M&A Deal Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2018-10-25 |
| Target | VeriSign - Security Services Customer Contracts |
| Sector | Information Technology |
| Buyer(s) | NeuStar |
| Sellers(s) | VeriSign |
| Deal Type | Divestiture |
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| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| Sector | Information Services |
| Revenue | 1.1B USD (2015) |
NeuStar is a global information services provider driving the connected world forward with trusted, holistic identity resolution. The company serves many of the world’s brands to grow and guard their businesses with the most complete understanding of how to connect people, places, and things. The combination of Neustar’s unique, accurate and real-time identity system and its cloud-based workflow solutions empower businesses to make actionable, precise, and valuable decisions across marketing, risk, IT/security, network & operations departments. As the current sole provider to the U.S. Number Portability Administration Center, Neustar also facilitates the routing of all telephone call and text messages in the U.S. NeuStar was formed in 1996 and is based in Sterling, Virginia.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 15 of 17 |
| Sector (Information Technology) | 2 of 4 |
| Type (Divestiture) | 3 of 4 |
| State (Virginia) | 3 of 4 |
| Country (United States) | 13 of 15 |
| Year (2018) | 1 of 2 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-05 |
MarketShare Partners
Los Angeles, California, United States MarketShare Partners LLC is a provider of cloud-based information services, enabling marketing and IT security professionals to promote and protect their businesses. |
Buy | $450M |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-29 |
TRUSTID
Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States TRUSTID, Inc. serves organizations that need to authenticate callers to protect account access, prevent fraud or comply with regulations. Deploying its patented telephone network forensic approach, TRUSTID delivers caller authentication, identity and risk solutions. TRUSTID uses a caller’s phone as an ownership-based authentication token and puts trusted callers into the fast lane, before their calls are even answered, while assessing the risk of others. Through its full suite of software-as-a-service products, TRUSTID helps clients reduce contact center costs, improve the customer experience and increase the efficiency of fraud-fighting efforts. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| Sector | Information Technology |
| Employees | 900 |
| Revenue | 1.3B USD (2020) |
VeriSign is a global provider of domain name registry services which power the navigation of the Internet by operating a global infrastructure for a portfolio of top-level domains that includes .com, .net, .tv, .edu, .gov, .jobs, .name and .cc as well as two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers. VeriSign's product suite also includes Network Intelligence and Availability Services consisting of Distributed Denial of Service Protection Services, Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services and Managed Domain Name System Services. VeriSign was formed in 1995 and is based in Reston, Virginia.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 5 of 7 |
| Sector (Information Technology) | 3 of 4 |
| Type (Divestiture) | 5 of 7 |
| State (Virginia) | 4 of 5 |
| Country (United States) | 5 of 7 |
| Year (2018) | 1 of 1 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-09 |
VeriSign - iDefense Security Intelligence Services
Reston, Virginia, United States VeriSign, Inc. - iDefense Security Intelligence Services is specializes in delivering faster access to relevant, timely and actionable security intelligence, enabling organizations to make smarter security decisions and defend against new and evolving threats. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-08 |
RSi
San Jose, California, United States Retail Solutions, Inc. is a provider of Big Data, predictive analytics for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. Retail Solutions collects and transforms billions of data points on what shoppers are buying every day and makes it insightful and actionable for better tactical and strategic decision-making at the corporate level and in the field. Retail Solutions was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California. |
Sell | - |
