Data & Analytics Acquisitions in Georgia

Green Street has acquired College House, a provider of property-level data and analytics for the U.S. student housing sector, to expand its property-level coverage and deepen student housing insights. The addition of College House’s granular dataset and team will support new sector-specific analytics, modeling, and benchmarks within Green Street’s global commercial real estate intelligence platform.

Alliant, the marketing data and analytics platform backed by private equity firm Inverness Graham, has acquired AnalyticsIQ, a predictive analytics and people-based marketing data company. The deal (terms undisclosed) brings AnalyticsIQ's audience modeling and cognitive-psychology-driven data into Alliant's transactional audience graph and names AnalyticsIQ CEO Scarlett Shipp as CEO of the combined business.

InformData Holdings (InformData, LLC), a people-data provider to the background screening industry, has acquired Sentinel Information Systems, a nationwide motor vehicle record (MVR) data and DOT compliance platform. The deal expands InformData's direct-source MVR data and risk-management capabilities and enables integration of Sentinel's data with InformData's Continuous Activity Monitoring (CAM) technology.

Francisco Partners has completed its acquisition of The Weather Company from IBM, creating a standalone business led by CEO Sheri Bachstein. The deal positions The Weather Company to accelerate product innovation and expand its enterprise offerings across industries such as media, advertising and aviation with additional capital and operating support.

Spectrio, a Tampa-based provider of digital signage and on-premise customer engagement solutions, has acquired InReality, an Atlanta-based provider of anonymous, radar-based audience sensing and analytics. The acquisition integrates InReality's AI-driven venue analytics into Spectrio's product stack and brings InReality CEO Ron Levac onto Spectrio's leadership team to drive analytics and intelligence solutions.

RIBBIT, a provider of alternative bank and payment data, has acquired ValidiFI, a specialist in fraud, compliance and risk-mitigation solutions. The deal — led by RIBBIT with support from existing investor ABS Capital and new investor MissionOG — combines RIBBIT's predictive analytics and data assets with ValidiFI's verification capabilities to expand product breadth and create a larger alternative database of bank and payment data.

NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aspirent, a data, analytics, and advisory firm headquartered in Atlanta, from majority owner Summit Park. The acquisition adds more than 230 data advisors and technologists to NTT DATA, bolstering its analytics, data engineering and advisory capabilities across partners such as Azure, AWS, Databricks and Snowflake.

Arcadia, a climate technology company, has acquired Urjanet, a global utility data provider, to integrate Urjanet’s utility data and APIs into Arcadia’s Arc platform. The acquisition expands Arcadia’s data coverage across more than 9,500 utilities in 52 countries (covering 95%+ of U.S. residential and commercial accounts), enabling broader energy optimization, payments, and carbon accounting use cases.

Gallant Capital Partners made a strategic growth investment in SJV Data Solutions and Wholesale Screening Solutions to combine the businesses into a leading independent people-data platform serving the background screening industry. Founders Scott Vanek (SJV) and Matt Lowers (WSS) and additional management remain material owners and will lead the renamed combined business while advisors Stifel and Baker Tilly Capital advised on the respective transactions.

Pamlico Capital has made a growth investment in Profisee, acquiring a majority ownership stake in the master data management (MDM) software provider. Existing investor ParkerGale Capital and Profisee's management team will retain minority stakes; financial terms were not disclosed. The investment will support product-led growth and continued product and team expansion.

Datavant and Ciox Health signed a definitive agreement to merge in a transaction valued at $7.0 billion, creating a combined company to be named Datavant that will be the largest neutral health data ecosystem in the United States. The deal is supported by an investor group led by New Mountain Capital with significant new investment from Sixth Street and participation from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Roivant Sciences and other strategic and financial investors; upon closing Pete McCabe will be CEO and Travis May will be President.

Ryan, a global tax services and software provider headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has acquired PTX Tech, a property tax data and software firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. The acquisition will integrate PTX's property tax data, county-specific tax-roll information, and electronic tax-record management tools into Ryan's workflow to expand the firm's data and software capabilities for managing and minimizing clients' property tax liabilities.

Ardian's North America Direct Buyouts completed the acquisition of PRGX Global, Inc., a technology-enabled recovery audit and spend analytics firm headquartered in Atlanta. Ardian will control PRGX and support acceleration of its technology roadmap (including the Verigon Solution Suite) and growth initiatives, with Michael Lustig named CEO.

NTT DATA Services has agreed to acquire Hashmap, a data engineering and analytics consultancy headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, to strengthen its cloud data, analytics and AI capabilities. Hashmap— a Snowflake Premier Partner with Databricks and other cloud partnerships—will expand NTT DATA Services' ability to help clients accelerate cloud data modernization and operationalize AI.

Qlik has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Knarr Analytics to enhance real-time collaboration, data exploration and insight capture within the Qlik Sense analytics cloud platform. The acquisition brings Knarr's collaboration and insight-capture capabilities into Qlik's Active Intelligence vision and will be integrated into Qlik's cloud platform; terms were not disclosed.

Vertify Inc., an Austin-based customer data intelligence company, has acquired Atlanta-based Synthio Inc., a data quality and enrichment technology provider. The acquisition brings Synthio's contact data management and enrichment capabilities into Vertify's customer intelligence platform to strengthen data foundations and accelerate product-led growth.

Boathouse Capital has completed a growth investment in AnalyticsIQ, an Atlanta-based marketing data and predictive analytics firm. The capital will be used to fuel business growth and continued product innovation, supporting AnalyticsIQ's PeopleCore and BusinessCore data products.

Cint has acquired 100% of P2Sample, a U.S.-based programmatic sampling platform, to expand its audience reach and strengthen programmatic sampling and AI-driven fraud detection capabilities. The deal brings P2Sample's supplier relationships, API integrations and employees into the Cint Group while P2Sample's co-founders will remain in leadership roles.

Summit Park has made a platform investment in Aspirent Consulting, a Atlanta-based data and analytics consulting firm, partnering with the company's leadership to accelerate growth. Summit Park will work with Aspirent's management and industry veterans Bob Gallagher and Jim Folds in advisory roles to scale the business and capitalize on demand for data and analytics services.