The deal will see more than 600 FirstSteps users transfer over to Famly, which the company says will lead to it being the largest all-in-one nursery platform in the UK.
Set up in 1994, the husband-and-wife founders Kirit and Kokila Patel of FirstSteps are now planning to retire once the transition to Famly is complete.
Their son Darshan - whose time in nursery inspired the very first FirstSteps database in 1994 - now leads the FirstSteps development team.
The couple started FirstSteps as an administration database made for the nursery attended by their own children. When they first started making early years software it involved installing the program with a floppy disk.
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