Connectbase announced a significant expansion of its platform with the acquisition of Cloud Age, a SaaS provider of telecom invoice automation and spend management serving more than 1,700 global vendors. The deal strengthens Connectbase’s position as the Operating System for transacting across the global connectivity ecosystem by unifying discovery, quoting, spend intelligence, and automation within a single end-to-end workflow. The company also revealed a new growth investment from Equality Asset Management, which will support the Cloud Age acquisition and accelerate Connectbase’s global expansion and continued platform innovation.
Cloud Age brings deep expertise in structuring complex billing data and transforming it into actionable intelligence for service providers, enabling them to optimize spend, manage operations, and improve performance. Combined with Connectbase’s discovery engine, mapping capabilities, quoting tools, and trusted location intelligence, the integration creates a full lifecycle workflow that spans opportunity identification through spend settlement, designed to increase accuracy, speed, and transparency for providers, partners, and enterprises.
The acquisition advances Connectbase’s long-term strategy to build a unified digital fabric that powers buying, selling, partnering, and managing commercial relationships in connectivity, digital infrastructure, and managed services. By aligning location truth, spend data, and automation into one operating system, the company aims to expand its role in enabling Ecosystem-Led Growth and supporting rapidly emerging agentic and autonomous systems.
EAM’s strategic investment will help Connectbase scale its Connected World platform and support innovation across its software, data, and global reach. The firm joins Connectbase’s existing institutional investors, adding operational and strategic expertise as the company prepares for its next stage of growth. Connectbase currently maintains one of the industry’s largest datasets with insights on more than 2.2 billion locations across more than 400 global network providers, supporting quoting, transacting, and delivery with precision and trusted intelligence.
The combination of Connectbase and Cloud Age is expected to create new value for service providers by bridging the “quote to cash” and “procure to pay” lifecycles. The companies aim to provide an intelligent and federated ecosystem where providers can collaborate, verify information, manage spend, and transact with greater confidence across the global connectivity marketplace. Connectbase said the integration will support the ecosystem’s shift toward enhanced automation, improved customer experiences, and more efficient commercial outcomes.
KEY QUOTES
“At Connectbase, we’re building the federated fabric of the Connected World—where every location, every partner, and every transaction is powered by trust, truth, and intelligence. Cloud Age has led the way in transforming raw invoice data into actionable insights and transformative outcomes. By combining that with Connectbase’s discovery and quoting engine, we are closing the loop—enabling our ecosystem to operate with speed, accuracy, and transparency from discovery to quote to cash. This is a major step forward in driving Ecosystem-Led Growth and enabling trusted transactions in an Agentic AI-powered world.”
Ben Edmond, CEO and Founder of Connectbase
“Today marks an exciting new chapter for Cloud Age and our customers. By joining forces with Connectbase whose vision and platform so closely aligns with ours, we’re creating a powerful platform that unites the “quote to cash” and “procure to pay” lifecycles and delivers an unmatched solution to drive revenue, control and optimize network expenses, thereby maximizing profitability. This combination allows us to accelerate innovation, deepen our data and software capabilities while expanding the value we bring to every customer we serve.”
Chris Lee, CEO and Founder of Cloud Age
“Connectbase is redefining how the Connected World transacts. Ben and his team have created the trusted digital fabric that underpins how this ecosystem operates—from discovery to delivery. The addition of Cloud Age strengthens that foundation, uniting spend intelligence with automation and location truth. We’re excited to partner with Connectbase to accelerate their vision of transforming connectivity commerce globally.”
Jeff Del Papa, Managing Partner at EAM
