Volaris Group’s 2026 Mid-Year Acquisition Update

Maintaining a steady pace for acquisitions in H1 2026

Coming off a solid year for acquisitions in 2025, Volaris Group has maintained strong momentum in the first half of 2026. A selection of press releases announcing our acquisitions so far for the year can be found in the Volaris Group press room.

In the first half of 2026, Volaris Group’s M&A accomplishments included:

• Completing 14 new acquisitions of vertical market software businesses;
• Acquiring across 10 vertical markets and continually building M&A ecosystems that allow us to unlock the opportunities of deep industry expertise; and
• Acquiring in 6 countries, including Brazil, Germany, France, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

Outside of M&A, we introduced new learning programs to help our businesses upskill and adopt AI-first thinking, and we held our largest-ever conference for our top business leaders in Copenhagen. These events and programs are all part of our commitment to invest in businesses for the long term.

Acquisitions remain at the heart of our business, and we look forward to welcoming more companies to Volaris in the second half of the year.

Vertical market expansion

Volaris Group entered 2026 with a renewed focus on key industries. We’ve demonstrated a track record of success in building M&A ecosystems around vertical markets.

Below, we profile acquisitions in notable verticals that gained momentum in the first half of 2026.

Education

• Symplicity is a global leader in higher education career services and student support solutions. The business will continue to operate under its current brand as a wholly owned subsidiary of Volaris, maintaining its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Joining Volaris strengthens Symplicity’s ability to continue evolving its platform and thoughtfully explore emerging technologies including AI and machine learning, while supporting a growing ecosystem of institutional needs. Read more in the press release.
  
• Swiss Learning Hub is one of Switzerland’s leading providers of digital learning solutions. The acquisition by Volaris was announced publicly in May 2026. As part of the transaction, Swiss Learning Hub AG will continue to operate independently within the Volaris Group ecosystem. Swiss Learning Hub AG supports more than 10,000 companies, industry associations, and educational institutions with comprehensive digital solutions for managing educational processes and workforce qualification — spanning vocational education, corporate learning, and higher education. Read more in the press release.

Compliance

• Accent Technologies is a provider of enterprise sales enablement software designed for regulated and compliance-driven industries. The company will continue to operate independently under the leadership of CEO Peter McChrystal, with support from Chief Operating Officer John Fakatselis. Read more in the press release.
  
• zetVisions is a leading German software provider for enterprise equity and master data management. For over 20 years, the company has been developing and implementing solutions that provide structured oversight, maintenance, and compliance for corporate entities across global jurisdictions. The company and its shareholders were advised on the acquisition by Marks Baughan Securities of London. Read more in the press release.

MarTech

• socoto is the leading provider of marketing software solutions for decentralized companies in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Managing Director Dr. Bernhard Gründer said, “Joining Volaris Group opens up numerous new and exciting opportunities for us. We now have access to the knowledge and expertise of a family of more than 1,500 software companies within Constellation Software — particularly in the field of artificial intelligence.” I-ADVISE from Düsseldorf advised socoto on the transaction. Read more in the press release.

Security

• SureView Systems is a UK-based provider of enterprise-level, worldwide security monitoring, analysis, and response across both physical and cyber domains. Becky Stout, Group Leader of the Security portfolio at Volaris Group said: “The acquisition strengthens the security vertical in Volaris by adding a highly complementary business with strong roots in physical security operations, data-driven field response workflows, and enterprise-scale monitoring. I see meaningful opportunities to support SureView’s long-term growth while also expanding the depth of expertise, product knowledge, and customer insight across our broader security portfolio.” Read more in the press release.

Growing our global presence

We continue to strengthen our network of vertical market software companies in countries where we already have a presence, while we remain open to expanding in new geographies.

UK & Europe

During the first half of 2026, Volaris made five acquisitions in Europe, including socoto and zetVisions as mentioned earlier. The UK continues to see M&A momentum for Volaris Group, with four acquisitions completed there in the first half of the year, including SureView Systems as mentioned. One acquisition to highlight:

• Zonal is a UK-based provider of electronic point-of-sale (E-POS) and hospitality technology solutions. This acquisition furthers Volaris Group’s commitment to helping provide mission-critical software serving the hospitality and retail vertical markets. Read more in the press release.

