Public safety software had a busy quarter, with one pattern running through it: Axon and Motorola Solutions are racing to own the 911 stack end to end, while PE-backed platforms keep tucking in adjacent specialists.
Motorola spent March and April closing the gap on Axon’s late-2025 spree, picking up Exacom for cloud 911 recording and Hyper for agentic AI on non-emergency calls. NEOGOV bought PowerDetails to extend its public-sector HR stack into off-duty officer scheduling. Versaterm completed its Drones for First Response build with Aloft, after picking up DroneSense last summer. CentralSquare added situational intelligence with FirstTwo. ESO Solutions extended its prehospital data layer into the hospital ED with d2i.
Motorola Solutions acquires Hyper and Exacom (March-April 2026)
Category: 911 / NG911 stack
Type: Strategic
Motorola did two 911 deals in five weeks. Exacom (March 16) brought cloud-native recording and logging for emergency calls and radio traffic. Hyper (April 9) brought conversational agentic AI for non-emergency calls. Terms weren’t disclosed on either. The timing isn’t subtle: Axon announced its $625m cash buy of Carbyne on November 4, 2025, six weeks after picking up Prepared on September 23 (reportedly $800-900m). Two public strategics are now racing to own the 911 stack end to end, and Motorola spent March and April catching up on the parts of the stack Axon just bought.
Hyper, founded in 2023 in the Yukon by Ben Sanders (ex-Clearco) and Damian McCabe, raised a $6.3m seed in July 2025 led by Eniac Ventures. The product handles calls a dispatcher shouldn’t have to take. A caller reports a fender-bender; the bot confirms the situation, asks whether they’re still in the vehicle, asks if it was a hit-and-run, routes them to the right collision reporting centre, and texts a follow-up link. No human touched the call. Halton Regional Police fields up to 65% of non-emergency calls this way. Winnipeg saw hang-ups drop from 35% to 25% after Hyper went live. San Diego County Sheriff and Toronto Police are also customers.
Exacom (founded 1986, Manchester NH) is the back end. Its logging recorders sit inside more than 85 radio networks, 911 call-handling systems, and CAD platforms, capturing audio and metadata for investigations and compliance. Subsidiary SecuLore adds network monitoring and threat detection.
Motorola is now buying both ends of the call. Add in RapidDeploy and Theatro (Q1 2025, $414m together), Silvus ($4.4b, August 2025), and Blue Eye (November 2025), and the Command Center portfolio has absorbed cloud call routing, frontline voice AI, tactical mesh networks, video monitoring, recording, and now agentic call handling inside about fifteen months. Axon is consolidating call to closure. Motorola is consolidating call to archive. Every remaining PSAP software vendor is now a target or a competitor to a $90b+ acquirer.
d2i acquired by ESO Solutions (April 2026)
Category: Fire & EMS performance analytics
Type: Add-on
ESO Solutions announced the acquisition of d2i on April 7, 2026. Terms weren’t disclosed. d2i, formerly Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence, is a cloud analytics platform for emergency departments that runs across ~450 hospitals, ~60m annual encounters, and 10b data points in its warehouse.
d2i pulls EMR timestamps, revenue cycle data, scheduling, and patient experience scores out of the silos hospitals normally keep them in, and consolidates them into one performance view for ED medical directors and ops teams. When door-to-provider times slip, an ED director opens d2i and sees the delay attributed to specific shifts, attending physicians, and boarding bottlenecks in one dashboard, rather than reconciling three reports from three systems.
The strategic logic is the cleanest part of the deal. ESO already owns the prehospital data layer: 911 dispatch, CAD, ambulance ePCR, fire RMS. d2i owns the in-hospital ED data layer. Combined, ESO can stitch a single record from 911 call to hospital discharge, which neither side could deliver alone. That’s the dataset payers, accountable care organizations, and outcomes-based contracts have been waiting for in emergency response.
Vista Equity Partners ($107b+ AUM, software-focused) has backed ESO since a March 2021 strategic majority investment, after first co-investing alongside Accel-KKR in 2016. ESO’s M&A track record includes FIREHOUSE Software (2017, fire RMS) and eCore (2019, EMS scheduling) under the prior Accel-KKR period, then Emergency Reporting (2021, cloud fire RMS) and Logis Solutions (2024, CAD and billing) under Vista. d2i is the first move into the hospital side of the call-to-care chain.
PowerDetails acquired by NEOGOV (March 2026)
Category: Off-duty officer scheduling
Type: Add-on
NEOGOV, the El Segundo public sector HR and compliance platform that touches nearly 10,000 US agencies, picked up PowerDetails on March 26. Terms weren’t disclosed.
