Higher Logic Acquires Vanilla to Expand Community Engagement Platform
May 4, 2021
Higher Logic, a PE-backed engagement platform, has acquired Vanilla, a Canadian cloud-based community software company, to combine capabilities and serve association, corporate B2B and B2C markets. The deal brings together complementary community and customer-engagement solutions and deepens Higher Logic's product offering and geographic reach; Level Equity (Vanilla's investor) will remain a significant shareholder of the combined business.
- Buyers
- Higher Logic
- Targets
- Vanilla (Vanilla Forums)
- Sellers
- Level Equity
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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