Vendor lineage
Auvik
Waterloo's cloud network management for MSPs: 100,000 networks, 12 million devices, and a $250 million cheque from Great Hill Partners.
Auvik was founded in 2011 by Alex Hoff, Marc Morin and David Yach and moved into its Waterloo, Ontario headquarters in 2018. It describes itself today as an AI-driven IT management platform that combines real-time infrastructure data with intelligent agents, and says it helps managed service providers and IT teams manage more than 100,000 networks worldwide and twelve million distinct devices.
The company's own history runs from 21 employees in 2013 to 305 in 2023. In 2018 it acquired Talaia and raised a CAD$20 million Series C; in 2021 Great Hill Partners invested US$250 million; in 2022 it bought MetaGeek, the Boise Wi-Fi tools company, and in 2024 Saaslio and Boardgent. Douglas Murray became chief executive and Mark Ralls president in 2024.
The MetaGeek chapter is the one this record follows most closely, because it ran both ways: Auvik acquired the Wi-Spy, inSSIDer and Chanalyzer tools in April 2022 and sold the business to Oscium in October 2024, so the wireless analysers that were briefly part of a cloud management platform are back with an instrument maker. The MetaGeek and Oscium records carry the detail.
Why a managed-service-provider tool is on a record built around enterprise networking: the MSP market is where network monitoring went when the enterprise frameworks of the Tivoli and OpenView era became too heavy for the organisations that most needed watching. Auvik, like the open source monitors elsewhere on this timeline, is an answer to the question of who watches the networks that cannot afford a network operations centre.
Acquisitions
2018 Talaia
Listed on Auvik's own history for 2018, alongside a CAD$20 million Series C; the page read does not describe the product.
auvik.com/about (read 2026-10-06).
2022 MetaGeek
The Boise Wi-Fi analysis tools Wi-Spy, inSSIDer and Chanalyzer, founded 2005; terms not disclosed.
Sold to Oscium in October 2024.
ChannelE2E, 15 April 2022, and auvik.com/about (read 2026-10-06).
2024 Saaslio
Listed on Auvik's own history for 2024; the page read does not describe the product.
auvik.com/about (read 2026-10-06).
2024 Boardgent
Listed on Auvik's own history for 2024; the page read does not describe the product.
auvik.com/about (read 2026-10-06).
- Auvik - About: founded in 2011 by Alex Hoff, Marc Morin and David Yach; moved into Waterloo headquarters 2018; CEO Douglas Murray and President Mark Ralls (2024); 21 employees in 2013 to 305 in 2023; more than 100,000 networks and 12 million distinct devices; Talaia and a CAD$20M Series C 2018, Great Hill Partners US$250M 2021, MetaGeek 2022, Saaslio and Boardgent 2024 (read 2026-10-06)
- ChannelE2E, 15 April 2022: Auvik, Waterloo, Ontario, acquires MetaGeek of Boise; $250 million from Great Hill Partners in July 2021; terms not disclosed (read 2026-10-06)