Tracked deals
22
22 tracked deals across 2019-2025.
Cloud & SaaS Buyers & Acquisitions in Wisconsin
Buyer mix
Mixed buyer set
15 strategic · 12 pe
Top trend
Volume peaked in 2021
6 tracked deals announced in 2021.
Buyer Snapshot
Top Buyers
Illustrative buyers pulled from tracked transactions on this page. This table is capped and intentionally non-exhaustive.
| Buyer | # Deals | Focus | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Hall Capital Partners | 2 | Private equity firm focused exclusively on investments se... | PE |
| Align Capital Partners | 1 | Growth-oriented private equity firm managing approximatel... | PE |
| Applied Data Corporation (ADC) | 1 | SaaS provider of total store operations technology for re... | Strategic |
| Applied Systems | 1 | Global provider of cloud-based insurance software and age... | Strategic |
| Aquiline Capital Partners LP | 1 | Private investment specialist focused on financial servic... | PE |
| Ascentis | 1 | Provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) so... | Strategic |
| Aurora Capital Partners | 1 | Private equity firm focused on control investments in mid... | PE |
| Baird Capital | 1 | Venture and private equity investment firm providing grow... | PE |
| Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. | 1 | Sector-focused private equity firm providing capital and ... | PE |
| Comply365 | 1 | Provider of operational content management, training mana... | Strategic (PE-backed) |
Acquisition Volume in Cloud & SaaS in Wisconsin by Year
Last 7 years
Supporting Data
Recent Transactions
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- Buyer
- Crest Rock Partners
- Target
- Productive Programming Inc.
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Denver-based private equity firm Crest Rock Partners announced a strategic growth investment in Productive Programming Inc. (PPi), a Verona, Wisconsin–headquartered provider of the Care Compass SaaS platform and tech-enabled services for care management, EHR, and TPA operations. The capital will be used to accelerate product development, expand Care Compass nationwide, and advance AI/ML capabilities; PPi's founder and executive team rolled/invested alongside Crest Rock.
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November 7, 2024
- Buyer
- ECI Software Solutions
- Target
- Avid Ratings
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
ECI Software Solutions has acquired Avid Ratings, a Madison, Wisconsin-based provider of customer experience software for the homebuilding industry. The acquisition expands ECI's industry-specific homebuilder offerings by adding Avid's AvidCX platform, HomeKeep, and AI-powered AvidWarranty capabilities to enhance customer experience, analytics and integration across ECI's construction solutions.
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January 8, 2024
- Buyer
- Comply365, Insight Partners, Liberty Hall Capital Partners
- Target
- Comply365, Vistair
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Comply365 (Beloit, Wis.) and Vistair (Bristol, England) completed a merger to form a combined provider of compliance, safety and data intelligence technologies for the aviation, defense and rail industries. The transaction is accompanied by a strategic growth investment from Insight Partners and Liberty Hall Capital Partners to support integration and product/capability expansion across global markets.
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December 31, 2023
- Buyer
- Aquiline Capital Partners LP
- Target
- LeaseCrunch LLC
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Aquiline Capital Partners has made a growth investment in LeaseCrunch LLC, a lease accounting and lease management SaaS provider for CPA firms. The capital will be used to scale LeaseCrunch’s product capabilities, pursue M&A opportunities, and support continued growth; the deal closed in Q4 2023 with Marks Baughan as exclusive sell-side advisor.
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April 14, 2023
- Buyer
- Mitratech
- Target
- Circa (Infosoft Group d/b/a Circa), Trakstar
- Seller
- Gauge Capital
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Mitratech has acquired Milwaukee-based Circa (Infosoft Group d/b/a Circa) from Gauge Capital and concurrently acquired Trakstar, expanding its HR compliance, DEI, workforce analytics, and talent management capabilities. The transactions bring OFCCP compliance, DEI sourcing, workforce analytics, and performance management technologies into Mitratech’s existing legal, risk, compliance, and HR software platform.
