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WorkWave sells the hours between jobs
A service business can be busy all day and still leave money on the road. WorkWave builds software for the routes, rosters and payments that decide whether hard work pays.
Daxko Built a Back Office for the YMCA - Now It Wants the Rest of Fitness
For 28 years, Daxko has digitized the unglamorous machinery behind YMCAs, JCCs, gyms and studios. Its next act is harder: make a shelf of acquired products feel like one system - and teach that system to do the work.
CATALIS Bought 30 Gov-Tech Companies. The Hard Part Was Making Them Feel Like One.
CATALIS assembled a billion-dollar government software portfolio by buying the specialists already running courts, tax offices and city halls. Now it has to make those inherited tools easier to use, easier to connect and harder for public servants to dislike.
The HOA Back Office Was Built on Email. Vantaca's $1.25 Billion Bet Is That Agents Can Run It.
Vantaca turned the least glamorous work in housing - reconciliations, board packets, payment exceptions, and resident requests - into a vertical software business. Now it is testing a more consequential idea: whether AI agents can do the back-office work, not merely summarize it.
The $625 Million Bet on Making Payments Feel Personal
Celero Commerce assembled a top-tier non-bank payments platform one acquisition at a time. Its sharper idea was to pair the machinery of modern commerce with something the industry keeps automating away: a person who answers.
Shift4 Wants to Own the Moment Before You Tap 'Pay'
The Pennsylvania payments company built its edge by hiding complexity behind the checkout. Now a global acquisition spree is testing whether one platform can follow customers from dinner to the ballpark to a tax-free shopping counter abroad.
GlossGenius
GlossGenius is a New York-based vertical SaaS and fintech platform that gives independent beauty and wellness professionals - hair stylists, nail techs, estheticians, spas and medspas - one app to run the whole business. It combines online booking, a built-in card-processing POS, client CRM, marketing automation, payroll, inventory and AI agents, replacing the patchwork of spreadsheets, paper books and generic tools that solo operators and small salons relied on. Founded in 2016 by Danielle Cohen-Shohet, it crossed roughly $100M in revenue, serves tens of thousands of businesses, and reached unicorn status with a reported $1.12B valuation after its January 2026 Series D.