Diligent Acquires Galvanize to Build Largest GRC SaaS Platform

Diligent Corporation Acquires Steele Compliance Solutions

February 25, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Diligent Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Steele Compliance Solutions, a global leader in ethics and compliance SaaS, to extend Diligent's modern governance platform with Steele’s ethics and compliance capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed; the deal was announced February 25, 2021 and was expected to close in early March.

Clearlake and Blackstone Invest in Diligent Corporation

August 5, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Diligent Corporation, a provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, received an increased investment from Clearlake Capital and a new investment from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities. The capital will support Diligent's continued product development, international expansion and customer adoption; terms were not disclosed.

Diligent Acquires Vault to Expand AI-Powered Ethics & Compliance Capabilities

May 22, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Diligent has acquired Vault, an AI-driven ethics and Speak Up platform, and will integrate Vault’s technology into its GRC SaaS offering to enhance multilingual reporting, investigation workflows, and proactive risk detection. The acquisition broadens Diligent’s AI-enabled governance, risk and compliance capabilities for global enterprise customers and builds on its recent strategic purchases in the ethics and compliance space.

Diligent Acquires 3rdRisk

January 16, 2026

Cloud & SaaS

Diligent, the AI-first governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS provider, has acquired 3rdRisk, an AI-native third-party/vendor risk management platform based in the Netherlands. The deal integrates 3rdRisk's AI-driven vendor profiling and assessment capabilities into Diligent's platform to expand its third-party risk management offering and accelerate customers' audit-readiness.

RegScale Acquires GovReady

November 29, 2022

Software

RegScale, a Tysons Corner-based GRC software company, acquired GovReady, an open-source Compliance-as-Code platform, to strengthen its NIST OSCAL-enabled governance, risk and compliance offering. GovReady’s leadership and engineering team — including CEO Elin — will join RegScale’s R&D organization to accelerate OSCAL and Compliance-as-Code capabilities.

Radiant Logic Acquires Brainwave GRC

April 18, 2023

Cybersecurity

Radiant Logic has acquired Brainwave GRC, a France-based identity analytics and GRC specialist, to combine identity data federation and observability with analytics and prescriptive capabilities. The acquisition creates a joint roadmap to deliver an integrated identity data platform that strengthens identity-first security, improves identity data governance, and expands Radiant's capabilities and market reach in EMEA and North America.