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Agilysys Wants the Whole Stay, Right Down to the Spa Bill
The hospitality software company has built a business around everything a guest does after booking a room. A $150 million spa-software deal shows how much that ambition is worth.
Alfa’s real product is a lender’s next chapter
Behind the car payment sits a software problem that can outlive the car. Alfa Financial Software has built its business around replacing those systems - and staying for the next chapter.
The Software That Knows Where Every Barrel Is
Oil traders and ship operators do not need another dashboard. They need trading, tanks, invoices and risk to agree. Inatech has spent two decades turning that reconciliation problem into cloud software.
The 45-Year-Old Software Company Teaching Car Dealers a New Dashboard
Pinewood.AI spent decades hidden inside a dealership empire. Now it is selling one database, fewer bolt-ons and automotive-trained AI to dealers around the world - with a £545 million take-private deal waiting at the next junction.
The Software Behind the Turnstile
Gladstone spent four decades becoming part of the furniture in British leisure centres. Now it is rebuilding the machinery in the cloud - while the bookings, payments and front-desk queues keep moving.
The Spreadsheet Tax on Nonprofits - and the 24-Year-Old Software Company Trying to Kill It
Omatic built a business in the least glamorous corner of fundraising: the gap between a donation and a trustworthy donor record. Its pitch is simple - let software move the data so nonprofit staff can move the mission.
Duck Creek’s 26-Year Bet: Insurance Software Should Bend Before the Business Breaks
Duck Creek started with a low-code rating engine in rural Missouri. Three ownership eras and one $2.6 billion take-private later, its original idea - let insurers change the rules without rebuilding the machine - has become the strategy.
Reltio Solved the Boring Data Problem - Then SAP Bought the Answer
AI agents are only as smart as the customer, product and supplier records beneath them. Reltio spent 15 years cleaning that unglamorous layer - and reached $185 million in ARR before SAP pulled it into the Business Data Cloud.
BQE Had a Hit Billing App. Then It Bet $25 Million on Architects’ Messy Back Office.
The software company began with a garage-built fix for timecards and invoices. Thirty years later, its sharper idea is that architecture and engineering firms should not need a scavenger hunt to learn whether a project made money.
For Life-Science Factories, Blue Mountain Turned Maintenance Paperwork Into a $2 Million Lever
A 35-year-old Pennsylvania software company found a valuable niche in the least glamorous corner of drug manufacturing: proving that every critical machine was maintained, calibrated and ready when the auditor arrived.
FullStac Built the E-Commerce Control Room Its Founder Couldn’t Buy
A Harrisburg retailer went looking for software that fit the business. When every option wanted the business to fit the software, Michael Kulczyckyj built Dashboard OSM - then FullStac turned that private tool into a subscription product for other online sellers.
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.
Docebo
Docebo grew up selling corporate learning software. Now it is wiring skills data, scattered company knowledge and AI agents into one system - a bet that the next LMS will do more than count course completions.
Quota Lab, Inc.
Quota Lab, Inc. is a Seoul-based fintech company behind QuotaBook, a cloud equity-management platform that digitizes cap tables, stock options, RSUs and fund reporting for startups and investors. Founded in 2019 by former venture capitalists and graduated from Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, it has become the default equity-management infrastructure for a large share of Korean startups and VC funds, and is often described as the 'Carta of Asia.'
aPriori Technologies
aPriori Technologies is a Concord, Massachusetts software company that turns 3D CAD designs into instant manufacturing cost, manufacturability, and carbon-footprint insights. Founded in 2003 out of University of Illinois research, its cloud Manufacturing Insights Platform - aP Design, aP Pro, and aP Generate - lets engineers, sourcing teams, and cost analysts simulate how a part will be built, what it should cost across regions, and how much CO2e it will emit, before tooling is ever cut. Manufacturers such as GE Aerospace, Carrier, Alstom, Flex, and Whirlpool use it to catch cost and design problems early and negotiate with suppliers from data rather than guesswork.
Canibuild
Canibuild is an AI-powered site-planning platform that answers construction's first question - can I build here? Builders, contractors and developers use it to check a site's feasibility, zoning, setbacks and utilities, generate 3D site plans and produce branded quotes in under 60 seconds. Founded in Sydney in 2020, the platform covers Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada and has run more than 4 million site assessments.
EdgeTensor
EdgeTensor is a Dallas, Texas-based deep-tech company building Gen AI-powered video telematics and fleet-management software that runs at the edge and in the cloud. Founded in 2017 by computer-vision researchers Rajesh Narasimha and Soumitry Ray, the company makes AI affordable and scalable on low-cost cameras and embedded chips, turning raw dashcam and in-cabin video into structured safety, compliance and risk insights. Its hardware- and sensor-agnostic platform serves fleets, telematics service providers, automotive Tier-1s/OEMs and insurers who want driver-safety analytics without being locked to a single device vendor.
Locus Technologies
Locus Technologies is a Silicon Valley software company that pioneered cloud-based environmental, health & safety (EHS), ESG, and water management software. Founded in 1997 by Dr. Neno Duplan, Locus deployed what it describes as the first commercial Software-as-a-Service product for environmental information management in 1999. Today its multi-tenant platform runs a suite of 30+ configurable apps that help regulated enterprises and water utilities manage air, water, waste, energy, emissions, and compliance data - reportedly more than half a billion environmental records - from a single system of record.