EQT Agrees to Acquire Australian Smart Parking Tech Firm Orikan
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Private equity buying Orikan is another bet that city infrastructure software—parking, payments, enforcement—can be rolled up and modernized. If you build urban or govtech, expect more buy-and-build plays and rising expectations for interoperability across municipal systems.
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