Pathwire Acquires Email on Acid

Sinch Acquires Pathwire (Mailgun & Mailjet) from Thoma Bravo

September 30, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Sinch AB has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pathwire — the owner of Mailgun, Mailjet and Email on Acid — from private equity firm Thoma Bravo for cash and shares, valuing the deal at roughly USD 1.9 billion enterprise value. The acquisition adds email delivery capabilities to Sinch's CPaaS platform, boosting its customer base and annualized revenue run rate while expanding its product set for developers and marketers.

YipitData Acquires Edison (Edison Mail & OnMail)

September 28, 2021

Software

YipitData has acquired Edison (the developer of Edison Mail and OnMail), bringing the consumer email products and team into YipitData’s privacy-conscious research and analytics platform. The deal combines Edison’s privacy-focused consumer email technology with YipitData’s alternative-data research capabilities to accelerate product development and expand offerings for both consumers and enterprise research clients.

Elite SEM Acquires Email Aptitude

June 13, 2018

Marketing & Advertising

Digital marketing agency Elite SEM has acquired Email Aptitude, an independent CRM and email marketing agency with a team of more than 85 specialists. The deal (Elite SEM's second add-on since partnering with Mountaingate Capital in 2017) expands Elite's capabilities to include CRM, email program management and creative services, creating a broader full-service digital offering.

Mailgun (Thoma Bravo-backed) Acquires Mailjet

October 22, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Mailgun, a Thoma Bravo-backed email delivery platform headquartered in San Antonio, acquired Paris-headquartered email solution Mailjet to combine developer-focused APIs with Mailjet's marketing-oriented GUI and multi-language support. The deal expands Mailgun's global footprint and product capabilities, enabling a broader set of deliverability, marketing and collaboration tools for developers and marketers worldwide.

Validity Acquires Litmus

April 10, 2025

Marketing & Advertising

Validity has completed the acquisition of Litmus, a leading provider of email optimization and pre-send testing solutions. The deal brings Litmus's pre-send capabilities together with Validity's post-send deliverability and data intelligence products to create a more comprehensive end-to-end email marketing platform; financial terms were not disclosed.

ActiveCampaign Acquires Postmark and DMARC Digests from Wildbit

May 9, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

ActiveCampaign acquired the Postmark transactional email service and the DMARC Digests email-authentication product from Wildbit. The deal brings transactional messaging and email-authentication capabilities into ActiveCampaign's Customer Experience Automation (CXA) platform to provide unified communications and improved deliverability for customers.