NearForm Acquires Formidable

Newsela Acquires Formative

June 27, 2023

Education

Newsela has acquired Formative to combine its K-12 instructional content library with Formative’s real-time assessment and data capabilities, creating a more comprehensive instructional solution for teachers and administrators. The deal brings together Newsela’s 15,000+ content library and Formative’s assessment platform (used by over four million students) effective immediately to enable faster feedback, targeted intervention, and improved student outcomes.

Redis Acquires Featureform

October 9, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

Redis has acquired Featureform, a feature-store framework for managing and serving structured data for ML. The acquisition integrates Featureform into Redis’ feature store and vector search capabilities to provide real-time, versioned feature pipelines and improved observability for AI agents and production ML workflows.

Carlyle to Acquire AutoForm from Astorg

November 17, 2021

Software

Global investment firm Carlyle has agreed to acquire AutoForm AG, a Swiss provider of sheet metal forming and Body-in-White (BiW) assembly simulation software, from private equity firm Astorg. The transaction — subject to regulatory approvals — will see Carlyle support AutoForm’s growth by investing in its software platform, commercial operations and pursuing further acquisitions; financial terms were not disclosed.

Ares Management and Partners Acquire Majority Stake in Form Technologies

January 21, 2025

Manufacturing

Ares Management funds have acquired a majority of Form Technologies' common equity as part of a financing package that injected approximately $304 million of new equity to deleverage the company and support strategic growth. The capital—$154 million of common equity from Ares, the D. E. Shaw group and Onex Credit, plus $150 million of preferred equity from the D. E. Shaw group and Ripple Industries—will fund investments in operational capabilities and commercial expansion across Form Technologies' global manufacturing footprint.

Ethos Capital Acquires Newforma

April 3, 2023

Software

Boston-based private equity firm Ethos Capital has acquired Newforma, a Boston-headquartered provider of project information management (PIM) and BIM collaboration software for the architecture, engineering and construction (AECO) industry. The deal, in which Battery Ventures sold its stake, will support Newforma’s cloud migration and accelerated product development as the company expands its cloud-based collaboration platform.

Quadient Acquires Daylight Automation to Add Intelligent Forms to Quadient Inspire

September 18, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Quadient has acquired Daylight Automation (formerly FormHero) and integrated its low-code, cloud-based intelligent forms capability into Quadient Inspire as Quadient Inspire iForms. The acquisition expands Quadient's Customer Communication Management (CCM) functionality—bringing low-code form building, data capture and workflow automation to Quadient's cloud platform and customers, including major financial institutions in Canada.