Investment Summary

The Carlyle Group Invests In Viator

On October 1, 2005, private equity firm The Carlyle Group invested in internet software and services company Viator

Investment Highlights
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 12th transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 116th transaction in the United States.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 23rd transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • Viator was sold to a strategic buyer in 2014 for 200M USD.

Investment Summary

Date 2005-10-01
Target Viator
Sector Internet Software and Services
Investor(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Venture

Target

Viator

San Francisco, California, United States
Viator, Inc. is an online booking service of destination activities, such as sightseeing trips, tours and airport transfers, for consumers and travel industry affiliates such as Travelocity, priceline.com, Intercontinental, Starwood and Wyndham.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 200 of 750
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 12 of 25
Type: Venture M&A Deals 47 of 58
State: California M&A 23 of 54
Country: United States M&A 116 of 350
Year: 2005 M&A 23 of 32
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-09-26 NP Aerospace

Coventry, United Kingdom

NP Aerospace Ltd. designes and manufactures lightweight structural products based on advanced composite material systems. Its principal customers were in the aerospace, defense and medical imaging sectors.

Buy $53M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-10-10 Flexcom Co.

Ansan, South Korea

Flexcom Company Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of 'flexible-printed-circuit-boards' used for various electronic products, especially mobile phones.

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