Houlihan Lokey Advises Wavicle Data Solutions

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Wavicle Data Solutions, LLC (Wavicle), a top-tier data and AI engineering organization with a market-leading Databricks practice, has been acquired by an industry-leading audit, consulting, tax, and advisory firm (the Strategic or the buyer). This transaction closed on August 31, 2026.

Founded in 2013, Wavicle helps enterprise clients modernize their data ecosystems and build AI-ready foundations through data engineering, analytics, AI, and cloud solutions. The company serves a diverse set of end markets through deep industry-specific expertise, including consumer goods, manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, and healthcare.

Wavicle has built deep onshore and offshore technical expertise across Databricks and all major hyperscalers, with a strong track record of delivering lasting business value across industry-specific data and AI solutions for complex enterprise environments. The company’s technical leadership and engineering talent enable clients to modernize their data foundations and accelerate the deployment of AI-powered solutions at scale.

The transaction represents a strategic acquisition for the buyer and further strengthens its data, AI, and engineering capabilities. Wavicle aligns closely with the buyer’s strategy of helping clients modernize and customize their data ecosystems and accelerate AI-enabled transformation, while expanding the buyer’s capabilities across Databricks and industry-specific data engineering through Wavicle’s forward-deployed engineering model.

Through the combination with the Strategic, Wavicle is well positioned to leverage the buyer’s global scale, industry expertise, and broad technology ecosystem to accelerate the delivery of data and AI solutions. The partnership will further enhance Wavicle’s ability to help clients build modern data foundations, translate AI into measurable business value, and deliver AI-powered, innovation-centered, data-strong solutions across industries and sectors.

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Wavicle in connection with the transaction. This transaction underscores Houlihan Lokey’s continued leadership in advising leading IT services businesses, including high-growth cloud, data, digital engineering, and AI services companies with a technology focus on Databricks, AWS, Google, and Azure solutions.

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