M&A Acquirer Playbook

Roper Technologies Inc acquisition history.

Every deal, price, and strategic rationale.

Company Roper Technologies Inc
SEC CIK 0000882835
Tracked filings EDGAR · 8-K
Total deals tracked
74
Disclosed 8-K acquisitions, 2003 — present.
Aggregate disclosed value
$29.2B
approximately $29.2 billion across 24 disclosed transactions.
Active acquisition years
2015 · 2008 (6 deals) · 2016 (6 deals) · 2020 (6 deals) · 2025 (6 deals) · 2007 (5 deals)
8 deals.
Primary sectors
Vertical/niche software dominates
application and network software lines (Deltek, Vertafore, iPipeline, Frontline Education, CentralReach, Subsplash, Syntellis, Procare) account for most of capital deployed; transportation electronics (TransCore, Flexport), healthcare workflow (Sunquest, MHA), and laboratory IT (CliniSys, Data Innovations, Strata Decision) round out the platform..
Verified 74 deals on this page · sourced from SEC filings + 36 earnings transcripts
All cross-references covered.

74 deals, $29.2B deployed.

Plotted by close date where disclosed, otherwise announcement. Click any marker to jump to the deal entry.

2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 $482M Dec 2003 Neptune Technology Group $600M Oct 2004 TransCore Intellitrans · Apr 2006 Sinmed Holding Internat… · Apr 2006 Lumenera Corporation · Aug 2006 DJ Instruments · Feb 2007 JLT Mobile Computers · Feb 2007 Roda Deaco Valve · Mar 2007 Black Diamond Advanced… · Sep 2007 Dynamic Instruments · Sep 2007 $367M Feb 2008 The CBORD Group Tech-Pro · Mar 2008 Chalwyn Limited · Jun 2008 Horizon Software · Aug 2008 Getloaded.com · Aug 2008 Technolog · Sep 2008 $525M Jul 2010 iTradeNetwork Northern Digital (NDI) · Jun 2011 United Controls Group · Sep 2011 Trinity Integrated Syst… · Dec 2011 $1.415B Aug 2012 Sunquest Info Systems $1.0B Apr 2013 Managed Health Care Ass… Advanced Sensors · Oct 2013 $140M Jan 2015 Strata Decision Technol… Softwriters · Feb 2015 Data Innovations · Mar 2015 On Center Software · Jul 2015 RF IDeas · Sep 2015 Atlantic Health Partners · Sep 2015 $675M Oct 2015 Aderant Atlas Database Software · Oct 2015 CliniSys Group · Jan 2016 PCI Medical · Mar 2016 GeneInsight · Apr 2016 $632M Oct 2016 ConstructConnect UNIConnect · Nov 2016 $2.8B Dec 2016 Deltek $500M Jan 2017 PowerPlan Phase Technology · Jun 2017 Handshake Software · Aug 2017 Workbook Software · Sep 2017 ConceptShare · Jun 2018 BillBlast · Jul 2018 Avitru · Dec 2018 $544M Apr 2019 Foundry $1.625B Aug 2019 iPipeline ComputerEase Software · Aug 2019 Bellefield Systems · Dec 2019 Freight Market Intellig… · Jun 2020 Team TSI · Jun 2020 $5.35B Sep 2020 Vertafore Impact Financial Systems · Sep 2020 WELIS · Sep 2020 $365M Oct 2020 EPSi Agency Zoom · Nov 2021 American LegalNet · Dec 2021 $49.7M Jan 2022 Horizon Lab Systems Common Cents Systems · Apr 2022 MGA Systems · Jun 2022 $3.725B Oct 2022 Frontline Education $447.5M May 2023 Promium $1,381M Aug 2023 Syntellis Performance S… $447.5M Aug 2023 Replicon Executive Business Serv… · Dec 2023 $1,860M Feb 2024 Procare Solutions $1,607M Aug 2024 Transact Campus Surefyre · Nov 2024 Trucker Tools · Dec 2024 Muni-Link · Feb 2025 $1,850M Apr 2025 CentralReach Outgo · May 2025 $800M Jul 2025 Subsplash Brickyard Group · Jul 2025 Flexport Freight Tech · Jul 2025

The rationale that repeats.

Three patterns show up across Roper's deal book — what the team buys, how it pays, and how it integrates. The patterns are the throughline; the individual deals below are the evidence.

01
Acquisition criteria

Niche market leadership is the screening test.

Roper's CEO Neil Hunn described Frontline Education as having "clear niche market leadership, a proven track record of strong organic and inorganic growth, excellent cash conversion" — language that recurs almost identically in the Vertafore, iPipeline, Deltek, and PowerPlan announcements. Roper buys businesses ranked #1 or #2 in deliberately narrow verticals (K-12 admin SaaS, P&C insurance distribution, government contractor ERP, life-insurance SaaS, ABA therapy / childcare administration, church / SMB SaaS), not broad horizontals where it would compete on scale.

Neptune Technology GroupTransCoreIntellitransSinmed Holding InternationalLumenera Corporation
02
Capital deployment

Cash conversion as the test, not synergies.

Roper rarely commits to specific cost-synergy targets in its 8-K announcements. Instead, announcements emphasize "excellent cash conversion" and "high-quality, market-leading technology businesses that will enhance Roper's cash flow compounding" — the actual capital-allocation framework. Targets are screened on their stand-alone free-cash-flow profile, not on cost-take-out potential, and Roper regularly recycles divestiture proceeds (industrial, RF Technology) back into software.

Neptune Technology GroupTransCoreIntellitransSinmed Holding InternationalLumenera Corporation
03
Integration approach

Decentralized — operations stay with acquired management.

The Frontline announcement noted that "Frontline's management team will continue to lead the business from its Malvern, Pennsylvania headquarters. Frontline's name, brands, and office locations will not change." That same template recurs in every major Roper announcement back to TransCore in 2004 — acquired businesses operate as independent units within Roper's segments, retaining brand and leadership, with Roper providing capital allocation and select shared services. Tuck-ins consolidate under existing platform brands (Aderant gets American LegalNet; Strata gets EPSi; CBORD gets Transact Campus).

Neptune Technology GroupTransCoreIntellitransSinmed Holding InternationalLumenera Corporation

The full deal book.

74 acquisitions. Click any row to see the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, executive commentary, and the original SEC filing — the evidence behind the patterns above.

End of deal book
74 acquisitions · $29.2B deployed ·2003 — present
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