DLA Piper strengthens team.blue’s buy-and-build strategy with serial acquisitions across Europe

DLA Piper has advised team.blue, a leading European digital enabler for entrepreneurs and small businesses, on a series of strategic acquisitions completed in the first quarter of 2026. The latest transactions are part of team.blue’s pan‑European buy‑and‑build strategy, further strengthening its position in the European SaaS and digital services market across key verticals, such as non-profit management, digital compliance, AI web application builder, and marketing technology:

• Czech Republic – Saleskit

Most recently, in March 2026, DLA Piper advised team.blue on the acquisition of Saleskit, a leading Czech B2B sales tool bringing more than 15 years of experience in B2B data and sales. Saleskit serves over 3,000 customers through its proprietary solutions “Merk”, a comprehensive business and marketing database, and “Leady”, a front‑running European AI‑driven lead generation tool. The transaction enhances team.blue’s capabilities in lead intelligence and AI‑driven data enrichment, empowering businesses to transform raw leads into qualified, revenue‑generating opportunities.

• Switzerland – Windsor.ai

In January 2026, DLA Piper advised team.blue on the majority acquisition of Windsor.ai, a Swiss AI‑powered data integration platform to enhance its marketing technology stack with unified data and attribution capabilities. Windsor.ai enables businesses to unify marketing data from over 325 sources into a single view, powering smarter decision-making and performance optimization across campaigns. This acquisition strengthens team.blue’s commitment to data intelligence and supports accelerated product innovation across the ecosystem.

• Italy & Austria – Kolsquare / Inflead and Storyclash

Also in January 2026, DLA Piper has also advised team.blue’s influencer marketing brand Kolsquare on executing complementary acquisitions to expand its European footprint and reinforce its position as a pan-European leader in influencer technology:

The acquisition of Inflead, Italy’s leading influencer marketing technology platform, brought advanced AI-driven campaign management and deep local expertise to strengthen Kolsquare’s presence in one of Europe’s most dynamic creator markets. With Storyclash, an AI‑powered influencer analytics platform with strong roots in the DACH region, Kolsquare enhances its capabilities in creator discovery, real-time campaign intelligence, and predictive performance insights.

These recent transactions build on a series of strategic majority investments executed by team.blue in 2025, all of which were also advised by DLA Piper:

• France – AssoConnect

In May 2025, DLA Piper advised team.blue on the acquisition of a majority stake in French SaaS company AssoConnect, founded in 2014 offering an all-in-one platform for membership management, accounting, payments, communication, and legal documentation. With offices in Paris, Marseille, and Mauritius, AssoConnect serves over 40,000 non-profit organisations. This acquisition enables team.blue to expand its product offering tailored to the non-profit sector, which already includes more than 80,000 organisations among its 3.3 million SME customers across Europe.

• Spain – B2Brouter

DLA Piper subsequently advised team.blue on the acquisition of a majority stake in B2Brouter, a Spanish-based specialist in electronic invoicing and digital compliance solution provider for businesses across Europe. The transaction enhances team.blue’s capabilities in digital compliance and supports its broader goal of simplifying business operations for SMEs across Europe.

• Czech Republic – Macaly

In December 2025, DLA Piper advised team.blue on the acquisition of Macaly, an AI web application builder from the Czech Republic, enabling users to create full, production-ready web apps from natural language prompts. By integrating this AI “vibe coding” technology, team.blue expands its portfolio into next-generation application development tools, empowering SMBs to build custom digital experiences more quickly and efficiently.

Dr. Nils Krause, client relationship partner at DLA Piper, comments: “We are delighted to continue advising our longstanding client team.blue on yet six more strategic transactions. These acquisitions underscore once again our deep technology sector experience and ability to support serial acquirers in executing buy-and-build strategies across jurisdictions as well as at different levels of the client’s portfolio. Our cross-border collaboration and integrated approach continue to deliver exceptional value to our clients.”

The core deal team for team.blue in Germany, consisting of Dr. Nils Krause, Dr. Moritz von Hesberg, and Senior Associate Dan Li (all Corporate, Hamburg), acts as “standing counsel” for the serial transactions. The team ensures efficient processes and consistent execution across all transactions and jurisdictions They are supported by Partner Semin O (Lit&Reg, Frankfurt) and his team, who advise on all antitrust aspects of the transactions and are developing a tailored, overarching merger control strategy for future acquisitions.

The German core deal team is supported on a transaction-by-transaction basis by multi-disciplinary DLA Piper teams from the relevant local offices, under the lead of:

• Austria: Partner Christoph Mager, Counsels Johanna Höltl and Eric Wingert (all Corporate, Vienna).
• Czech Republic: Partner Miroslav Dubovsky and Counsel Jan Zidak (both Corporate, Prague).
• France: Partner Sarmad Haidar and Senior Associate Morgane Le Duc (both Corporate, Paris).
• Italy: Partner Christian Iannaccone and Associate Giorgia Grande (both Corporate, Milan).
• Spain: Partner Yoko Takagi and Legal Director Beatriz de Basterrechea Rebanal (both Corporate, Madrid).

In Switzerland, the team worked with Bär & Karrer on the Windsor transaction.