M&A Deal Summary

Nuance Communications Acquires Emdat

On January 15, 2014, Nuance Communications acquired software company Emdat

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Nuance Communications’ 9th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Nuance Communications’ 18th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Nuance Communications’ 1st transaction in Wisconsin.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2014-01-15
Target Emdat
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Nuance Communications
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Cascadia Capital LLC (Financial)

Target

Emdat

Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Emdat is a provider of medical documentation software, allowing healthcare organizations to protect or increase physician productivity, while also meeting “meaningful use” of electronic health records (“EHRs”) as established by the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Nuance Communications

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1992
Sector Software
Employees7,100
Revenue 1.5B USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION
Nuance's corporate headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Nuance's corporate headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Nuance Communications is a provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Nuance technologies, applications and services enable users calling directory assistance, getting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Nuance Communications was formed in 1992 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 21 of 26
Sector (Software) 9 of 11
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 20 of 25
State (Wisconsin) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 18 of 22
Year (2014) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-10 Varolii

Seattle, Washington, United States

Varolii, is a provider of cloud-based outbound customer engagement solutions.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-04-17 Accelarad

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Accelarad, the leading provider of SaaS medical imaging solutions serving more than 950 healthcare facilities and processing more than 400 million medical images.

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