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.
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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What Makes a SaaS Business a Strong Fit for a Permanent Capital Partner
What permanent capital partners look for in a SaaS business beyond revenue: team depth, customer retention, and workflow criticality. A founder’s guide.
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What We Look For: The Acquisition-Ready Software Business
We are looking for our next software partnership right now. Founders often ask us to describe the ideal business, expecting a wish list of impossible standards. The real answer is more useful, and more encouraging, than that. We look for durable businesses run by people who care about what they built. Below is exactly what that means, and a short checklist you can run against your own company today.
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Solen Earns Great Place To Work Certification for the Second Year
Solen Software Group is Great Place To Work Certified for the second consecutive year, with 92% of our team saying Solen is a great place to work.
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