Foursquare Acquires Placed from Snap Inc.

Precisely Acquires PlaceIQ

January 19, 2022

Data & Analytics

Precisely has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlaceIQ, a New York-based provider of mobile location data and location-based consumer insights. The deal is an add-on to Precisely (backed by Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates) and expands its data integrity portfolio to include behavioral location intelligence for advertising, measurement, and attribution.

Yext Acquires Places Scout

February 20, 2025

Data & Analytics

Yext has acquired Places Scout, a location intelligence and local search analytics platform, to deepen its competitive intelligence, benchmarking, and AI-driven insights for multi-location brands. The deal integrates Places Scout’s proprietary local search and reputation data into Yext’s digital presence platform to enhance visibility, benchmarking, and action-oriented recommendations at national and local levels.

Senzing Acquires Placekey

December 16, 2025

Data & Analytics

Senzing, a provider of real-time entity resolution technology, has acquired the Placekey service and technology, bringing the open universal identifier for places data under Senzing's ownership. Placekey will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary and remain freely available while benefiting from Senzing's resources to accelerate innovation and expand use cases for location data interoperability.

Foursquare Acquires Unfolded

May 20, 2021

Data & Analytics

Foursquare has acquired Unfolded, a geospatial analytics and visualization platform built on open-source technologies like kepler.gl, deck.gl and H3. The deal brings Unfolded's visualization and analytics capabilities together with Foursquare's location and POI data to offer integrated geospatial solutions; Unfolded will continue to operate under its brand with support from Foursquare.

PLACE Acquires Real Estate Team Platform Livian

September 20, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

PLACE, the brokerage-inclusive real estate technology and services platform, has acquired Livian, a real estate team servicing platform founded by Adam Hergenrother. Livian will be fully integrated into PLACE's ecosystem to expand PLACE’s capabilities for servicing high-performing real estate teams across the United States and Canada.

Bain & Company Acquires Sutton Place Strategies

December 21, 2020

Data & Analytics

Bain & Company has acquired Sutton Place Strategies (SPS), a deal origination tool and transaction database used by private equity firms, corporate M&A teams, and deal advisors. The acquisition adds SPS's proprietary transaction data and analytics to Bain's suite of data offerings to enhance deal sourcing, pipeline analytics, and M&A advisory capabilities.