Stagwell Acquires Apollo Program, AI-Powered SaaS Platform

Stagwell Acquires LEADERS and InfluencerMarketing.AI

July 24, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

Stagwell has acquired Tel Aviv-based influencer marketing agency LEADERS and its AI-powered SaaS platform InfluencerMarketing.AI (IMAI), integrating them into the Stagwell Marketing Cloud’s PRophet Comms Tech Suite. The deal expands Stagwell’s influencer, social commerce and AI capabilities and establishes a presence in Israel and the broader Middle East; approximately 50 employees from LEADERS and IMAI join Stagwell.

Stagwell Acquires Team Epiphany

January 5, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

Stagwell has acquired Team Epiphany, a culture-first consumer marketing agency specializing in experiential, multicultural marketing and influencer integration. Team Epiphany (100 employees) will join Stagwell's Constellation network to deepen the group's influence, experiential and multicultural capabilities.

Evergrowth Merges with Apolo Mktng

June 1, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

Evergrowth, an AI-powered B2B account-based sales platform headquartered in Vilnius, announced a merger with Apolo Mktng and increased its pre-seed to €2.5 million. The deal brings Apolo's AI account-based selling workflows and LLM data-enrichment expertise into Evergrowth's platform to accelerate its pivot from consultancy to a technology product.

Stagwell Acquires Epicenter Experience

October 19, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Stagwell has acquired Epicenter Experience, a location-based consumer behavior platform that maps and sequences consumer visits using mobile and location data. Epicenter will join the Stagwell Marketing Cloud to expand the company's data, insights and martech capabilities; terms were not disclosed.

The Riverside Company Invests in Apollo Interactive

June 29, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

The Riverside Company’s Strategic Capital Fund made a non-control (growth) investment in Apollo Interactive to help scale the tech-enabled lead generation provider. Riverside plans to support Apollo’s growth — including one or more strategic add-on acquisitions — to deepen product and vertical coverage across insurance and mortgage markets.

Hale Capital Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Athenium

November 6, 2024

Software

Hale Capital Partners, a New York-based growth private equity firm, led a cooperative recapitalization to acquire a majority stake in Athenium, a Dover, New Hampshire provider of risk and quality management software. The investment brings in Jim Greenwell as CEO and will support product development, AI/analytics capabilities and expansion into new verticals including insurance, financial services and government.