19-Apr-2021, DANVERS, Mass., USA, Demand Science DemandScience demandscience.com @DemandScience (Buyer Intelligence Platform / B2B Sales Enablement & Market Intelligence Solutions) completed the acquisition of Leadiro leadiro.com @leadiro B2B sales enablement, sales intelligence & data enrichment platform with 60M+ verified records. Moreover, Demand Science achieved 50% CAGR since 2014, & is on track to exceed $100M in revenue in 2021. UK-based Leadiro experienced more than 100% year-over-year revenue and EBITDA growth in 2020. Q1 was a record revenue quarter with approximately 150% year-over-year revenue growth. Demand Science is a global buyer intelligence platform that accelerates demand generation for the world’s largest software, technology & B2B companies. It delivers data & prioritized buyer insights that align sales & marketing professionals with more qualified audiences through its PureB2B, Klarity, Internal 
Results, Leadiro, Tidings, & BIOMES brands. Interestingly on 3-Feb-2022 klarity.com started to redirect to leadiro.com. 20-Jul-2021: Airborne App Airborneapp airborneapp.io @Airborneapp_io sales engagement & enablement software platform (Toronto, ON, Canada) acquired by Demand Science. 
8-Feb-2021, global buyer intelligence platform @DemandScience acquired Tidings tidings.com @TidingsCo an on-demand automated newsletter creation SaaS platform, to expand its sales enablement (klarity.com which used to be prospectone.com) & intelligence solution suite.
Percept.AI percept.ai (previous name Buddy AI?) AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch. Used to offer an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Sunnyvale CA, USA. 28-Jan-2022, Atlassian announced it acquired Percept.AI & plans to integrate this virtual agent technology into Jira Service Management, its tool for helping IT teams provide better service to employees & customers. Atlassian Corporation Plc: Confluence Cloud, Trello, etc atlassian.com/software/confluence @confluence a team workspace where collaboration & knowledge meet. Create, collaborate, & organize all your work in one place. Many organizations use Confluence as their intranet & some even as the Sales Enablement portal. Confluence Cloud: Get your files together: With the new Microsoft OneDrive for Business integration, embed Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint files in your Confluence pages so it can always be your single source of truth! By typing “/trello” on a Confluence page, you can embed a complete Trello board for easy access. Work together from anywhere with Confluence Mobile: Stay on top of the latest with your team & move work forward – straight from your device. Sydney, NSW, Australia
13-Jan-2022: eLearning Brothers, LLC (American Fork, Utah) solidifies position in Video Learning as it acquires Rehearsal rehearsal.com (by Rebellion Training, LLC; headquarters Reno, NV). Learning solutions company eLearning Brothers @eLearningBros announced the acquisition of Rehearsal, a video-based practice & coaching platform. The video-based Rehearsal platform lets users practice skills, submit videos for review, & receive manager feedback or automated scoring powered by advanced AI technology. Since the beginning of 2021, Rehearsal has been directly integrated into The Rockstar Learning Platform by the eLearning Brothers.
10-Jan-2022: Upland Software, Inc. Nasdaq:UPLD uplandsoftware.com @UplandSoftware acquired Objectif Lune Inc. objectiflune.com @objlune enterprise software for document composition & business communication automation. With Objectif Lune, Upland expands its global document workflow product library by adding the capability to modernize complex, paper-based documents for large-volume print production as well as automated delivery across web, email, & mobile platforms. 
24-Feb-2022, Upland Software acquired Boston-based search company BAInsight / BA Insight / BA-Insight Inc. bainsight.com @BAinsight for $33.4M in cash. With the acquisition of BA Insight, Upland continues to build its knowledge management product portfolio by giving customers a powerful new way to conduct searches that span their enterprise systems to deliver relevant, personalized, & actionable results, with a technology that: Eliminates the blind spots by connecting search to many different systems & applications; Unifies search results with the ability to set up the correct, specialized taxonomies to organize, retrieve, & sort the most relevant documents; Delivers increasingly relevant results using analytics and machine learning to make each search better; & Places a search bar wherever the user wants it so they can search natively in target applications or across all the applications they use every day.
11-Nov-2021: Connective acquired by Nitro gonitro.com “Nitro Software, Inc.” Stock Symbol ASX:NTO. Australian-based document productivity software firm Nitro Software wants to conquer the global eSign market, starting with the AU$110M acquisition of Connective connective.eu a European eSign company. On 22-Oct-2015 Nitro had already acquired doxIQ.
NICE nice.com @NICELtd owns MindTouch mindtouch.com @MindTouch knowledge management solution: Improves support agent productivity, increases case deflection, & fuels self-service support. NICE Ltd / NICE Systems Ltd. snapped up privately held ContentEngine in Jul-2021, which came soon after its Apr-2021 acquisition of MindTouch to expand its CXone offering. “Our recent acquisitions of ContactEngine and MindTouch, plus our native Enlighten AI and data lake investments, puts NICE CXone in the unique position to cover 100% of customer need events through the addition of proactive outbound, intelligent self-service, and self-learning AI to make better bots faster,” said Chris Bauserman, NICE CXone vice president of marketing. Headquarters: Ra’anana, Israel
17-DEC-2021: Mediafly mediafly.com acquired InsightSquared to provide revenue teams with 360-degree deal intelligence & prescriptive next steps. InsightSquared insightsquared.com @insightsquared provider of revenue intelligence solutions, had already acquired Olono olono.ai @OlonoAI on 3-Oct-2019.
