EQT to Acquire WSO2
Summary
Thousands of organizations, including hundreds of the world’s largest corporations, top universities, and governments, rely on WSO2’s cloud native software as a service (SaaS) and open-source offerings to drive their digital initiatives — executing 60 trillion transactions and managing over 1 billion identities each year. Looking ahead, “WSO2 remains focused on driving customer success, fostering community collaboration, and delivering innovative software that unlocks new value creation opportunities for organizations worldwide,” added Weerawarana. We believe that WSO2 is well-positioned to capitalize on long-term trends such as digital transformation and rising generative AI adoption and are confident of drawing on EQT’s proven software value creation playbook to further accelerate WSO2’s strong growth.” EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 242 billion in total assets under management and the third largest private equity firm globally*. Founded three decades ago by the Swedish Wallenberg family, today EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence and market leadership. EQT’s extensive global portfolio of enterprise software companies includes firms such as IFS, SUSE, thinkproject, and more.