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Business spend management firm Coupa acquired AI-native intake and orchestration company Tonkean, accelerating its push to create a fully autonomous procurement and payment network for its global user base.
"To deliver the promise of increasingly autonomous execution of transactions between buyers and suppliers, you need three main things, industrial-grade and unified orchestration, best-in-class buyer and supplier workflows, and clean, trusted data," Leagh Turner, Coupa CEO, said. "With the acquisitions of Rossum and Tonkean, in short order, we have now amassed all the assets to make this promise possible."
The acquisition is Coupa's fourth in its strategy to build an agentic trade network, following deals for Cirtuo, Scoutbee, and Rossum. Tonkean brings a natural language interface that it says increases user adoption by 2.2 times and an orchestration framework that reduces cycle times by 50 percent, saving operations teams over 30 hours per week. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The integration of Tonkean's technology into Coupa's platform, which is built on a $10 trillion dataset from over 10 million suppliers, aims to create a single, unified agentic architecture for autonomous spend management. The companies will host a live walkthrough of the combined experience on June 4th.
The deal combines Coupa's extensive buyer-supplier network with Tonkean's process automation engine. Salvatore Lombardo, Coupa's Chief Product and Technology Officer, described the combination as the "ultimate procurement toolkit."
Tonkean's technology includes a 100% no-code process builder and over 250 native connectors designed to integrate with existing enterprise architecture without requiring replacement of current systems. This allows for immediate deployment of advanced orchestration and unified integrations.
"With our industrial-grade intake and orchestration now serving as the backbone and foundation for their industry-leading agentic trade network and data, we will seamlessly connect buyers, sellers, and agents in a unified way to deliver autonomous trade," said Sagi Eliyahu, Tonkean Co-Founder and CEO.
The acquisition is part of Coupa's deliberate strategy to lead the market in autonomous spend management at scale. By embedding Tonkean's capabilities, Coupa aims to orchestrate commerce and trade from the initial request through to the final order and payment.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Coupa. Cascadia Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Tonkean, with Fenwick & West LLP serving as its legal advisor.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
