Paystone Acquires NiceJob

Paystand Acquires Bitwage

November 7, 2025

Payments & Fintech

Paystand, a blockchain-powered B2B payments network, has acquired Bitwage, a platform for stablecoin-enabled cross-border payouts. The acquisition embeds Bitwage’s payout engine into Paystand’s AR/AP and treasury stack to enable enterprise-grade stablecoin settlement, faster cross-border payouts, and automated on-chain reconciliation for global customers.

Cornerstone Global Management Acquires Paydrop

March 28, 2022

Payments & Fintech

Cornerstone Global Management, Inc. has acquired Paydrop in a cash-and-stock transaction, integrating Paydrop’s leadership and payment capabilities into Cornerstone’s Hedge payroll-to-crypto conversion platform. The deal expands Cornerstone’s ability to offer crypto and blended fiat/crypto payment services to freelancers, gig workers and traditional employers across the United States.

Paystone Acquires Canadian Payment Services

January 26, 2022

Payments & Fintech

Paystone, a London, Ontario-based payments and customer engagement company, acquired Canadian Payment Services (CPS), a Canadian merchant services provider. The deal expands Paystone's merchant base and capabilities—adding CPS's ~10,000 merchants and enabling Paystone to offer its proprietary SaaS products and payment services to a larger Canadian footprint.

NICE Acquires MindTouch

April 20, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

NICE has acquired MindTouch, a San Diego–based knowledge management software company, to strengthen its digital self-service and knowledge capabilities within the NICE CXone platform. MindTouch, founded in 2005, reported about 100 employees and over 300 customers in 2020; financial terms were not disclosed.

Payroc Acquires Bluestone Payments

November 18, 2020

Payments & Fintech

Payroc WorldAccess, LLC acquired Bluestone Payments, LLC, an independent sales organization (ISO) founded by Linda Rossetti, to grow its sales organization and expand merchant referral relationships. Payroc — a merchant acquirer backed by private equity firm Parthenon Capital — will retain Rossetti as President of Bluestone and expand her role as EVP, Strategic Partnerships at Payroc.

StepStone Acquires Appcast

July 1, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

StepStone has acquired a majority stake in Appcast, a U.S.-based programmatic job advertising and recruitment ad tech provider. The acquisition brings Appcast’s Clickcast SaaS platform and programmatic capabilities into StepStone’s global job-board and recruitment technology portfolio, and follows prior investment in Appcast by Baird Capital.