512Financial Acquires HireBetter

Hirewell Acquires CS Recruiting

December 4, 2025

Staffing & HR

Hirewell has acquired CS Recruiting, combining Hirewell's tech-enabled talent platform with CS Recruiting's specialized supply chain, logistics, and transportation recruiting expertise. The acquisition expands Hirewell's Industrial practice, increasing its capacity to place senior supply chain and logistics leaders and accelerating time-to-hire for clients across manufacturing and distribution networks.

512Financial Acquires AustinPeopleWorks

January 8, 2025

Staffing & HR

Fractional business services firm 512Financial has acquired AustinPeopleWorks (APW), a fractional HR and recruiting firm based in Austin, Texas. The deal expands 512Financial's HR capabilities and adds recruiting and talent-sourcing services to its fractional finance, accounting, HR, and marketing offerings while retaining APW's client relationships and team members.

HireBetter Acquires Diverse Recruiting Experts

November 2, 2022

Staffing & HR

HireBetter, an Austin-based strategic talent partner, has acquired Austin-based Diverse Recruiting Experts (DRE). The acquisition expands HireBetter's recruiting capabilities — in particular DRE's Sourcing-as-a-Service and diverse-talent sourcing expertise — and will support the launch of HireBetter's Recruiting-as-a-Service offering.

Equifax Acquires Efficient Hire

February 7, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Equifax has completed the acquisition of Efficient Hire, a Denver-based provider of cloud recruiting, onboarding and HR management solutions. The addition bolsters Equifax Workforce Solutions' employer services portfolio, expanding capabilities for hourly employers in industries such as restaurants, staffing, building services, senior care and hospitality.

Risk Strategies Acquires Better Business Planning, Inc.

November 1, 2021

Insurance

Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage, has acquired Better Business Planning, Inc., an Itasca, Illinois-based employee benefits agency. The acquisition strengthens Risk Strategies' National Employee Benefits Practice and bolsters its Midwest presence; terms were not disclosed.

IdeaScale Acquires Betterific

January 28, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

IdeaScale, the San Francisco-based idea management SaaS provider, has acquired Betterific, a crowdsourced open-innovation platform that taps a community of roughly 25,000 ideators. The acquisition combines Betterific's external crowdsourcing and consumer-idea capabilities with IdeaScale's internal idea-management platform to offer end-to-end open innovation for public- and private-sector customers.