US

The US remains a growth area for our M&A teams, with four acquisitions completed in the country in the first half of the year. One highlight:

• Comprose is a provider of policy and procedure management software for enterprise customers operating in regulated industries with highly standardized workforce requirements. “After 38 years of building Compose, I felt confident that Volaris Group would be the perfect home, as they would value our people and our culture as much as I do,” said Kathy Anton, Founder of Comprose. The President of Comprose, John Lewis, will lead the company into its next chapter under the ownership of Volaris Group. Read more in the press release.

Investing in talent development

Learning and development opportunities are part of our commitment to invest long-term in the businesses we acquired. We are seeing high demand among our business leaders wanting to speed up their AI learning. We are also positioning our diverse workforce to address rapid change in technology. As a result, we’ve introduced several learning events and programs.

• AI and business transformation were at the top of the agenda when Volaris Group hosted Quadrants, our largest employee conference. Approximately 1,600 leaders attended from approximately 350 companies across about 50 countries in Copenhagen from April 26 to 30, 2026. Keynote sessions tackled AI directly, with Volaris Group CEO Mike Dufton leading a panel on leadership in the AI era featuring business leaders who spoke about replatforming legacy products, reskilling employees rather than rehiring, and treating AI transformation as a people-led rather than technology-led endeavor. Read more in our article.

• Volaris introduced the AI Accelerator in 2026 to rapidly help businesses upskill their teams and adapt their product visions for the fast-evolving capabilities of AI. Since the program started, we have seen businesses introduce new products, make productivity gains, and develop the experience to coach other leaders across Volaris. Read more in our article.
  
• We profiled several teams that attended the AI Accelerator to track how the program has fast-tracked their learning:
  
  • Supercharging Sansio’s AI Adoption. Sansio has built software for emergency responders and healthcare providers since 1999, and they sent a team to the Volaris AI Accelerator to deepen their knowledge of spec-driven development and learn how to enhance their product development process. Read the feature.
    
  • How AI is Opening New Possibilities for equivant. The Volaris-owned court management software company sent its R&D and product development teams to the AI Accelerator, where product leaders had the chance to vibe-code prototypes and they could reimagine the software development life cycle. Read the feature.
    
  • How Gallery Systems is Reframing for Business Transformation. The Volaris-owned business that makes collections management software for museums and galleries sent their cross-functional team to the AI Accelerator, and they discovered how spec-driven development could create opportunities for early-career developers and help the iterative product development process. The program also helped drive a broader cultural and mindset shift around AI adoption. Read the feature.

• The Volaris Developer Program upskills software engineers with access to AI tools and learning materials, spreads AI-first thinking, and helps companies adopt an AI-first culture. Developers work through course materials, conduct hands-on experiments within their own business processes — such as tackling bug-fixing backlogs — and share lessons learned with peers across the cohort. The program is positioned as the first step in a longer AI journey. Read more in our article.

• We’re also seeing AI adoption spread across our portfolios, with several of our portfolios and businesses running their own AI-centered events, hiring portfolio AI leads and specialists, and employees becoming coaches and mentors to their peers. For a look at how our businesses are adopting AI, we brought together a discussion between two business operators:
  • From Uncertainty to Opportunity: How Our GMs are Navigating AI. Two of our business leaders shared how they are transforming their companies and upskilling their workforces. Read the webinar recap. or watch the webinar.

• Volaris Group hosted a Diversity in Leadership summit in February 2026, with nearly 100 leaders attending for practical, candid discussions about diversity and inclusion and how we can best use our diverse experiences to tackle change in the technology world. Topics discussed included communicating through conflict, mental health, neurodiversity, psychological safety, and multi-generational workforces, closing with an executive roundtable about overcoming barriers to diversity and inclusion efforts. Read more in our article.

Looking ahead

As we continue to make acquisitions in 2026, we are actively looking to develop relationships with owners of vertical market software businesses and M&A advisors.

Do you own or represent a software company that could fit well with Volaris? Connect with us.