Hexagon spins off Octave, and ETQ Reliance becomes Octave Reliance
Hexagon completed the spin-off of Octave Intelligence plc on 22 May 2026. ETQ is part of Octave, and its QMS is now sold as Octave Reliance.
Ideagen lowers the platform fee on its UK G-Cloud price list
Ideagen's January 2026 G-Cloud price list for Ideagen Quality Management (formerly Q-Pulse) cuts the yearly platform fee from £15,000 to £12,000 and implementation from £1,330 to £1,000 a day.
Matrix One raises Matrix Req list prices for 2026
New "Plus" prices for Matrix Req, published in December 2025, are 16 to 18% above the January 2025 list. Extra read/write users went from €57 to €65 a month.
Recur Software acquires Cognidox
The UK document-control and QMS vendor became part of Recur Software's SaaS portfolio in October 2025. Its pricing moved to user-limited tiers in 2026.
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Ketryx raises a $39M Series B
Ketryx raised a $39M Series B led by Transformation Capital in September 2025, bringing its total funding to more than $55M.
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Scilife launches a Design and Development module for medical devices
Scilife added design controls for medical devices in July 2025: user needs, design inputs and outputs, verification and validation, with a traceability matrix added later.
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Greenlight Guru acquires Ultralight Labs
Greenlight Guru bought Ultralight Labs in June 2025 and now markets Ultralight, an eQMS built around IEC 62304 and Jira and GitHub workflows.
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Formwork cuts QMS + Techdoc to 499 € and raises Starter to 99 €
In March 2025 OpenRegulatory cut the list price of Formwork QMS + Techdoc from 799 € to 499 € a month. The 49 € Starter plan for very small startups was replaced by a 99 € plan open to every company.