Giosg Acquires Whisbi Technologies' Live Shopping Business

PayPal to Acquire Cymbio to Expand Agentic Commerce and AI-Channel Selling

January 22, 2026

Payments & Fintech

PayPal announced it has agreed to acquire Cymbio, a multi-channel orchestration platform that helps brands sell across “agentic” AI shopping surfaces and other e-commerce channels. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2026 and is intended to strengthen PayPal’s agentic commerce capabilities, including Store Sync, which makes merchants’ product catalogs discoverable on AI platforms while routing orders into merchants’ fulfillment systems.

CPGIO Acquires ShoppingGives

January 21, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

CPGIO has acquired ShoppingGives to integrate the latter's commerce-enabled philanthropic platform into CPGIO's e-commerce and CPG technology stack. As part of the deal, ShoppingGives co-founder Ronny Sage joins CPGIO as Senior Vice President of Strategy to lead integration and product growth, expanding CPGIO's capabilities across e-commerce, DTC, and marketplace solutions.

ECOMMERCE ONE Acquires Gambio

July 19, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Oakley Capital-backed portfolio company ECOMMERCE ONE has acquired Bremen-based Gambio, a cloud shop system provider used by over 25,000 online retailers in the DACH region. Gambio will operate under the ECOMMERCE ONE umbrella and remain independent, complementing the group's existing multichannel and e-commerce software offerings.

1WorldSync Acquires Swogo

March 3, 2022

E-Commerce

1WorldSync, a provider of omnichannel product content solutions backed by Battery Ventures, has acquired Swogo, an e-commerce product bundling and recommendation technology provider. The acquisition brings Swogo's bundle optimization capabilities and European footprint (United Kingdom and Portugal offices) into 1WorldSync's platform to drive increased upsell and cross-sell for retail customers.

Emplifi Acquires Go Instore

September 23, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Emplifi, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, has acquired SYM-SYS LTD (Go Instore), a London-based live commerce software provider. The acquisition adds Go Instore's HD live-video commerce capabilities to Emplifi's SaaS-based omnichannel customer experience platform, strengthening its social commerce and omnichannel CX offering.

Digital Wholesale Solutions Acquires Giacom from Livingbridge

November 19, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Digital Wholesale Solutions (DWS) has acquired Giacom, a UK cloud services marketplace, from private equity owner Livingbridge; minority shareholder LDC also exited. Giacom provides cloud software, infrastructure and managed services to IT consultants and more than 70,000 SME end users via its channel platform; DWS said the deal will unlock additional channel opportunities across converged IT and unified communications.