ACS Technologies Has Been Acquired by Vanco

William Blair acted as the exclusive financial advisor to ACS Technologies in connection with its sale to Vanco, a portfolio company of Great Hill Partners. The transaction closed on December 1, 2025.

About the Companies

Founded in 1978 and based in Florence South Carolina, ACS Technologies is the leading, most comprehensive provider of church ministry software and service solutions to nearly 50,000 churches, schools, and organizational offices. As a mission-driven organization, ACS Technologies stands apart by providing a whole church approach, meeting the needs of the pastor, staff, and congregant, with ministry development tools unique in value to each role and each ministry goal serving each type of church/parish, denominational office, and diocese.

Vanco is a leading provider of secure digital payments, online giving, and administrative software for faith communities, schools, and nonprofits. Vanco helps organizations accept and manage payments, streamline everyday tasks, and deepen participation with reliable tools and practical support. The company's faith business will now operate as ACS Technologies, offering trusted church management platforms such as Realm and MinistryPlatform that help ministries manage membership, contributions accounting, missions trip management, events, and communication. Vanco also serves K-12 districts with education payments solutions, including RevTrak and SmartCare. Across every offering, the company's purpose is simple: help teams spend less time on systems and more time with people.

Founded in 1998, Great Hill Partners is a private equity firm targeting investments of $100 million to $500 million in high-growth companies across the software, financial services, healthcare, consumer, and business services sectors. With offices in Boston and London, the firm has raised funds with more than $19 billion in commitments and invested in more than 100 companies since 1998, establishing an extensive track record of building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs and providing flexible resources to help middle-market companies' scale. Great Hill Partners has been recognized for its industry leadership, ranking in the top five of HEC Paris-Dow Jones' Mid-Market and Large Buyout Performance Ranking lists consecutively for the four most recent years published (2021-2024).

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