Operator Perspectives, Insights, and Updates
How we operate, how we partner, and how we build long-term value across every company in the Solen portfolio.
Digital Transformation Software Company: Where to Start
Digital transformation helps software companies modernize legacy systems, adopt cloud and AI, automate operations, and build for long-term growth. Learn where to start, what to prioritize, and how to create a practical transformation roadmap.
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Building Global Teams With Local Expertise
Solen Software Group pairs global support with local command. With six offices across the United States, Canada, Portugal and Brazil, Solen takes on finance, HR, legal and administration while each portfolio company keeps its own leadership, brand and daily decisions. This piece covers how the model works day to day, the support founders receive, and why the footprint matters.
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Built to Grow: Three Ways Software Companies Get Stronger After Joining Solen
Growth after joining a long-term partner shows up in specific changes. New capacity at FMSI, a new Aspen build at Spokane Software Systems, a defense contract at AutoTime and a leader at NexTalk with a whole network behind him. Here is how each company got stronger.
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What Happens to Your Product After You Partner With Solen?
What happens to software product development after acquisition depends entirely on the partner's time horizon. A live example from the Solen portfolio: Spokane Software Solutions is building an installable version of its Aspen platform, shaped around one key customer's workflow.
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Internal Communication Plan Template: Founder Communication Pack and Practical Guide for Founders
An internal communication plan template, in this case, is a founder communication template pack: a working set of messages, scripts, schedules, ownership rules, and review points that keeps a founder’s communication with the team, customers, and board consistent, timely, and honest. Its purpose is simple: the founder’s voice is the most influential channel a company has, and leaving it to improvisation wastes it. The pack is used by the founder first, then by the leadership team and whoever helps draft, review, or send messages on the founder’s behalf, and it earns its keep through regular use: weekly and monthly updates, planned announcements, and the rare urgent message you hope never to send.
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Culture Stays: Your Culture Is the Asset
Company culture does not have to change when a software company joins a new partner. It changes when the incoming owner decides that changing it is the point. That distinction matters more than founders often realize. The instinct to protect culture through a transition is not sentimental. It is strategic. The values on the wall, the habits a team has built over a decade, the way people treat customers, none of that is overhead to be trimmed after closing. It is part of what made the business worth investing in to begin with. Solen's approach starts from a simple premise: your culture is the asset. We do not change assets.
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Solen Software Group Returns to the 2026 Inc. 5000 List
Solen Software Group ranks No. 214 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, up from No. 3,118 last year, with 1,564 percent three-year revenue growth.
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Is Your Software Company Ready for a Permanent Capital Partner?
Readiness signals founders should check before a software company acquisition conversation: leadership depth, revenue durability, and culture.
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Permanent Home: The Day Your Partnership With Solen Begins
The day after your software company transitions to a new partner like Solen, almost nothing visible changes. Your team logs in, your customers open the product, and the invoices go out the same way they did last month. What changes is quieter than that, and it matters more than the paperwork did.
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Our Software Acquisition Criteria: A Clear Answer Within Two Weeks
Founders who talk to Solen usually know within two weeks whether we are a good fit. Here is what we look at in those first conversations, why off-the-shelf financials are all we ask for, and why an early no is not a judgment on your business.
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