Other Acquirers Buy and Flip.
We Buy and Build.
Most acquirers operate on a defined timeline — buy, optimize, exit. We operate on an infinite timeline, because Volaris is a permanent home for the sofware businesses we acquire; we don’t flip or resell them. When you keep a business forever, it makes sense to keep investing in it forever.
Growing Your Business Post-Acquisition
After three decades spent enabling the success of hundreds of software companies, we’ve developed a proven process to help grow your business.
Invest Where It’s Needed
We invest in the areas of your business that need improvement — backing the strategies that drive performance and offering employees access to world- class talent development opportunities.
Benchmark to Your Goals
Leverage proprietary benchmarks, to meet your goals over time and gain access to proven best practices from more than a thousand VMS businesses.
Enable Organic Growth and M&A
Empower leaders to pursue organic initiatives and engage in acquisitions to expand their product offerings and grow their customer base.
The Backing You Need to Take on What’s Next
Right now, investing in our businesses for the long-term means one thing above all: AI. Vertical market software businesses hold exactly the assets AI rewards — decades of domain knowledge, deep data, and hard-won customer trust — but most lack the capital, expertise, and time to transform on their own. That’s the gap Volaris closes, deliberately and hands-on. Here’s what directed help looks like inside our businesses:
Jumpstart your journey:
AI Accelerators
Your product, development, and leadership teams join an intensive program built to compress years of AI learning into weeks — expert coaching, dedicated tracks, and a challenge to build something real. Teams return home with working prototypes and the conviction that comes from having shipped, not studied.
Support to Make Your Big Ideas a Reality
Our Business Transformation team works directly inside businesses navigating their biggest product decisions, from first roadmap to replatforming. They bring expertise from hundreds of software companies and stay in the trenches with your leaders until the change is real. Then AI leads and champions developed inside our companies maintain that momentum after they leave.
Scale Beyond Your Size: Partners and Platforms
Volaris businesses draw on an ecosystem of AI partners already vetted and proven across the portfolio — and on platform relationships with providers like AWS and Microsoft, negotiated at the scale of a 17,000-person organization. Knowing when to build, when to ask for help, and when to call in outside support allows our businesses to compete with much larger companies — and win.
We took a hard problem into an AI Accelerator, built a new product, and demoed it at our user conference 60 days later — and customers bought it at the show. That is not a capability a company our size would ever have had on its own. — Greg Richards, GM, AssetWorks Fleet
A Learning Community Like No Other
Our development programs meet leaders at every stage of their career journey — long after the deal closes. We encourage mentoring and invest in programs that bring our people together for targeted experiences and conferences where you can gain fresh insight, network with purpose, and share your expertise.
Quadrants
Quadrants is the largest gathering of vertical market software leaders in the world, bringing together 1,600+ Volaris leaders for a week of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, inspiring keynotes, and networking events. This is an opportunity to build long-lasting connections with innovators from around the globe and connect with mentors who can support your growth long after you’re returned to the day-to-day operations of your business. We host hundreds of breakout sessions across multiple tracks, designed to focus on pressing business challenges and practical learning for functional leaders.
Volaris Executive Growth Academy
VEGA is an annual leadership development program offered in partnership with the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, designed exclusively for high-potential senior leaders across Volaris. Delivered over two weeks, VEGA introduces participants to the latest management research and reinforces core leadership fundamentals — from strategic thinking and decision-making to coaching, executive presence and navigating difficult conversations. Beyond the classroom, VEGA fosters meaningful peer connections that strengthen professional networks and build lasting relationships across the Volaris organization.
AI accelerator
The AI Accelerator is a hands-on bootcamp designed to rapidly upskill Volaris businesses in the latest AI technologies, tools, and mindsets. Bringing together cross-functional product, development, and leadership teams from across our portfolio, the program combines virtual preparatory sessions with an intensive in-person event featuring dedicated learning tracks, expert coaching, and mentorship from both internal leaders and external AI partners. Participants leave with real prototypes, a sharper product vision, and the confidence to put AI into production.