Denave denave.com @denaveglobal Management Consulting. Services: Intelligent Database Management, Retail Analytics, Digital Marketing, Telesales, Field Sales & Marketing, Events & Experiential Marketing, Retail Audits & Visual Merchandising, Sales Training, Sales Process Automation. On 15-Nov-2021, Updater Services Pvt. Ltd (UDS), Chennai-based, acquired a controlling interest in Denave which sees itself as a technology-driven sales enablement company (but mostly a service portfolio). New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, Uttar Pradesh, India
Acquia acquia.com @acquia cloud platform for building, delivering & optimizing digital experiences. Boston, DC, Portland, & Reading, UK. Acquia was acquired by Vista Equity Partners.
WIDEN widen.com @Widen DAM & PIM software to help businesses deliver content with confidence. 8-Sep-2021, Acquia acquired Widen Enterprises, Inc. widen.com @widen for an undisclosed amount.
PostBeyond postbeyond.com @postbeyond cloud-based employee engagement & advocacy platform that enables employees & partners to post approved brand content to their personal networks in an efficient, consistent, & measurable way. $9M in revenue? PostBeyond Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada. 8-Dec-2021 Influitive Inc influitive.com @influitive (also Toronto, ON, Canada) acquired PostBeyond for an undisclosed amount.
Older deals (However, I had missed the rebranding):
InsitePortfolio insitesoft.com @InsiteSoftware Dec-2015, Insite Software acquired Storyworks1 former Storyworks OnDemand. Mar-2017, Storyworks1 rebranded as InsitePortfolio. Insite Software 
acquired Sales Enablement & Digital Content Delivery Provider Storyworks1. Minneapolis, USA. 16-Dec-2019, Insite Software was acquired by Episerver episerver.com @episerver (global software company with offices in Nashua, NH, USA & Stockholm, Sweden; offering web content management, digital commerce, & digital marketing). Optimizely @Optimizely acquired Insite optimizely.com/insite/ Sep-2020, Episerver [Acquired by Insight Partners] acquired Optimizely In Bid To Drive ‘Experimentation’.
The whole point of my market overview (here as an Airtable to export) [includes not just competitors but also alternatives] is actually to show the amount of acquisitions.
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| Microsoft Office / Microsoft CRM Dynamics 365 / Teams / Microsoft Delve / SharePoint / Dynamics / Xbox / Microsoft Mesh / Microsoft Loop / Yammer / Skype / LinkedIn Learning & LinkedIn (PointDrive) sold SlideShare | 14 |
| Bigtincan: Contondo, FatStax, Zunos, Veelo (mobilepaks) Asdeq Labs, XINN, Agnitio A/S, ClearSlide (SlideRocket), VoiceVibes, Vidinoti, Brainshark | 13 |
| Salesforce CRM CMS / Sites / Content / Chatter / Quip / Einstein / AppExchange / Trailhead / Slack / LevelJump formerly known as Lurniture | 13 |
| Showpad (LearnCore, LIA, Voicefox, Hickup, Taptera) | 7 |
| SAP (Callidus, iCentera, Litmos LMS, Emarsys, Signavio signavio.com) CRM, CPQ, CLM | 7 |
| Permira permira.com: Seismic (SAVO, KnowledgeTree, Zensight, Percolate, Grapevine6, Lessonly) | 8 |
| Private Equity Firm HGGC, LLC invested in Upland: Altify, Kapost, RO|innovation, Qvidian (Sant & Kadient), BlueVenn, Objectif Lune Inc. objectiflune.com @objlune, BA-Insight Inc. |
8 |
| DemandScience (PureB2B, Klarity, Internal Results, Leadiro, Tidings, BIOMES, Airborne App Airborneapp |
7 |
| Adobe: Adobe Experience Manager AEM / Adobe Experience Cloud / Marketo / ToutApp | 4 |
| Conga (Octiv [formerly TinderBox]) acquired by Apttus apttus.com owned by Thoma Bravo | 4 |
| ZoomInfo Technologies (acquired by DiscoverOrg / predecessor was DiscoverOrg) acquired TellWise, Clickagy AI, Komiko, Chorus.ai Conversation Intelligence solutions | 4 |
| Mediafly (Alinean / iPresent / Presentify / InsightSquared [acquired Olono Olono.ai]) | 4 |
| Aurea, Inc. an ESW Capital Group Company (Jive Software / XANT, Inc. XANT.ai [now once again insidesales.com] PLAYBOOKS) | 3 |
| Dropbox (HelloSign hellosign.com, DocSend docsend.com) | 3 |
| Acquia was acquired by Vista Equity Partners. 8-Sep-2021, Acquia acquired Widen Enterprises, Inc. widen.com @widen | 3 |
| Episerver Inc. (Insite Software acquired Storyworks Ondemand / Storyworks1. Optimizely acquired Insite optimizely.com/insite/ Sep-2020, Episerver [Acquired by Insight Partners] acquired Optimizely In Bid To Drive ‘Experimentation’) | 4 |
| Nitro Software, Inc. (doxIQ @doxiqteam / Connective connective.eu a European eSign company) | 3 |
| Gong.io (Vayo, ONDiGO) | 2 |
| NICE nice.com @NICELtd NICE Ltd / NICE Systems Ltd. (ContentEngine / MindTouch @MindTouch) | 2 |
- Complete table (777 line items) to export/download yourself
- Global list / companies worldwide – Canadian list
- European list – UK based – Germany based – France based – companies/vendors from the Nordics
- Australian list – New Zealand based companies
- Israel based companies
- India based (or development in India)
- Sales Enablement market deathwatch
- DIY (Do It Yourself) No Code & b2c tools
- Brand monitoring tools used in the Sales Enablement market
- Metaverse mixed reality VR/AR/2D/3D based tools
- SaaS Sales Enablement & CRM Software for b2b startups or small teams
- Sales Enablement powered by ML Machine Learning & AI
B2B Sales Enablement and Sales Tech SaaS 