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Brian Zimmerman Acquires Avalanche Motorsports

April 27, 2026

Retail

Avalanche Motorsports has transitioned ownership from founders Todd and Austin Myers to Brian Zimmerman, an investor based in the Boston area. The deal was facilitated by Viking Mergers & Acquisitions, with the parties emphasizing continuity of the dealership’s people-first culture as ownership changes.

Rival Group Acquires Angus Reid Group

May 21, 2025

Data & Analytics

Rival Group announced a merger with Angus Reid Group to create a combined $60 million research enterprise serving clients across the United States and Canada. Angus Reid will join Rival Technologies and Reach3 Insights as independent brands under the Rival Group umbrella to combine proprietary conversational research technology, panel assets, and consulting capabilities to scale offerings across enterprise clients.

Datos Insights Acquires Wise Insights

June 25, 2024

Data & Analytics

Datos Insights, a Boston-based research and advisory firm, has acquired Wise Insights, a US-focused research and data firm that provides benchmarking and advisory services to bank wealth managers, trust companies and multi-family offices. The acquisition expands Datos' wealth-management benchmarking and advisory capabilities to deliver broader data-driven guidance to financial-services clients.

Avid Ratings Acquires H2insight Homebuilder Operations

January 17, 2023

Software

Avid Ratings has acquired the H2insight Homebuilder Operations to expand its customer experience platform and benchmarking dataset for the homebuilding industry. The deal brings H2insight’s homebuilder-focused survey, reporting and customer success capabilities (and CEO Vince Kudla) into Avid’s offering to deepen analytics and market benchmarking for builders across the U.S. and Canada.

Aspiration Acquires Carbon Insights

January 12, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Aspiration has acquired Carbon Insights, a climate-tech startup that translates spending behavior and transactions into carbon footprints, to integrate its carbon accounting technology and APIs into Aspiration’s consumer and enterprise sustainability offerings. The Carbon Insights co-founders joined Aspiration to lead integration work and help scale the offering across Aspiration’s products.

Capital A Acquires Majority Stake in Smart IM

October 1, 2019

Marketing & Advertising

Capital A (formerly ABN AMRO Participaties) has acquired a majority stake in Dutch digital marketing agency Smart IM. The investment will support Smart IM's growth ambitions and a buy-and-build strategy via the newly formed Avalanche Digital Group, with Smart IM keeping founder/co-shareholders and roughly 50 employees.