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ClearCourse Bought the Software Behind Britain’s Small Businesses - Then Put Payments Inside It
The quiet systems running a marina, a garage or a golf club are hard to replace and easy to overlook. ClearCourse has spent eight years buying those niche operators, joining their workflows to payments, and betting that useful beats fashionable.
The $47 Billion Back Office You Use Without Knowing It
Xplor Technologies stitched together the software behind gyms, golf clubs, parks, preschools and plumbers. Now it is betting an eight-figure sum that AI can turn a sprawling portfolio into one quietly useful machine.
D-Tools Built the Operating System Behind the Walls - Then It Plugged In a Rival
For 28 years, D-Tools has sold an unglamorous but valuable promise: quote the right parts, hand the plan to the field, and keep the margin from disappearing. Its 2026 merger with Portal.io turns that old discipline into a three-product bet on the entire integration trade.
Christina Flores Is Marketing the Operating System Behind Tree Care
At ArboStar, Christina Flores works where software meets sawdust: translating a dense operating platform into a clear promise for tree-care businesses.
He Sold His CRM. The Buyer Shelved It. So He Built It Again.
Results Software was supposed to grow inside a larger company. Instead, its product was shelved - and founder Sam Saab spent the next five years rebuilding the idea before buying his company back.
Priority Software Spent 40 Years Making ERP Boring - and Built an $800 Million Company
Founded in the mainframe era, the Israeli company sells one promise to roughly 75,000 businesses in 70 countries: enterprise software people can actually change themselves. In 2024, Blackstone paid about $800 million for the pitch.
The ERP Company That Refuses to Charge for Every Pair of Hands
Acumatica sells the software that runs a growing company, but not with the usual tollbooth on every user. Its bet is that open architecture, industry depth and a partner-led model can turn ERP from a guarded back office into shared operational plumbing.
Madwire Built a Marketing Department Small Businesses Can Rent
The Fort Collins company bundles software, ad tools and human marketing help into one operating system for small business. The wager is simple: owners do not need another dashboard - they need fewer loose ends.
Exly
Exly is an all-in-one business platform for coaches, trainers, consultants and creators to launch, sell and manage knowledge products - courses, webinars, workshops, e-communities and 1:1 consultations. Spun out of the YC W19-backed startup MyScoot, the Delhi-based company gives solo experts a no-code website, built-in CRM, payment collection and marketing tools so they can run the business side of their practice without stitching together five different apps.
inyad
inyad is a Moroccan-founded fintech building mobile-first software for small and micro merchants across Africa and the Middle East. Its apps - the Konnash digital ledger and the Mahaal all-in-one point-of-sale, invoicing and payments platform - help corner shops, cafes, salons and independent traders move their bookkeeping, sales and payments off paper and onto a phone. Founded in 2018 by former McKinsey consultant Moncef Chlouchi, the company reports a user base in the millions across 10-plus countries and has raised roughly $14M from investors including Partech, Al Mada Ventures, CDG Invest and FJ Labs.
Vagaro
Vagaro is a Pleasanton, California SaaS company that runs the back office for salons, spas, fitness studios, and wellness businesses. From a single dashboard, owners book appointments, take payments, manage staff and inventory, run marketing, and get discovered on a consumer marketplace and app. Founded in 2009 by Fred Helou, it now serves more than 83,000 businesses across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021, and bundles scheduling, point-of-sale hardware, embedded payments, and AI tools into one subscription.