Unimarket Merges with VendorPanel

Accel-KKR Makes Majority Growth Investment in Unimarket

August 3, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Accel-KKR has made a majority growth investment in Unimarket, a cloud-based eProcurement and source-to-pay software provider founded in Auckland. The capital will be used to accelerate Unimarket's international expansion, drive product innovation, and support strategic M&A activity while the existing management team, led by CEO Peter Kane, stays in place.

Elastic Path Acquires Unstack

April 26, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Elastic Path has acquired frontend-as-a-service company Unstack to provide merchandisers a high-performance, no-code frontend for composable commerce. The deal integrates Unstack's no-code visual editor, one-click commerce integrations and personalization features into Elastic Path's composable commerce offering; Unstack CEO Grant Deken will join Elastic Path as VP of Growth.

Vendavo Acquires Market Medium

July 19, 2022

Software

Vendavo, the AI-embedded B2B pricing and commercial excellence software provider, has acquired Market Medium, a cloud-based rebate and channel incentive management solution. The deal expands Vendavo's pricing and CPQ capabilities by adding end-to-end rebate, accrual, settlement and channel-incentive management for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers.

Accel-KKR Leads Merger of Mavenlink and Kimble Applications to Form Kantata

May 16, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Accel-KKR led the merger of Mavenlink and Kimble Applications to create Kantata, a combined vertical Cloud & SaaS provider of professional services automation. Michael Speranza was named CEO of the new company, which will combine product capabilities and go-to-market efforts (the combined business counts nearly 600 employees and serves over 2,000 clients); existing investors including Carrick Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs remain investors.

Epicor Acquires Solenium Group and Visual SKUs

October 3, 2024

Software

Epicor Software Corporation has acquired Solenium Group Inc. and its sister company Visual SKUs Inc., long-standing Epicor partners and providers of Product Information Management (PIM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions for the Automotive Aftermarket. The dual acquisition strengthens Epicor's catalog and e-commerce offerings for the automotive aftermarket; financial terms were not disclosed, and Schwartz Advisors served as exclusive sell-side advisor to Solenium Group.

Accel-KKR Acquires Shipper TMS Carve-Out from Wabtec

September 15, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Accel-KKR closed a carve-out acquisition of the Shipper TMS portion of Wabtec Corporation's Supply Chain Optimization software portfolio. The acquisition is a strategic add-on to Accel-KKR's PINC platform to expand cloud-based, multi-modal transportation management and analytics capabilities for shippers across North America.