurable, feature-rich offerings for promotional product distributors, apparel decorators, and team dealers; the deal was supported by debt financing from Wells Fargo Capital Finance and Accel-KKR Credit Partners.
Global Go, LLC acquired certain assets of Adherence Compliance Inc., a SaaS cannabis risk-management and compliance platform. The asset purchase brings Adherence’s cloud-based compliance software and recurring SaaS revenue into Global Go’s services platform to expand its capabilities and access to government and financial institution clients.
Bamboo Rose announced the acquisition of Backbone PLM (Boulder, Colorado) to integrate Backbone's designer-centric product development capabilities into Bamboo Rose's end-to-end PLM and sourcing platform. The deal expands Bamboo Rose's front-end design and creative workflow capabilities; Backbone CEO Jeff Fedor will join Bamboo Rose as SVP of Product and Lincoln International served as financial advisor to Bamboo Rose.
3E, a global provider of EHS&S and product compliance solutions, acquired Toxnot, a SaaS platform for product compliance and supply chain sustainability. The acquisition expands 3E's supply chain transparency and sustainability capabilities by integrating Toxnot's digital product passport and supplier data-sharing technology into its compliance suite.
Buyers Edge Platform acquired RASI (Restaurant Accounting Services, Inc.), adding RASI’s accounting, payroll and managed finance software to Buyers Edge’s back-office and procurement offerings. The deal integrates RASI’s restaurant-focused AP and payroll capabilities into Buyers Edge’s SaaS procurement platform to deliver end-to-end ordering, accounting, payroll and food cost management to restaurant customers.
Bow River Capital's Software Growth Equity team has made a majority-controlled recapitalization investment in HRSoft to accelerate the build-out of its full HCM application suite, scale operational infrastructure, and support profitable growth. As part of the transaction, Bow River fund managers John Raeder, Maitlan Cramer, and Sean O'Connell joined HRSoft's board; CIBC Innovation Banking provided debt financing and JMP Securities served as exclusive financial advisor to HRSoft.
Essex Bay Capital has made a growth investment in STRIVE, a mobile and web-based employee experience SaaS that serves small and medium-sized employers and brokers. The capital will fund product enhancements, customer success, sales and marketing expansion, and support STRIVE's inorganic growth plans; Hennepin Partners served as exclusive financial advisor to STRIVE.
Mitratech, a provider of legal, compliance, and HR software, has acquired TalentReef, a high-volume, hourly-worker-focused applicant tracking and onboarding platform, from Frontier Growth. The acquisition expands Mitratech's HR compliance and onboarding capabilities and will integrate TalentReef with Mitratech's existing solutions (including AssureHire and Tracker I-9) to offer a more seamless, compliant experience for hourly hiring across distributed locations.
Marlin Equity Partners has made a significant majority investment in Altvia, a Denver-based provider of cloud-based CRM and investor lifecycle management software for the private capital markets. Bow River Capital, the prior majority investor, completed the recapitalization with Marlin and will retain a minority equity stake; financial terms were not disclosed.
KKR has made a significant majority investment in Alchemer, a provider of customer experience (CX) and voice-of-the-customer (VoC) software. The investment will support Alchemer's growth through marketing, product innovation, industry partnerships and strategic M&A; financial terms were not disclosed.
iN2L, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, has acquired LifeLoop to combine resident engagement, communication, and operational tools into a single platform for senior living communities. LifeLoop will merge into iN2L and its co-founder and CEO Amy Johnson will become Chief Strategy Officer of the combined organization to help expand capabilities and scale the offering across the market.
SunTx Capital Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm, announced an investment in Epoch Solutions Group, a Westminster, Colorado-based provider of map-first field operations management software for utility companies. Financial terms were not disclosed; SunTx said the investment will help accelerate Epoch's growth and product expansion.
Encompass Technologies, a provider of cloud-based ERP, eCommerce, and analytics software for the beverage and food supply chain, has received a strategic growth investment from Cove Hill Partners to support product innovation and accelerate growth. Existing investor Radian Capital will remain a partner as Encompass expands its Connect product family and broader cloud offerings.
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Recent Colorado deals cover enterprise HR/compensation software, GovTech and compliance/case-management platforms, fintech/insurance technology, and vertical SaaS such as restaurant digital menus and visitor management.
Many listed targets are Colorado-based with a frequent concentration in Denver (e.g., TrackVia, HRSoft, CiviCore, and The Receptionist). Other Colorado metros also appear (e.g., Broomfield for Nutrislice).
Yes. Names that appear repeatedly in the page’s listed deals include Bow River Capital, Accel-KKR, and other recurring investors/operators such as Periscope Equity and Libera.
Both are represented: some transactions are majority acquisitions (and add-ons), while others are majority growth equity investments or recapitalizations intended to accelerate product and go-to-market growth.