Buy and Manage Vertical Market Software Businesses

We provide operators with a pathway to preserve their legacy while providing access to capital, customers and best practices.

Glass & Window Manufacturing
Automotive Workshop Management
Legacy Applications Modernization
Visualization and Analysis Software
Fashion, Flooring, and Home Textiles Software
About us

We Never Sell.

We work with experienced operators to acquire, build and grow market-leading software businesses. Forever.

FOG Software Group is a division of Constellation Software Inc., a publicly-traded company with over 125,000 customers in over 100 countries and a proven track record of solid growth.

Operate as-is
Owners can stay or exit
Simple structure with cash upfront
Our Portfolio

Meet Our Family

Construction and Trades
Pohlheim
Germany

ERP software for the glass and fenestration industries

Comas Group
Construction and Trades
Europe
Automotive
Londonderry
USA

TireMaster™ ERP solutions for tire retailers, commercial, and wholesale businesses.

Leo Software
Automotive
North America
Retail, Textiles, and Apparel
New York
USA

Textile and fashion software solutions built as plug-ins for Adobe® Creative Cloud apps.

Dorado Software
Retail, Textiles, and Apparel
North America
Consumer Insights
Dijon
France

Software for sensory analysis and consumer testing

Corvus Software
Consumer Insights
Europe
How it works

Our Process

01

Meet with us.

We strive to build long-term relationships with owners and operators of vertical software businesses.

Whether it is at a trade show, over dinner or a simple phone call, our corporate development team is always available to chat about your business and share best practices from operating over 600 businesses around the world.

02

Speak with an operator.

Learn what it's like to be inside of Constellation Software.
Discuss what an acquisition process would look like.
Share best practices.
03

Sign an NDA.

Having completed 600+ transactions, our legal team has standard templates to ensure a quick and efficient process.

We take the sensitivity of your information very seriously. Each conversation will primarily involve one of our senior operators and a couple of members of our corporate development and M&A team.

04

Discuss Fit.

Having open and transparent conversations is critical during this stage. We want to make sure that we do everything possible so that your company is setup for success from Day 1.

This includes a plan on how the company should be run going forward and a mutual understanding of potential changes (if any).

05

Sign a Letter of Intent

Localized team members to lead integration plans during potential travel restrictions
Leverage our dedicated team of M&A experts who support our businesses via M&A activity
Expect the rest of the process to take ~4 weeks
06

Due Diligence

FOG's internal legal, finance, tax and M&A teams will support the process from initial offer to close, resulting in an efficient transaction with a focus on speed-to-close

07

Close

We operate with a high degree of closing certainty having completed 600+ acquisitions.

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Connect with Our Team

Cameron Fortier

Head of M&A

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