ECI Partners Acquires Mobysoft from Livingbridge

Livingbridge Invests in Visualsoft

November 10, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity firm, has made an investment in Visualsoft, an eCommerce platform provider headquartered in Teesside. The capital will be used to accelerate growth, scale the platform and expand Visualsoft’s service offering to retailers and SME brands.

MRI Software Acquires Housing Partners

August 5, 2020

Software

MRI Software acquired Housing Partners, a UK/Ireland specialist provider of social housing technology (including Housing Jigsaw, Streetwise, TAIM and HomeSwapper), to expand its MRI Living residential product suite and frontline digital services for social housing tenants. The acquisition strengthens MRI's tenant-facing capabilities—helping social landlords, local authorities and tenants with case management, tenancy & income management, incident reporting and home-exchange services across the UK and Ireland.

BCN Group Acquires Evo-soft

September 23, 2022

IT Services

Manchester-based managed services specialist BCN Group has acquired Evo-soft, a UK Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central specialist, to broaden its Microsoft Dynamics capabilities and deliver core business application services to its mid-market customers. The deal follows ECI Partners’ earlier investment in BCN and is intended to enhance BCN’s solution portfolio with Evo-soft’s verticalised products (Evo-supply and Evo-Auction) and implementation/support expertise.

ECI Software Solutions Acquires ES Tech Group

October 7, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

ECI Software Solutions has completed the acquisition of ES Tech Group, a U.K.-based B2B eCommerce software and services company. The deal expands ECI's cloud-based eCommerce portfolio and brings ES Tech's platform and growth-agency capabilities into ECI's suite to better serve SME manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers.

ECI Software Solutions Acquires Prosperity Computer Solutions

June 5, 2023

Software

ECI Software Solutions has acquired substantially all assets of Prosperity Computer Solutions, a provider of ProsperityERP software for the lumber, building materials (LBM) and hardlines industry, following a lawsuit settlement. Prosperity will join ECI's LBMH Group as ECI integrates Prosperity's customers and product capabilities into its industry-specific cloud and business management suite.

Leonard Green & Partners Acquires Majority Stake in ECI Software Solutions

November 19, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Leonard Green & Partners will acquire a majority stake in ECI Software Solutions from funds advised by Apax Partners and The Carlyle Group; financial terms were not disclosed. Funds advised by Apax Partners will retain a minority stake. ECI is a Fort Worth, Texas–based provider of cloud-based ERP and vertical-market SaaS for small and medium-sized businesses, with ~1,700 employees and more than 22,000 customers.