FireHydrant Acquires Blameless

Vendr Acquires Blissfully

February 23, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Vendr, the SaaS buying platform, has acquired Blissfully, a SaaS management leader, and will combine buy-side purchasing capabilities with Blissfully's system-of-record for managing software stacks. The combined offering aims to provide customers end-to-end SaaS buying and management capabilities and bring the Blissfully team into Vendr.

Highwire Acquires The Bliss Group

January 16, 2026

Marketing & Advertising

San Francisco-based strategic communications agency Highwire has acquired New York-based The Bliss Group, combining the two firms to create an integrated marketing and communications partner serving technology, healthcare, and financial-services clients. The deal (terms undisclosed) folds Bliss into Highwire’s platform—expanding capabilities, sector expertise and bringing Bliss leadership into senior roles at Highwire while creating a combined organization of more than 250 professionals across North America.

GSI Acquires Flawless Inbound Inc.

December 12, 2022

IT Services

GSI, Inc. has acquired Flawless Inbound Inc., a Diamond HubSpot Solution Partner based in Edmonton, Alberta, to expand GSI’s HubSpot practice and RevOps capabilities. Flawless’s leadership (CEO/co-founder Liliane Youssef) will continue to lead the business as President, and the combined organization will offer expanded HubSpot implementation, integrations, eCommerce, and ongoing support services to clients across North America.

Third Summit Acquires Freelancer Platform Blis

March 9, 2020

Media & Entertainment

Third Summit Corporation has acquired Blis, a San Francisco–area freelance marketplace for creative and production talent, and plans to integrate the startup into its Alteon ecosystem. Blis's founders will join Third Summit and existing Blis users and enterprise clients will be migrated into the new Alteon Community, Alteon Cloud and Alteon Pay offerings slated for launch in spring 2020.

Appfire Acquires Flow from Pluralsight

February 5, 2025

Software

Appfire has acquired Flow, Pluralsight’s Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform, expanding Appfire’s product portfolio into engineering productivity and analytics. The acquisition transfers Flow from Pluralsight to Appfire and enables Appfire to offer data-driven developer productivity insights alongside its existing Atlassian/Microsoft/monday.com integrations.

Perforce Software Acquires BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform from Broadcom

September 30, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Perforce Software, a private, PE-backed provider of DevOps and application quality tools, agreed to acquire the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing platform from Broadcom in a deal announced September 30, 2021 and completed October 30, 2021. Financial terms were not disclosed; Perforce said the acquisition expands its application quality portfolio by adding BlazeMeter’s SaaS-based load, performance, API and unified continuous testing capabilities.