dormakaba to Acquire Alliants

RUMLANG, Switzerland and SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom — dormakaba has signed a binding agreement to acquire Alliants, the guest experience technology partner behind more than 100,000 hotel rooms for the world’s leading hospitality brands. The acquisition “will strengthen dormakaba’s position as a global hospitality access solutions leader,” according to the joint announcement. It “expands the company’s hospitality offering beyond physical access control, connecting room entry with digital guest engagement to support a seamless guest journey while preserving customer choice.” Founded in 2009, Alliants provides “proprietary guest experience software and managed services that help hotels serve guests from pre-arrival through their stay and beyond,” the joint announcement says. Its capabilities include concierge, contactless check-in, mobile key, payments, messaging and agentic AI. The company operates globally and employs more than 100 people. With a track record of delivering hotel room keys to both Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, Alliants’ digital hotel key technology was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2025, according to the joint announcement. Why is dormakaba Acquiring Alliants? By pairing Alliants’ “powerful and established experience platform” with dormakaba’s “global portfolio and scale,” hotels “will have the option for an end-to-end solution across digital guest engagement, access and hotel operations,” according to the joint announcement. Both dormakaba and Alliants will remain interoperable with other providers across the tech stack, providing “real choice for hotels to work with other manufacturers and software partners to best fit their needs,” the announcement says. “Hotel owners and operators increasingly view access and guest experience as part of the same strategy,” says dormakaba CEO Till Reuter in the joint announcement. “Alliants adds proven technology and deep hospitality expertise that help us better serve hotels today and as their needs evolve. “Hospitality is a key growth vertical for dormakaba and this acquisition reflects our continued investment in the sector globally while broadening the value we can deliver to hotel customers,” he says. “Access and guest experience stopped being separate problems some time ago,” says Alliants CEO and founder Tristan Gadsby in the joint announcement. “The industry’s tooling just hasn’t caught up. Alliants brings the digital guest journey and dormakaba brings a proven track record in access and a presence in more than 130 countries. “Together we can offer hotels one route through it – without asking them to give up the partners they already trust,” he says. The parties have agreed not to disclose further details or the financial terms of the transaction. dormakaba expects the transaction to close after regulatory approval, expected within this year. The post dormakaba to Acquire Alliants appeared first on Security Sales & Integration.