PowerDetails runs the off-duty workflow every mid-sized police department deals with constantly. A Walmart needs a uniformed officer for Black Friday. A stadium needs a dozen cops for a concert. The agency posts the detail, officers self-schedule by rank and qualifications, the agency dispatches and tracks hours, and the platform handles invoicing the merchant and paying the officer (often with an administrative surcharge that funds the program). PowerDetails says it serves 99,000+ users and schedules 7.5m+ off-duty and overtime jobs a year across the US and Canada.
NEOGOV already owns PowerDMS (CALEA accreditation, policy management) and PowerTime (on-duty scheduling), so adding PowerDetails extends a single workforce stack from hire to on-duty shift to off-duty side-job across shared agency customers.
NEOGOV is mid-transition from Warburg Pincus and Carlyle to EQT and CPP Investments in a $3b sponsor-to-sponsor deal announced last July, still pending close. PowerDetails is also the third sponsor-led move in off-duty management in roughly a year: Bregal Sagemount took a significant growth stake in Extra Duty Solutions in June 2025, and RollKall also changed hands in 2025. Off-duty is suddenly a category sponsors are willing to write checks against.
Aloft acquired by Versaterm (February 2026)
Category: Drone airspace authorization (LAANC / UTM)
Type: Add-on
Versaterm bought Aloft Technologies on February 19, 2026, seven months after picking up DroneSense. The two deals together close the Drones for First Response loop: dispatch, fly, and clear airspace from inside the same public safety platform.
Aloft, founded by Jon Hegranes and Joshua Ziering in 2015, is the FAA-approved Unmanned Service Supplier behind the majority of LAANC authorizations in the US, with over 70% share, 1.6m cumulative authorizations, and roughly 400k in 2024 alone. Boeing’s CVC and Travelers were early backers. Terra Drone, the Japanese parent, took a 35% stake in February 2024 and rolled up the rest by late 2025 before flipping the company to Versaterm.
In the field, a police drone pilot responding to a call opens Aloft on a phone, draws a flight box over the scene, requests LAANC authorization in controlled airspace, and gets FAA approval back in seconds. Without that layer, a drone can’t legally launch in most urban airspace. Now, with Aloft inside Versaterm’s CAD, the authorization request can fire automatically the moment dispatch routes a drone to the incident.
DroneSense, integrated into Versaterm CAD since October 2025, handles fleet management and dispatch. Aloft handles airspace. Stitched together, agencies get one vendor for the entire DFR stack instead of three contracts and three integrations.
Banneker Partners has owned Versaterm since December 2020 and has done more than ten add-ons. Permira came in as a strategic minority growth investor in August 2025 to fund AI and a faster M&A pace, and the cadence shows it: ICS in February, IAPro, DroneSense in July, Aloft now. With BRINC’s $75m raise and Motorola alliance pushing DFR forward, Versaterm owns the only end-to-end public safety drone stack on the market.
FirstTwo acquired by CentralSquare (December 2025)
Category: Real-time situational intelligence
Type: Add-on
CentralSquare Technologies announced the acquisition of FirstTwo on December 15, 2025. Terms weren’t disclosed. FirstTwo will keep operating as a vendor-agnostic application, which matters because a chunk of its 2,500-plus agency footprint runs on CAD systems CentralSquare doesn’t own.
FirstTwo’s product lives on the officer’s phone or mobile data terminal. An officer rolling to a domestic call sees a map view of the address with prior calls for service at that location, registered weapons, names of the people who live there, and related vehicles, all surfaced before the cruiser pulls up. It’s the gap between what dispatch knows and what the responder actually has in their hand. Founded in 2015 by Niraj Shah (formerly of people-data company Intelius) and Dave McAlpin, FirstTwo built that pipeline across all 50 states.
FirstTwo slots cleanly above CAD and RMS. CentralSquare already runs the dispatch and records backbone for thousands of agencies through its Public Safety Suite, Centerline AI, and Unify CAD-to-CAD product. FirstTwo extends that stack into the live field-response layer, the moment where data either reaches the officer or doesn’t. It’s also CentralSquare’s second AI-adjacent deal in eleven months, following Blueline AI in January 2025, which handled the back-office side (transcription, report narratives, warrant routing). FirstTwo handles the front end.
CentralSquare is owned by Bain Capital (~$200b AUM) and Vista Equity Partners ($107b+), with Ares Management and AustralianSuper added through a 2024 refinancing and 2025 sponsor expansion. The platform itself was assembled in 2018 from a four-way merger of TriTech, Superion, Zuercher, and Aptean’s public sector business, then sat largely quiet on M&A until Blueline. Two deals in a year suggests the AI thesis is now driving capital allocation.