Riverside Partners Acquires Calero: TEM in Transition

[caption id="attachment_479" align="alignleft" width="257"] Calero[/caption] On September 13th, 2017, Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, announced the acquisition of Calero Software from Clearlake Capital. Calero manages more than $6 billion of annual telecom, mobility, and cloud spend for more than 3,000 customers in 40+ countries and provides managed mobility services for more than 400,000 devices, making it one of the largest technology expense management solutions overall behind Tangoe's $38 billion+ in technology expense management and Flexera's $13 billion+ in software expense management. (Cass does not break out its telecom spend, but Amalgam believes it to be similar in scale...