M&A Deal Summary

Polycom Acquires Accordent Technologies

On March 23, 2011, Polycom acquired software company Accordent Technologies from TVC Capital for 50M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Polycom’s 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Polycom’s 7th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Polycom’s 10th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Polycom’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-03-23
Target Accordent Technologies
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Polycom
Sellers(s) TVC Capital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 50M USD

Target

Accordent Technologies

El Segundo, California, United States
website
Accordent Technologies, Inc., is a developer of solutions that enable corporations, universities, and government agencies to efficiently create and manage rich media presentations for a wide array of applications, including corporate communications, distance learning, eTraining, marketing, and emergency response.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Polycom

San Jose, California, United States

website


Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Information Technology
Employees3,451
Revenue 1.1B USD (2017)
DESCRIPTION
Polycom office in Santa Clara, California.
Polycom office in Santa Clara, California.

Polycom, Inc. is a provider in open standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice and video collaboration. Polycom solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich APIs that interoperate with the broadest set of communication, business, mobile and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration in any environment. Polycom was formed in 1990 and is based in San Jose, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 16
Sector (Software) 2 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 12 of 15
State (California) 2 of 4
Country (United States) 10 of 14
Year (2011) 1 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 7 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-01-08 Destiny Conferencing

Englewood, Ohio, United States

Destiny Conferencing Corp., is a provider of immersive telepresence solutions. Destiny's solutions utilize Polycom video technology and are compliant with the SIP and H.323 communications protocols.

Buy $48M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-01 HP - Visual Collaboration

United States

HP's Visual Collaboration business provides unified communications and telepresence products and services.

Buy $89M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

TVC Capital

San Diego, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

website


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2006
PE ASSETS 235M USD
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

TVC Capital is a software-focused growth equity firm. TVC looks to invest in lower middle market software and software-enabled service firms in a variety of sub-sectors. Specific areas of interest include financial services, content/data management, predictive analysis, wireless, storage, internet, SaaS, digital media, and security. TVC will consider both later-stage investment situations as well as buyout, recapitalization, and restructuring transactions. TVC Capital was formed in 2006 and is based in San Diego, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 13
Sector (Software) 3 of 8
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 10
State (California) 3 of 7
Country (United States) 3 of 13
Year (2011) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-16 Mercent

Seattle, Washington, United States

Mercent Corporation provides online marketing technology and services to help retail merchants optimize performance across online channels. Mercent's on-demand platform. Mercent Retail, increases revenue and gross margins by promoting the right products with the right merchandising offers and placement. Mercent Retail provides a single point of integration between existing retail management systems and a network of more than 50 leading online marketing channels including transactional marketplaces such as Amazon.com and SHOP.COM, shopping portals such as Shopping.com and Shopzilla, and affiliate marketing programs such as LinkShare and Performics.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-10-09 Anametrix

San Diego, California, United States

Anametrix transforms marketing with digital analytics. The company collects, analyzes, and makes sense out of data across all channels in real time to enable marketers to discover new truths about customers, prospects, and the market at large. Anametrix delivers 360-degree visibility into business data to uncover new trends and hidden correlations, explore new relationships, and deliver a bigger and more predictable impact on revenue. Founded in 2010 by the trailblazing web analytics team behind WebSideStory, Anametrix has headquarters in San Diego, California.

Buy $4M