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February 2, 2023
- Buyer
- Schneider Geospatial, LLC, Align Capital Partners
- Target
- WebGUIDE Xtreme (product of Applied Data Consultants)
- Seller
- Applied Data Consultants
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Addon
Schneider Geospatial, a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners, acquired the WebGUIDE Xtreme product from Applied Data Consultants to expand its GovTech SaaS footprint in Wisconsin. The WGX portal will be integrated into Schneider Geospatial's Beacon SaaS platform, increasing the company's local government customer base and representing its first add-on since ACP's 2022 investment.
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November 14, 2022
- Buyer
- HR Acuity
- Target
- Speakfully
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
HR Acuity has acquired Speakfully, an anonymous workplace reporting and employee-voice platform, to extend its employee relations SaaS offering with anonymous reporting, real-time analytics and secure case intake. The acquisition integrates Speakfully's reporting capabilities into HR Acuity's investigations and case-management platform, expanding HR Acuity's end-to-end employee relations solution.
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August 25, 2022
- Buyer
- QuestionPro
- Target
- Digsite
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
QuestionPro has acquired Digsite's qualitative research capabilities and collaborative insights platform to integrate agile qualitative solutions into its enterprise research and survey offerings. The deal expands QuestionPro's qual+quant capabilities, enabling customers to combine Digsite's exploratory research and rapid ‘Sprints’ with QuestionPro's survey, CX and analytics platforms.
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October 21, 2021
- Buyer
- TCP Software
- Target
- Aladtec
- Seller
- Dave Feyereisen (founder and president of Aladtec)
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
TCP Software, a provider of cloud-based workforce management and time & attendance solutions, acquired Aladtec, a River Falls, Wisconsin–based online employee scheduling and workforce management system focused on public safety. The Aladtec platform will be integrated into TCP’s suite (and maintained as a standalone product) to expand TCP’s scheduling capabilities and better serve public safety, healthcare and dispatch customers.
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October 5, 2021
- Buyer
- Applied Data Corporation (ADC)
- Target
- Pinpoint Software, Inc.
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Applied Data Corporation (ADC) entered into an agreement to acquire Pinpoint Software, Inc. (parent of Date Check Pro), which provides expiration date management software for grocers and other retailers. ADC said the acquisition is intended as a strategic addition to its total store operations SaaS platform to reduce food waste and shrink and improve retailer execution.
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September 7, 2021
- Buyer
- Rockwell Automation, Inc.
- Target
- Plex Systems
- Seller
- Francisco Partners
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Rockwell Automation completed its acquisition of Plex Systems, the cloud-native smart manufacturing SaaS platform, expanding Rockwell’s industrial cloud and smart manufacturing software offering. Plex offers a single-instance, multi-tenant manufacturing execution (MES), quality, and supply chain management platform serving 700+ customers globally.
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June 28, 2021
- Buyer
- Baird Capital, GCI
- Target
- Forj
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Baird Capital's venture team led a growth-stage financing in Forj, a Milwaukee-headquartered virtual events and member experience platform, with participation from GCI. The new capital will be used to accelerate Forj's growth and further develop its platform for associations and professional member organizations.
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May 5, 2021
- Buyer
- InvestCloud
- Target
- Advicent
- Seller
- Vista Equity Partners
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
InvestCloud has acquired Advicent, the provider of the NaviPlan financial planning platform, from Vista Equity Partners. The deal combines Advicent's cash-flow, trust and tax planning engines with InvestCloud's cloud-based digital advisor platform to create an integrated financial planning solution for wealth managers and advisors.
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February 11, 2021
- Buyer
- Datadog, Inc.
- Target
- Timber Technologies
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Datadog, the cloud monitoring and security SaaS provider, has acquired Timber Technologies, the developer of Vector, a high-performance, vendor-agnostic observability data pipeline. The Timber leadership team (including CEO Zach Sherman and CTO Ben Johnson) and the core Timber team will join Datadog to integrate Vector’s capabilities for collecting, enriching, transforming and routing logs, metrics and traces into Datadog’s platform.
