Within the automation industry, everyone is getting gobbled up. “It had a lot to do with what is going on in our market right now in our space. “We were approached by Microsoft earlier this year to talk about a partnership, and the more we talked about working together, the more we realized an acquisition was probably a better option,” Gilman said. Attempts to reach Microsoft for comment were unsuccesful. Gilman declined to reveal what Microsoft offered as compensation for the acquisition.
And in the last year, Gilman said the company began fielding offers from large technology companies before finalizing the acquisition by Microsoft on Oct. In 2015, Clear Software became Gilman’s full-time job. He secured his first customer in 2012, and in 2014 his family moved to Zionsville, where his wife, Lyndsay, is from. It was a side project that occupied his time on nights and weekends. Gilman started what would become Clear Software at age 30 while living in Chicago. “So, I started to tinker around to create an automation platform on top of these systems so that they could actually fulfill that original promise.” “It would bother me that companies would spend that much money and time on something that did the opposite of what it promised,” Gilman said.
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