Vertical and Geographic Summits
Our vertical and geographic portfolios host their own conferences, focusing on sharing the specific insights that drive each industry forward. These groups are also in charge of hosting Volaris 101, a global program designed to provide newly acquired, hired, or promoted leaders with their first deep dive into everything we have learned about operating high-performing software businesses. This is an exclusive event where our senior leaders share the best practices they need to deliver great results, support their teams, and power their careers.
Diversity and Leadership Events
Our cross-portfolio summits serve as a catalyst for continued discussions about diversity and inclusion within Volaris businesses. The latest gathering brought together nearly 100 leaders to reflect on how embracing diversity and inclusion could help drive the growth of their businesses and the success of their teams. The event provided participants with the opportunity to engage in in-depth conversations with colleagues, encouraging them to listen to their peers’ concerns with empathy, understanding, and curiosity.
What investment looks like post-acquisition
Every company is unique, and learning about the strengths and challenges of newly acquired businesses allows us to leverage our decades of experience to remove barriers to success. After more than 300 acquisitions, Volaris Group has developed a unique expertise in growing vertical market software businesses and supporting their leaders.
Development Strategies: How TASS Achieved Five-Fold Growth in Seven Years
TASS has been creating meaningful connections within school communities for over 35 years. Originally founded by an entrepreneur who spotted a gap in the market, TASS was the first school management system provider acquired by Volaris Group.
New KPI’s and Best Practices: Strategic Leadership at Gallery Systems
Gallery Systems, Inc. is a provider of cultural collections asset management software and web publishing solutions for museums, corporate and private collections, and educational institutions. With over 800 clients worldwide, Gallery Systems is the market leader in its field.
Turning Declining Revenues Into Double-Digit Growth
When Criterions joined Volaris Group in 2019, it marked the beginning of a transformative journey for the healthcare software company. With the retirement of the founders and the arrival of new leadership, the company entered a phase of renewal and growth under the Volaris umbrella.
What the Leaders Who’ve Joined Us Have to Say
I’ve been in VC-led accelerators and startup incubators. They were great — but at the end of the day, it was just us, a small team. At Volaris, I’m part of a community of some of the smartest people I’ve ever known, who are open to sharing and genuinely want to help. I haven’t found that anywhere else.
Matt O’Donovan
CEO, SPARK TSL
Crystal Germond
GM, eQuip
I’d rather disrupt my own market than let somebody else disrupt it. With decades of customer data, trusted relationships, and Volaris behind us, a business our size can move like a company many times bigger.
Caroline Calhoun
CEO, FIVE x 5 Sol
Greg Richards
GM, AssetWorks Fleet
The structure Volaris Group has built, one that genuinely encourages companies to support and learn from each other, gives me real confidence that we’ll stay ahead.
Caroline Calhoun
CEO, FIVE x 5 Sol
Pedro Fernandes
CEO & Chairman, Bullet Solutions
After that first encounter with the business transformation team, we stopped all development for a few weeks to rethink how we build. We came back going 10 times faster.
Caroline Calhoun
CEO, FIVE x 5 Sol
David Wilkes
CEO, AION
Volaris respected our technology, respected our market, respected where we had been, and respected our people. It gave us another opportunity, with more resources, to grow this company in better ways than we ever thought possible as a fully independent business.
Caroline Calhoun
CEO, FIVE x 5 Sol
John Fakatselis
COO, Accent Technologies
I managed in isolation based on instinct for so long. I was looking for a buyer that would allow me to remain in the business and that would bring a solid management background. Now I have access to mentorship and a community that’s invested in our success.
Caroline Calhoun
CEO, FIVE x 5 Sol
Adalberto Argente
GM & Founder, Nydus
AskCody was never meant to be a short story; it was always meant to be a long one. Joining Volaris gives us the foundation to keep building for decades to come. That means the culture, the product, and the mission I care so deeply about now have the backing to thrive well beyond me.
Caroline Calhoun
CEO, FIVE x 5 Sol
Allan Mørch
CEO and Founder, AskCody
Investment doesn’t mean interference
As part of Volaris, you keep running your business your way — with the local decision-making authority you’ve earned. What changes is what’s now behind you: capital, community, and decades of operating knowledge, available whenever you need it.
Thinking About What’s Next for Your Business?
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