M&A Deal Summary

Tes Global Acquires Education Horizons

On February 17, 2025, Tes Global acquired education company Education Horizons from Potentia Capital

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Tes Global’s 1st transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is Tes Global’s 2nd transaction in Australia.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2025-02-17
Target Education Horizons
Sector Education
Buyer(s) Tes Global
Sellers(s) Potentia Capital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Education Horizons

Melbourne, Australia
Education Horizons is a K-12 school management, teaching, and learning software company that truly empowers school administration staff and teachers to complete their work efficiently and effectively. EHG combines world-class school management provider, Synergetic Management Systems, with award-winning teaching and learning management developer, SEQTA Software, to offer schools an end-to-end software solution. Education Horizons was founded in 1978 and is based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Tes Global

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1910
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

Tes Global is an international provider of software services to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. Tes Global products play a critical role helping teachers and school leaders deal with the challenges of teaching, including safeguarding and compliance, smart pupil management, and staff management. This dedication and focus supports educators across the globe in providing high quality education to millions of children using smart, flexible, and cost-effective solutions. A global Company, Tes Global was formed in 1910 and is based in Sheffield, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Education M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: Australia M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2025 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-12-23 Tes Global’s Supply Agencies

London, United Kingdom

Tes Global’s Supply Agencies are a group of businesses that recruit and supply teachers and support staff for primary, secondary, and special educational needs and disability (SEND) schools and other learning institutions. Tes Global’s Supply Agencies was founded in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Seller(S) 1

DESCRIPTION

Potentia Capital is a specialist private equity firm focused on technology and tech-enabled businesses. The Firm seeks Australian or New Zealand based companies with revenue between $10 and $150 million. Potentia Capital was established in 2014 and is based in Sydney, Australia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 3
Sector: Education M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 3
Country: Australia M&A 2 of 3
Year: 2025 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-11-01 Storypark

Wellington, New Zealand

Storypark is a provider of early childhood education technology solutions, serving over 11,000 childcare centres across Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Storypark was founded in 2011 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-03-06 Commerce Vision

Brisbane, Australia

Commerce Vision develops and supports enterprise-level B2B and B2C eCommerce solutions for manufacturers, distributors and retailers, integrated seamlessly to customer ERP and associated systems. Commerce Vision was founded in 2001 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.

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