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OneMagnify Acquires Guidance

October 23, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

OneMagnify, a Crestview Partners‑backed digital experience and marketing platform, has acquired Guidance to expand its eCommerce and digital experience capabilities. Guidance is a commerce services provider that builds customized eCommerce websites, mobile experiences and complex system integrations for B2C and B2B brands; financial terms were not disclosed.

Simplicity Group Acquires Guardian Financial Group

May 6, 2021

Financial Services

Simplicity Group has acquired Guardian Financial Group, adding the specialized financial planning practice focused on religious leaders and their families to its group effective May 3, 2021. Guardian will rebrand to Simplicity, retain its offices in Mansfield, Texas, and Jerry Whitley joins as a partner and shareholder to expand Simplicity's distribution and advisory capabilities.

Simplicity Group Acquires The Leaders Group, Inc.

February 15, 2023

Financial Services

Simplicity Group Holdings, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Leaders Group, Inc., a national independent broker-dealer based in Littleton, Colorado. The acquisition expands Simplicity's distribution capability into the brokerage general agency (BGA) channel and enhances its ability to support independent financial advisors and BGAs with insurance and securities distribution services.

Matrix One Acquires Simploud to Add QMS and LIMS Capabilities

January 6, 2026

Software

Matrix One, a life sciences software provider backed by Lauxera Capital Partners, has acquired Simploud, a cloud-based maker of Quality Management System (QMS) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) software. Simploud's products will be integrated into Matrix One's portfolio as Matrix QMS and Matrix LIMS to broaden the company's compliance and laboratory software offering for regulated life sciences and MedTech customers.

Simplicity Group Acquires Designs in Life

January 18, 2024

Insurance

Simplicity Group Holdings, Inc. has acquired California-based broker general agency Designs in Life. As part of the deal, Designs in Life founder Shawn Jeanes joins Simplicity as a partner and will continue to lead the team while gaining access to Simplicity's wealth management products and digital marketing services to support the firm's advisors.

The Integration Group Acquires Matrix Management

July 15, 2025

Logistics & Distribution

The Integration Group (TIG), a Maxwell Street Capital Partners portfolio company, has acquired Chicago-based Matrix Management to expand its aftermarket assembly, kitting, and e-commerce fulfillment capabilities. The deal is an add-on to TIG's buy-and-build strategy to broaden end-to-end aftermarket supply-chain services for OEMs and distributed dealer networks across agriculture, construction, lawn-and-garden and industrial markets.