SOCIABBLE acquired by POPPULO

Ardian announced that its portfolio company Sociabble would join Poppulo, a Vista Equity Partners backed software provider for employee experience and digital signage, in a transaction dated 26 May 2026. The transaction extended Poppulo's open Experience Platform with Sociabble's social intranet, frontline mobile application, employee advocacy and rewards capabilities. Ruth Fornell, CEO of Poppulo, said organisations needed clearer ways to connect communication to action, and that with Sociabble the group would deliver a unified platform working with the rest of their work tech so leaders could reach every employee and drive outcomes across the business. Jean-Louis Bénard, CEO of Sociabble, said the combination brought a value proposition to the employee experience market with the ability to reach and engage more than 50 million employees worldwide, and gave the company the strength to continue investing in AI and innovation. Poppulo served more than 10,000 customers reaching over 50 million employees worldwide, supported by communications and digital signage software that powered more than 600,000 screens globally. For Sociabble, joining Poppulo meant an immediate extension of its multi-channel capabilities into digital signage and the opportunity to combine both companies' AI expertise. The combined platform was expected to strengthen Poppulo's AI capabilities, helping communicators improve targeting, optimise content performance and better understand employee engagement, while consolidating communications, intranet and engagement into one governed platform for CIOs, COOs, CCOs, CMOs and CHROs and their teams.