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ACTO Acquires CoHealth to Expand Patient Education Capabilities

October 29, 2020

Healthcare Services

ACTO, a Toronto-based omnichannel education and engagement SaaS platform for life sciences, has acquired CoHealth, a mobile patient education and content-delivery platform. The acquisition adds direct-to-patient education capabilities to ACTO's platform and follows ACTO's recent $11.5 million raise; CoHealth has partnered with about 200 health organizations and supports over 50,000 patients.

ACTO Acquires Scrimmage

September 10, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Toronto-based ACTO acquired Scrimmage, a mobile learning provider for life sciences, following ACTO's $11.5M Series A. The acquisition expands ACTO's life-sciences SaaS capabilities and client portfolio, bringing the combined workforce to over 100 and integrating Scrimmage's team (including CEO Derek Lundsten) into ACTO.

PharmaForceIQ Acquires Aktana

January 9, 2026

Cloud & SaaS

PharmaForceIQ has acquired Aktana in an asset acquisition to integrate Aktana's AI-driven field Next-Best-Action platform into PharmaForceIQ's digital orchestration offering. The deal is intended to create an end-to-end 'optichannel-in-a-box' commercial engagement solution for life sciences, deepen PharmaForceIQ's U.S. footprint and expand reach across LATAM, APAC and EMEA; Canaccord Genuity acted as sole financial advisor.

ACTICO (BU-backed) Acquires Majority Stake in Fact Informationssysteme und Consulting

December 20, 2022

Software

ACTICO, a BU (Bregal Unternehmerkapital)-backed provider of intelligent automation software, has acquired a majority interest in Fact Informationssysteme und Consulting GmbH, a Neuss-based provider of investment-management software and consulting previously part of Software AG. The deal strengthens ACTICO’s RegTech platform for banks, insurers and other financial services providers by combining ACTICO’s automation and decisioning software with Fact’s specialist investment-administration and reporting capabilities.

Options Technology (Abry-backed) Acquires ACTIV Financial

October 18, 2021

Data & Analytics

Options Technology, backed by Abry Partners, has agreed to acquire ACTIV Financial. The deal combines ACTIV's global market-data feeds and enterprise data platform with Options' low-latency global network and managed trading infrastructure to expand Options' capital markets services and market-data capabilities; financial terms were not disclosed.

Descartes Systems Group Acquires Foxtrot

April 21, 2022

Logistics & Distribution

Descartes Systems Group acquired Foxtrot, a San Francisco-based provider of machine learning-driven mobile route execution solutions, for approximately US$4.0 million in cash. The acquisition strengthens Descartes' artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities within its route planning and execution suite and expands its capabilities in retail food and beverage distribution and last-mile logistics.