Digi Acquires Jolt to Accelerate ARR Growth and Strengthen SmartSense’s Market-Leading Offerings
Digi funded the purchase price utilizing its current credit facility. In its fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, Jolt generated over
As part of the transaction, Jolt brings with it certain tax attributes, including a net operating loss carryforward of approximately
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP served as legal counsel to Digi in connection with the acquisition. Baird acted as financial advisor to Jolt, while Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP provided legal counsel.
“This acquisition positions Digi to deepen customer engagement, expand our market footprint, and accelerate ARR growth,� said Ron Konezny, President and CEO of Digi International. “Jolt’s proven platform and customer base complement SmartSense’s IoT-driven compliance and analytics capabilities. Together, we’re making a strategic step forward in our mission to deliver intelligent automation and operational excellence across industries.�
“This powerful combination redefines how our customers manage compliance and daily operations,� said Guy Yehiav, President of SmartSense by Digi. “By joining forces, we’re delivering intelligent, scalable tools that drive accountability, efficiency, and performance across multi-site environments. Our solutions empower customers with prescriptive actions that help them meet their critical objectives and create exceptional experiences for their own customers."
Customers can expect SmartSense real-time monitoring, sensor technology, and prescriptive analytics coupled with Jolt’s intuitive digital task workflows, employee scheduling, communication tools, and label printing and management. Together, these capabilities will empower organizations to:
- Automate compliance tasks and reduce operational risk
- Streamline daily workflows for frontline teams
- Increase efficiency and accountability across multi-site operations
- Improve food safety, regulatory adherence, and team performance
- Dynamic label printing that empowers teams to boost accuracy, cut costs, and ensure compliance
The integrated solution addresses the growing need for intelligent, scalable, and user-friendly tools that simplify complexity across dynamic operating environments. As a new standard in operational excellence, SmartSense and Jolt are poised to deliver deeper value, faster deployment, and greater ROI for customers across core verticals.
"By integrating our platforms, we will redefine operational excellence," said Josh Bird, CEO of Jolt. "Our customers will continue to experience the intuitive Jolt platform they know and trust, now amplified by SmartSense’s unmatched IoT and compliance automation expertise. Together, we’re setting a new standard on performance, accountability, and customer success."
Strategic Highlights for Investors
- ARR Acceleration: Jolt’s subscription-based model adds meaningful ARR and strengthens Digi’s SaaS revenue mix.
- Cross-Sell Synergies: Combined capabilities create new opportunities across foodservice, retail, healthcare, and convenience verticals.
- Customer Diversification in Solutions Segment: Jolt’s enterprise and mid-market customers complement SmartSense’s footprint and expand Digi’s reach.
- Innovation Pipeline: Integration of Jolt’s task and workforce management tool with SmartSense’s IoT platform enhances product roadmap and customer value propositions.
Updated Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2025 and Full-Year Fiscal 2025 Guidance
With the combination of Jolt and Digi, our outlook for fiscal 2025 changes. ARR is projected to grow approximately
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Revenue:
to$108.5 million $112.5 million -
Adjusted EBITDA:
to$26.0 million $27.5 million -
Adjusted Net Income per Diluted Share:
to$0.48 based on a weighted average diluted share count of 38.1 million shares.$0.52
Due to the debt financing associated with the Jolt acquisition, we no longer expect to be net cash positive by the end of the fiscal year.
We provide forward-looking estimates for Adjusted Net Income per Diluted Share as well as Adjusted EBITDA targets on a non-GAAP basis. We do not reconcile these items to their most comparable
We’re encouraged by the combination of Digi and Jolt, and we remain committed to scaling the business through inorganic growth opportunities that align strategically and contribute to ARR. Digi remains well-positioned to pursue additional transactions that we believe will deliver meaningful value to stockholders and customers.
Conference Call Details
Digi will discuss the acquisition of Jolt Software, Inc. on a conference call on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at approximately 8:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. CT). The call will be hosted by Ron Konezny, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Jamie Loch, Chief Financial Officer.
Participants may register for the conference call at: . Once registration is completed, participants will be provided a dial in number and passcode to access the call. All participants are asked to dial-in 15 minutes prior to the start time.
Participants may access a live webcast of the conference call through the investor relations section of Digi’s website, or the hosting website at: .
A replay will be available within approximately two hours after the completion of the call for approximately one year. You may access the replay via webcast through the investor relations section of Digi’s website.
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About Digi International
Delivering Scalable Solutions for What's Next
Since 1985, Digi International Inc. (Digi) has been a pioneer in wireless communication, forging the future for connected devices and responding to the needs of the people and enterprises that use them.
Before the Internet of Things was a thing, we built M2M and IoT devices, adapted to evolving network standards, and optimized data communications around the most advanced protocols and emerging technologies. From radio frequency modems to gateways, cellular routers, networking devices, embedded system-on-modules (SOM) and single-board computers (SBCs), Digi's solutions have continually grown to serve an extensive breadth of applications across the IoT landscape.
Today, our IoT offering includes sensor-based solutions, a sophisticated platform for remotely monitoring device deployments of any size, anywhere, as well as professional design, implementation and certification teams to help you carry out your vision, no matter how large or small.
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About SmartSense by Digi
SmartSense by Digi® is a business unit of Digi International that delivers IoT Sensing-as-a-Service solutions for asset monitoring, process digitization, and digital decision-making. SmartSense enables organizations to ensure compliance, workforce productivity, and brand protection through data-driven automation and analytics.
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About Jolt
Jolt Software, Inc. (Jolt) provides operations execution software that helps businesses achieve team accountability, digital food safety compliance, and improved employee performance. Jolt is used by thousands of brands across retail, hospitality, and foodservice.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions about the acquisition and its impact on Digi’s business and prospects. These statements often can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "assume," "believe," "continue," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "project," "should," or "will" or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or similar terminology. Among other items, these statements relate to expectations of how the acquisition is expected to impact Digi’s business and financial results, projections of future performance, including (but not limited to) expectations regarding the Digi's profitability, margin and ARR, and perceived marketplace opportunities. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Among others, these include risks related to our ability to realize synergies and operating benefits from the acquisition, ongoing and varying inflationary and deflationary pressures around the world and the monetary and trade policies of governments globally as well as present and ongoing concerns about a potential recession, the potential for longer than expected sales cycles, the ability of companies like us to operate a global business in such conditions as well as negative effects on product demand and the financial solvency of customers and suppliers in such conditions, risks related to ongoing supply chain challenges that continue to impact businesses globally, regulatory risks that include, but are not limited to, the potential expansion of tariffs and potential changes to regulations impacting the functionality or compliance of our products, risks related to cybersecurity, data breaches and data privacy, risks arising from the present military conflicts in
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