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December 14, 2020
- Buyer
- Liberty Hall Capital Partners
- Target
- Comply365 Holdings, Inc.
- Seller
- Investment funds managed by Luminate Capital Partners
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Liberty Hall Capital Partners acquired Comply365, a Beloit, Wisconsin-based provider of SaaS operational content and compliance management solutions, from investment funds managed by Luminate Capital Partners. Comply365's management team will remain in place and Liberty Hall said the acquisition advances its digitalization strategy to build an integrated, scaled provider for the aerospace and rail markets.
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- Buyer
- Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., Aurora Capital Partners
- Target
- Zywave, Inc., Advisen Ltd.
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Clearlake Capital completed its acquisition of Zywave and also acquired Advisen, combining Zywave's front-office insurance SaaS with Advisen's insurance data and analytics to form a buy-and-build InsurTech platform. Aurora Capital Partners (the prior majority owner of Zywave) is investing alongside Clearlake to support accelerated organic and inorganic growth; the combined company will be led by Zywave CEO Jason Liu. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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April 2, 2020
- Buyer
- Constellation1, Constellation Real Estate Group
- Target
- Virtual Properties
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Addon
Constellation1, part of Constellation Real Estate Group (CREG), has acquired Midwest-based real estate technology provider Virtual Properties. The deal is an add-on to Constellation1's real estate software platform and aims to expand its vertical SaaS product offerings, customer relationships, and MLS/IDX capabilities.
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October 7, 2019
- Buyer
- N. Harris Computer Corporation
- Target
- Connecture, Inc.
- Seller
- Francisco Partners
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
N. Harris Computer Corporation (a subsidiary of Constellation Software) has acquired Connecture, Inc., a Milwaukee-based provider of web-based Medicare shopping, quoting and enrollment solutions. Connecture was a portfolio company of Francisco Partners and was advised by Brentwood Capital Advisors; the deal expands Harris’s healthcare software capabilities and customer-facing Medicare enrollment offerings.
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September 11, 2019
- Buyer
- Luminate Capital Partners
- Target
- MSI Data
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Luminate Capital Partners made a strategic growth investment in MSI Data to support product development, scale the team, and accelerate go-to-market efforts for MSI’s field service management SaaS platform. Financial terms were not disclosed; Luminate partners joined MSI’s board and advisors to the transaction included GrowthPoint Technology Partners (financial advisor to MSI) and Kirkland & Ellis (legal advisor to Luminate).
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April 10, 2019
- Buyer
- Applied Systems
- Target
- TechCanary
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Applied Systems acquired TechCanary, a Milwaukee-based provider of an insurance-focused CRM built on the Salesforce platform, to expand its sales and marketing automation capabilities. TechCanary's CRM will be integrated with Applied Epic to provide agencies, insurers and MGAs enhanced front-office sales and marketing automation and access to the Salesforce AppExchange ecosystem.
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April 2, 2019
- Buyer
- Ascentis
- Target
- Integrated Time Systems
- Seller
- Chris Kapenga
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Ascentis, a Minneapolis-based provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions, has acquired Integrated Time Systems (ITS), a Wisconsin-based time and attendance solutions provider. The deal strengthens Ascentis' workforce management capabilities, expands its geographic presence in the U.S. Midwest, and enhances its customer service and HCM product suite.
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- Buyer
- TA Associates
- Target
- ARI Network Services, Inc.
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
ARI Network Services, a provider of SaaS and marketing solutions for dealers, equipment manufacturers and distributors, received a strategic growth investment from TA Associates. True Wind Capital, which took ARI private in 2017, will remain the largest shareholder; financial terms were not disclosed. TA Associates will join ARI's board and plans to support organic growth and strategic add-on acquisitions.
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