Semify Acquires Dragon Metrics

Broadtree Partners Acquires Semify

February 11, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

Broadtree Partners, a lower-middle market private equity firm, has acquired Semify, a Rochester-based white-label digital marketing provider, in a transaction completed in strategic partnership with Pinnacle Financial Partners. Semify's founder Adam Stetzer will move to Chief Technology Officer, Patrick Briggs joins full-time as President and CEO, and Broadtree plans to provide capital, resources, and operating support to scale Semify's SEO and PPC reseller business.

Conductor Acquires Searchmetrics

February 14, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Conductor, the New York-based enterprise organic marketing (SEO) platform, has acquired European SEO technology provider Searchmetrics to accelerate its expansion in Europe and integrate Searchmetrics’ data assets and engineering team. The deal brings Searchmetrics’ ~70 employees, 500+ global customers (per Source 1) and long-standing European presence into Conductor’s product and support footprint to deliver greater global platform capabilities.

dbt Labs Acquires Transform to Accelerate dbt Semantic Layer

February 8, 2023

Data & Analytics

dbt Labs has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Transform, the creators of the MetricFlow metric framework, to accelerate development of the dbt Semantic Layer. Transform's founding team will join dbt Labs and MetricFlow's capabilities will be merged into dbt's Semantic Layer to provide centralized, consistent metric definitions across analytics tools.

Altair Acquires Cambridge Semantics

April 18, 2024

Data & Analytics

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has acquired Cambridge Semantics, a provider of knowledge graph-powered data fabric and analytical graph database technology, and will integrate the technology into the Altair RapidMiner platform. The acquisition brings knowledge graph, data governance, data virtualization, and data discovery capabilities to Altair's analytics and data science offerings to accelerate enterprise knowledge graphs and support generative AI use cases.

Dow Jones Acquires Dragonfly Intelligence and Oxford Analytica

March 31, 2025

Consulting

Dow Jones has completed the acquisition of Dragonfly Intelligence and Oxford Analytica from FiscalNote Holdings for $40 million. The two geopolitical intelligence and advisory firms will operate within Dow Jones Risk & Compliance to expand the company's geopolitical, security and macroeconomic intelligence capabilities.

Altair Acquires Metrics Design Automation Inc.

July 1, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Altair has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding capital stock of Metrics Design Automation Inc., a Canadian provider of cloud-native simulation-as-a-service (DSim) for electronic design automation (EDA). The acquisition adds cloud-based digital simulation and scalable design verification capabilities to Altair's Altair One platform, expanding its EDA and semiconductor software offerings; closing is subject to customary conditions.