Investment Summary

Omnes Capital Invests In Visiware

On January 17, 2012, private equity firm Omnes Capital invested in software company Visiware

Investment Highlights
  • This is Omnes Capital’s 5th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Omnes Capital’s 80th transaction in France.
Investment Fate
  • Visiware went bankrupt in 2015.

Investment Summary

Date 2012-01-17
Target Visiware
Sector Software
Investor(s) Omnes Capital
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Visiware

Sevres, France
Visiware is specialised in digital television gaming with its Playin’TV™ channel. It recently launched PlayAlong™, a solution that has already become a reference for the market. This solution allows millions of viewers to participate simultaneously in televised shows from home using their laptop, tablet, or Smartphone. Visiware was founded in 1994 and is based in Sevres, France.

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Investor

Omnes Capital

Paris, France

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2004
PE ASSETS 5.7B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Omnes Capital formerly known as Credit Agricole Private Equity (CAPE) is the investment arm of financial services group Credit Agricole. Omnes Capital looks to invest in a range of investment stages and transaction types, including LBO/expansion, venture capital, mezzanine, renewable energy, co-investment, infrastructure, and special situations. The Firm's LBO/expansion group looks to invest €25 to €80 million to support growth initiatives and buyouts of small and mid-cap businesses operating in a variety of industries. Omnes Capital generally invests in businesses operating in France and Italy. Omnes Capital's mezzanine area was formed in 2002 and looks to provide €5 to €30 million of junior capital to similar sized established businesses. In addition to Omnes Capital's traditional equity and subordinated debt investment arm, the Firm also invests in infrastructure projects as well as provides capital for distressed businesses with €10 to €150 million in revenue. Omnes Capital was formed in 2004 and is based in Paris.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 102 of 162
Sector: Software M&A 5 of 6
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 14 of 31
Country: France M&A 80 of 119
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-01-05 Miyowa

Marseille,

Miyowa is a dynamic global company whose next generation solutions enable service providers to liberate their networks, deliver aggregated rich content and services to end users. A Red Herring Top 100 company, Miyowa’s award winning technology is innovative and proven, and relied on by leading mobile operators around the world, processing over 3 million interactions per day.

Sell $59M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-01-23 Abakus Solar

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Abakus Solar is a German wholesaler, developer, and installer of photovoltaic infrastructure projects. Abakus Solar was founded in 1995 and is based in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

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